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Originally Posted by Stovebolter

Uncle Bob....now I'm going to have to refab my motor mounts. Those look way better than mine. BTW....when I donate (your a moderator...correct?)....Dave G

Thanks for the nice words on the mounts. As for the moderator thing, not me, they knew better than to give me that much power.............. If I were in charge of donations though I'd follow the same suggestion I give a potential buyer when I'm selling a car or parts..............just keep peelin' off $100 bills til I say stop!

LOL's. Those $100's go real fast dont they.....

Got to suffering from houseitis and had to go to the garage for awhile. Pictures aren't the best quality and there's still a lot of work to be done, but I'm happy with the progress and can see the finished rear end install project. It's a triangulated 4 bar, but will have adjustable front mounts on both the top and bottom bars. The frame ties will be welded to the structure as well as to the seat mount "crossmembers" (or supports, whatever chebbie called them and will stiffen up the car quite well. I'll be adding a 1 1/2" tubular crossmember and drive shaft hoop between the front lower 4 bar mounts. The lower mounts (not shown) will be welded to the same reinforcement plate the main hoop for the roll bar gets welded too, should tie things up in the back end fairly well. The wood pieces in the floor cut outs are the templates for the frame ties. Also included a couple pics of the deck lid with the extension cleco'd in place. Have to do a bunch of welding, grinding, and smoothing on it.....Might end up doing the deck lid and hood in 'glass, have to see how much they weigh, 'glass would be a whole bunch lighter. Probably wait to decide on that till I get the suspension finished up and set the car on the scales to see where I'm at.

Hope to get the interior and all the little odds and ends I need to finish up the pickup this week then I'll have more room to work on the 'maro. Way too crowded in there now!!!! Like I've said before, I miss everything about my big shop except the payments!!!!!!

Anyway, here's some pics of the 'maro I took tonight before I came in the house....

Wow Dave, your making some serious progress there. Your making me feel reeaal lazy. Now I have to get out to the shop and hit the grinder for a while.

Dave G

That looks awesome, Dave! This is looking kind of NASCAR; is that where you're going?

Originally Posted by falconvan

That looks awesome, Dave! This is looking kind of NASCAR; is that where you're going?

not sure where the thing is going to go.... Just thought the new roofline needed a spoiler and the boys at chebbie just had that little plastic pos on there, had to do something bigger then that!!!! Same reason I had to re-do the front and rear end, I just hate plastic parts on the outside of a car!!!!!

Question; if I put an early short style water pump, water pump pulley, and crank pulley on my 79 350, will the pulleys line up? I need some more clearance in the front and I wasn't sure if the thickness of the later model balancer would put the crank pulley out too far.

Originally Posted by falconvan

Question; if I put an early short style water pump, water pump pulley, and crank pulley on my 79 350, will the pulleys line up? I need some more clearance in the front and I wasn't sure if the thickness of the later model balancer would put the crank pulley out too far.

Should be just fine. Sometimes it takes a little shimming (can be bought ready made), but not over 1/16th".

Thanks, Bob. I was hoping it would work. That should get me another 3 or 4 inches in the front.

That should make your wife very happy.............

OUCH! Walked right into that one, didn't I? She says she loves my "Little Smokey"!

LOL's....You Guys

I've just about finished putting the engine back together. It's nothing wild, just a basic rebuild with Speed Pro flat top pistons, a mild Speed Pro street/strip cam, and a set of reworked 883 heads. I'm going to use a painted Edelbrock Performer intake and a Q-jet for induction and a set of early exhaust manifolds. I also have a TH 350 with a 2300 stall and a shift kit to use. I looked at several V8 Chevettes online and it was like they were all stamped from the same cookie cutter; some kind of mag wheels, Chevy orange engine with chrome goodies, headers, Holley, etc, etc....so I though it would be cool to set this up to look like it could have been a factory production V8 car. No chrome, factory style dual snorkel air cleaner, late 70's GM blue engine paint, quiet exhaust, and stock hubcaps. I probably will dump the pizza cutter tires for something a little wider. The car was a factory manual steering, manual brake, no A/C so the only thing on the front of the engine will be an alternator and 1 belt. What do you guys think?

Should be fun...light cars with V-8's always are...,..... Now, you're not going to take it out and hunt down any ricers or anything are you??????

Now what kind of person would I be if I didn't thoroughly test it before I sold it to the next guy?