Project 'Overtime': Pro-Touring 68 Acadian (Nova) with L92 swap

[scherp69]

So I thought I would finally do a build thread on my car. It's a 68 Acadian that I orginally bought for $700. When I got it, it was white with black racing stripes. I fixed the car up on a pizza shop manager's wage. I had it painted cherry red, rebuild the 350 and th350 and put on 15" cragar rims with BFGoodrich tires. Now that I'm a cop and make way more money than I did back then, I'm doing the car again...but the way I want to. My plans are as follows:

Pro Touring theme



Suspension, brakes and tires:

18" New Gen Splitters, polished lip and brushed centers. 305-30-18 in the rear and 245-35-18 in the front.
Speed Tech Performance subframe with Speed Tech high clearance tubular control arms.
Speed Tech 1.25" solid sway bar.
Unisteer rack and pinion kit
Ridetech single adjustable coil overs
Wilwood 6 piston calipers with 12.2" rotors
Prodigy bar rear suspension (airbar with adjustable arms) with Ridetech single adjustable coil overs
Moser M9 housing
Moser 31 spline axles
Strange Pro Nodular centre section with 3.70 gears and half billet posi
Wilwood 4 piston calipers with 12.2" rotors

Drivetrain:

LS3 6.2L crate motor. Hope to be around 550 hp.
Speartech ECU with DBW
Comp Cams camshaft: 226/234 .598”/.612” 114LSA custom cam using EPS on intake and LXL lobes on the exhaust.
LS3 intake with LS3 ported and polished throttle body
Speed Tech Performance / Stainless Works long tube polished headers.
Wegner Motorsports polished diamond cut serpentine kit
Tremec TKO600 with MGW shifter
Monster stage 3 clutch

Interior:

Flaming River polished tilt steering column
Flaming River Waterfall leather steering wheel
2005 GTO leather power bucket seats in front and GTO rear seats
Custom console with 7" LCD screen
Thunder Road gauge cluster
Speedhut gauges
Vintage Air Gen IV air conditions
Billet Specialties air conditions louvers

Body:

New sheet metal includes:
Goodmark: quarter panels, inner rear wheel wells, deck filler panel
Auto Metal Direct: 2" cowl hood, inner fender wells, rear cross rail, rear tail light panel, quarter panel end caps, door skins
DSE deep tubs
Firewall has been completely smoothed
Paint will be House of Kolor's apple red with black base coat

Stereo:

JL Audio stereo (haven't decided what but will be big)

More to come, but in the meantime here's some pics:

Here's what the car looked like before I started tearing into it again.



Here's the car as it sits today

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Here's some of the goodies I got today


DSE Deep tubs

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Moser M9 with back brace and G-Bar ready


AirRide suspension (same as a G-bar)

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Wilwood brakes




Hydraboost system

[scherp69]

I've had these for a while already, but these are the rims I have


I hope to get working on the car next week as the wife and daughter will be gone for 4 days. I will be living in the shop. Will update as I go. I really need to say thanks to Frank and Lisa at Prodigy Customs and www.gpsuperstore.com for the great deals. Frank also went out of his way to get all the brackets welded to the M9 so I didn't have to screw it up trying to set the pinion angle. Thanks again Frank.

[ProdigyCustoms]

Oh that M9 is sexy. You know you got the first one we have done! It is going to be real close on shock / spring clearance. I think a empty housing test would be prudent. Glad everything showed up OK, you still have one more box of brake cables, hoses, etc coming. It is shipping from us tommorrow. Maybe we should ship that straight to your place?

Thanks for the orders. You know where I am if you need me.

[Bulldog68]

Nice project. I read your backstory and got a little nostalgic. I worked for 6 years at a pizza restaurant before finishing up college and becoming a cop here in California. Now it's been a little over 5 years working and I'm still not as far into my project(s) as you! Guess I need some more overtime...

[XcYZ]

Kick ass!

[scherp69]

Thanks for the comments guys. Maybe I should call the 'overtime build' as that's what's paying for it. Work a few shifts....buy another part. Work a few more shifts...buy some more. Hopefully I will have some more pics next week as I plan on hitting the shop for a few days.

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Today I was able to get the G-Bar/Air Ride rear suspension mocked up. It took some cursing and swearing, but not too much. Now I can get this thing as a roller and start putting the body panels on.

Bottle Jacks to help hold brace in place


Bottle Jack attached to main brace


Rear suspension is in!!!