64 Chevelle
 

So I've been on this site for a few years now and during that time I have begun a slow transformation of converting my 64 Chevelle from a drag race car to a fun to drive pro touring car. I've had my car since the 90's and have done everything to it. I used to be big in street/drag racing and loved to have a fast car I couldn't really drive. Once I started seeing how these pro touring cars were being built I decided I wanted to convert a basically finished race car into something I could enjoy with the family and my friends. I want to do occasional auto cross events but for the most part just build a fast and fun to drive car. I really like the resto mod look. Unfortunately I couldn't find too many before shots. It used to have the standard 90's Weld Draglites. The following photos were when I started to make some changes and had a set of 17" tourqe thrusts. I've decided to keep the 468 Big Block Chevy engine in it for now. I am putting in a T56, upgrading all the suspension and brakes, and updating the interior. [IMG]https://www.dropbox.com/sc/g463cbx2v...IpPCEPAiZrsrNa[/IMG]

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Haha, my thoughts exactly. I tried copy and pasting the link of the photos from drop box and pasting it to the add photos and I get a little square with an x. I found an old how to thread but its from 2011 and isn't the same as what I am seeing. Any help?

I have always used Photobucket. Pretty simple and straight forward. They even give you the html code to copy and paste your images.

Evan Iroc Z, thanks bud. I guess you can't get the photos out of Dropbox, alright it's going to take a minute to pull some photos but here's a start, lol. http://i1264.photobucket.com/albums/...psod2vbghn.jpg

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Nice looking car. The wait for the pictures was worth it.

Thanks waynieZ! I'm still working on getting photos into photo bucket but for the most part this is kinda where I started a few years back. I'll get more in and start showing the work I've been doing. It's definitiely not one of these high end bad ass builds but it will be a cool garage build budget pro touring car.

I gave this one to my 17 year old son . Would love to hear your plans . This one will get a full SpeedTech Performance frame boxing with cross member as well as 4 corner coilovers A arms and some mor stuff from them . LS3 with a Richmond 5 speed and a Fab 9" rear.
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Beautiful color, what is it ?

No problem. Glad I pointed it out, that's a good looking car you have.

So is started the ol T56 swap. I wanted to try and keep the floor as original looking as I could on the top and bottom so I opted to section and raise the existing tunnel. Here's kinda how I did it

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I created roughly 2" strips using the cuts as a template then tacked them in place. I rolled the floor slightly in some spots and tacked it all together essentially raising the trans 2"

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Then I had to relief cut the firewall and bring it up to the height of the tunnel. The end of the tunnel needed some work molding the old pieces and new pieces together

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I cleaned it all up and put a coat of primer before I welded up all the old holes in the floors. I welded in bucket seat brackets and prepped the floors for Por15. The florrs were all in all pretty clean. There was surface rust in all the standard spots but nothing went threw and they were all in all pretty solid

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Meanwhile, underneath I welded in the Chris Alston trans cross member and boxed the frame rails. The hardest part of the rails was straightening all the years of jacks and jack stands bending the old frame rails, especially with the body on the car.

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Oh yeah, before I coated the floor I put in the driveshaft and took out the rear springs and the bump stops to let the axle lay on the frame. The only clearance issue I had was under the rear seat so I cut it out and welded a taller piece in. Probably wouldn't normally be necessary unless you plan on the car being really low which I do

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Sorry for so much on the trans tunnel but I've had a lot of people ask how to do it and I couldn't find a lot of images when I was looking so if someone likes this method hopefully it'll help.

Nice job, it looks great.

Yes great job ! Hope to see more soon .

Thank you, I got the floors coated and started moving on to the dash.

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I welded up the ol monster tach mount on top of the dash and decided to get rid of the old heater knobs in anticipation for a more modern ac/heater set up down the road.

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So you can see in some of the photos the dash and door tops used to be painted a faux marble. I think getting rid of the old 90's marble is probably one of the biggest interior upgrades to me. LOL. I went with the Boss 338 wheels and I really like the flat grey against the shiny black so I felt bringing this color into the interior would be really nice. I also kinda felt that having some flatness against the black and chrome would make for some good contrast in the interior. I'm liking it so far. I went with House of Kolor Galaxy Grey with Hot Rod Flatz clear coat.

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I got things unmasked and cleaned the car up a little.

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Looking Good !! Did you tub the rear ? What size tire and wheel do you have on the rear ?

Keep the pic coming !! Will be watching this one close !!

MOREHORSEPOWER, Thanks. I didn't tub it but back when I raced and before I painted the car we modified the rear outer wheel well to the quarter panel. It's actually really clean and I'm able to stuff a 30" slick under there or now a 20x10 with a 275/35/20 tire. I just placed a big order and I'm waiting for some parts. I'll be updating soon with some new photos

64mali From the last photo they look more like a 315mm . I am guesing a 5.5" or 6" backing . We also shaved the lips on the fenders when replacing the rear quarters . Keep the pic coming and the parts roiling . I like the fact that you are building your car as we get ready to build my sons car.

I forget the backspacing but I can measure it next time I have a wheel off if you'd like. I'm pretty sure the rear end is narrowed also. I'll get a measurement of that as well to let you compare. I like the 20's in the back a lot but I think I'm going to get a set of 18's for playing around on the autocross track. That way I don't kill sticky and expensive tires playing on the street. You've also got me thinking about the Speed Tech frame brace kit now.lol. But I think I'm going to finish the mess I started and see how it goes. If I do everything now I won't have nothing to compare it to because I only went fast in straight lines before...

Yes if you can get numbers that would be great . As for the brace kit you have take the body off the frame . But as you said I only want to do it once and now is the time . I live 4 hours north of SpeedTech and we went down to there shop and what a bunch great guys !! They even gave my son a ride in there C10 . I think he is still smiling !!

So it's funny how I underestimate time and materials sometimes, lol. I started to lay down the Dynamat Extreme and figured I would start from the rear. I went to clean the old glue off the package tray and ended up stripping it to metal. Once I was in it that far I figured there was no point in leaving the huge square holes where the roll bar goes through so I made filler panels. Next a little epoxy prime and I can finally start my Dynamat project.

So I start laying the Dynamat and was waiting for my Dynaliner and the cardboard rear seat divider to show up. I ordered the divider and package tray minus the old jute pad because I figured the Dynaliner would be way cooler. Then it gets here. So for whatever reason I didn't pay much attention to the amount of Dynaliner that comes in a roll and figured I would probably get the back half done. LOL, I certainly underestimated that one. So I have a very nice divider board that just quadrupled in value. HaHa. This sound deadening adventure isn't going to be cheap. I'm happy with the outcome so far though.

Sorry not a very exciting update but I am looking forward to getting my interior back in.

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Here's a sneak peak at the dash with Dakota Digital

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Great looking instrument panel.

Great looking car!
I just got that same dash gauge setup:lol:
Do you have any pics of the outer wheel well mods or explain what was done?
Tunnel mod, floors, dash, everything looks awesome!

Looking good, nice job on the dash. I love the gauges.