71 Torino project

[Motown 454]

[QUOTE=MZ 500;1028107]Wow I need to update this!




You certainly do! Looking good.

[Munssey]

Love it! Keep up the great work.

[Dave B]

Man...I just came in from the garage to get some motivation...Wow!! Awesome work!

[MZ 500]

Glad I was able to give you some motivation I check out this Forum from time to time for the same reason...

[injcted]

Updates!!!!! This project is amazing! Great work! Where in Mi are you located im in Shelby Twp! Good to see a fellow Michigander

[aidanfancystang]

I love these old torino's wish I had one myself.

[MZ 500]

Still working on this old beast this is what I got done last summer. I still don't have heat in my pole barn but I did get the walls insulated last year so that may be a reality next winter. I hope it gets warmer soon so I can get back to work on it!

Blasted and metal prepped.



Epoxy Primer is on.

[MZ 500]

Moving right along...

[MZ 500]

ne quarter is looking good!

[MZ 500]

I had some brackets made for my rack and pinon swap I still need to get some other part together. Its nice working at a tool shop with 10 CNC machines just outside the office door!

[chunger]

Really happy to see this project is not dead!

Whose rack is that? I take it you're fabbing up your own mounts that will tie into the existing crossmember? What kind of travel side-to-side can you get? One of the big issues with retrofitting racks to our cars seems to be the fact that the steering knuckles built into the spindles are too long, thus limiting the turning radius when used with racks.

Keep up the good work!

[MZ 500]

Really happy to see this project is not dead!

Whose rack is that? I take it you're fabbing up your own mounts that will tie into the existing crossmember? What kind of travel side-to-side can you get? One of the big issues with retrofitting racks to our cars seems to be the fact that the steering knuckles built into the spindles are too long, thus limiting the turning radius when used with racks.

Keep up the good work!

Yes I will be making my own brackets to mount it.
Its a mid 90s GM rack Corsica, Beretta maybe some others. I have talked to a fellow Torino owner that has used the same rack for his conversion and he did say that it doesn't have as much turning radius but it didn't bother him to much. I did find where someone modified one of these racks to get a little more stroke out of it but of course I can't find it now!

[Motown 454]

Nice! Looking good. Warm weather is coming!

[Goodale Engineering]

Glad to see someone else doing a formal roof, I have similar plans for this car but I'm worried under that terrible yellow is a lot of bondo and some rust. (Pennsylvania car) Check out Street or Track suspension, that full floater rear with watts link is pretty bada**

[MZ 500]

Glad to see someone else doing a formal roof, I have similar plans for this car but I'm worried under that terrible yellow is a lot of bondo and some rust. (Pennsylvania car) Check out Street or Track suspension, that full floater rear with watts link is pretty bada**

Nice! that's a Spring Time edition Halo Trim vinyl roof.

[MZ 500]

Still plugging away on this thing.

[MZ 500]

Left Rear Quarter Lots of work!

[MZ 500]

Rack mounts.

[chunger]

Nice progress - I'm so happy to see that this project is still moving along.

Whose rack kit is that?

[MZ 500]

The rack setup is of my own design the rack itself is from a mid 90s Chevy Beretta it is used in a few other gm cars of the time. The main reason I used this rack is because it moves in the center not the ends. I work at a tool shop as a Designer so I modeled up the Aluminum Clamp brackets and had one of our CNC guys make them up. The mounting brackets I made up myself out of 3/16 steel and they utilize existing Steering Linkage mounting points on the frame. I still need to make the bracket to attach the Tie rods and I need to get a piece steering shaft and two universals to connect the steering column. I have also modified the column, removed the column shift mechanism, removed the rag joint plate and added a bearing at the base of the Column.