Project 1955 Bel Air: Installing The Front End Progress is happening on our 1955 Bel Air Project! It seems like what we have been doing lately is working on tedious small things - which add up over time but it was great to do some things that made a massive jump towards a finished car. What we worked on was installing the front … [Read more...]
Hinged On Success: Installing Eddie Motorsport’s Hood Hinges
Installing Eddie Motorsport's Hood Hinges Our Project 1955 Bel Air is hitting some big strides. The chassis is done, engine is installed, and the car is painted. We're installing tons of new parts and chipping away and getting this car back to looking better than new. Thanks to Eddie Motorsports billet hood hinges, the hood is working better than new as well. The stock … [Read more...]
Flowmaster American Thunder Install With Catalytic Converters
Flowmaster American Thunder Install With Catalytic Converters Installing exhaust isn't a hard task - most people can accomplish it fairly easy. Especially when you use a kit made for your car, like we did with Flowmaster on this 1955 Bel Air. What made it take more time was that we changed the mufflers that came in the kit and added a set of high-flow catalytic converters to … [Read more...]
Install: Eddie Motorsports Trunk Hinges
Installing Billet Aluminum Trunk Hinges Eddie Motorsports are known for a wide variety of billet accessories including hood hinges and serpentine systems. We were recently poking around on their site ordering up a set of hood hinges for our 1955 Bel Air project and saw they made trunk hinges for it too. The factory hinges worked just fine - they have the arms attached to … [Read more...]
Project 1955 Bel Air Rear End Finishing Touches
Installing The Rear Bumper, Emblem, and Tail Lights On Our 1955 Bel Air On our Project 1955 Bel Air, we have gotten the car out of paint jail and are excited to get this car back together! From our previous stories you can read all about building the chassis, suspension, brakes, etc. Now it's time to make this car look more like a '55 Bel Air! Our first order of … [Read more...]
Putting A Stop To It With Baer Brakes
Installing Baer Brakes On Our 1955 Bel Air Anybody that races knows brakes are just as important, if not more important than what's under the hood making you go. Sure a wicked sounding engine winding out down the track gets all the attention, but we all know most races are won in the corners. In fact that's basically how Baer Racing started. Hal Baer saw how slow his Mustang … [Read more...]
Tri-Five Nationals 2022
Tri Five Nationals Do you love Tri-Five Chevrolets? Even if you just like them, then you need to come to the Tri-Five Nationals in Bowling Green, KY. Located at Beech Bend Raceway, this show PACKS the house! We've been to this venue a bunch for Good Guys shows and LS Fest. Now LS Fest is definitely the biggest show that happens at Beech Bend, but holy cow Tri-Five Nationals … [Read more...]
Project ’55 Bel Air: Engine, Trans, and Steering Install
'55 Bel Air Engine, Transmission and Steering Now Complete! A few months back we worked on Building The Ultimate LS BBC for our Project '55 Bel Air. The time had come to nestle the engine down into it's new home, which is a stock frame we built at the beginning of the year. We started the process by bolting up our 4L60e transmission - you're probably wondering why we didn't go … [Read more...]
Project ’55 Bel Air: Starting From The Frame Up
Project '55 Bel Air Takes On New Life Over the last few years, you may have noticed a few articles with some installations being completed on a '55 Bel Air four door. This car has been daily driven and just enjoyed, with no intentions of racing or anything like that. We've had our fun and decided it was time to tear it apart, repaint it and give it the full restoration it … [Read more...]
Borgeson Steering Install: Doing It Right The Second Time Around
Borgeson Steering Install: 1955 Bel Air Being cheap rarely pans out in your favor. On our project 1955 Bel Air, we keep finding parts on the car from the previous owners that were bought cheaply and now we are having to replace them. They say that being cheap costs more than double because you buy the cheap part, then have to pay again for the good and more expensive … [Read more...]
