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What other Car projects that are non Mopar does anyone have going on right now?

This is my son's 1976 Buick Skylark coupe. It has the Olds 260 V8 with a TH200 auto, tilt, AM, heater and two-tone paint. When he graduated high school several years back, I had the complete interior done (seats, carpet, visors, headliner) as his grad present. The car has 130k miles, he is the second owner. Plans are to keep it as-is; though a Buick 350 or 455 is a possible swap in the near-term. Paint is possible, too. It's four different shades of bronze! It's an occasional driver, at present. We've owned this car for about eight years now.
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I have been MIA for a few months due to work, family visiting and the 69 427 4 speed Corvette Coupe I have been working on. Well, actually my buddy Carl has been doing most of the work, but I have been busy sourcing parts, fighting with vendors, returning things when they send me the wrong stuff, etc... My buddy Carl is on his second week of vacation, so there is a lull in activity.

My update is that everything that was coming apart is apart and either rebuilt or has a new part to replace it. When Carl gets back, we will start re-assembly. The 427 has been completely rebuilt with a roller top end and 9.5 compression pistons. The original heads were pretty bad, so per my builder, we went with a new set of Brodix aluminum heads (trust me, I will be hanging on to the orig heads as this is a matching numbers car). Unfortunately, I ordered Brodix oval port heads from Summit and they sent me rectangular port heads, and it too 2 weeks to get those, so I had to wait another 2 weeks to get the correct oval port heads. Once my builder had them, he called to say that there was a lot of irregularity in the ports and he had to spend several hours cleaning up the ports. I am damn glad he did not just bolt them on. Anyhow, I will be picking up the engine next week. The 4 speed had been totally gone through, it had an input shaft issue, so just decided to totally go through it. FYI, on this year of Vette, to get the tranny out, you have to pull the engine! All new front suspension, all new rear suspension, drilled and slotted rotors, all new bearings and brakes. All new u-joints on the drive shaft and half shafts and had to replace one of the half shafts as well.

My buddy Carl is a frickin' perfectionist, so every little thing he found wrong, he fixed in terms of fiberglass under the car. Under the carpet there was about a foot square hole in the floor by the brake pedal that someone just covered with sheet metal and screws. Some time back, this car had a half shaft u-joint fail and it tore the crap out of the read underside on the driver's side of the car. It bent suspension, decimated the battery box and generally did a lot of damage. Someone just replaced the u-joint and bolted things back up and sent it down the road....they had to know it was not right. This is why I am glad Carl is the way he is, he cannot let sub-standard stuff go once he knows about it. FYI, Carl is a Mopar guy, he built his own 69 Charger from a shell to a car that could win at any show. To top it all off, this is a super early 69 built in October of 68, so this car has some 68 parts and some 69 parts. This made ordering parts by year, make and model very difficult. I am attaching one pic to remind you what it is that I am working on. I hope all your projects Mopar and otherwise are going well!
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I'm working on a 57 4 door BelAir currently. This got put in place ahead of the 49 F1 I've been working on. The 57 is getting brakes all around, rebuild front suspension, sent original standard bore/standard crank 283 out for a rebuild, took out the tank and had it cleaned plus replaced all rubber lines/flushed steel line/replaced sender. The boss was thinking of doing a crate engine for it but I pointed out if we did that, there would be issues for the accessory drives lining up as the car has the thin balancer and the crates are like 3x the thickness meaning pulley issues, generator issues etc. Lit the engine off today on the run stand to make sure all is cool before it goes back in the car. Hopefully have it wrapped up by the end of next week so I can get back on the F1.

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I'm working on a 57 4 door BelAir currently. This got put in place ahead of the 49 F1 I've been working on. The 57 is getting brakes all around, rebuild front suspension, sent original standard bore/standard crank 283 out for a rebuild, took out the tank and had it cleaned plus replaced all rubber lines/flushed steel line/replaced sender. The boss was thinking of doing a crate engine for it but I pointed out if we did that, there would be issues for the accessory drives lining up as the car has the thin balancer and the crates are like 3x the thickness meaning pulley issues, generator issues etc. Lit the engine off today on the run stand to make sure all is cool before it goes back in the car. Hopefully have it wrapped up by the end of next week so I can get back on the F1.

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Nice work on the 57! Glad to see a 4 door get some love!!!
 
I am building a 1955 Belair but will have to sell her. My body man passed away with cancer at about 90% done and that is where the project stopped. This was a full frame off rotisserie job and new sail panels installed along with 56 fender wells just toe able to get the 13# wheels off the rear. I am NOT a body man and will not attempt to do sloppy work to finish her. I know I am a long way from most of you but if interested....I am easy to find. I have a gazillion hours of my own in here plus waaay too much money invested at this point. I want my 69 Coronet done!
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Barn find '65 Ford Wagon out of Idaho, 390 4V, 3 on-the-tree with Borg Warner overdrive. Dad and I cleaned it up and road tripped it to LA in April.


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I am building a 1955 Belair but will have to sell her. My body man passed away with cancer at about 90% done and that is where the project stopped. This was a full frame off rotisserie job and new sail panels installed along with 56 fender wells just toe able to get the 13# wheels off the rear. I am NOT a body man and will not attempt to do sloppy work to finish her. I know I am a long way from most of you but if interested....I am easy to find. I have a gazillion hours of my own in here plus waaay too much money invested at this point. I want my 69 Coronet done!View attachment 435175 View attachment 435176 View attachment 435177 View attachment 435178 View attachment 435175 View attachment 435175 View attachment 435176 View attachment 435177 View attachment 435178
Beautiful project! It makes me wish I was rich so I could have it!!!!
 
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That baby is just screaming " install a cammer or side oiler in me"! A cammer would be smokin!!! When my boss got back to the shop today, I told him that the engine builder put the wrong cam in the 283 and that it should have been one with a 106-108 degree lobe center. It took him a minute to figure out I was pulling his leg. That rascal would have had a nice lumpy idle though!
 
Got the h1 hummer seats installed in the deuce and a half! And got a cubby hole hollowed out in the woods to park it in!
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