87 aerocoupe

[aeroocoupe]

This is what started with 87 aerocoupe that i had for 12years. I put a Hotchkis TVS system. With kyb shocks and running 245/45/17 ft and 275/40/17 rear. 12"brakes up front and s10 wheel cylinder in the rear.
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My cousin came Mike drove from upstate NY to help me out. Made some roller to help move the car around . https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/09/monte025-1.jpgWe removed the computer.https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/09/monte0341-1.jpg Pulled out the yucky 305 and 200r-4 to make room for 355 backed by t-5 https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/09/monte050-1.jpg https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/09/monte044-1.jpg https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/09/monte058-1.jpg Pulled to motor out of the Trans Am (355 and t-5) https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/09/monte120-1.jpg

[aeroocoupe]

The 355 and t-5 need to clean up. https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/09/monte1231-1.jpg Time to clean up the engine bay. Filling in all the holes in the firewall and prepping it for paint. https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/09/monte053-1.jpg Making the the new mount for a third pedal. https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/09/monte128-1.jpg https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/09/monte127-1.jpg The f-body pedals were 1" too short. With a little cutting and a little welding now it is is the right length and angle. Just a set fit before I weld it all up. https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/09/monte131-1.jpg

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Well the f-body mount and pedal are finally finished. The clutch pedal hit the fuse box by about an 1/4" and I made the them about an 1 1/4 longer on the brake and clutch. https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/09/monte129-1.jpg This is my new mount that I made from an f-body. https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/09/monte149-1.jpg
This is the the mount I made . I cut the mounting bratchet off the f-body. Then I monted the g-body pedal mount to my bench. https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/09/monte128-1.jpg Run a rod through the f-body and g-body so they sit the same way. https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/09/monte127-1.jpg Place a piece of light angle and mark it cut and weld it. https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/09/monte150-1.jpg Making the f-body pedal sit right was real fun. Here are some pics https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/09/monte138-1.jpg brake pedal added 1 1/4 and cut a relief to change the angle https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/09/monte136-1.jpg After hours and hours of tacking and test fitting the clutch pedal is now welded. https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/09/monte147-1.jpg All cleaned up and ready for paint https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/09/monte1521-1.jpg here is the brake pedal all welded up https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/09/monte1441-1.jpg Just have to paint them now.smile https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/09/monte1481-1.jpg

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Did a little work on the firewall today. Filled and welded- getting a little closer. https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/09/monte155-1.jpg Also filled in holes in the chassis too. https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/09/monte156-1.jpg https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/09/monte157-1.jpg Order the paint for motor. Jen can't wait see pick her favorite color

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Mike T. came by a painted the firewall. from http://www.visualimpactpaint.com/ https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/11/monte350-1.jpg https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/11/monte351-1.jpg
I filled in more holes on the other side. https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/11/monte344-1.jpg https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/11/monte346-1.jpg
Painted the motor in Jen's favorite color plum purple https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/11/monte356-1.jpg

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here is some pic's of the firewall It was a pain to paint. We used P.O.R-15 and it's very thick and can't be wet sanded. https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/11/monte373-1.jpg https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/11/monte372-1.jpg

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New motor mounts are in and holes are filled. The frame rails are painted but I still have a lot more to do.
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[WS6]

nice project. The aerocoupes are neat as are the 2+2 Grand Prixs.

[aeroocoupe]

So here are some recent pics of the progress
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https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/11/161-1.jpgall fix and painted
rear mount
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I had to fix 7 body mounts, Not fun.
Vic jr intake and the gasket is fixed too
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lake wood bellhousing and 25 lbs billit steel flywheel
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pic of the motor and trans on engine trans stand
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motor and trans almost in but the motor mounts are giving me so much trouble
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[aeroocoupe]

New challage now.
The mount for the trans is on a 22 deg angle.
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fixed the crossmember today. I had a piece of angle steel tig welded to it. Then I made a new mount for it.
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all painted and ready to go
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here are some more pic of the crossmember and trans
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[bonecrrusher]

Why is the trans mounted at such an odd angle? I am not familiar with the t5's at all - are they mounted like that factory?

[aeroocoupe]

The trans came out of a f-body car. I had two choices to make with mounting the trans. Choice one: mount it level and the shifter will be kicked on a 17 deg angle into the driver seat. Choice 2: kick the trans mount 17 deg. I know it looks funny.

Right now the town is taking up most of my time with parking my car trailer on side of my garage. Just took down some trees and going to
put up a 6ft fence and pray u can't see it from the street.

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so more work on the car was done. I got rid of the fish bowl and replaced the the lights with a set of h4. https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2011/02/546-1.jpg
Put the rad from a f-body in and some more painting.https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2011/02/547-1.jpg
I'm sending the headers out to be coated
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finally put the nose on.
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finished painting the front end

[Motown 454]

Its coming together nice!

[montessaj]

I really like what you have done, wish mine had turned out that well!

[aeroocoupe]

Andy thanks for the info on the H4 lights

My headers came back from jet hot coating. I 'm still upset that I had to buy 2 sets headers (f-body and g-body.
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Look they don't hit yeah!!
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[Grayel]

Anymore progress with this Areocoupe?

[garvir]

looks like you used a jeep center link between the steering wheel and the steering box... i had a problem with the rubber joint by the steering wheel, really close to header, eventiually the rubber became loose and i ran a bolt thru the jeep center link and that fixed that problem... it is a bad experience to turn steering wheel and the wheels do not turn....

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Well been a long time since I posted on this car. I hit a wall with it and i parked it the garage. (3 Kids) The only good thing that came out of the world stopping, it gave me time to work on this. It looked like a barn find. Was under a car cover, moving blanket then boxes on it under it around it. lol It took me a week to get the car out of it 12 years of storage.

Well the car is running and driving for a year now. Put a tremic tkx 5speed, 12 bolt mosa rear with 35 spline axles. Still working the bugs out of it. Will be putting up pic soon.

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I hurt the old 355 sbc. So now I'm in the process of getting together all the parts needed for my ls3 525 long block crate engine swap. I have a lot of the parts now but still missing some major key components. Still going to use the thx trans, killer piece. I beat the hell out of it and killed the sbc in the process.:pat:

Having a hard time finding headers now. Holley stop making gbody headers because of the new exhaust laws that are in place now.

Looking for ls swap headers now. Please help.:help!:

What are you using for headers in your ls3 swaped g-body? :ssst:

Thank Rob

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