starting my progress! due time.

Found her in roseville, MI, just outside of north detroit. Found her on the cars for sale on here at nasty in idea of a parts car, and it ended up my CAR car september of 07, when I was in San Francisco for 10 days.

Contacted, worked the price down. came with these pics:
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Also had a picture of the 80z28 hood with working cowl. Talked, called, worked out.

On October 20th, about a month and odd days after the online find, I went with a 18 foot, 06 silverado, and 2 friends to FETCH. Bought it as a roller[with engine in; was told engine had a hole in oil pan, didn't know how it got there though.] Also with the car I got a 400 block, stock, from a tow truck pretty much free. $2500 for the pair. Title in hand.
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Lady, meet buck [ex 78z.. rustbucket case]

It was really quite solid and loaded.. Z28 deluxe interior with no exterior striping. Bought by a woman who had it for quite awhile who lived in Brighton, MI not too far from roseville. I notch on the passenger t-top is busted, and th e other is stretched, otherwise it came with extra parts and all, just no running and hadn't in awhile. Full camel interior, and I plan to have it black within some time[note within time lol] Sold off door panels, and whoever wants camel stuff can let me know, I'm sure I'll have them sitting around after awhile. Black console on the way already.
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She stayed at my old apt in the underground until they found it she didn't run haha, then she got moved to my brothers where shes been staying. This is this spring now, spring 08
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highlight of the first day of some teardown
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/giggle
The profiles etc
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pull weekend! my first head on pull 9/13/08
heads up-- with the ground being so wet from the rain all week, last night, and this morning, keep in mind the hoist would sink. so we went to menards[greg and i] and thought up to either a) use boards and spend $$ to get good wide boards or b) push the car away from the hoist.
SO we pushed the car! as we hoisted, unhooked, pushed it about a foot, then we hoisted it once all clear until it could clear the nose of the car and scooted it back again a good 3 feet so we could lower the engine back down and lay it nice on a board on the ground. we then moved it back forward to a chocked block, which was set to cover the whole tranny until right before it touched the engine

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starting the breakdown and deputyrob was wonderful! he explained things over the phone while i looked at them and verified. lifesaver thanks a ton rob!
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some sludge
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the "exotic!" plate between the mount and tranny
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raising the rear to get to the ubolts. 1 of these, upper drive side was a REAL PITA finally got it out [teamwork with greg] and had to hammer lightly to get it to drop down.
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only ran into two unhooking issues while hoisting
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evil car!
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what tranny does this appear to be anyone?
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we then bagged the exposed areas :)
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^^ short random video of hoisting

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Get to work you slacker.

yehh sleeep. post more tomorrow haha

and whoever wants camel stuff can let me know, I'm sure I'll have them sitting around after awhile.

I'm looking for some t-top interior parts in camel...

Attached some pics of the parts.

I need the Y part for driver's side...the other part for rear passenger (pic attached)...it won't let me post the Y part pic.

Do you happen to have the ac lap vents for both driver and passenger side?

shipping to 08721.

Let me know.

SteveO

email me those pics, the bigger the better. is the attached pics A-pillars?? I don't remember one having a hole.. are they handle holes? So those are the most outer peices of t-top trim, right?

the lower passenger A/C vent is sold, and ryan[kansas twister] asked for the driver one, but I won't rid of that until I have a black replacement so it can direct the heat inside the car lolol. As it sits I believe I will only have 2 vents, the far right in dash below glove right? and left bottom. where the a/c would be, except it will be no ac anymore in black

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Not quite sure how to take this pic... LOL.

Keep us up-to-date with your progress. Looks to be a good project to begin with.

Dayyuuuum you gotta grip on that one-eyed black snake lol and it does trix!

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Would you stop playin with the hose and get some work done Lara;)

Keep us posted on the project progress...

email me those pics, the bigger the better. is the attached pics A-pillars?? I don't remember one having a hole.. are they handle holes? So those are the most outer peices of t-top trim, right?

That's all I have...it was off Craigs List.

I need the Y off the A-pillar Driver's side...that's correct.

The other is opposite the A-Pillar on the Passenger side. I don't know what they're called...sorry.

SteveO

ok.

haha thats not me! that's my girlfriend andrea. im more gnarly

lol i wanted the ac controls, not the driver side vent. lol.

Looking good though, need to get that engine pulled out and some more progress pics honey!

I want to see progress!!!

updated!!

glad you got the whole shabang out with no hastles and glad i could help. told ya it was easy. and looks to me like you have a TH350 trany. there should a tag on it on the right side i believe, should say what kind it is.

Good stuff. Lots of progress goin' on there.

Good job!


... Now where are the stages we talked about? What's the gameplan?

well my ex and guy friend whose a fellow car geek wants my tranny, so it looks like he gets it if he helps unhook it and drops my engine off with me at the garage unit i rent part of with my guy friend :)

SO! next would be the tranny. and part buying and such over winter. wheels and tranny are the big objects to buy over the next months. i want to do the typical buy it, store it, then get a hand and GOTO and get it done once the snow melts!

it will take me some to get a big outline done :)lol

What are your plans for replacing the tranny that you are getting rid of? I think you were talking with Jake about a 400? Is that still your plan?

yes i want a th400 with t brake in a manual reverse valve body with a 750 hp goal and guarentee :)


more progress!

http://s524.photobucket.com/albums/cc329/enjoideviantly/

all degresed! [greased lightning]
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bare metalled the holes on this mount bracket (told the wide part is a connection for a catalytic convertor)
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crossmember
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after feeling comfortable with the dremel i decided to take my hand at this rust circle on my pass. fender. A past owner sandpapered it and it looked pretty crappy so i couldn't make it worse. here go!
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ended up overspraying, but i tried lol
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Good job, parts look good all cleaned n painted.

p.s. im selling that mount.. i am gonna get a new one without extra holes and crap for my th400---

if anyone needs a cat friendly mount $10 cleaned and painted!!

