67 GTO - Budget pro-touring/track car

[67goatman455]

Originally Posted by WSSix

You're making great progress, Scott. The Forgelines are a nice choice

Thsanks bud! your welcome to come up and help any time haha.

And they weren't a choice, they were a miracle lol

[67goatman455]

Got the old frame out



Then i got a 67 chevelle steering column, floor shift, from my boss with some sort of camaro steering wheel on it. i kinda like it so it will stay until i find something better. Took it completely apart and clean, re-greased everything, and threw in a new turn signal switch while i was there. besides the switch i got it for a whopping $Free.99!

[Evan Iroc-Z]

That's an IROC steering wheel, that looks to be in good shape. If you have the horn button they fetch a decent amount of money. I had looked at replacing mine at one point in time and they were going for $200 in good condition. The horn buttons alone go for $50-100. Of course, all things relative with pricing, this is a product of the '80s we are talking about.

[Sonar Chief]

Ya never know what's under a pretty paint job do you? Glad you got that old paint off, now the fun starts

Keep at it and then it's done!

[Ripped]

Looks like it's starting to shape up... just keep the updates coming!

[67goatman455]

Thanks guys! i love comments so keep them coming!

The steering wheel isnt flawless, it has a nick out of it and no horn button, i cant imagine anyone paying money for it but ill look at ebay haha

Well lets see. to start off, i got the new frame under the car and got one of the wheel wells cut out so i can widen it. It took some self motivation to start cutting

here is the frame clearance after notching the frame, as well as the coil-over bar clearance although im waiting for my ABC solid body mounts to show up before concluding anything there.







Then on labor day i went with some friends to Hallet raceway. I couldn't drive this time since i dont think a civic would be very fun. But ill throw up a picture of my last car i took. That what got me hooked to go RACECAR with the GTO haha.



Ended up selling this and buying a honda so i could get the GTO done but this was good times.


Anyways, out first session out (me passenger) we were probably having a little too much fun and ended up in a tire barrier. ended our day pretty quickly. It was a nice reminder than a cage is needed, the tires like to flip cars over at this track a lot.

[67goatman455]

Well first off, after burning through my first loan already, and having one more $5k loan left, It's really starting to set in that im completely screwed on getting this car together with $10k. One of the big killers is that i dont want to settle for crappy suspension and the rest of the ride-tech stuff i haven't bought yet is $3k just by itself.

Anyways, this is what signified the end of my first loan, and the first new parts i have bought for the car, everything until these have been used. ABC solid body mounts... $400 freaking dollars....and you wont even see them.....not very happy about it, but its not exactly something you can buy used.



anyways, i got the tubs out and going to start the widening of them, turns out ill be doing 1-1/2" strips. The FORGELINE's barely fit, so the quarter panels will get widened to accommodate

[67goatman455]

Ok, had to wait for my regular bank account to gain life again so i could get a welding bottle. But got the wheel tub widened and welded back in.

[67goatman455]

decided to give myself some motivation today.

big block chevelle stands, cant recall the motor mounts, and the adapters are edelbrock. 2" between the back of the block and firewall.

[onefast70elco]

Hell yea, this thing is going to be awesome