1980 Malibu Classic "Madge"

[LS6 Tommy]

OK, guys. LOOOOONG time, no updates.
Been in and out of work 2018 & 2019 and then my computer ate all my pics. Obviously the car sat. I'll try to keep things in correct timeline order and post pics as I recover them.

First off, I sent my headers out and had them coated. I went with black, as in the early 80's there weren't a lot of options for coatings other than high temp black or white paint. I found out RAM now has a lighter than stock weight steel flywheel for my Force 10.5 clutch, which originally came with a really light aluminum flywheel, so I called Mike Norica iat RAM. He agreed the new steel flywheel would be a better choice for a street car than the alumimnum and he swapped with me for nothing more than the cost of shipping. In my book, exchanging items on a 4 year old purchase is pretty damn good. That's excellent customer service.

Last fall I had a chance to drive a friend's G-body with with a Threepedals.com pedal assembly. Compared to other G-bodies I've driven with the same pedal setup I already had, it was like a new car clutch. I liked it so much better than the current setup, I spoke to Josh Korsower at Threepedals and ordered one up. To stay with my "Factory" theme, they're going to set me up with OEM pedal pads. Their normal production units have late model Camaro pads.

Another really nice thing that happened to me is my friend basically "gave" me a used EZ car lift. Someone gave it to him, I asked him if I could borrow it when the times comes to do my trans and he dropped it off the next weekend. He said he doesn't think he'll ever use it. i really like it beacuse you can access the car from the side, it goes higher and you can stop it at any height. Can't do that with a lot of the other brands.


Threepedals setup:




EZ Car lift (not my car):




Tommy