I Have Waited 3 Years To Do This! It Drives!
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- It has been 9 years since I sold my last Big Block turbo street car and now after a 3 year build I finally have one again. This thing is going to be a beast! Last time we tried to drive it overheated and ruined the cheap camshaft but now we are back with better parts and we finally get to take her for a rip! The specs are 1983 Ford Fairmont Futura fox body platform with a 454 big block chevy stock block and crank with H beam rods and hypereutectic dome top piston with 10:1 compression, .714" lift 252/255 Comp hydraulic roller cam , Comp short travel lifters, 3/8 Trick Flow pushrods, Trick Flow Power Port 320cc heads, twin GT45 turbos, eBay waste gates, Holley Terminator X Max ECU, 22o pound Holley injectors , twin Holley 450lph fuel pumps,
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No matter how hard you all are working on the cars and engines you all ways include the younger daughter.
The smile on Wawa's face when Josh puts the hammer down is priceless
Yes
So true! That young lady was in heaven for sure 👍 😅
This is the car Wawa should take her driving test in. Imagine her asking the test giver what’s the boost gauge reading.😂
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BrianEBoyd That or the Metro Mite.
Marge needs more credit! Really great job filming, and momming and wifeing and all the baby goat keeping 👍👍👍
Thank you very true
Three years late and over budget... better than never! 😂
Love y'all! 👍🇺🇸
You got that right!
Like government work but way more entertaining.😂😂😂
Thank you.
Hah hah, still better than Boeing's space program!🤣🤑
@@danw1955 OUCH! 😆
That look on WA’s face when you get after it, priceless!
Hey there wawa righty tightly Lefty Lucy okay it's that simple sweet heart okay thanks Charles Williams later on now you hear
Hey there wawa righty tightly Lefty Lucy okay it's that simple sweet heart okay thanks Charles Williams later on now you hear
Hey there wawa righty tightly Lefty Lucy okay it's that simple sweet heart okay thanks Charles Williams later on now you hear
Basically, Josh and Ralphie had to fibrilate the titration to make that binko head cam button fit. This 454 big block is slowly coming together and will be ready for any kind of weather, just as long as that binko cam button fits. I'm not nerdy like these guys but can appreciate the complications. The black cat wanted to supervise, but decided to take a power nap instead...thanks to Marge for the great camera work on this vlog...the big block vlog. The baby goats are so cute!
Thank you
Josh very cool car, love your goats!!
Exactly
A hundred years ago, when I was a lad, I remember reading a Car Craft article where they punched a hole in the timing cover. It was centered on the center of the camshaft. They installed a bolt in the hole in the timing cover, and were able to adjust it in and out to set clearance.
Well done to all of you on getting this weapon 454 running and driving. To see the look of forfilmemt was pleasing.
Cant wait to see the Coupe out at the track.
Any plans to Dyno it??
Awesome to see the turbo Fairmont finally getting mobile again.
Yes!!!
Gotta admit, held my breath a couple of times! You did great!
All those babies, can't wait to see Granny's baby!
You and me both! 🤣🤣🤣
Due to granny's advanced age she will deliver an adult.
@@billhodgson8016
Probably Chuck Norris. GOAT. What a name for a goat.
Am very impressed with Ralphie's welding abilities. He will never want for work. Well done Ralphie!
Thanks 👍
Congratulations on all the little babies there beautiful .!!! tosh was so happy it was good to see her smile with the sun on her face from the joy of all the new baby goats The car is coming along good josh I give you credit on that that intake you took it a lot better then most I feel
Bad that’s a lot of work I wished I could of helped you brother you always pull thru and get it done we are a lot alike josh we like almost all the same stuff it’s crazy and I’m a history buff also loved all the places you guys went to on the road trip your all in our prayers god bless you guys for being the amazing family you all are ❤️love jon and Jen from Pittsburgh pa
Wa looks so intelligent and serious monitoring the computer, then beams when Josh feeds the Rat some beans…such a great young lady!
Good job . Hope Granny is ok with having a baby . She's a little old . Be thinking about her .
