Here’s another Maliboom project update and boy is this car coming right along. In the two videos below you are going to see a sexy new rearend housing come together, along with the last of the chassis shop fabrication, at which point it will be ready to come back home.
The Maliboom is getting way more than it was ever supposed to, but man is it going to be a bad ass! If you missed it, Dane Thompson’s Maliboom smacked the wall in Oklahoma during Rocky Mountain Race Week a few months ago and he’s been thrashing on it since. Despite lots of conjecture, it turns out that the real reason for the crash was nothing that anyone else guessed. It turns out that the press in plug that makes up the back of the stock LS water pump got pushed out and dumped the entire cooling system worth of water out and under the car. The crash wasn’t horrible, and nobody was hurt, but the Maliboom suffered suspension, body, and ultimately frame damage. In fact, it turns out the engine block was cracked and a few other things too. But all that can be fixed, it’s just a matter of deciding HOW it’s going to be fixed.
We’ve shared several of the rebuild videos, including all the diagnosis, frame repairs, and more. Now it’s time for a sexy new rearend housing, some finishing touches at the chassis shop, and the ride back home! This is going to be a pretty cool car when it is all done being rebuilt. Dane has big plans for doing this differently and uniquely and we love him for it.
