Project Syckness

[1badchevelle]

^ agreed , thats my favorite year too. your car is looking great keep it up! where did you get that brake set up?-Dom

Calipers are from craigslist got a killer deal they are vette c5 z06, got the ats spindles from a member here. I have been piecing everything together buying parts as good deals come by.
here are some pics from this weekend. these are my rear wheels (20x10) and just tried them up front for kicks.

i'm trying to find GTO seats reasonable price but just can't get them, did you put them with their full electric harness?

Yes they are going full electric. I am not done as project stalled for the last 7 months that is why I have not had many updates. At one point I was considering selling everything but my wife did not allow me to. I thank here every chance I get. I finally got in the garage this 4 of July weekend and did some cleaning. Now I can get in and start working on it again.

builds looking nice man!!! i was wanting to go with the gto seats as well and was wondering how they fit inside?

The seats fit a bit high( several post on this on this site) the rear seats is where most of the hard work will be at. fronts are pretty strait forward.

Over the next 2 months I will be working on the fuel system, rear end and start on the interior. (wish me luck)

Anyone local willing to give me a hand and install a cam, springs and push rods?

[jilge71]

the cam and springs were easy to me but the hard part is the cam and crank gears getting them lined up. i bought a spring compressor from oriellys for like 7 bucks and a air hose that screws into the spark plug holes so that you dont have to take the heads off. it was like 6 bucks. i also bought a pen magnet to get the retainers out of the springs without dropping them. it sure made it easy. i wish i was close id come help! i lined up the timing chain gears before i ever took anything apart so that made it alittle easier too. good luck

[Nick.V70]

NICE wheels!!!

[John Wright]

I'm glad your wife stood up for your car...good woman right there. I know it's frustrating when a project stalls out for whatever reason....believe, I know. Thing is about selling off your stuff, seldom do you ever get what it's really worth, or even get your money back out of it. These projects are for pure enjoyment and have to be looked at in that light rather than as retirement investments.

[Addicted]

Great build !!! Funny how I've lurked this one and another for a while....lol. Borrowing Ideas

[1badchevelle]

Great build !!! Funny how I've lurked this one and another for a while....lol. Borrowing Ideas

ask away if you have questions.

I'm glad your wife stood up for your car...good woman right there. I know it's frustrating when a project stalls out for whatever reason....believe, I know. Thing is about selling off your stuff, seldom do you ever get what it's really worth, or even get your money back out of it. These projects are for pure enjoyment and have to be looked at in that light rather than as retirement investments.

Agreed, and yes she is a keeper.


I got the rear mocked just to check everything out. I also jumped back on the gto seats and plan on finishing my budget parking brake set for a c5 set up.

[1badchevelle]

More pics. got the Kore3 bracket on and mocked up the calipers. Now I need someone local to assemble the rear( anyone local on the forum that can do it or point me in the right direction?)





Looking for places of where to put the filter and pump.



my guard dog

[The WidowMaker]

im not sure what you need assembled, but currie did mine.

[1badchevelle]

Took the dash out. I will be getting a carbon sheet to do the panel for the gauges. Here is a cardboard mock up.

[doribak]

looking good! keep up the good work!
love this project...

[Nick.V70]

Hey have you seen this yet >> http://www.rt66parts.com/product_inf...oducts_id=2308





I did there SS dash version and it turned out pretty nice.

[Nick.V70]

Hole crap...sorry it's so big....

[1badchevelle]

yep. I was going to get one but just decided to try and do my own. I was hoping Anvil would have come out with thier dash since they had a post in 06 or 07 they were working on it. Now that they have completed the hood and trunk I will see if they will do the dash.

[Nick.V70]

Where is the post on the hood and truck? Link man link!! haha

[1badchevelle]

Anvil used Vince's car.


https://www.pro-touring.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=71547

[Nick.V70]

Thanks for the link, I sometimes fall behind on the new stuff...haha

[1badchevelle]

No pics to update but have been collecting parts as I was able to. Since we decide to buy a larger house we had to make some sacrifices. Before we buy another house I did not want to have a single debt. I have been putting every penny on paying off what we owed. Unfortunately times are hard and I have most of my extended family unemployed. My dad is in construction, my mom in a flower shop, my sister a teacher, and same goes for the inlaws, all have been hit hard and have been unemployed for some time. That said the paying off the debt was place on hold as well as bigger house to help out the family.That will some up why I felt I needed to sell the car a couple of times not to mention a streak of bad luck that I hope is over.

Now on to better things I think I have most of what I need to run my fuel system. I have the vette filter/regulator with the russell fittings going into a walbro fuel pump,Swagelok fitting and a aluminum hard line. I now need to get some flexible line for the tank to the regulator and from the hard line to the intake. I just found out about edelbrock no longer making the ls swap headers and since I buy direct, I screwed my self by not ordering them sooner. I tried to order them from jegs today at work but got tied up all day and seemed like every time I logged on something prevented me to get the order completed. I came home to place the order only to find out they were sold out. So I bought some Hooker headers and hope they will fit with the edelbrock mounts. I will be ordering the a harness from PSI in the next week or two.

These last several months I have spent very little time on this and other sites. But will say seeing all of the progress a lot of you have done especially Tim( WidowMaker) has definitely been an inspiration. So thanks all for the motivation and hope to be posting some pics soon.

[THE TECH]

Great project. I work in Whittier. Hope to see you around in the future.

[1badchevelle]

Finally got my front upper control arms.

[The WidowMaker]

looks good buddy. i know someone that can coat parts black :.