Recent content by 81cutlass

My problem with the boxed frame kits- What does it do for you? Or what are you trying to get out of the car? I could see the purpose if you are autocrossing the car and want a more rigid frame, but if you aren't running 200 treadware 275+ cross section tires with good control arms and an...

Good to see the car is up and running in time for race season! Hope to see it getting some time slips shortly. What's the goal for this year? Consistent 8's?

Scraped up a crusty l67 off the bottom of the marketplace for $250. Popped up on marketplace around lunch Friday. Picked up the engine today. Spins over nice, plugs were used but decent, 160k, slipping trans. Blower and accessories have some corrosion but for what we're doing, no problem!

You can just google 'rock auto discount code' and retailmenot always has like a dozen. Some don't work but I've always found at least 1 that does.

Agreed, it sucks but we can fix mechanical stuff, body work is a problem haha. Dad found a good l67 locally for $800. It's more than we'd want to pay, I think we got the original l67 for $175 back in 2010. The cheapest salvage yard l67 is $400 + tax + core so a $800 lower mile unit from a...

Finally success. The last recommended action from the converter supplier was to air hammer the converter and try to spin it off. Saturday I tried it to no avail. I got approval to cut the converter. I made an arm to position my grinder and cut the weld. It was a bit of a fuss but I got it off...

Bummer news on the fireturd. This winter has been very dry so Dad's been using the car through the warmer days. Dad was about 30 miles from home getting supplies about 6 weeks ago and the engine started running really bad and had a dead miss. Limped it home, I talked to him in the phone a bit...

1 grey cutlass sport wheel that needs recovered with your choice of grey or maroon/claret horn button $50 for the wheel $30 for either horn button $70 if you want the wheel and either horn button Located in MSP area. Will ship.

So there are two types of OEM proportioning valves- G bodies have the Kelsey Hayes style (cast iron) The aftermarket brass ones are Bendix The bendix ones you can gut (convert from disk-drum to disk-disk, but the OEM Kelsey Hayes you can't. Summit/wilwood offer an adjustable prop valve that...

FTI is stepping up and said whoevers fault it is, it doesn't matter and I can ship what I got back to them on their cost and they will ship me a 27 spline correct unit, good service on their end. My problem is that I pulled the trans out of the car Thursday and couldn't get the converter off...

Cute little lathe! Once you have one you don't know how you lived without one

Well after soul searching (and searching my email inbox) I was delivered the wrong converter. Not sure if I wasn't clear to the sales guy, he didn't understand, fat fingers, IDK, but they built a 30 spline converter. I need a 27 spline. I didn't look at the invoice in detail enough to see that...

It's probably fine. A china made Timken isn't any worse than SKF, Schaeffler or anything else made recently. A 1990's Timken sure but today they are all the same. The big difference between old timken and new timken is that old Timken used to do their steel & bearing manufacturing under the...

Well I've been plugging away and got the car started Sunday. The wheels didn't turn but I ran out of trans fluid, the level was low, so I chocked that up to low level. Added another few qts last night and it's full, but the wheels still don't spin. I have great line pressure, 110psi at idle...

I have a 3 speed center console shifter gear indicator plate in my cutlass. It originally came with a th200 I have a 2004r in the car and I swapped the detent plate out for the 2004r one so I have all 4 gears that align to the trans. Obviously the detents don't line up with the gear indicator...