Reveal day minus 3 comes to a close and the trashing got intense.

Well the day started organized and calm enough. Then Chuck showed up and the party started. By noon the tranny was pulled. And with Jeremy's quick reflexes and willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice it stayed on the tranny stand while Norm performed his voodoo with the ATS Five Star torque converter. Next, the tranny was drained, and some how they kept all of the fluid in one container. Unlike my experience with this process where there is usually more on me and the floor than there is in the bucket. Next Norm donned his latex gloves; relax guys and went to work on the new ATS valve body. With the new brains of this tranny transplanted, the ATS deep pan transmission pan was bolted in place.
While L&H Auto Body was putting the finishing touched on the new cowl induction hood, UPS delivered the EDGE CTS with the juice with attitude. By four, Jeremy had the new programmer ready to go and with that Project Brian was almost ready to make it's debut on Sunday.
Meanwhile in the dark corners of the shop, Brianna was creating a master piece with her artistic talents and the newly powder coated valve cover. Mere words cannot describe the magic that she performed on the previously dingy grey valve cover.
So here is what Friday morning will bring. The team will set the hood and make sure it all lines up. The new Cummins decals for the hood will go on and If all goes well, some one other than Chuck will role it out for it's maiden voyage. See, not that Chuck is a bad guy. He just has a habit of turning perfectly normal tires into a raging cloud of smoke that tends to stop traffic . And new tires were not on the build sheet when we started this project last winter. I hope that you enjoy this post and check back for more photos soon.

The overhaul goes in to High Gear

Yesterday was an incredible day. EDGE Products shipped the Edge CTS with attitude and it should be in Denver later today. L&H Autobody applied a fresh coat of white paint to the new cowl induction hood and they should be installing the new hood later today. Look for Pictures later this week.
Chipotles has aggreed to feed the whole crew on Sunday during the reveal and some how seven cases of fresh Coors products showed up to wash the viddles down. Rumor has it that the local NBC news station has taken a serious interest and may be at the reveal to catch the whole thing.
Jeremy stayed late and installed the new ATS Pulse Flow three piece exhaust manifold and the valve cover was powder coated black. A custom paint job is being applied to the valve cover. Keep close and I will have a picture later today. I am being told that it will be a very personalised touch to the engine compartment.

The banner miraclulously hung itself witout anybody falling from the custom scafold provided by Chuck at Truck Transmission and Turbo.

ATS Diesel On-Board With Aurora Turbo & ArcFlow Intake

We contacted ATS Diesel and informed them of Brian's truck. ATS agreed to take part in the project and donated an Aurora 3000 Turbo Kit and ArcFlow Intake Manifold. We couldn't pass up the chance to make this truck really move. Brian has mentioned wanting to increase power on the truck and the turbo kit and intake manifold will help a lot with increased air flow to complement any fuel delivery upgrades that may find their way onto the truck.
Jeremy starts removing the stock charger and downpipe as the truck is prepped for the Aurora 3000 to be installed. The old stock downpipe is pretty rusty and nasty. If it had a few barnacles attached here-and-there it would be fitting!

The factory intake manifold is removed and the ArcFlow is lowered-in. The rear portion of the ArcFlow Manifold has pretapped ports where the boost gauge will hook up for pressure reading. We're not sure if Brian is going to recognize this engine compartment when he finally checks it out.