scooped this one up for $12,995
and promptly drove it home. “It
was my daily driver for 10 years,”
he says. “Then I had it repainted
in the original Bimini Blue with
Santini flames and started modifications from there.”
Lloyd’s first effort was a complete engine rebuild, but he wasn’t
happy with the power. He wanted
more, and to get it, he added a
candy store full of goodies, starting with a Vortech High Output
supercharger with Power Cooler.
Air metering was upgraded with a
Pro M 75mm mass-air unit and
70mm throttle body. A proportionate increase in fuel flow came
through 42-lb/hr injectors and a
T-Rex boost pump. It all flows
through an Edelbrock Performer
RPM II intake and heads. On the
exhaust side are equal-length
shorty headers, a high-flow
2½-inch H-pipe, Flowmaster mufflers, MSD ignition, and an SCT
custom chip just to stir things up.
At the center of the engine is a
fresh 306-inch small-block ready
for big action. Autotek and
Superior Automotive machined it
to 0.030-inch over and fitted the
already-tough engine with forged
pistons. Because the supercharger
increases the cylinder pressure,
compression was kept modest.
Lloyd wanted reliability, so he had
it balanced and blueprinted. Yet,
he never had to do much more
because the 5.0L engine is a solid,
dependable workhorse. With close