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79 Trans am
I would if I had a way up there kinda far for me and no way to haul it. I am looking into maybe curt or andy welding it up if possible. I already cut that chunk out to try and find some good metal doesn't look too terrible a lil ways back into it.- Swims350
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79 Trans am
I could handle that at some point but I don't know of anywhere around me who does welding or lil small jobs mobile units etc- Swims350
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79 Trans am
that would be good if I had a torch to do so. I only have a propane torch- Swims350
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79 Trans am
just remembered my mom's boyf has a lincoln 240 volt arc welder I need to saee where it's at now or if he can use it at his place or mine. At one point he had it hooked up to their dryer plug so not sure how it's setup but I only have a dryer plug to use as well no 240 in my garage.- Swims350
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79 Trans am
that's what I was afraid of. I also thought maybe do it and then beat it with a hammer to see if it holds.- Swims350
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79 Trans am
I know, but as you can see I used a pick hammer LOL, a big ball peen one to test the strength which is why it's so large and sunk in now. I figure it's not too bad further up front since it goes uphill, but going back it may be another few inches, and that one side rail is bad on bottom so I'm...- Swims350
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79 Trans am
frame hole got bigger after using a wire brush setup on my big grinder.- Swims350
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79 Trans am
yea we really need something like that, someone to come in and offer like blasting, plating and powder coating. I mean maybe there's not enough interest here for broke rednecks but there's a good bit of guys who have or are building hot rods etc. I'm sure I woudn't be able to afford it LOL. We...- Swims350
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79 Trans am
I can't do or get any of that stuff here in this hick town we don't have a powder coating place, chrome shop anything. I can't even find a mobile or sand blasting buisness- Swims350
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79 Trans am
I want to get some solid bushings for the control arms since everyone swears to not use poly on bushings. I just hate the price like 100 a set or so for only uppers or only lowers. I wouldn't mind if it were 100 for complete upper and lower, because poly complete set is like 75. I remember...- Swims350
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Another quadrajet or edelbrock?
a 600 will be plenty for it. fuel mileage will go down most likely going to any aftermarket carb plus you'll need an adapter if it has the stock quadrajet intake, the egr gets in the way of the edelbrock carbs, and you'll need the kickdown and throttle studs for the edelbrock to make it work and...- Swims350
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79 Trans am
guys from the south don't know the struggle with rust lol. Well some but not quite as bad as what we get here.- Swims350
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79 Trans am
I found one somewhat local in louisa ky about an hr and 15 minutes one way from me, guy only wants 200 and has all susp. which would be good, but I don't have that kinda cash now, and not sure if his aint rusted anywheres either. mine looked fine until i flipped it over. if I had tha cash I'd...- Swims350
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79 Trans am
sigh, now my front subframe has a rotted hole in it. I might be able to chop a chunk out and get some flat steel to put in and try to weld it up or maybe I can find aother not sure yet.- Swims350
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79 Trans am
I'm sure since our TSC is new they only carry majic same as our local magic mart lol. I'm still undecided on it. I know you can buy the valspar on amazon and actually thought of doing my whole car in a red in that stuff. The majic says to only use 2 coats and to use clear if you want but not to...- Swims350
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79 Trans am
just some pics of my old man's red trans am from back in the early 90's like 91 or 92 maybe earlier and his friend's white trans am which was the very first car I ever drove. As for an update I've been tearing the front end apart on my 79, found the DS coil spring had 2 rungs broke off and both...- Swims350
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79 Trans am
well bucket and I have discussed this but for everyone else.... I got in touch with the PO before the PO I got this from, he had the trim tag for it, he is the one who had the body work and paint done and the custom air brushing. Well I'm kind of stuck now. I originally wanted to paint only...- Swims350
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Understanding edelbrock tuning
I know that all too well. We've owned several, threw em on no issues, then th elast one I had, yuck. I never had to run a fuel pressure regulator with any running a block mounted mechanical pump, and this one I did. It kept running too much psi and blowing the needle off the seat and flooding...- Swims350
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Understanding edelbrock tuning
LOL let me guess, this is how to tune an edelbrock carb, step 1 remove carb, step 2 throw said carb in trash, step 3 install holley or FI unit- Swims350
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79 Trans am
I thought it was Chris Austin chassisworks, maybe I'm thinking wrong but there was them, pro touring f body, and some others I forget now. I know global west, I think maybe bmr or something and some others with alot of much wanted parts, same things subframe bushings, g braces, subframe ties etc.- Swims350
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79 Trans am
yea those ture bend lines on ebay say they are double layered copper or whatever but not ni cop I swear I saw it before, maybe it was th elocal lines at th eparts stores.- Swims350
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79 Trans am
I could be wrong but I thought those tur bend kits on ebay were ni cop ones. I know local places are carrying straight in nicop I think. The pre bent tainless kits are around 200 and maybe you can find free shipping pre bent reg. steel runs like 150 so not alot of difference but compared to 75...- Swims350
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79 Trans am
I have seen those kits on ebay cheap like 60 for a whole squarebody truck etc. with different lengths and fittings. I figured they were too cheap or being abl to bend that easy might blow out or something. I was hoping to find more reviews or somebody who had used them- Swims350
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