70 Chevelle performance project

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Another view. Gotta love those wheels. I just realized that my cat is in the first pic, and a partial of my dog in the second pic. That's funny.

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So, the first order of business was getting the car apart, and seeing what I had to start with.



So I got the shell up on a rotisserie, and quickly saw that I needed floors, and the trunk pan had issues as well.

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So I made a quick trip over to Year One, and purchased everything needed to convert my 71' into. 70'. I began with the floors, and made quick work with them.



I left my tranny tunnel opened, because I knew the t56 would require more room.

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Overall the only rust issues I have ran into are the common floors, trunk, and bottom corners of the rear window, which was an easy patch.

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I am not, repeat, am not building a show car. I will drive this car. A lot. Having said that, my paint job will be a quikie. It will be nice, don't get me wrong, but I'm not gonna spend up all of my home equity doing it. I've been there and done that. So I'm gonna spend nearly all of this cars budget on chassis and drivetrain. I considered an aftermarket chassis, but I love fabbing my own stuff. I knew That I wanted a true coilover car, and I had a direction that I wanted to go. I looked at my GM frame and started with measurements, and went from there. After spending a lot of time on my front end, I realized that I could buy the Global West extended travel kit as cheap as I could build one, so that was first in line.



It's built very well.

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The install was really simple...



Weld the perimeter and a couple of other key areas and your done.

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On to the rear end coilover setup. I removed my factory upper spring bucket brackets first. I then installed a crossmember after many measurements were taken. This crossmember was inset into my frame with a holesaw, instead of flush mounting it, on each side for strength.





I then braced this crossmember to the factory crossmember diagonally.

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Scott, I was waiting for you to start a build thread. I know this will be sweet. Keep the pics coming. I'm suscribed.