1 Owner 10,000 Miles Since Frame Off Restoration No Accidents 492hp Fast! on 2040-cars

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I have up for sale a very rare, highly modified, and well taken care of GMC Typhoon. This car is a one owner with extensive ownership history.

In 2005, after 12 years of ownership, the original owner decided to fully restore this truck, and spared no expense in doing so. This project was a labor of love for the original owner and his kids. So much has been replaced, rebuilt, upgraded, it is going to be very tough to cover everything, but I am going to try and do it in bullet point form:

The truck was completely stripped down to the bare frame and rebuilt with lots of new or reconditioned parts:

Body:

-Completely stripped and disassembled, body mounts rebuilt
-New GM licensed front fenders, wheel wells and core support
-Tailgate stripped and redone
-Filled roof seams
-Roof rack removed, holes not shaved but plugged, retained chrome rails
-New non-wiper tinted rear glass, with defroster($100)
-Paul's select front bumper with 2nd gen crystal lens foglamps($860 + $300 - fogs)
-Black gloss firewall, wheel wells and core support
-4 coat GM Dark Spiral grey metallic, 6 coat DuPont clear($7,377)
-Heavy duty headlight harness
-Custom drivers side relocated battery using stock cables

Engine

(Receipt for engine build: $8,514.05)
-Stock block, bored and decked @ 4.030
-4 bolt mains, ARP studs
-JE pistons
-Eagle rods (stock oil pan was swedged for clearance)
-Stock crank, magnafluxed, polished and internally balanced
-Melling high flow oil pump
-Edelbrock double roller timing chain
-Comp cams 415 ( changed from 422, too much cam for the build)
-Vortec heads, 3 angle valve job, light polishing, stainless 2.01/1.64 valves
-Crane 1.6 Gold series self-aligning rockers
-Vortec modified SyTy manifold, polished by RPM($450)
-75# PTE injectors
-Accel 8.8mm plug wires
-Autolite race plugs
-MSD blaster GM coil

-BBK 58mm throttle body ($345)
-HKS SSQV blowoff on custom throttle body mount($198
-ATR stainless headers, rewelded and ceramic coated by JetHot ($995 + $330)
-Fluidamper neutral harmonic balancer
- Accel 4.3 distributor ($299)
-Garret GT-35-R turbo (ball bearing), .83 A/R SyTy housing, 3" compressor($1,555)
-RPM air to air front mount intercooler($922.19)
-PTE internal wastegate downpipe($675)
-ATR full 3" high flow exhaust with cat($465)
-Walbro 255lp/h in tank pump
-Volvo electric fan with custom relay controller
-JSM frame pads with Moroso solid mounts
-195* thermostat, OEM Jimmy waterneck with fan control sensor installed

Engine management

-Low impedance injector driver modified ECM ($299)
-Custom tune by Nolan running through moates switchable chip adapter
-3 bar MAP

Driveline

-Built 700R4, 700Raptor shot peened input and output shafts, kevlar clutches, 5 gear planetaries($4,615.91)
-9.5" Billet converter, 2650rpm stall($618)
-Gilbert propshaft
-rebuilt front / rear axles
-Eaton 7.625 carbon positraction differential($416)
-Rebuild rear end with Eaton Diff and all new bearings/seals($768.33)
-B&M HiTec Trans cooler, 13 x 9", sans fan. ($438.85)
-Custom 3/8" aluminum trans lines with inline filter
-DeRale deep trans pan

Chassis

-Completely stripped, sandblasted, torsion bar crossmember removed, 2 layer powder coat 80% gloss black (including spindles, bumper brackets, tank straps, trans crossmember and shackles)($900)
-All Energy Suspension bushings
-Flexaform 2" drop rear monoleafs, stock spring rate
-RPM coilover conversion
-Hypercoil front springs
-QA1 12 way adjustable front shocks, KYB Monomax rear shocks
-Belltech upgraded front and rear swaybars($380)
-LS1 rear disc conversion with custom p-brake cables and brackets($249 + $125)
-CBR front LS1 disc conversion($499)
-Inline Tube custom bent fuel and brake lines, stainless
-Turbotime braided stainless rear brake lines
-Summit proportioning valve
-All Moog 2nd design front end parts
-GM ZQ8 12:1 steering box($149)
-Borgeson aluminum steering shaft
-Flaming River clearcoated stainless steering u-joints
-New fuel tank and sending unit
-New front bearings, non abs version (ABS deleted)($172.98)
-Napa MaxDrive halfshafts($279.98)


Interior

-Visible screws in trim replaced with stainless
-Dakota digital hidden antenna
-New charcoal carpet set from ACCMats.com($321.29)
-Remote mirror switch relocated to left of cluster bezel, foglamp switch replaced with Astro switch and relocated below dash, gauge pod installed under right side of bezel with digital temp, switchable between oil and trans
-Speedhut black and silver reverse glow gauges
-Non cruise wiper stalk (cruise deleted)
-Black "Typhoon" floor mats
-Rear wiper switch deleted
-Rear ashtrays replaced with carbon fiber panels


The engine Dynoed outside the car at 492HP and 521 Foot LB's of torque for the break in on a base tune. Needless to say this truck is ridiculously fast!

The Paint is very nice, with a few minor imperfections(See pics). A few rock chips up front and right about the rear window there are a few small bubbles in the paint.

The A/C blows ice cold and everything is working the way it should. All Lights, gauges, Etc work great.

I have a file with almost every receipt from Day 1, including the original window sticker, Bill of Sale, maintenance receipts, ETC. I started adding up receipts for work done during and after the restoration, I got to around $46K and then stopped. That does not include the $1,000's of $$$'s in receipts that I have before around 2005. Whoever gets this truck is getting something very Special! Please see fresh pictures and below that are some restoration pics:


RESTORATION PHOTOS