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79 Trans am
good luck with yours, I have to keep watch on yours as well. Alot of stuff I don't have to do but I want to and now's the time so why not, like painting the firewall good and the backside of the fenders and inner front bumper fender wells etc. It's really rough now no clue what they used almost...- Swims350
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79 Trans am
mine won't be the cheapest since I'm doing full rebuild on the 403 and then brakes and such lol I highly doubt it'd be done this year.- Swims350
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79 Trans am
yes there was a write up on nastyz28 fb page as well as the forum page for an s10 rear disc brake upgrade for f body's using a 4wd backing plate on one side and a 2wd backing plate on the other, which strikes me as weird enough LOL. They had around $500 in it I think, and for me finding those...- Swims350
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79 Trans am
it's like any glare I get from lights or shiney paint is terrible. I know a couple were probably just me moving or something. Next time I'll give it a chance to get to the same temps as the garage after being in the warm house, and try and avoid the glare- Swims350
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79 Trans am
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79 Trans am
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79 Trans am
I got some pics but they aren't the best either, it's a cheap camera gonna have to figure it out or buy a better one. I'm not happy nor impressed with it.- Swims350
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79 Trans am
not a huge fan of roadkill, I can't stand some of the hack jobs or stuf they ruin, namely that nice squarebody I'd loved to have had and they hacked it up. As for getting junk and throwing it together or driving death traps, I like it. I like the stuff they show and have, just hate them to ruin...- Swims350
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79 Trans am
I know from all my reading so far it seems they were called dogs because or the bad gearing, I know that all too well with dads 84 having 2.72's and it sucks. We do have a set of 3.90's for his truck he told me to use in mine, but I'm thinking a 3.90 might be a bit much. The s10 had 4.10's and...- Swims350
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79 Trans am
still not much happening of course. I'm still buying parts a lil at a time mostly 403 rebuild stuff. I know have a set of rod and main bearings as well as some stock 403 piston moly ring set. I need of course, cam lifters, timing set, oil pump, gaskets, and freeze plugs. I did strip off the...- Swims350
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What new tools have you got lately?
Had to go by myself a digital caliper and a multimeter finally. Also need to get myself a new honer and would like to buy a HF shop press along with alot of other stuff. I have to get myself a honer to do cylinder for rebuilds, already got a new ring compressor and torque wrench never got to... -
79 Trans am
I had actually considered that one or like I told the wife put a sunroof on each side or do one front and back LOL go get some t-tops themselves and trim and just get to cutting, have to weld the middle back up though. They said the guy who owned it and kept the hood had a t-top roof he'd let...- Swims350
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79 Trans am
not sure if you can make it out but the 2nd pic from the bottom where the black ends and you rusty metal and the bondo chunks well there's a big low dent They warped the roof or burgered it up pretty good I may have to buy myself a stud gun dent puller to try and fix it. That is why they had the...- Swims350
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79 Trans am
so we had a couple decent days here and I cut this crap out of there...- Swims350
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79 Trans am
they air burhsed the trans am on back looks like they stuck on the trans am letters air brushed then removed them to leave it flamed with the solid black letter that are the black paint under it. As for the seat syes they are that color alot brighter red then the dash. The fronts were black...- Swims350
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my new (first) vette, or my wifes? LOL
haven't done anything to the vette other then move it ou tof the garage and get all my truck parts out, and put the trans am in, then moved the vette back in. I did find out though it has chambered exhaust, th eones that look like glass packs but are just dimpled. Wife wants sidepipes, which...- Swims350
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'79 Camaro Restomod
I'm bored so I'm just gonna leave these here if you don't mind @bucket no clue why I didn't do this when I got em lol instead of trying to figure out how to send em to ya. Anyways story went, I had a buddy with a camaro he was parting, I needed some stuff for my trans am and Andy...- Swims350
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Rounded off exhaust manifold bolts
I had a stripped seat bolt on the 79 camaro bucket got, and I used my craftsman set like linked above, pulled it right off. I bought them to try and a broke tbi bolts on my 88 they weren't small enough to fit. Now I've got like 5 brok eones in the olds 403 heads sadly several of those broke...- Swims350
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79 Trans am
yea I don't plan to keep red interior I'd rather have it black and have it red outside lol. They dyed em though rears were white, fronts were black, and I really don't think it's a stock red, it's pretty bright. It has black carpet black rear panels, red seat belts front and rear, red seats, red...- Swims350
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79 Trans am
sadly he's not looking to get rid of it he's almost got it done, it's been jambed in a light yellow he has to put glass in, paint outside and then some interior stuff, it's got a tbi 350 thats still tbi- Swims350
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79 Trans am
I'll have to check car part.com then yes no big hp numbers, it came with a 4 cap main girlde and I'm only doing basic stock rebuild, cylinder check, hone, crank mic, bearings, rings, oil pump, timing set, cam/lifters, gaskets. If I come across a set of better olds heads I'd swap to bump up CR...- Swims350
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79 Trans am
not much going on, moved it to the other side of the garage, might move again, need the vette in out of the weather too. I did find a hood, old paint was cracked badly and caused surface rust in alot of the topside, underside not very much. I plan to strip it by hand, rust/paint removal disc...- Swims350
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79 Trans am
yea poncho 6.6 aka 400 had 220 hp stock and 403 had 185 or so. I forget torque numbers- Swims350
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79 Trans am
huh? the 403's? I thought those were the 301's or whatever that were crap. I wished I had some of them parts or could get there to get some, I bet he has everything I need, one top shop don't anna know the prices tho.- Swims350
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79 Trans am
well they are 2nd gen f body specific as far as I know but still, expensive on ebay. I may have found a hood, it's about an hour from me, but it's got surface rust, if I can get it cheap enough I'll try to get as much as I can off, use some rust treatment/reformer stuff, the kind that turns it...- Swims350
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