01-28-2014, 02:59 PM | #1 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Wisconsin
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Here is how this '69 GTO sat for years in a buddy's hangar... I talked him out of it. Onto the trailer to be taken to Sidehill's shop. Last edited by Fumbles; 01-29-2014 at 03:35 PM. |
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01-28-2014, 03:02 PM | #2 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Wisconsin
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Supposedly before being sat outside the motor was rebuilt... then taped up. Not a very good tape job... Driver's side head removed: Looking good so far... Pax side head removed... what's that you say? The last cylinder on the pax side had standing water inside of it... Decided to sleeve that cylinder to save the #'s matching block. |
01-28-2014, 03:04 PM | #3 |
Rock Stacker Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Victoria BC
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I got my hands on a stroker like that.........Soaked it in metal rescue for a week and crossing my fingers....... Cheaper to get a new bottom end in my case than fix it though. Nice body though. |
01-28-2014, 03:10 PM | #4 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Wisconsin
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It's got all of the body panels, doors, trunk, hood front fenders etc... the left rear quarter will be totally replaced. Sidehill on this site is doing the work for me as he's a mechanical genius... then we could sit down and talk for hours about his mad body work skills. If we can't save the bottom end then I'll stroke it with a kit from Butler. Gonna get new pistons anyway... it's at 30 over right now and I didn't want to go any bigger so sleeving the cylinder is a good fix ! Last edited by Fumbles; 01-29-2014 at 03:38 PM. |
01-29-2014, 03:46 PM | #5 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Wisconsin
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01-29-2014, 03:53 PM | #6 |
Scale Detail Engineering Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Turtle Island
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ohh man, killer project!
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01-31-2014, 08:47 PM | #7 |
Pebble Pounder Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Between the thoughts of yesterday and the ideas of tomorrow
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Love the old Gto's. They have tons of potential to be power houses
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02-02-2014, 07:35 AM | #8 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Massachusetts
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Great Start ( and Killer find..! ) Looking forward to watching your progress man..!
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02-03-2014, 04:12 AM | #9 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: westchester,il
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Awsome!!!!!!cant wait to see it finished |
03-01-2014, 06:49 PM | #10 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Wisconsin
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Body came back from the blasters... It's funny, what we were concerned about wasn't so bad and things we hadn't seen were more of a problem... Package tray is toast. Gotta find a replacement... Last edited by Fumbles; 03-01-2014 at 06:54 PM. |
03-01-2014, 06:57 PM | #11 |
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Since there were no rear brakes on the rear axle decided to convert to disc brakes on it. Also ordered 3.73 gears and an Auburn locker for it. |
03-02-2014, 09:28 AM | #12 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Wisconsin
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Since it's an A body design I found the package tray from a '69 Chevelle is a direct replacement for it. Score! Correction: finding the package tray extensions for a '69 A body so far has been impossible. However I can buy a complete piece that incorporates the rear seat divider, package tray & package tray extensions. So I'll return the single package tray and order the complete piece. Last edited by Fumbles; 04-16-2014 at 08:57 AM. |
04-16-2014, 08:53 AM | #13 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Wisconsin
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Adding a Helwig frame strengthing kit. The kit is BEEFY! My welds suck compared to Dan's... |
04-16-2014, 05:34 PM | #14 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2008 Location: Baltimore
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Sarge is a pretty good welder.... |
04-16-2014, 06:51 PM | #15 |
Newbie Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Wisconsin
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Mmmm love me old school resto's! reminds me of my 1962 Chevy Impala 4 door. Good times.
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04-17-2014, 07:41 PM | #16 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Wisconsin
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Finished boxing the frame. It's SOLID now. Next is the BMR full suspension kit... Last edited by Fumbles; 04-18-2014 at 12:39 AM. |
04-17-2014, 09:18 PM | #17 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: We-Go, Chi-Town, Ill
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Damn, that does look solid |
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