Hey Corey! Your car def belongs over here, although I would't blame you if you decided to maintain a single build thread. Maybe some highlights as you progress?

Bushings are big topic. You can take a second on your house and buy the spherical alum from Pfadt or plead w them to sell you just the Poly fronts. Vette Brakes and Performance also makes a nice set of Poly/Graphite fronts only.

As far as colors - I'm no design expert - but I'm not sure the Z28 stripes work for my eye. Maybe reverse them? Or solid charcoal w red frame and fuel cell? The colors def look great together so what do I know?

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I agree. I think if you're gonna go red paint, some darker charcoal/grey stripes would be a great choice.

Corey, definitely start a build thread on Lat G. :thumbsup:

Hey Ron - car is coming along real nice! Glad to see you settled on a year :thumbsup: . Unfortunately looks like you decided to go through that learning curve anyway, discovering that most are not what they seem under the paint. Seems like you managed to side-step that mess and find yourself a nice '69. Cannot believe the luck on that delivery - that's Murphy right there. But you're making the most of it and you've made a ton of progress in a short amount of time. Some real interesting stuff you are considering. Give me a call sometime and we can talk engines, dry sumps, bumpers and roll bars :-) I'll be keeping a close eye on your progress and look forward to seeing the car in person.

Cheers!
G.

Hey Gregg! Glad to see you posting over here and thanks for the props. You should do a mini build thread over here and put up some eye candy. I'll call you for sure as those are all topics I need to deal with! Excellent post over at PT as well...:thumbsup:

Prolly. Thanks Todd...:lol:

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Show off. :D

That's a little better than that lil ole LS3 I imagine. :unibrow:

Coming along nicely.:thumbsup: Great choice for power.:thumbsup: LS motor's work alot better than some boat anchor big block.:lol:

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Ron, that color is the shiznit. It looks beautiful on your car. I ain't gonna lie though, I'm going to have to steal that for my next project...the C10. Hey, I want to see pics of the powder coated subframe. By the way Ron, thanks for all the advice you have been giving me lately. :hail:

Ya, but you can put lipstick on a pig and it's still......:unibrow:

Thx Men....sorry no tease inended. Need to go to dinner and wanted to sneak in a few pics. I do believe an LS3 based 416 w good heads and propper cam is a great way to spin up R's, but I had a chance to grab this and I was heading toward 400+ so it just made sense to do it now. Here's the plan:

Break it down, mic/blueprint everything and machine where necessary. Slight port on the LS7 CNC heads, possibly thow some Manley race valves in there (tbd). Match a cam to the best flow rate I can get. Order some custom Mahle pistons (builder likes those) and coat those and the stock titanium forged rods. Crank is already forged and balance the whole assy. Zero balance the alum Mcleod flywheel. This should give me as strong a bottom/top end as possible, but I'm open to critique...

I'm leaning toward an update to the dry sump system. I'll get w Jon @ Speartech and get a flash to match the mods for initial start up and then go to a chasis dyno....once i get out of jail and finish the build. :haha:

Subfr pics are days away Marcus. Just need a reassemble and take a money shot. No need to thank me for our friendship Bro. I'm diggin' every minute...:thumbsup:

Had to quote Scott twice :lol:

Uh huh...:cool:...but its my pig :D:

Never let work interfere with your social life.:D

I have to be you...:cool:

I just do what Charley tells me too... seems to work out okay. :rofl:

^ can i get in on that program? :yes:

Great looking project Ron!
And I see the entire comedy crew is on board too....:D

Thx Eric! It's like internet bench racing...and the best build crew evah :thumbsup:

I agree. Great group here! Even that Greg guy......;)

Ron, when they going to shoot some paint? :cheers:

Sore subject this week Ant. Notice I'm working on drivetrain and suspension lately? One more week and I'm gonna name names...:censored:

Hang in there buddy!!

I will Bro and thx! Taking a page out of your and Wayne's playbook...:thumbsup:

... and that's why we all have LS engines. Think of them as being like models without make up. They might not be super amazing looking, with plastic intake manifolds, coil packs, etc. and they might be downright impossible to understand with certain EFI systems, but at the end of the day they are still lithe.

Ron, I was just about to ask what happened with the engine deal. Glad you finally have one!

Matt

Awesome build Ron! I'm diggin' that Ferrari color. :yes:

Hell, maybe I'll look into puttin' a Ferrari color on my car. :_paranoid

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Definitely a good choice, you can't beat LS7 power and reliability in the same package. :thumbsup:

You motor is thing of beauty buddy!

Hey Bry...how about Lambo Orange? :yes:

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Who kidnapped Todd and started posting in his place? Bring him back or there's gonna be a forum hunt...:unibrow:

OUCH! Damn, my wife just slapped me upside the head for suggesting I might want to go with Lambo Orange. All I said was the color goes well with black and silver. WTF?

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Great updates Ron. Hopefully she gets some paint on her soon.
Good luck!:thumbsup:

Ron, we gotta do some yoga or meditation during this build process :lol:

No kidding Brother. Thought we'd be trading paint by now...:rolleyes:

Little things do help though...:D

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Oh hay look, Ron bought some boxes from Forgeline :D

Now quit screwin' with us and show the goods :mad:

As long as you promise not to smack me if I'm standing next to Scott...:yes:

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Lookin' good, I always liked that style. I bought a set of the Boze Mesh last year but never used them. Sold them a couple weeks after I bought them. Plan was to stretch the rear quarter panels with the back space that I ordered but I chickened out.