Addicted to day 2, chevelle transformation help?

[Glenn70]

Thanks for the comments guys. Mark, I'm in Palm Beach Co. Nice chassis build pictures above, havent seen the ladder bar brace though but it makes sense since they would tear out the frame at the bracket locations. Are those Lakewoods? NMW? NOS, restored or new? Looks good with the yellow color, just do the tow bar brackets to match.

My car has a high compression 454, LS-7 clone, solid roller, modern AFR 305 cyl heads (I know not correct for the day) but I wanted the most power and none of the issues with the old alum GM heads cracking and breaking stud bosses. The intake is an early 80's edelbrock victor 2r with the angled carb (gets alot of comments at car shows), 850 dp, accel dist and ign coil triggering an msd 6al hidden under dash. Clutch is a mcleod diaphram, trans is a 2:62 1st super t-10 with an iron case and center support. 4:10 gear out back. Had a centerforce clutch and had big issues with the release at high rpms. I found the spring assisted ring would move off center and cause uneven disengagement pressures blocking the shift. So far no problems with the conventional clutch diaphram.
Anyhow, thats whats in the car for anyone interested.
Glenn

[PxTx]

I'm digging this modern take on the Day 2 Chevelle thread. Nice job by everyone. The NMW ladder bar brace was a separate part number, and I believe is came out later but I would love to have one when I put my bars back on.

Glenn, sound like a really fun car. I love the Lakewood red rollbar along with everything else. Thanks for sharing and I look forward to seeing more.

Hi Glenn..

Kick ass car. Wow. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

The AFR heads are fabulous from what I hear and I'd to try some too. I have two small questions...I think on most of the AFR heads, there is no intake bolt between the top of the ports on a BBC (most aftermarket manufacturers leave it out). I can't quite tell in the photos if your old E-Brock intake was setup for the bolts. How did you deal with it? Also, how did the headers fit with the raised exhaust ports?

Thanks in advance.

Wayne



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[Glenn70]

Paul, I thought the brace was used on the camaro leaf spring ladder bars but I could be mistaken. Wayne, yes the AFR heads are not drilled for the &quot;extra&quot; bolts the old intakes have. I just cut down 4 intake bolts, used a hi strength silicone and glued them in place, lol. Looks correct and since they really are not needed its all good. As far as the raised exhaust ports and headers, that was interesting. The headers are 2&quot; tube Hookers and hit the frame on both sides. So I bolted them on and on a lift pryed them over a bit towards the inside using a long pipe! Well they fit ok then but prying the headers caused them to crack at the flange welds. So out they came and I tig welded all the flange ports. Oh and the header paint is another story.

[wheelhop]

The ladder bars on my post car chassis are NOS NMW pieces that I had powdercoated yellow. They came in red oxide primer but I like the yellow. I've got the tow tabs (powdercoated black) and a tow bar (on the way).

[PxTx]

James, the cross bar was in a different box than the rest of the ladder bar kit, right? I've only seen literature without the bar included as the standard kit. Later literature calls it out as an optional item. Do you think your bars came with the cross bar as one complete kit?

They look great!

[day2killa]

Glenn, great ride! I have been continplating how far to go to a drag look on my chevelle, I really like that you did the cool can under the hood I have an NOS one and just have not installed, now I think it needs to be done. Its funny I have some pics of your car one in a garage and one at a evening car show. Do you have any old pics of Long Island cars?

[wheelhop]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pxtx</div><div class="ubbcode-body">James, the cross bar was in a different box than the rest of the ladder bar kit, right? I've only seen literature without the bar included as the standard kit. Later literature calls it out as an optional item. Do you think your bars came with the cross bar as one complete kit?

They look great! </div></div>

They were in the box with the ladder bars and accessories. The box was open however and could have been put in there after the fact.

[Glenn70]

killa, You know its funny but not many folks I knew took many pictures of cars back in the day except maybe a few polaroids of their pride and joy or at the track or maybey a car show. I took some pictures of my own stuff but that was about it. How times have changed, lol. I do remember when portable vhs video cameras came around, had to carry the the recorder part and hold the camera to tape stuff, but thats another discussion for another topic.
Thanks for the compliments on the black 70. The cool can is something that alot of &quot;race&quot; cars used, the original ones were just aluminum cans, I think Mr Gasket made them then. No cork insulation like the later morosos had, then they evolved into blue color plastic tanks.
I know theres some pictures out there of my black car at a few shows and my other 70 that I've had since 1976. That car was the real deal Day2 back in the day.

[TheNovaMan]

Wheelhop, do you have a plan to keep from tearing the suspension arms out of their mounts?