1980 Cutlass project from Finland

[Pasikiainen]

Sooo, first of all I'd like to say sorry for my English, I'm from Finland so my English can be sloppy at times.

But to the car... Its a Cutlass, 1980 four door. Picture from few months back:

Have had this car for almost 2 years, bought it without engine when i was 17 years old.

Had a vinyl roof when I bought it, but the metal was rusted under that and the windscreen was leaking so had to rip it off.

Made a new headliner, which is sacking and have soundproofen the interior a bit, should do more tho.

Then alot of rust repairs, Im going to put some picks here:

Did a engine rebuilt to it. Not much power with ported "8" heads, home made headers, 600cfm carter, and a "torque"cam, and performer intake.

Found a little damage at back end...

I will post a lot of more picks to you, if your interested, but thats for now

 

[liquidh8]

Looking good! Used to be a diesel huh? You made a good deal of progress so far. Post up some more pictures!

 

[Pasikiainen]

Yeah, used to be a 350 diesel taxi when it was new Those days are long gone, got to say. Now it has a 350 with TH350 and 3.08 with Auburn lock. Bought a TH200R4 for it for 50 euros, (about 40 us dollars i suppose) with turbine, started to clean it, and the tale is shot Can that be fixed?

This winter, I have done little rust repairs with passenger side rear door, few pics:

Had the water pump removed, because it was so rusted because I didnt paint it when it was new. So I painted it:

Put a electric fan to replace the old:

Bought almost all new to front end:

Disassembeld:

Painted everything that was off... Then put in with new bushings and all... Only thing that was old are the shock absorbers...

Eibach springs:

Old vs. new:

Have started making the exhaust... 3" pipe is bit too much and doesnt really fit properly...

Starter...

Front end...

Assembled Chekorees steering axle to replace that worn out old one... Painted that too.

 

[liquidh8]

Dang those pictures are massive! Lol. I can't see all the pictures from work, so I am not sure as to what you mean about the tail of the 2004R being shot. Is it the bearing inside the tail? Is the driveshaft yolk all wobbly? If so than yes, you can replace that bearing.

All the pics look good, and you seem to be trucking along nicely

 

[Pasikiainen]

They dont appear big on my desktop but on my cellphone some off them are massive lol computers are not my strong part.

Trans failure, dont know what have happened to it..

 

[liquidh8]

I see them now, had to use a different web browser. (work computer blocks alot). That brocken off chunk back there is where the seal goes. I doubt you could get the seal to seal up in there. You may be able to get it to stay put, but will it leak? who knows.

 

[Pasikiainen]

Yeah I know that there should be a seal. And it would leak, because its all the way cracked to the bottom were the seal goes. I was just wondering, could I weld it or something?

 

[Pasikiainen]

Decided to sell the th200r4 as is... I will bought one when I have the money to really built the inside the correct way... With this, I was just planning to put the shift kit and new oils and drive to the sunset

 

[PGLM]

Tervetuloa, sun projekti onkin tuttu tuolta overdrivelta... 8)

 

[Pasikiainen]

Kiitoksia kiitoksia 8) Hyvä kuulla että sielläkin seurataan, tota sunkin projektia tullut seurattua nyt kun löysin tämän g-bodyforumin