🔧 BUILD Old school BIG tire Chevelle build for Sick Summer

[Broke EF]

I didnt get as far on the car as I wanted to this weekend, but thats how it goes some times. I wanted to get the seats mounted, at least for me. The plan is to have me race it, and then Lou drive it on the street. There is a little bit of a size difference between Lou and I, so I ordered up a new seat for me. Before we get to that, I cut out the rest of the door bars on the driver side after making sure the seat fit where I needed it with the bar in place.

Little bit of spring when I cut LOL

Peeled the carpet back so I can see what I was working with. Then tried playing with positioning as much as I could alone.

I had to go get some material to get it done, so that was all I got done for the day on Saturday. I had to do a bunch of crap around the house before I could get started, which is why I had the short day.


Sunday I did more crap around the house, mowed, etc before I started. I dove right back into the seat mounting. Just look at this new truck putting in work!

Angle mounted to the factory points. BTW this is more or less temporary so I dont have to do any major work to the car for me to fit.

Temp mounted to verify I will fit (I do)

Another shot with the cover off

I also spent some more time looking at the wiring trying to figure out what I have to do for Sick Summer. Just a couple gems for you guys

I think we are going to have to do more than expected. Mainly the rear tail lights are 1157 bulbs, but only have 2 wires to them. I need a power probe so I can test some shit, maybe I will finally get one.

Anyway I am going to go order up some fun parts now

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

Power probes are the greatest thing ever. I got the original and it changed my life.

the newer powerprobe pro is the one you want, i trialed one, so much easier to see voltage drops with the meter built in.

I kinda went nuts on the digital snapon versoon that's also a signal generator.

 

[Broke EF]

Fn love Pro Streets!!

I was at SRT41320 shop yesterday and saw the newest issue of Hot Rod magazine. They had two iconic Pro Street cars on the cover, so I read the article. It said, and I quote "They weren't drag cars. They weren't practical street cars either. Pro Street, as this style came to be called, was focused on car show competition, where the ticket to the winners circle was wild appearance and over-the-top engineering. In a word, excess."

So I stand with this aint a Pro Street car

 

[Yaj Yak]

I was at SRT41320 shop yesterday and saw the newest issue of Hot Rod magazine. They had two iconic Pro Street cars on the cover, so I read the article. It said, and I quote "They weren't drag cars. They weren't practical street cars either. Pro Street, as this style came to be called, was focused on car show competition, where the ticket to the winners circle was wild appearance and over-the-top engineering. In a word, excess."

So I stand with this aint a Pro Street car

they missed "tweed"

 

[Yaj Yak]

 

[strtcar]

I was at SRT41320 shop yesterday and saw the newest issue of Hot Rod magazine. They had two iconic Pro Street cars on the cover, so I read the article. It said, and I quote "They weren't drag cars. They weren't practical street cars either. Pro Street, as this style came to be called, was focused on car show competition, where the ticket to the winners circle was wild appearance and over-the-top engineering. In a word, excess."

So I stand with this aint a Pro Street car

they still make magazines?

 

[Yaj Yak]

i think my favorite thing about most prostreet cars is you could call them out from a mile away because they'd have a th-350 trans but 30" wide hoosiers out back with a 6-71 on a 350

 

[Broke EF]

they missed "tweed"

I agree 100%, but it was mentioned later in the article.

 

[Broke EF]

i think my favorite thing about most prostreet cars is you could call them out from a mile away because they'd have a th-350 trans but 30" wide hoosiers out back with a 6-71 on a 350

Where as this had a built TH400 with a brake, on a 17.5" wide MT slick and an 8-71 on a built big block At one point anyway, this thing has has only big blocks in it, but NA, nitrous, turbo, and blower. Only thing left is the K series with CD009 trans!

 

[Yaj Yak]

Where as this had a built TH400 with a brake, on a 17.5" wide MT slick and an 8-71 on a built big block At one point anyway, this thing has has only big blocks in it, but NA, nitrous, turbo, and blower. Only thing left is the K series with CD009 trans!

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[Broke EF]

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I approve of this. But we already have the K24 ready to go

 

[HRJ]

I fucking looooooove this car. Reminds me of mine so much with the red paint, huge tires and race car roots.

Pro Street doesn't have to be a stigma as long as you can handle most cars that you run into on the road. I love the "drag strip refugee" that sets off car alarms and chirps the tires going around corners lol

 

[Broke EF]

I fucking looooooove this car. Reminds me of mine so much with the red paint, huge tires and race car roots.

Pro Street doesn't have to be a stigma as long as you can handle most cars that you run into on the road. I love the "drag strip refugee" that sets off car alarms and chirps the tires going around corners lol

I think both of these cars together would make for a cool photoshoot!

 

[Broke EF]

Its Sunday night, which means its time for an update! We will start off with some parts that came in during the week.

We are looking at the door swingouts, widebands for the Dominator, a 6.86" Pro Dash, and some assembly lube. We were hoping to be assembling the engine this weekend, but it wasnt quite ready yet. Now the plan is for Lou to handle that down by him and jusg bring it up when its ready.

