My name is Andrew Bordan, and I currently live in Tuscaloosa Alabama.
I actually teach marketing at the University of Alabama, Roll Tide.
So my car is a 1967 Cougar, I am the 3rd owner, I acquired it several years ago and about
2 years ago I started doing the LS swap on it.
The reason I chose the LS engine was because it's compact, it's light weight, the after
market support is incredible, it fits into old cars, especially Ford's, much better than
any modern ford engine.
So a lot of people like to get rid of the shock towers, and to me it's more sacrilegious
to cut up a car when you don't have to.
So my vision for this car was essentially taking that 70's street/strip vibe but giving
it the modern touches.
So when I got the car it already had a hole in the hood, so I figured, well something
needs to come through this hole because of the natural patina on the car I didn't want
to just stick another hood on it.
So that's where the idea for the tunnel ram came from, and they don't make hot rods anymore
with tunnel rams and that's unfortunate.
So I remember being a teenager in the 80's and every car in the magazine had a tunnel
ram with dual quad Holley's on it, and you just don't see that, so my modern touch is
that I still have a tunnel ram but I don't have Holley carburetors instead I have Holley
fuel injection with drive by wire throttle bodies, which gives it the modern touch.
Yeah so I'm using the Holley Dominator EFI system, and along with that I'm using the
Holley 7" digital dash, and that provides all of the monitoring function for the engine,
It's fully programable, I can display any gauge in any format I want, along with warnings
and there are virtual switches, the possibilities are endless.
As far as dress up items I have the Holley valve covers in black and then obviously the
Holley high ram.
So the car right now runs, last year it ran a 12.6, this year the weather is not cooperating,
I don't know, there's no traction, I'm running 12.90's.
The way the car is right now is dead reliable, I can get in it tomorrow and drive it to California
if I so choose, with a T56 double overdrive, even 433 gears I'm at 2,000 RPM at 75 MPH,
which makes road trips possible.
I don't think I'd change a thing, I literally drive it everyday.
I have another vehicle that I drive sometimes but this car gets driven all the time.
I like LS Fest because it's an opportunity for people to get together who share a passion
for the LS engine platform, and it's always great to see a wide variety of cars, you get
to see: imports, you get to see domestics, you get to see drag racing, you get to see
autocross, so there's a lot of stuff going on and I personally enjoy events that are
not just car shows but where there's stuff to do.
LS Fest you can, if you get the all access pass, you can drag race, you can do auto cross,
there's a great facility called the NCM Motor Sports Park and you can do a road corse, so
if your into pro-touring you've got something to do here, if your into drag racing you can
do something here and have a lot of fun.