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Yannick Sire is quickly becoming a friend and I finally made it over to his new shop locale near the airport on Imperial Hwy. (The building is seen in the last Die Hard flick where Willis is driving the semi.) I always heard about the monsters he builds, so I snatched my camera and said hello.
First thing that I saw was this super clean '66 Chevelle. The owner paid $16k for the car with the really nice midnight blue paint, but dropped another $25k in parts alone with Yannick. Much of that went into the sbc under the hood. It makes about 550 hp. It's now getting suspension and brake upgrade to go with the new power.
On the ground is a pile of parts from CPP. A big disc brake kit for both front and rear, rear trailing arms, springs, sway bars, and other goodies. Yannick is a master at suspension building from scratch. That will be happening up front. I will try to get more on how he does that.
This '67 box Nova just got a new 724 hp pump gas sbc to replace the too much 848 hp 540 bbc. Currently, it's getting a dry sump oil setup.
Under the hood, is the sbc with Nascar type of stuff. 15 degree heads, and Edelbrock intake, Dart Iron Eagle block, etc. It also replaced the flimsy front suspension with a front clip from Chris Alston's Chassisworks. It basically uses Mustang II geometry and fancy rack and pinion.
That big tank holds six quarts of oil and the lines run to the three stage pump that runs off the crank pulley.
The rear leaf spring suspension got tossed in favor of Nascar type truck arm setup from Hot Rod To Hell along with QA1 double adjustable shocks. Pizza sized Baer brakes front and aft behind those Billet Specialties 18 and 19's.
Inside the Nova includes a cage, modern buckets, and TKO600 5 spd.
Yannick is one of those guys that is a mentor to young hot rodders. One kid who hangs around the shop is working on on this '69 Camaro. It's way, way cool and getting a serious road race setup.
Check that engine setback!! Talk about equalling the weight bias front and rear. Behind the 400 rwhp 406 is a Doug Nash 5 spd.
Some of you sharp Camaro-philes might notice that 2nd gen Camaro clip with tubular A arms. This gets rid of the rear steer setup and a few other 1st gen Camaro suspension issues.
Yannick doesn't work on just high end stuff. This Fox Mustang just got a new engine. Sorry Ford guys, it has a 620 hp 406 sbc. Those were new tires out back. Yannick has videos of this guy doing 100 ft burnouts in the middle of afternoon traffic on the I-10. He was giggling. The owner was giggling. The other people in traffic were not. This thing is such a sleeper and would run 10's if it had tires that could stick. Even the cage was hard to see.
Yannick also builds bitchin 4x4's. He just sold his beloved International Scout. But, this poor transfer case came from a Jeep CJ with a four banger. I think it's a NP231 J.
Up on the back wall is some interesting stuff. Notice the super big trophy truck shocks. The crap Doug's tri Y headers that are for someone who has no money. Below the headers is the back body portion of an old, old midget. It belongs to Mark Engle, son of Jack Engle of Engle Cams. Yannick is old friends with the Engle clan and gets nearly all the cams for his engine builds from them. The mini-mini bike is for stupid fun. Someone at a local airport is missing the flaps off of their Cesna.
My Impala is getting a new header panel because of the accident. I wanted to lose the nose emblem so I asked Yannick if he'd weld up the six holes for me.
I was wearing a welding helmet while taking these, but I wanted to see how he welded up the holes. Since the metal on this piece is pretty thin gauge, Yannick runs a thin ring around the hole to strengthen the metal, then builds it up until it's closed.
First thing that I saw was this super clean '66 Chevelle. The owner paid $16k for the car with the really nice midnight blue paint, but dropped another $25k in parts alone with Yannick. Much of that went into the sbc under the hood. It makes about 550 hp. It's now getting suspension and brake upgrade to go with the new power.
On the ground is a pile of parts from CPP. A big disc brake kit for both front and rear, rear trailing arms, springs, sway bars, and other goodies. Yannick is a master at suspension building from scratch. That will be happening up front. I will try to get more on how he does that.
This '67 box Nova just got a new 724 hp pump gas sbc to replace the too much 848 hp 540 bbc. Currently, it's getting a dry sump oil setup.
Under the hood, is the sbc with Nascar type of stuff. 15 degree heads, and Edelbrock intake, Dart Iron Eagle block, etc. It also replaced the flimsy front suspension with a front clip from Chris Alston's Chassisworks. It basically uses Mustang II geometry and fancy rack and pinion.
That big tank holds six quarts of oil and the lines run to the three stage pump that runs off the crank pulley.
The rear leaf spring suspension got tossed in favor of Nascar type truck arm setup from Hot Rod To Hell along with QA1 double adjustable shocks. Pizza sized Baer brakes front and aft behind those Billet Specialties 18 and 19's.
Inside the Nova includes a cage, modern buckets, and TKO600 5 spd.
Yannick is one of those guys that is a mentor to young hot rodders. One kid who hangs around the shop is working on on this '69 Camaro. It's way, way cool and getting a serious road race setup.
Check that engine setback!! Talk about equalling the weight bias front and rear. Behind the 400 rwhp 406 is a Doug Nash 5 spd.
Some of you sharp Camaro-philes might notice that 2nd gen Camaro clip with tubular A arms. This gets rid of the rear steer setup and a few other 1st gen Camaro suspension issues.
Yannick doesn't work on just high end stuff. This Fox Mustang just got a new engine. Sorry Ford guys, it has a 620 hp 406 sbc. Those were new tires out back. Yannick has videos of this guy doing 100 ft burnouts in the middle of afternoon traffic on the I-10. He was giggling. The owner was giggling. The other people in traffic were not. This thing is such a sleeper and would run 10's if it had tires that could stick. Even the cage was hard to see.
Yannick also builds bitchin 4x4's. He just sold his beloved International Scout. But, this poor transfer case came from a Jeep CJ with a four banger. I think it's a NP231 J.
Up on the back wall is some interesting stuff. Notice the super big trophy truck shocks. The crap Doug's tri Y headers that are for someone who has no money. Below the headers is the back body portion of an old, old midget. It belongs to Mark Engle, son of Jack Engle of Engle Cams. Yannick is old friends with the Engle clan and gets nearly all the cams for his engine builds from them. The mini-mini bike is for stupid fun. Someone at a local airport is missing the flaps off of their Cesna.
My Impala is getting a new header panel because of the accident. I wanted to lose the nose emblem so I asked Yannick if he'd weld up the six holes for me.
I was wearing a welding helmet while taking these, but I wanted to see how he welded up the holes. Since the metal on this piece is pretty thin gauge, Yannick runs a thin ring around the hole to strengthen the metal, then builds it up until it's closed.
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