BUILD THREAD 1980 Monte Carlo build
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So the front suspension started with 2" drop spindles and the plan was to have the matching Wilwood brakes on the front. That ended up getting scrapped after error after error happened with the brakes. wait 3 months, two left calipers, no mounting brackets - wait another 2 months for those, etc.. so I swapped completely over to the speedtech tall spindles and corvette style brake mounts. Sway bar is UMI along with the top and bottom A arms with stock height ball joints. bump steer kit is from speedtech. it's on Viking double adjustable coil overs all around. Brakes are baer 6p's in the front and wilwood 4p's in the back. The current wheels and tires are not mine but they are 20" Camaro rims with 255/45r20 Potenza s007a's on them. The goal is to run an 18" rim and as much tire will fit.
Nice. Speedtech has a few g-body (Regals) running 18x9" up front. 10's will work out back for you w/the notched rails.
I purchased their spindles through Summit but gave up on them after several months of delays. Swapped direction to standard g-spindles w/tall BJ's. I still have the Speedtech steering arms though & might try something in the future for the increased Ackerman angle they allow.
This is a sweet collection of parts on this build. Should be very nice!
It's been a little while since my last update but there's been a little progress with hopefully a lot more to follow. Got the headers put in, they are 1" 3/4 primary to 3" collector, Part # 2551-2HKR and required a few modifications. If you are going to use these it's probably best to modify the lower rear A-arm mount. This is the clearance even after denting some of the tubes. This came out and after the image and got another couple swings to get a gap.
After the headers were mocked up we switched over to the transmission crossmember and mocking up the exhaust. We fit magnaflow 12867 mufflers through the crossmember with the help of some Vbands and a little cheating.
Tore it all back out and Cerakoted it. then ever so gently put them back in. In order to get the drivers side header in the engine needs tilted up with a lift. The passenger side has some interesting quirks with the starter needing to be almost in place but pushed as far forward toward the k member then you can but the header in and bolt the starter on.
disregard the welds. We found stainless to be touchy and liked to kink with the mig.
Got the shift linkage hooked up and the stealth pro ratchet through the stock floor shifter slot without modification.
Got the pulley setup from CVF put on.
lastly Been working on sound deadening the trunk and mounting the fuel cell, I'll have to update with images later, thought I took some. Otherwise we just got the hydroboost setup mounted and there was some initial issues I'd like to touch on. The mounting plate wasn't thick enough to space the linkage from the pedal even if we shortened the linkage by a lot. So a new spacer was made about 1". We think the best solution would be a slightly thicker plate around ~1 1/4". Also still don't know if we mounted it upside down or not. instructions were a little vague and were going off google pictures of other setups. always the best way to do things, so if anyone knows please fill me me in. If you have any questions or suggestions let me know.
After the headers were mocked up we switched over to the transmission crossmember and mocking up the exhaust. We fit magnaflow 12867 mufflers through the crossmember with the help of some Vbands and a little cheating.
Tore it all back out and Cerakoted it. then ever so gently put them back in. In order to get the drivers side header in the engine needs tilted up with a lift. The passenger side has some interesting quirks with the starter needing to be almost in place but pushed as far forward toward the k member then you can but the header in and bolt the starter on.
disregard the welds. We found stainless to be touchy and liked to kink with the mig.
Got the shift linkage hooked up and the stealth pro ratchet through the stock floor shifter slot without modification.
Got the pulley setup from CVF put on.
lastly Been working on sound deadening the trunk and mounting the fuel cell, I'll have to update with images later, thought I took some. Otherwise we just got the hydroboost setup mounted and there was some initial issues I'd like to touch on. The mounting plate wasn't thick enough to space the linkage from the pedal even if we shortened the linkage by a lot. So a new spacer was made about 1". We think the best solution would be a slightly thicker plate around ~1 1/4". Also still don't know if we mounted it upside down or not. instructions were a little vague and were going off google pictures of other setups. always the best way to do things, so if anyone knows please fill me me in. If you have any questions or suggestions let me know.
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