Next up I stopped by SRT41320 and picked up the wheels and tires.

Lou came out bright and early on Saturday and we got after it. I wanted to get the wheels and tires on the car so they were out of the way. I made Lou do the rears so he had some idea what it takes.

All done, I think it looks WAY better even though they are the same tires in the rear.

He has some new rim screws at home, so we will probably swap those out to clean it up a bit. Could probably use new lugs as well, but were way over budget as it is.

Next up we moved inside the car. I wanted to check to make sure Lou wouldnt fit with the seat set up for me.

He didnt. Couldnt even touch the pedals. I think the seat actually ended up a little further back even, but you get the idea LOL

You can also see we took out the carpet. I am not sure if we are going to throw it back in, or just run without it for now and change it later. Thats up to Lou, but it was in the way and kinda nasty so we pulled it. Then Lou started climbing around to take out the wiring. We found some real winners as it came out.

Glad to have all of that in the garbage. The down side is, I am going to end up basically rewiring the entire car now. This stuff was all engine related, so it was always going away, but the main power wires are shot too. I never liked them, but was hoping maybe I could leave it, but they are all dry rotted. Then for lights on the car, what is left for wiring is sketchy, and a lot are missing. So Lou ordered up all new everything pretty much. Not that there is a lot, but just more stuff to do. We have also already talked about getting it functional for sick summer and then redoing it properly later when there isnt a looming deadline.

With that all out of the way, we got to mounting the seats. To start that we wanted to cut out the passenger door bars. Again I wanted Lou to cut up his car

We messed around with the seats to get some ballpark idea where Lou needed to sit. Once we had that sorted we ran to go get some more materal and then got the base rails fabricated. Since I already had my seat figured out we finished that. Here Lou is marking and drilling for an attachment point too the cage.

With mine all locked in, we got to work on his. So as I have mentioned before Lou will be doing the street driving, and I will be doing the racing for this one. So that is why we are doing all this work with the seats. I also need to be sat very low, where he needs to be up quite a bit from where I sit, as well as forward. That means we couldnt use a slider setup or anything like that. As it is, I would actualy like to sit lower even, but because we have to accomdate both it would be too much fucking aound to remove the seat rails and everything each time.

We didnt get pics of doing the work for Lous seat but here is the result.

I guess I lied, this was before we attached the brackets to the rails.

After that we mounted the new (old) shifter that Lou had in his car from forever ago. Should pass current tech requirments and has a built in neutral sadfety switch and reverse light switch, That is about all for things that got finished for the day.

Lou has not really seen the car before. What I mean by that is he was a kid when it was sold. He probably saw it here and there though the years. Then when he bought it its not like he crawled all over it because he was buing it regardless of anything for obvious reason. He bought it, put it in the trailer and basically it just sat in there for the next 11-12 years. So we spent a good amount of time looking over it all and soaking it all in. I was glad to be a bit of a tour guide on things I have seen already. We talked a lot about the history and the stories of the car. We also spent a lot of time figuring out things, and planning for Sick Summer and beyond. You can tell that this car means a LOT to him, and to be honest it means a lot to me to be working on it. We are extremely exxcited to get this thing on the street and the track and just have a blast cruising around in it. Stay tuned for more as the clock is really ticking!!

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

What's the pool on him lubricating something with his blood?

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

That scotch lock as a crimp

Glad all that shit is coming out. Clean wiring means easy diagnostics if things go wrong.

 

[Pro Stock John]

Nice, pretty cool that Lou was able to buy his dad's old car back.

What size tires in back?

My 67's wiring was not as bad but had house wire, wire nuts etc.. so it all had to go.

 

[Broke EF]

What's the pool on him lubricating something with his blood?

Huh?

Nice, pretty cool that Lou was able to buy his dad's old car back.

What size tires in back?

My 67's wiring was not as bad but had house wire, wire nuts etc.. so it all had to go.

It's a 17.5x32 and the wheel is 15x15

 

[Yaj Yak]

i love this thread

 

[Broke EF]

Parts have been rolling in! He is having most everything sent to me, but I have no idea whats coming so its like Christmas except it all just means more work for me LOL

I guess Lou ordered up all new sockets for bulbs, housings, switches, etc.

May as well stick with wiring

Injector sub harness

Main harness

Power harness

I/O harness

Dual sync harness

And all the new stuff for the main power. Well most of it, I forgot to order a few things.

Got some stuff from Motion, buttons for the wheel and a quick release

Holley dual sync distributor

Harnesses, and there is a trans blanket but no pic

New Circle D converter

Lou also dropped off the trans last weekend. Fresh built TH400 with RMVB and brake.

Lou has everything for the engine, but I will wait to do a seperate update on that. Hopefully I can get a decent amount of work done this weekend, stay tuned!

 

[IceCreamAssassin]

So much work but all gonna be so worth it!

 

[HRJ]

I freakin hate wiring

 

[IceCreamAssassin]

I actually enjoy wiring even though I’m not great at it.