Vise-Grips work
My other project- 1989 Base Model Firebird
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but then what would I use as a steering wheel?
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The motor is now blue. Just need to track down a set of valve covers that I like. I am considering something in this direction: https://www.ebay.com
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Roll bar with mounting tabs for 5pt harnesses. Just enough space for the headliner.
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Yeah, it's ugly.
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Some rust repair. The front portions of the rockers were a bit soft, so it all got cut out in favor of new metal.
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Floor patches going in. I think this is what's called doing the right thing the wrong way.
Take the one off the door and put it on the steering column or buy 2 pairs on Harbor Freight's daily 35% off sale flyers, LMAO!!!
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Engine is in
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Fancy little throttle return spring bracket
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Test fit the trans. Looks pretty sweet.
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The subframe connectors make for a really convenient jack point.
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Gloss grey painted on the newly patched floors.
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Accessories on. Took a trip to the junkyard for some goodies. Pulled a few of those fuel line quick disconnects off some European cars, braided plastic sleeve to put over fuel lines, weatherpack connectors, and radiator bushings.
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Made a strut tower brace. Barely fits around a 14" air filter.
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Modified a set of clamps off a gmt400 to accept the smaller S10 radiator bushings I found and bolt up nice to my core support.
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Lower radiator support.
Little bit of progress. I have been fixing the rusted out seams in the rear wheel wells, as well as a few other dinky things.
Founders strut mounts to replace the stock rubber deals.
Put in a kill switch for the battery.
These little clips for the brake lines have been my nemesis ever since I put on my CPP calipers. I am losing to these little ******** like a one legged man in an ass-kicking contest. I just cannot get them on.
Got part of the tank cleaned off, but despite almost half a day spent on this, still not done. I suppose because I have the attention span of a knat, every time my compressor ran out of air I went to go tinker with something else.
Trans is in permanently now. Just needs a good leather shift boot and bezel.
Hopefully I can get this car driving soon, one of the cab mounts on my truck cracked like an egg a few weeks back, and I can't fix it until the bird can move under it's own power. Always something to work on.
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Founders strut mounts to replace the stock rubber deals.
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Put in a kill switch for the battery.
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These little clips for the brake lines have been my nemesis ever since I put on my CPP calipers. I am losing to these little ******** like a one legged man in an ass-kicking contest. I just cannot get them on.
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Got part of the tank cleaned off, but despite almost half a day spent on this, still not done. I suppose because I have the attention span of a knat, every time my compressor ran out of air I went to go tinker with something else.
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Trans is in permanently now. Just needs a good leather shift boot and bezel.
Hopefully I can get this car driving soon, one of the cab mounts on my truck cracked like an egg a few weeks back, and I can't fix it until the bird can move under it's own power. Always something to work on.
Put some stuff together. A buddy helped me bleed the brakes and we thrashed the thing together the rest of the way just to take it for a christening spin.
The shop lamp air cleaner and open manifolds were the key to victory.
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The shop lamp air cleaner and open manifolds were the key to victory.
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Made an exhaust. It's a 3 1/2" ebay magnaflow ripoff. I ordered a 2 3/4", but they sent me the wrong one. Fortunately, it worked great. It's a side exit under the driver rocker panel.
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Got an AFR guage on and prettied up the exhaust manifolds. Ground off unnecessary metal, smoothed them and painted them.
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A month ago, I took the car to a local cruise. Everyone met at a park beforehand and I took the opportunity to get my carb tuned a little better. Had it idling, yeah you see how this can go. Just as I am getting ready to wrap this up, a guy who's helping me yells fire. Turned out it wasn't smoke, it was steam. Cracked the tank of the radiator, the whole length of the seam was spraying water like a sprinkler. Oddly, it was at 160 and the cap didn't even vent. Fortunately the park was right on the water, so I filled the radiator with lake water and limed it home. I couldn't grab my truck what with the broken cab mount so I had to ride in a buddy's 57 Ford convertible.
Got an aluminum 3 row radiator replacement.
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Here is the car as it sits. Got the body panels on, but nothing fits all that well as of yet.
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I've started bodywork.
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Worked on the dash a little, made some aluminum plates to cover the former vent holes.
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Made a radio pod.
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I deleted cruise control, so I made a new turn signal stalk. I welded a length of threaded rod to the metal insert of broken factory stalk and put a chrome knob on the end. It is sleeved with a piece of polished aluminum tubing.
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I am swapping in a set of seats out of a Subaru imprezza.
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