Recent content by kad5118

i just wanted to make sure the car would at least be able to go over 110 mph since a 3 speed is the trans of choice

what was the top speed of your setup

What would be a good stall convertor for this setup

Well im use to the slow take off i when the 700r4 was in with those gears.the car would be driven a lot on the highway.

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So this is my question I had a 700r that went bad for my 80 LeMans so I lucked up and ran across a long tail turbo 350 trans I plan on rebuilding it myself and also adding a shift kit for it what I want to know is how would that turbo 350 transmission work with the 2.41 rear end I think that's...

has any one else went this route with their gbody that done the swap

yea i wanted to do the exact same thing with my vinyl roof top.

do you know what stock rear end gear came with lemans i had the same motor and trans but upgraded to a 406 efi sbc and 700 r4 but i still have the stock gears,

clean car man i have a lemans myself but your build really motivates me.

Did you ever finish up the car troy and did you keep the semi top rag off the car.how did you remove the body from the chassis

im really loving that hood thats on your grand am do they actually make that custom hood.

Does it matter what year 8.8 you use for the gbody swap

I have heard of him and read some of his articles. The G body we raced was a very low budget team and raced a 1/3 mile track. We tried a 1/4 mile track but the rear end design moved too much in the corners. We had to use stock arms and couldn't use a 3 link by the rules. We opted to go with a...

your write up is awesome