Yea, that's a th350 transmission.

If you can get it, get mean green at the Dollar store and it works really good. let it soak for awhile and you can get some clean parts!

example,
http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/619068/fullsize/100_3082.jpg

http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/619071/fullsize/100_3085.jpg

After a over night soaking,
http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/619073/fullsize/100_3087.jpg

I knocked the big stuff off, but the rest came off after I let it soaked and the shook it under the cleaner. No scrubbing after soaking.

This is the stuff, but i usually get the gallon bottle,

http://www.crbrandsinc.com/_images/g_meangreen_large_sprayer.jpg

Gallon I think goes for $5.

nice!!! i have time :) sounds like a good match! the bottle likes that of greased lightning were on sale at my hardware store for $2.50 so i got two, and used 1 1/2 today.

doing that next time!

It lives! Thanks to Rick for the good deal! i need to repair the bottoms of the ends, and im going to reinforce the roof to snowproof it :) any tips of how to use the twine/stuff? lol

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and for good measure! :D
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doing awesome work ..just pace your self and plug away at it ,,and will turn out very cool...if wife will let me date you for say 5 months want to get dirty on my camaro???






darn wife probably wont let me =sad,lol....

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and for good measure! :D


Flexing it seems ??? :crazy:

Or just looking and imagining the headaches still to come ??? :D

just think of how great its going to be when finished!!!!!

yeah :) wayners not flexing.. but if i add 6 more diagonal pieces tac welded in, then the snow will fall right off. right now im afraid it might "pool" inbetween too much, and I'm using my big tarp for flooring this winter. oof!

and lolololol at bobbab! im in ;) I really could use a helper sometimes. andrea is great as a hand, but she knows lots less than me still, although she wants to go into mechanics/body and is probably going to be present for most of my major things done to the lady as witness :)

Lara your making great progress on the car and I see the carport will do you good....

I just ran twine between the roof supports so it would not sag with snow on it....


Keep at it your doing good...

oh! that makes sense! what's with the angles grommets that face up and down on the roof pieces? are they meant to be used the strengthen the roof like that? I was gonna weld metal in. gotta price it still

Camaro is looking good! Lots of work huh??

As far as your shed, I see those blowing down the road, off cliffs, and stuck in trees during the winter here. :whine: :o Stake that thing down good. One way to brace up the roof would be to buy some 3/4" steel electrical conduit. It comes in 10' lengths. You could use twine to tie them in place to help support that snow load.

Good luck!

Another thing u could do is go to ur local lumber store and get some pieces of 4x4 treated lumber to lay on the ground and screw the car port into it!!! That way no wind will carry it away.

Another thing u could do is go to ur local lumber store and get some pieces of 4x4 treated lumber to lay on the ground and screw the car port into it!!! That way no wind will carry it away.


grab some 6x6 and some concrete bricks, that way no wind gonna take your temp garage away!

i sold the carport poles to a guy who is gonna use it to make a runinshed for their morgan rescue :) gave it for $40 with a tarp i think, felt it was a good cause, and i would need to put money into it. thanks anyways rick right? lolol


update! Been workin on the engine a bit.. Todd and I cleaned the cylinders(honing tool and by hand), he buffed the surfaces with this magic buffer guy (in the pic where the block is super shiny), then i put the heads on (I can barely lift these suckers, gotta build them muscles), and i torqued them on to spec by myself. then we put in the pushrods, rockers, but stopped after that because it was like 3am and we had to work tuesday :)

here ya go

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not sure if I mentioned that with a little aid I pulled the cam and it was the new one already (we had no idea if it was pre-swapped and wasnt told to my friend who sold it to me, or if they mixed up cams when they machine) but it was right. I lubed the cam and lifters at that point.

lata!

looks good so far! pace yourself and keep at it:bowtie:

Cool beans

For some reason I thought you were goin big block.:confused:
Hopefully it will start warming up and you can really get some progress on it.:)

How do you plan on making 750HP?

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whoever said 750? lol more like 400. there has to be a first mannnn.

:) i like it, its cute. and it needs major painting!

at this rate ill be done before you lara, you better hurry!! haha.

its cold yo! freezing rain today.. AND SLEET! lol. little buggars looked like salt was layed down, but no it was sleet. a bunch of us at work had to go a scrapin our cars. major muscle. i got hot water :D lolol. good 1/8 in of ice at least. :( i hate winter :(

whoever said 750? lol more like 400. there has to be a first mannnn.

:) i like it, its cute. and it needs major painting!

You did, in post 24. (http://www.nastyz28.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1350203&postcount=24)

yes i want a th400 with t brake in a manual reverse valve body with a 750 hp goal and guarentee :)

^ hahaha:) :bowtie:

You did, in post 24. (http://www.nastyz28.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1350203&postcount=24)

that's about a transmission.....


although the car definately has long term high goals :) i only wanna buy the transmission once if i can, and just upkeep from that. well see.

definately about the tranny that im not getting. im sticking with a th350 ill freshen for now until im prepared for bigger and better.