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I thought I would post my project as reference for anyone who wants to undertake a G-body Project.

I'm going to start from the beginning because that is the best place to start.

In 2003 for my first car my Dad bought me a 1986 Monte Carlo Super Sport. He had bought one brand new in 85 and it was the family car for my early years. He always wanted to make a hotrod out of his. The car we bought was a 305 car that someone had already cut the CCC computer out and was running a regular Quadrajet on, It was pretty rough, but hadn't seen many Michigan winters. There was rust but it was minimal.

Almost immediately after I got the car, I blew up the old tired 305 being 16 and stupid.

So during the summer between my Junior and Senior year of high school my dad and I started building it up.

Here it is with the 305 removed.
We did paint and body work



And took the factory 3 color perimeter stripes and turned them into '70 Camaro Z/28 style stripes

And installed a 10.5-1 compression rebuilt 4 bolt main 350 with a comp 268H grind and edelbrock manifold and carb.

After a bunch of wheeling and detailing, not to mention converting the car from a bench seat to buckets with a console, we were done.

The car was like this for the first day of school my senior year, Which was pretty awesome.



The car was my daily driver in high school when the weather was good.

This was the way the car stayed through high school and college.
Took it to the drag strip a time or two, with the best time of 14.6 @ 97mph

The car sat for a while when I was hustling to make ends meet.

Then after college and having a decent job I tried Autocross one day.


Even though battle ships have less roll in a squall, I was in love with racing.

So I did what any sane person does, and dropped a bunch of money on a QA1 suspension kit.

That's it for part 1. I'll update and post pictures of the QA1 suspension install and LS swap in a bit.