TurboLSXgirl's 70 Chevelle Build

[TurboLSXgirl]

The last two years I've helped my husband build his 71 chevelle. Now its my turn, and I'm upping the game. I'm starting with a solid car, which is hard to find and alot less work than the 71 was. We found this car thru Craigslist when a friend sent my husband the link. After a few texts he hooked up the trailer and was waiting at the guys house when he got home. A deal was struck and the cars was ours.



The car came with a (not big enough for me) 5.3 and T56 trans and ls1 Camaro brakes installed. The previous owner had the right idea but poor execution. We'll redo some things and make it pretty. The 5.3/t56 are being sold to friends.

Heres the plan
Viper blue, white stripes, white interior
L96 6.0 comes with L92 heads stock
6L90 trans possibly paddle shift
S475 turbo t6 flange 1.32 ar
swap the 10 bolt for a 12 bolt axle
Add vintage air
And make 700 daily driven horsepower..girls like power too!

Pics-

The day it came home




And my motivation... Love this car!

[craigs73]

hey wheres the pics lol......

[David LaBuda]

Hey, I'm the friend who sent the link! I was wondering what y'all would be doing with this one haha. Looks like the start of a great project.

[TurboLSXgirl]

Thanks David! This one definitely fell into our hands and its gonna be a good build with a good base! If we stay on track.... I want to drive it on Power Tour 2015. May not be complete but I'll be driving it!

[LowNfast]

This seems like a lot of fun.

[TurboLSXgirl]

This seems like a lot of fun.

Luckiest guy in the world....

[chevy4life]

this is going to be awesome. your husband is the luckiest guy in the world

[Mr Nick]

That dash... was this a drag car in a previous version?

[LowNfast]

The dash is something the previous owner was trying to do but didn't finish. Which seems to be the theme with every thing he was doing on the car. We are going back to factory dash, keeping it clean and simple.



Here are the ls1 brakes that came on the car. The alignment of the caliper is off and nothing was bolted securely. Should be an easy fix.

[LowNfast]

One of my favorite parts of the car. Shaved drip rails!





The 5.3 that came with the car. It's new home is a friends 49 Chevy 5 window pickup.





I don't like the pedal placement or the way the fire wall is boxed, we are looking for a firewall section to cut out of another car and weld back in on this car to mount the column and fuse block.

[68400BIRD]

Looks like a great start. Nothing beats rust free. Nice to see a different gender interested in building cars. LOL Keep us posted with lots of pics. You know us guys and pics.

[geberhard]

Very cool project!!

[TurboLSXgirl]

I'm very much looking forward to building something of my own!

[LowNfast]

Finally having nice enough weather to spend time with the car. Removed the 5.3/T56 combo to cut out the firewall that was built before we bought the car, unfortunately its a lot bigger than was needed. We'll fix everything after we get the 6L90 mounted.

We reused the 5.3 to mock up the 6L90, it is mounted on the factory cross member and the assembly is sitting @ 4 degrees. I like to think that was to easy lol. And pics!

[LowNfast]

a small progress report, the body is off, time to fix the firewall and box/brace the frame.

[AusMarty]

Looking good!

The Car I mean...
:-P

[astroracer]

Making progress is a good thing. Now get rid of those flip-flops and put on some steel toed boots.
Mark