pics of my 87 gbody

[jack]

thought i would do my first post and show my progress so far. the car is a 1987 buick regal 3.8 v6.

[killer69]

Cool what is the plan for paint?
i am just working a deal on a 86 GN to use to test our new suspension parts on

[jack]

finish the all black paint job. then an ls swap. probable go with the 5.3. right now im haven fun seeing how much i can do on a budget, only got 3k in so far. I have owned 3 gn's in the past. last one i had 18k into it. my goal is to have a turbo v8 in this one for less.

[jack]

what kind of parts are you working on?

[CruizinKev]

looking good! :twothumbs welcome aboard!

[mc84_zz4]

Welcome aboard!

[killer69]

we will be working on a coil over conversion for both the front and rear, as well as tubular upper and lower control arms to work with both the stock spindle as well as the AFX spindle (may have to change the name of the spindle to ABFGX lol ) also articulink upper and lower trailing arms for the rear.

[SicMonte]

we will be working on a coil over conversion for both the front and rear, as well as tubular upper and lower control arms to work with both the stock spindle as well as the AFX spindle (may have to change the name of the spindle to ABFGX lol ) also articulink upper and lower trailing arms for the rear.

let me know about that coil over conversion. if it is a bolt in kit for the rear then I will be buying one of them asap!!!

[jack]

I didnt like were the wheels were setting in the car.

[1971CHEVELLE]

Looks very good Welcome

[jack]

got some shiny bits back from paint

[icebird84]

Welcome to the Forum

[ls6monte]

Welcome!

[jack]

This 3800 is killing me. im goin to do a gen 3 swap one day but if i could get a 305 or whatever for cheap id do that now.

[vector006]

Looks like a good starting point. Are you going to focus on straight line power or corner carving handling for the resto project?

[youngdeezy]

nice gbody

[jack]

I have done the drag racing thing already. I want this one to handle great and stop fast. just and overall fun car to go out and drive

[jack]

lol the real reason i wana swap now is because of the way a v8 sounds

[uneek1976]

Very nice regal, how far are you from Chicago?

[jack]

im about 5 hours away. Il be up there sometime this summer for a weekend

[1bad87ss]

Welcome, love the G-bodies myself, Big GN and aerocoupe fan myself..

[jack]

man will the block sanding ever end? when do you stop and say ok its done lets paint?

[uneek1976]

cool maybe we can meet up when you make it in town!

[jack]

got a hold of a good camera on a bad day.

[jack]

update

[CruizinKev]

wow looks sick man!!! what tire size on the rear?

[jack]

275 30 20 on a 10" rim

[85GPLEf41]

Looks SWEET! What type of clearance is required for the rear wheels and tires? What size are the fronts as well?

[jack]

the fronts are 235 35 18 on 8 inch rims. the back i had to trim the fender lip and narrow the frame 1 inch.

[uneek1976]

Jack your regal looks real slick.:smoke:

[youngdeezy]

real nice jack i love it

[jack]

I just picked up an 87 turbo t. The car is to far gone to repair and the whole front clip is gone so im just parting it out. The big thing is that it still has the rearend that im selling for $689. so pm me if anyone is intersted or any other parts. One nice thing about it is were goin to use the whole astro roof to repair my buddys we4. Someone back in the 80's added t-tops and parts cant be found now.

[jack]

making progress on the ls swap

[jack]

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[CruizinKev]

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[instro84]

nice work

[jack]

Thank you

[Donutboy97]

Looks great

[SparkyRnD]

that ride looks awesome!

[jack]

Well I ended up with 460 hp at the wheels. 10 pounds of boost on E85 fuel. Id like to thank Jim and his crew at Turbo connection for the tune and good advice.