The 14 Car Performance Therapy Project Rushforths, Baers, Yokohamas, and more

[NOT A TA]

Originally Posted by Ron in SoCal

John are you going to run one caliper facing forward and one rearward?

Love your work, as usual

Yes, well probably ahahaha. There's a couple reasons I want to try it that way. Stagered shocks, rear end swaps, etc. and if it works out OK I'll flip the bleeder up to the top.

[NOT A TA]

Originally Posted by OOCustoms

Awesome to see that your sticking with the side pipes. Years ago when I started building my 74 nova and I bought a set of full header side pipes like the ones your converting to. Although that project never went much farther and life got in the way, I cant wait to finish it one day and still incorporate the side pipes I have for it. Its the only 70-80s muscle car style I still love. I do want to possibly recess them into the rockers and raise them to adapt to the pro touring style. I cant wait to see yours complete with those pipes. Its gonna sound wicked! are you gonna run slip in mufflers? how bout some spark plugs in the tips to shoot flames???? LOL

The slip in mufflers that came with the old Hooker sidepipes are really restrictive. I'm thinking of trying the spiral inserts. http://www.spiralturbobaffles.com/

[NOT A TA]

Originally Posted by GregWeld

Nice to see you back at it John!


You're doing some good stuff there buddy!

I've been working on it but customers cars come first (travelling car builder) and then when I get home it's tough to get motivated to work on my own car ahahaha. I'll post some more updates of things and bring the thread up to where I am now. A few of others projects I've been building came to a point where my services aren't needed much and I've got a little free time so I'm working on my own car more this week.

Here's a few of the current builds I've got to a point where I get a break while the cars go to paint or interior shops etc. I work on a lot of donk/box/bubble big wheel cars but here's a few pics of builds I like more.

69 Camaro full resto-stripped to unibody PT car ZZ383 , Tremec 5 speed, 12 bolt, DSE stage 3, Vintage air, AAW, Wilwood, etc. Owner did the bodywork and some other things while I did mechanical/electrical/plumbing etc. It's been a little over a year since we started. Time for paint!








89 IROC clone. Just finished up driveline install and it's off to paint.






71 Impala cruiser. Just finished installing all the replated exterior chrome and it's headed for interior.

[NOT A TA]

Back in the beginning of this thread I mentioned i was going to reinforce the core support where the body mounts attach. They typically get rusty & soft on the early 2nd gen bird core supports. The one I'm using is one of the best I've seen but it had started rusting there like they all do. I decided to make a sheet metal patch panel for above & below the original sheetmetal and plug weld them in to make the piece stronger than the original.

[clill]

Need more pics of that 71 Impala...

[NOT A TA]

Originally Posted by clill

Need more pics of that 71 Impala...

I'll take some for ya Charlie.

When it comes to projects, scope creep is inevitable. We start out thinking "I'll just do this and this" and before ya know it you've gone waaay beyond what you planned. In my case I had the front end off and drive line out with new body panels needing paint that would never match the 20+ year old paint from when I first did the car. And, since I'm gonna put solid body mounts in to replace the polys I installed years ago anyway......... I figured, Just get it over with and do the whole damn car!

[RodZZilla]

Originally Posted by NOT A TA

I
71 Impala cruiser. Just finished installing all the replated exterior chrome and it's headed for interior.

Sweet! My first car was a 71 Impala Custom. 400 SB. Could bury the speedo with ease. Probably a good thing I still don't own it.

[carbuff]

Originally Posted by NOT A TA

I figured, Just get it over with and do the whole damn car!

Woah, that was unexpected! I presume you're going back with the same paint color/scheme?

[NOT A TA]

Originally Posted by carbuff

Woah, that was unexpected! I presume you're going back with the same paint color/scheme?

Will be the same color red but I might change up the look a bit.

[carbuff]

Glad to hear it! As one of the primary cars which pushed me to choose a Firebird instead of a Camaro for this project, I'd hate to see it change too much.