Sleeperdude and family time in Tennessee. Love the channels. God bless you all. Lay some rubber. Semper Fi
Thank you
Ur welcome
Get a donor motor cut the runners on the intake, at the most 3 of them on the leaky side and torque down the intake then reweld.
You all amaze me! I'm sweatin the details of rebuilding the top end of my mowers Kawasaki Vtwin engine and I feel like your kids could do it unsupervised lol
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Thank you for not editing put mistakes. I see so many "experts" everywhere who would panic of you say youre modifying bolt holes in intakes or edit videos to make it look like they make no mistakes. Anyone who really works on this stuff and with a budget will run into issues and have to modify and fabricate things to make it work. Especially on majorly aftermarket projects like this.
Hay guys love the content and videos so please keep em coming and love how close yaws family is I came from a family of 7 brothers and sisters and we wer close as well and love the car Josh it's bad to the bone!!!!
Thank you 😊
Another great video brother keep up the great work. It is a blessing for me too and watch your family work together and do the wonderful things you do.
Thank you
wooohooooo 👏its finally saturday and you know its time for a new sleeperdude family-saturday-episode!
I really missed wrenching on the cars,especially the big block on the International Metro postal and Ford falcon.
And also wawa's beetle+all the animals.
So lets goooooooo !
Thank you so much and i ❤️you guys and God bless 🙏🏻
Greetings from Holland
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Thanks so much
Yep, love all sleeperdude vids...very cool stuff building a big block engine for the Fairmont. Basicallly, it's just a titration filltration situation...:) Vienna Sausage and RC Cola is on the backside.
1:16:27 - with respect to the fans, instead of removing the existing fan, you may want to add a pusher fan in front of the radiator. Especially for track use.
Granny’s baby is so precious!!❤
Did Granny have a baby? She looked slimmer at the final scene...
Yesssssssss! The twin turbo Fairmount finally stopped trying to kill you and it's running 😁🥰 I love that little beastie!! Oh, and , 🎵🎵It's raining goats, halleluiah, it's raining goats 🎵🎵
Finally!!!!
Love the Fairmonts always had a wagon growing up. No one else liked them so they were cheap and easy to work on.
Totally agree
I agree. They make what I call a great "shock rod." Imagine the shock of one's Camaro getting its butt whooped by a Fairmont, especially a wagon. And I love those Fairmont wagons.
So awesome to see this running!
Wawa's serious face while monitoring the computer data changing to a grin as Josh got on the throttle was priceless! Well done Team Sleeperdude!
Thank you
Glad to see y’all back working on cars cool
Absolutely more to come
Thanks!
Thank you so much we appreciate it
Back in ❤❤the day in the 60’s we had small farm, we had 10 sows momma pigs one year later we had 200 pigs, one 900 pound boar. The very car❤❤ you are working on would have been my dream car, thank you, had to settle for a 77 trans am….
Poor boy! ;)
I need to learn how to stack dimes like that. My cousin can, but he should be able to. He worked for iron workers of America, and he helped build Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis . He says he welded our grandparents' names up in the beams of the roof.
Oh wow that’s awesome
As much as I like just seeing yall have fun I'm always glad when you get back to the cars.
Thanks
Teaching the kids more valuable life lessons in the garage
Exactly
Superchargers, Turbos and Pro chargers are wonderful things. Big blocks are wonderful things too.
Absolutely
Vacations over, back to work. Great choice, "80's junk" got the hogleg. Glad it's running.
Thanks as always. Your videos are unique, entertaining and fun to watch.
Yes!!
I'm excited. Waited all week to watch my favorite family. Love the Sleeperdude bunch!!!
Hope you enjoy!
@@Sleeperdude come for the turbos and stay for the goats
Squeeze had a big smile when that thing fired.
Yes sir! Im super excited to see y'all back on this car! I absolutely love this car!
Thank you
You are a GOOD man. Few men handle the "hiccups" as well as you seem to. Your family, the way the look to you, and even at you, shows this. God has something very special for you. Just seek Him with all your heart. Jesus saves those who call upon Him!
Thank you!
