G-body Roll Call

[NOT A TA]

Now THATS funny Doober! It does look like a fairmont with the grill painted like that. I painted the original grill the same way back in the mid 90's the first time I painted the car. Good thing I didn't put the wide wheelwell moldings back on this time!

[Doober]

What did you do to get the bulge in the hood like that? I like it too

[NOT A TA]

The hood is from a turbo Buick, not sure what year.

[Tony_SS]

85 Monte SS here.

looks good... any more/larger pics?

[Doober]

The hood is from a turbo Buick, not sure what year.

I was curious how much work was involved, did you gain any clearance?

[first64]

79 Malibu
350 sb
700r4
3.73 posi
Hotchkis UCA's
Hotchkis Rear Upper and lower
Hotchkis sway bars front & rear
Edelbrock shocks
Hotchkis lowering springs front & rear
F-41 frame braces
B-body 1LE front brakes
XH steering box
Poly body mounts


I'm thinking about going to the LS1 brakes front & rear

[Dstoltenberg]

Just picked up an 83 regal to drive until my Skylark is done...It Will be getting some spare performance parts I had laying around, along with my spare built 350/th350 The weekend after next.

[NOT A TA]

I was curious how much work was involved, did you gain any clearance?

The inner support doesn't allow more clearance in the center for a NA car. It appears the inner structure was designed to give more clearance for turbo tubing that was offset toward the drivers side. I just put the hood on because I thought it'd look cool and I think the stock hood looks too much lower than the trunk on the bu's for a flat hood (IMO) when you look at the car from the side. When I put a real engine in it to replace the 229 I may cut out some of the inner structure if more clearance is needed for the air cleaner.

Just so you know, the hood is not a simple bolt on. The body lines in the Buick hood don't line up with the header. The rear corners of the hood need to be massaged to line up with the Malibu fenders at the cowl. There's also a height difference between the header and the Buick hood and the leading edge of the hood is set back about 1/4" compared with a Malibu. So some creative, artistic type bodywork needs to be done to the header to build it up to the hood at the gap, mold in the body lines, and extend it back toward the hood to narrow the gap.

[Doober]

Oh I didn't realize it was an actual Regal hood

[NOT A TA]

Oh I didn't realize it was an actual Regal hood

Yup, a bud parked next to me at work one day with his Turbo Regal and when I looked at the cars side by side it hit me. So I grabbed a tape measure and measured them both. Decided to take a chance and buy a hood figuring I could resell it if I decided it was going to be too much of a project.

[Doober]

It doesn't look like there's a whole lot of difference in the two, do you have any pictures before/during?

[ls6monte]

looks good... any more/larger pics?

[montessaj]

I love this Monte. Centerline Matrix wheels right?

[ls6monte]

Thanks! and yes they are the Centerline Matrix. They have been on the car since 2003. They look cool and I haven't seen them on any other vehicle in my area.

[Tony_SS]

Thanks! and yes they are the Centerline Matrix. They have been on the car since 2003. They look cool and I haven't seen them on any other vehicle in my area.

Give it some time... others will copy.

[montessaj]

Give it some time... others will copy.

Hey! I said I was sorry! Geezz..... Thanks for the idea Tony!

[nowukno]

My 79 malibu,a work in progress

[Doober]

These are new to me, looks like it's coming along nicely :D Post 'em on MR!!!!

[meadb01]

Here's my little turbo project. KeWl...first post here :-) A lot left to do on it, but its getting done slowly but surely. Decided to put a little time into an 81 trans am project at the moment, so the malibu is getting minimal time for the past month

Very impressed with this board... a huge support group and knowledge base here!

Thanks,

William

[80proZ]

81 malibu here, and while were on the subject i need to know if a frame from any g-body will fit my mali?