Thread: 55 chevy question

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I'm full of possible projects!

I'm going to check out a 55 chevy today, I was wondering if any 55 chevy guru's could tell me the 55 problem spots?

I'll let you all know what i see I'll search over the car real good see if i notice anything.

The main problem was rust. Look carefully for bondo. If there is no bondo & little rust you got a winner if the price is rite. Mech problems are a lot easier to fix & you are probably going to upgrade the drive train at some point.

Yea I didn't get to go look yet but I've been reading and I'm going to put a ladder bar set up in the rear, i haven't looking into the front suspension yet, but I really want to do a gasser look.

Is there certain spots that always rot out? Like on my monte the back frame rails are going as all montes do so I'm going to probably back half the car.

anyone got some good sites for gasser suspensions or just informative sites?

why wouldn't i drive it on the street?

Tons of people i know drive their cars on the streets with ladder bars. I just got done helping a friend install some comp engineering bars on his malibu and its a 9 second street car. thanks for the sites

Oh well, just off the top of my head i know of 10 people that are running them on the streets with no problem. Don't know how as i've never asked if htey had problems.

What are your thoughts on a 4 link? I've never really looking into 4 links so i don't know much about them. i'll just swap in a g-body chassis and call it a day!

dang that's close.

I could always strech the g-body chassis 3" since i'd box it in anyway i could add 3" somehow. g-body chassis' are a dime a dozen around here so if i'd mess it up i could start over I was just going out on a limb saying about using the g-body chassis but it actually sounds like it could work out. something I'll have to look into.