Our Story

I had a 1985 Chevy C10. primer/blue with SBC TH350. The simple stuff I understood. Then I decided to drop in an LS1. That’s when everything went sideways. The mounts didn’t fit. I had to cut and reweld just to get the engine in. Then the flexplate didn’t match the torque converter.

Wrong bolt pattern. I remember holding the converter up. marking it. redrilling it myself just to make it work. At one point I said it out loud. “I’m never doing this again.” The whole swap took weeks. Not a weekend. not even close. But then my LS1 fired to life and everything changed.

I lined up against my friend’s '98 Z28 with the same LS1. We both knew how this was supposed to go, and It didn’t. I put car lengths on him. Every race got worse for him and better for me. My beat up squarebody was walking a Camaro.

That was the moment i knew what my mission was. Not just because it was fast and fun as hell, but because I knew how hard it was to get there. Nothing fit. Nothing was simple. Nothing was built for guys like me. So I decided to fix that.

I took $10k out of my 401k and bought a 1987 Fadal CNC mill. Drove 5 hours to get it. Set it up in a 30x40 garage I built onto my tiny one bedroom house. The machine was junk. Always breaking. I was learning Mastercam on a borrowed copy. Figuring it out as I went with help from friends.

The first thing I tackled was getting the engine in the exact SBC location to work up from. I made simple SBC to LS adapter plates. But behind that “simple” part was hours of measuring, finding crank centerlines, matching bellhousing positions. Doing everything by hand. No scanners. no models. It had to be right. Because I knew what it felt like when it wasn’t.

I grew up watching my grandpa and dad build everything themselves. Not because they wanted to. because they had to. That stuck with me. But this was different. This wasn’t about making something just work. This was about making it easy.

• No cutting
• No guessing
• No redrilling flexplates in your driveway

Just bolt it on and get it done right the first time. That’s why ICT Billet exists. Because no one should have to go through what I did just to get that feeling. That moment when your truck shocks everyone and you realize you built something better than you ever expected.