Oh I'm jealous 😆 that big block and turbos. Makes me weak in the knees. Keep up the awesome work. God bless yall.
Yes!!! Good stuff
I truly love your videos it's so great to see the entire family get involved in the build this video with all the baby goats being born there so cute
Thank you so much!
Woohoo! So glad you are working on the Fairmont Futura, good luck! 🙏🙏🙏
Thanks
@@Sleeperdude ? didnt have the money for the cam - i only ever see them young 'uns eat is vienna sausages and RC 😅😂🤣
Always enjoy watching all your content, nice job on getting the Fairmont finally done. The smiles on all your faces on the bug run was great, Wawa and Ralphie are turning into quite the gearheads.
Nice and hour and a half, car show. Thanks SD family.
Nice bump stick. 2x👍
Glad you enjoyed it
that last clip smile on your face said it all love them 70's square body cars ever thought about 68 to 70 ford Torino one of my favorite fords and that's coming from a chevy man you do a
awesome work brother love the whole family is involved keep it up
Between watching your videos, Everything Autos, AND Out of The Woods, y'all bring me back home to Crossville Tn. Which is where I was born and still have family there! Thank you so much❤
That’s awesome thank you
I’m hooked on This N That Garage, he does some of everything! Chad is always fighting MLS!😂👍
Josh, Marge and the rest of the family: congratulations on the baby goats; that’s a first, those little creatures look so cute, I’m pretty sure my grandkids would love to have one once that I retire at my homeland, Puerto Rico. On the second, I know the struggle that you had with the Fairmont; having the same feeling at this time with the ‘81 Corolla project trying to set up my carburetor, but any project takes time to get that perfection. Once again, good job and hopefully will see it fully running, as well as the other projects like the Galaxy, the Metro, Wawa’s Beetle (we Puerto Ricans call it Volky) and the rest of the other projects that the family have pending…God bless you all!!!
lift vs duration is how i got around the rulebook in racing a "stock" class on dirt the rule book said it must remain stock hight said nothing about duration so have it open longer not further. the rule book now says it must have the stock or stock replacement parts number, still doesn't say anything about modifying it. I'm now retired from driving and engine building and 2,000 miles away but still giving the championship-winning tips both my dodging the rules and my dads decades of engine building and set up notes. the best set up note I found is a solution to a car being loose on an oval track is "control use of right foot"
Glad you're back...glad the Fairmont is running....well done....VERY cute baby goats.
Yes! Been waiting on this one!
Hope you enjoy
I spray it black the air thing you welded
woo hoo back to the car content !!
not that I don't like the trips they are amazing and your soo lucky to get to do that with your family
More to come!
I absolutely love watching your show you work on all the cars that I worked on in the 70s super show and very family oriented keep up the fantastic work sleeperdude
WOOHOO.... S L E E P E R D U D E... Impeccable
The Fairmont is back, I'm in love 💗💗💗💗 Josh you know how to get at an ole feller's heart... Lol
Thank you
My husband remembers when Sunoco gas was blue lol. He worked at a Sunoco gas station the summer he graduated 1971. Sunoco 260 ( basicly racing gas) was in the neighborhood of.40-.45 cents per gallon! Wow, have the times ever changed. Love you folks.
I Just got the Second Squeeze Painting for My Second Granddaughter , Thank You Very Kindly Young Lady.
Awesome thank you
Good to see it running again and not blowing water and steam everywhere. You might want to name your little farm Fertile Acres after that many kids running around. Loved the video please keep them coming. Keep sharing your wisdom.
