Mechanical side of restoration nearly complete.  Restoration thus far includes new short block 330 HP balanced 350 engine (built by Westberg Advanced Engines in Spokane), new turbo 350 tranny, complete front and rear suspension rebuild - including composite rear spring, polyurethane bushings, new hubs; and all-new .383 rear end.

2010 saw a rebuild of this engine - block and heads from the 2000 build with new hypertectic 9.5 pistons (increased to ~9.75 by micromilling the deck to 9.015), true roller timing set, Comp 268H cam, and new valve train components. Also it was time to finally replace the stock Rochester Quadrajet carb with a Holley 670CFM Street Avenger, replace the stock HEI ignition with an electronic ignition (MSD Street Fire control module, MSD Blaster SS coil, Mallory billet distributor), replace the tired old intake manifold with a new Weiand manifold and dump the stock exhaust system for a brand new one - Hedman headers, H-Pipe, Flowmaster Series 50 mufflers. The engine compartment looks a WHOLE lot different now! This build also performed by Advanced Engines. Also the transmission was again rebuilt, built to a turbo 400 with 2000 rpm stall speed torque converter to more closely match the engine's torque.

2011 saw this car in its first ever show.

More mechanical work in 2013 - rear wheel bearings (all 4 of them!) and u-joints, sorry no pics

2014 paint/body work by Corvettes of Auburn - a sneak preview:

"after" pics:

2020 saw a THIRD build for this car following a strange event on I-90 between Moses Lake and Ritzville where piston #1 (with normal oil and oil pressure normal compression and no coolant in the cylinder or water in the oil) self destructed and took the block, crank and camshafts, and heads with it. Gibson Performance Engines in Spokane is performing the new build with a 350 block out of a 1984 C4 Corvette. This will be - in progress presently - a near 500 HP build using the same Holley carb (no EFI), distributor, ignition control system and exhaust system as before. Build details include a Scat 9000 Stroker crank and hydraulic roller cam.

2020 Build completed Octber 2020, car ready to be driven Novemeber 10th 2020. This is the funnest version of this car yet and it loud as hell heck it sets off car alarms! Presently it has 1200 miles on the new engine, break in was completed some time ago.