1984 Buick Grand National coming back to life!

[BPTTONE420012]

holy crap that paint came out beautiful... took me a second to see CAR in a few of the pictures, my eyes focused on the perfect reflection of your garage... i thought the pic was of your garage at first, then saw tire and said "oh sh*t, babe come look at this paint" she came over and was amazed at how nice that black came out... damn good job man, damn good job...

 

[tobyp]

did you make that bracket that the sway bar end link uses to connect to the frame.

No it comes with the kit complete.

 

[Rok_OEM]

What coilovers are those? How do you like them so far?

 

[tobyp]

What coilovers are those? How do you like them so far?

They are Viking double adjustable. For the short drive I had them on it felt very good.

 

[1979Calais]

I am bring my SS to Ohio for you can fit it for me.

 

[tobyp]

So aligning the hood I made the cardinal sin of releasing the hinge with the strong arm attached



Blaam....Omg

So...... more paint and body work.



Then the plates came in today and I laughed.... it's Soooo true.

 

[Alerch]

Haha love the license plate!

 

[tobyp]

Started the electric fans setup today. It starts with a 99-04 Dodge intrepid dual fan setup. A piece of 3/4" angle iron and a welder



Made a mock setup with some spare parts in the basement to make sure the measurements for the bottom brace is correct.





Make sure to grab the correct rubber bushings for the 3 core setup






Brace looks accurate



Brace all welded up and ready to go, if the relays come in tomorrow Ill get it wired up. THese two fans running are like a beechwood turbo prop



I cut the bottom mounts off, and make a special bracket for the top two to the radiator support

 

[liquidh8]

I was looking into getting those fans for my turbobuick wagon. I have the mark viii fan I ran in the Malibu Wagon, that thing ate some current, and moved some air.

 

[tobyp]

Back at it again!


Finished installing the dual electric fans, with the custom mount last night. I wired both fans to have their own seperate relay with the switch activating both from the coolant temp switch in the intake. Now onto getting the engine ready for assembly. Heads from Champion showed up, the Alky Control showed up and the ported intake from Champion showed up. Time to make some progress with the heartbeat. I also put the big *ss 36mm hollow sway bar from a WS6 TA on the front as well.

New engine in bay weekend of Memorial day