Thank you good idea
That last time you were getting on it before you were coming home, the smile that creeps upon Wawa's face And the big smile coming from the backseat is priceless. That says it all. You have a nice wholesome family. and they enjoy working with you. And you encourage squeeze so much and accept that she doesn't care about the cars. But you encourage her to be her. That is awesome! I wish I could afford to buy some merchandise but I'm on fixed income. I watch a lot of you individuals on here and can't wait till the weekend to see the videos. Junkyard digs, Dylan McCool, no nonsense no-how, vise grip garage. It all reminds me of when me and my brother worked on cars. Not afraid to tear into them and get to the problem and either just fix it or make it better. I remember working with my brother on his 65 mustang when he dropped a 351 Windsor in it. He had to put station wagon springs on the front and air shocks on the back just to level it out. It almost looked like it could go off-road lol. But when that thing hooks up it scares the crap out of you! And that's what puts that smile upon your faces. I've rode in one other car that scared the crap out of me and that was a 70 or 71 AAR cuda clone and instead of the 340 he had a 440 6-pack. And after he warmed up the tires and did a hole shot, you couldn't even reach for the dash if you tried lol I know you've drove things faster. I'd love to just sit and talk to you or help work with you just for a day. I feel like I know you and I'm a complete stranger. That's why people come up to you. I know it scares you but we're all one big automotive family. And technology connects us. Sorry for the long post, if you read this far, I use speak to text.
I am very happy to see the Ford run, The look on Josh's face is Priceless. The Baby Goats are so Cute. As always I liked and shared. All my very best.
Thank you
Get this family to 1mil subs guys🎉
Yes!!!
@@seannaicker2713 I seriously don't understand why they don't have a bigger following! Josh has built one of the most wholesome channels on YT it reminds me of my childhood growing up building engine's with my father and grandfather at my grandfather's shop not to mention the plethora of information/knowledge Josh has
well done josh .marge and ralphie had the giggles and its contagious thanks for all your hard work in making these vids love from oz
I remember when Ralphie helped fabbing that intake pipe assembly and painted it. I'm glad y'all reverted back to the old intake and Ralphie's creation didn't go to the shelf or a scrap pile.
Yes 👍
Oh my i love it! what a beast those turbos sound insane ! That engines looks awesome, the smile on Wa 's face says it all.
It’s funny how much the kids smile every time you punch it.
They love it
GREAT WORK JOSH AND FAMILY I KNEW YOU GUYS COULD DO IT THAT THING SOUNDS SUPER FAST I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU PUT IT ON THE TRACK THAT'S GOING TO BE AWESOME ALSO RALPHIE IS KILLING IT ON THE NEW WELDER SQUEEZE'S PAINTING'S ARE LOOKING FANTASTIC AND WAWA IS OBVIOUSLY KILLING IT MUSIC CHARTS AND AS DADDY'S LIL GIRL ON THE MONITORING THE GAUGES AND LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST MARG IS THE BEST MOM/CAMERAWOMAN IN THE UNIVERSE not seriously great job to everyone and congratulations on all the new baby goats now y'all get some rest GOD BLESS ALL Y'ALL
R.I.P. Tarmac driveway.
Yep
Great content!
Thank you for your generosity. It really helps
Hi!
Hello
Hard work gets results, well done. Great video and camera work. Wawa and squeeze both are looking more beautiful everyday. God bless yall.
The best deserves the best.
151 miles an hour. And still have plenty of pedal left
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I am happy for you guys. A lot of work to get this far. It will get better from here.
Thank you
Are you going to let the rest of the family drive it or is it just dad's play toy. I THINK IT SHOULD BE DADS ONLY. NO KIDS ALOWED.
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Good stuff! It’s good to see all the hiccups didn’t get you down, it’s crazy how all that just goes away when you finally get to fire it up and take it for a spin. Can’t wait to see what it does on the drag strip after you shake it down!
Always use RTV gasket sealer on those radiator hoses ! They will seal and never leak and never slip off !🤓👍🏿🎥
Thanks for another good one Sleeperdude family! Glad to see the ol' Fairmont getting some love, and great to see it going down the road!
Glad to see it finally running! That was a heart breaker when that intake leaked but you got past that and it sounded real good. Can't wait till you get it tuned and running to it's full potential. Great job!...
You guys are doing a fantastic job. Congratulations on the new baby’s. Can’t wait to watch your next video. Thanks again
Eastwood’s products are awesome. I have their MiG welder 140 and installed a floor pan for a 63 falcon Ranchero. Worked perfectly!
Josh, your knowledge of the technical aspects of the engine on this Fairmont, or any engine for that matter, is impressive as heck! I would love to have just a quarter of your knowledge!!!!! Awesome video, awesome family!!!!
