1967 GTO project thread

[john31s]

I've had alot of success with Champion Radiators. They are cheap and the quality of the two I have had were great.

[Nicks67GTO]

Well its been a while since I updated anything on this so here goes.....

Iv'e stuck a new interior in the car. Im staying with a stock feel for the car. There's not a lot of custom stuff planned for the body or interior. I love the stock look of this stuff and to me it keeps the flavor of the 60's. Legendary supplied all of the plush parts and trim, door panels, headliner, visors, carpet, bolstered seats, trim parts etc. TMI built the console, and its a Grant steering wheel/kit. Other than the dash and the steering column and dash pad its all been gone through. Ill get to those this winter. I am 100% happy with the Legendary stuff. I got the TMI console through Matt's Classic Bowtie's and the Grant wheel through Summit. I'm extremely happy with all of it.

[Nicks67GTO]

I ordered some chassis stuff through SC&C. I decided a while back to go with their stage II kit after researching the heck out of this stuff. I also made the decision that I would buy stuff at leisure, bolt the parts on and see how they work as individuals. I started with The Hellwig Swaybars, Front and chassis mounted rear. They are very nice pieces and I cannot believe the difference they made over the old school WS6 bar/no rear bar I had on their previously. Its like driving a different vehicle just with these bars. Even if I was going to stick with a 100% stock resto I think I would stick these bars on. the front bar was very straight forward. The rear chassis mounted bar took about 2 hours maybe a bit more and had very easy directions. I'm very satisfied with these.

WS6 bar vs Helwig bar...



A few install shots...

[Nicks67GTO]

Iv'e also got a brand new 31 spline 9" trutrac that I picked up from a member here last week.



I am tired of the locker "being a locker" so its got to go. Iv'e also got Currectrac upper and lower RCA's coming in the mail. They should be here next week hopefully. Ill throw some pics up when I get them and install. That's all for now. Hopefully next time I update Ill have my new frame done, my trutrac installed with new 2.75 gears and the rest of the SC&C stage II stuff bought and ready to install. In the meanwhile i'm driving the wheels off this thing!

[Nicks67GTO]

If anyone is interested I have a much more detailed build thread going on the Performance Years board....here's a link

http://forums.performanceyears.com/f...d.php?t=615847

[Nicks67GTO]

Well I got my frame back...finally. Its now within 2mm on the front balljoints. The frame was clean as a whistle but crooked, really crooked in spots. It took them 13.5 hours to clean it up...ouch. But now its probably better than it ever was from the factory. Most of the factory seams are really well done so i'm going to leave most of them alone. Iv'e got to clean a couple welds up but its not big deal. I decided to go with the ABC boxing kit and their solid aluminum body mounts. I also went with an isolator kit from SC&C designed for these body mounts to prevent any "unlike metal" corrosion problems that would ever occur.

I just wanted to throw something out there. Iv'e seen lots of debate on weather or not to use a 110v fluxcore welder on frame work. While I wouldn't use it to build an entire chassis or ever consider one professionally, the little flux core Lincoln 120v welder might make some ugly ass welds and spatter all over but penetration seems fine and i'm pretty sure it shouldn't be any problem keeping the boxing plates in place. Ill just have to do a little extra work cleaning the welds up a bit with an angle grinder.

I'm about done tacking my plates in and ill start filling soon....