Flowmaster American Thunder Install With Catalytic Converters Installing exhaust isn't a hard task - most people can accomplish it fairly easy. Especially when you use a kit made for your car, like we did with Flowmaster on this 1955 Bel Air. What made it take more time was that we changed the mufflers that came in the kit and added a set of high-flow catalytic converters to … [Read more...]
Installing A Tilt Column Shift Steering Column
Installing A Tilt Column Shift Steering Column We've been chipping away at our 1955 Bel Air build - primarily under the car. One piece of the puzzle that needed to be installed to make moving the car around easier was a steering column. We reached into our pile of new parts and found our steering column from Classic Performance Products. If you've been following along, … [Read more...]
Good Guys Del Mar 22nd Annual Meguiars Nationals!
Good Guys Del Mar Autocross We made a quick jaunt over to the Good Guys Del Mar show this last weekend and wanted to drop some pictures of the autocross action for yah! If you've ever been and raced at this show, the autocross is usually in the southwest corner of the show grounds. The last few shows it's moved to the northwest corner of the show grounds. The new … [Read more...]
Install: Eddie Motorsports Trunk Hinges
Installing Billet Aluminum Trunk Hinges Eddie Motorsports are known for a wide variety of billet accessories including hood hinges and serpentine systems. We were recently poking around on their site ordering up a set of hood hinges for our 1955 Bel Air project and saw they made trunk hinges for it too. The factory hinges worked just fine - they have the arms attached to … [Read more...]
Project 1955 Bel Air Rear End Finishing Touches
Installing The Rear Bumper, Emblem, and Tail Lights On Our 1955 Bel Air On our Project 1955 Bel Air, we have gotten the car out of paint jail and are excited to get this car back together! From our previous stories you can read all about building the chassis, suspension, brakes, etc. Now it's time to make this car look more like a '55 Bel Air! Our first order of … [Read more...]
Good Guys LMC Truck Nationals – Texas
Good Guys Texas 2023 Spring Show Show season has officially kicked off for Good Guys this weekend in Texas! The LMC Truck Good Guys Spring event was PACKED! We swung by for a bit on Saturday to see what was going on and were pleasantly surprised by how busy it was. If you were there last year - you'd remember how windy and cold it was. To the point that they shut … [Read more...]
Why Parts Don’t Fit!
Why Don't My Parts Fit? Restoring a classic car can be a very rewarding experience, and a frustrating one too. Seeing your vision come together is a great feeling, but sometimes installing replacement parts on can be frustrating. More often than not it seems like the parts are close, but just don't fit that well. These manufactures do know what they are building parts for … [Read more...]
500 Miles Of Freedom – Installing CPP’s 25 Gallon Fuel Tank!
500 Miles On A Tank Of Fuel? Our 1955 Bel Air project we have some big plans for. We've dubbed it "50 In A 55" because we plan on driving this car to all 50 states - yes driving to Alaska and having it shipped to Hawaii as the final leg of the journey. With that much driving it's going to use a lot of fuel. This car has an LS engine so it will get good MPG but we still plan on … [Read more...]
Steering, Shifting, And Giving It Gas!
The Corona Virus T-Bucket Do you ever just get burnt out on working on cars and need a break? Well that happened and the result was this '23 T-Bucket that we've been wrenching on. What started as a COVID project has kept on going but was put on the back burner as life got back to normal. Now's the time to finish this car up and start enjoying it! One thing we wanted to … [Read more...]
Putting A Stop To It With Baer Brakes
Installing Baer Brakes On Our 1955 Bel Air Anybody that races knows brakes are just as important, if not more important than what's under the hood making you go. Sure a wicked sounding engine winding out down the track gets all the attention, but we all know most races are won in the corners. In fact that's basically how Baer Racing started. Hal Baer saw how slow his Mustang … [Read more...]
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