Wow, thanks!
The Big block sounds and runs like a BEAST!! GREAT JOB!! Can't believe Granny is having a baby.
Man that sounds awesome!! All your hard work and patience was worth it to hear that motor come to life. I know you must be so happy and excited to be able to finally drive it! I can’t wait to see more on this one. Congrats on all the babies too!!
You got that right! Thank you
My favorite part is seeing the smiles on everyone’s faces. It’s nice when the family is enjoying the win.
Congratulations to the entire family. ATTA-BOY Josh for sticking with it. I nearly puked when that water leaked.
Central California watching
Sounds good. I sure am glad you have good service from comp cams, my first build and I was 3 weeks getting a proper torker roller set for my 1989 302. They sent wrong cam and pushrods (twice) timing set and lifters . I bought through Summit and had them make the order so I could get the right stuff the first time. Needless to say that after almost 3 hours of sitting on hold, including being hung up on once while waiting, one no call back as promised finally got most of the stuff replaced. Ended up getting pushrods from another source though, right the first time.
Hello, Congratulations, it's superb and despite the small problems in the editing, it sounds great. Babies are very cute🥰.
Thank you 🤗
Josh, this is about the COOLEST car I've seen on UA-cam for a long time!!! Loved the time lapse.....the whole family was working on it. Keep it going. 👍👍
I would clearance as much as possible before jacking the rear up. The stance is perfect for that car! I’m glad you finally got it going! Love the channel. You and Marge remind me a lot of me and my wife! lol! Keep the videos coming!
P.s I’m an amateur history buff too, unlike my wife and two boys. I dig the road trips.
Wow great job Josh , your family and critters are growing,❤LoveJim J&R mobile service and God Bless y'all and your critters
Thank you so much
So great to see her up and barking! Your determination and team work is inspirational!
Once again the Sleepercrew gets the job done! Can't wait to see your first run down the strip! Keep up the good work!
Man, I love that car. I love how you're sticking to your roots and keep building sleepers.
look forward to this every saturday,from England,I own a morris 1000 classic car and keep it up together myself! It`s kept standard because I like it that way,but I understand why you have soooo much fun!
Very cool
Your little goat kids are adorable prayers they are all healthy and Prayers up for granny and her kids 🙏
Yes for sure
Ups , Downs, and new additions... This one had it all ... Good show guys 👍👍👍
Thanks so much
So one of the Top reasons i like to watch you, is you are so very descriptive in performing your work. A Great teacher. With explanations of what & why you are doing something, in easy terms for anyone to understand. Sucks on the blower & you can't in good faith pawn it off to someone else. Best to find a machinist who can plain it down flat, so it is usable for you. They could open up the ports for you too. Let us know if your coming to Buffalo Valley with it & i'll come watch you rip it. Ty for taking us along
congrats on getiing this car running after 3 years super awesome what a great feeling Josh you are THE MAN
Thank you
Back in the day Josh I used to drill a hole in the timing cover, then stick a bolt threw the hole with a jam nut and make an adjustable cam button lol.
Hi Josh, Tosh, Wawa, Ralphie and Squeeze. Josh, I just wanted to say my condolences to you and your Family for the loss. I am sorry and sad to hear about your loss. Prayers for you all in your time of need 🙏. I also wanted to say Thank You for taking the time to upload these Superfantastic videos for us all out here. Very, very, very entertaining and enjoyable as always. And finally, congratulations on all the new babies. They are so adorable. God Bless You All. Thank You all. Sincerely Kevin and Family.
Thank you
Three years later, your dream has come true!! ✨️ Congratulations on the baby goats and the completion of the car!
Thank you so much!!
Nice build and And that Ralphie is really coming along as a mechanic
So good to see all your hard work finally pay off. This is going to be a ripper. Wawa's face whe you were getting into it and her grin just got wider. Thanks ya'll and blessings
Squeeze, painting of the two Emus is great! More black background. Great car video, Josh and Marge! Dag gone Ralphie and Wawa, let me know when you open your own Nascar shop!
🤣🤣that you