UMI's 1979 Monte Carlo- Pro-Touring Project- Lots of Pictures!

[UMI Performance]

Hello All,

This is UMI's 1979 Monte Carlo G-Body project. We actually began this project in late 2012 but since we are newer sponsors here at Lateral G we haven't posted anything here about it.

I will post a few recap pictures of what has happened in the last two years working on this project. If you would like the full details please visit one of the links below, it would be impossible to repost all those pictures! In the other links there are hundreds of pictures. I also posted our Facebook page link to the album. We will now keep this thread updated from here on out.

Link to project on Gbodyforum.com

Link to project on Pro-touring.com

Link to Project on Facebook

Here is a recap, beginning in late 2012 when we picked the car up. We actually chose this car because of the virtually rust free and untouched body, solid under carriage and original paint. I personally loved the fact that it was so ugly! We want to maintain the beatiful green paint as well.

The car came to us with a 350, TH350, 3.73 gears with a true lock posi, custom painted wheels and vinyl green bench seat

Here is the car when we got it:

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Stock testing.

Of course hard tires on 15" wheels won't help the results but we still wanted to do some testing with our G-Body as it came to us. We did swap on our pro-tour bar at one point... you can see the rear tire lifted in a picture.

The first pictures is UMI's very own Ramey Womer... Ramey was pretty excited to have his new toy. Ramey does a lot of UMI's design, engineering and even phone/e-mail support.

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And when we first started the suspension swap process to get the car where it is now.

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Engine rebuild. Car now as a 383 stroker, AFR heads and Isky cam. Along with Dakota Digital.

[Justin@EntropyRad]

I'll take one please!

[SSLance]

Big fan here of the Green Machine, can't wait to see how all of the new products work on it this season.

Would love to make an event this year and run with it out on a course...

[Ron Sutton]

This is a cool thread. I love that you're showing the before & after. Besides, I'm partial to G-bodies.

Keep it up !

[UMI Performance]

Thanks for looking guys!

SSLance and Ron- I know Ramey is looking forward to event together, of course I am too. Lance we have learned a lot for your car and your build thread, I know Ramey studies it daily it seems. Ron your help on our G-Body platform has been great, we appreciate it and can't wait to incorporate the changes. We just talked about both of you earlier in a meeting on some of the new G-Body stuff in the works. We are excited to work with both of you in the 2015 season

Ryan

[wiedemab]

I know this is an early Monte, but it was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the "before" pictures - -



Cool thread!

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Originally Posted by wiedemab

I know this is an early Monte, but it was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the "before" pictures - -

Cool thread!

hahah... too funny!!