87 Monte SS

[Bumpin1ohmSS]

Re: 87 SS

dayyyuuum bro that came out sick!! ooowwweeee im hating lol

Thanks bruh!! I got the other side in. Im debating on if i should get some adjustable upper cuz I wanna run some Edelbrock anti-hop bars. I didnt think about the pinion angle on the rear end changing if I added the bars. I need to get with Elco james on this. He has the anti-hop setup on his El. I think he has the stock rear trailing arms. If I can use the new setup with the Edelbrock setup, I'll just keep what i have until I swap em over to the Elco

here's a few pics. Got the other lower arm in. I was waiting to see what I would do as far as the uppers go. Imma just install em. No work this weekend tho. Got my boy again..

Hotchkis front swaybar, hardware and Bellteck Nitro drop shocks

Some Ebay upper control arms for now. Goin tubular later on with my Energy red bushings pressed in...

Lil youtube vid....

C3 Fab trailing arms

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The old man chillin...

I sent all my aluminum parts out to be re-polished. I need to find an engraver for the front radiator cover. I want "OG iroc King" in cursive done. The show I'm trying to get out to is next week Sunday-April 25. I still have a lil time left. Trying to take my Elco and SS. So much to to and lil time left to do it all. I'll get it finished up tho. Thanks for lookin..

Warren 8)

 

[Bumpin1ohmSS]

Re: 87 SS

Another lil update. Got the rear upper trailing arms installed befroe work. Gotta run the lines for the air bags and pump em up. Lil cleanup and the rear will be done..... for now

Rear end rebuild recap...

Grand National Posi rear-POR-15 treated with 3.73's (4.11 soon)
Ta Performance rear end girdle and ARP bearing cap studs
OPG 2" drop springs
Belltech Nitro Drop Shocks
Airlift 1000 coil air bag kit
C3Fab tubular upper/ boxed lower trailing arms with Energy bushings
Hotchkis swaybar

The wrench end is there so i can tighten it all up when I get up this morn :wink:

I'll install the Hotchkis swaybar, clean everything up and snap some nicer photos. I was rushing before I headed to work last night

Next rear upgrades:
4.11 rear gears
Moeser 28 spline axles
C3 Fab upper adjable tubular trailing arms
Edelbrock antihop bars

Here's a few pics of the lil work I finished upon the front rebuild..Just mocking up the parts. I had forgot how everything goes back together. Got it down now. Renting a spring compressor today and get things moving.

Frontend rebuild recap...

Belltech 2" drop spindles
OPG 1" drop springs
Ebay upper control arms-new bushings and ball joints
Hotchkis front swaybar, hardware and bushings
cleaned up all the steering components. All harware and bushings looked nice.
Re-greasing all fittings
new brakes, pads, bearings
painting up the calipers


Belltech 2"drop spindle. Primered and painted em up black. The upper A arms are some ebay specials for now.

Lower front control arms done in chassis saver Rustolium. Lil ghetto job, but looks alot cleaner. I went with the satin finish and man! Its still a lil shiny. I like it tho...These are the og set for now. Just wanted to clean em up. The bushing and ball joints were still nice. I re-greased the ball joints and popped some new boots on em.. These are temps till I move and get the 3 car garage. Then I can tear it all back apart and go tubular. Im lookin for a tubular set WITHOUT bushings pressed in if anyone knows a spot. I want to chrome em and then press the bushings in..

Got em installed

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Working on the front today. Getting the spring compressor and gettin it done!! This is fun work. I cant believe I was paying peeps to do this stuff...

Thanks for lookin..

Warren 8)

 

[c3fab]

Re: 87 SS

Another lil update. Got the rear upper trailing arms installed befroe work. Gotta run the lines for the air bags and pump em up. Lil cleanup and the rear will be done..... for now

Rear end rebuild recap...

Grand National Posi rear-POR-15 treated with 3.73's (4.11 soon)
Ta Performance rear end girdle and ARP bearing cap studs
OPG 2" drop springs
Belltech Nitro Drop Shocks
Airlift 1000 coil air bag kit
C3Fab tubular upper/ boxed lower trailing arms with Energy bushings
Hotchkis swaybar

The wrench end is there so i can tighten it all up when I get up this morn :wink:

I'll install the Hotchkis swaybar, clean everything up and snap some nicer photos. I was rushing before I headed to work last night

Next rear upgrades:
4.11 rear gears
Moeser 28 spline axles
C3 Fab upper adjable tubular trailing arms
Edelbrock antihop bars

Here's a few pics of the lil work I finished upon the front rebuild..Just mocking up the parts. I had forgot how everything goes back together. Got it down now. Renting a spring compressor today and get things moving.

Frontend rebuild recap...

Belltech 2" drop spindles
OPG 1" drop springs
Ebay upper control arms-new bushings and ball joints
Hotchkis front swaybar, hardware and bushings
cleaned up all the steering components. All harware and bushings looked nice.
Re-greasing all fittings
new brakes, pads, bearings
painting up the calipers


Belltech 2"drop spindle. Primered and painted em up black. The upper A arms are some ebay specials for now.

Lower front control arms done in chassis saver Rustolium. Lil ghetto job, but looks alot cleaner. I went with the satin finish and man! Its still a lil shiny. I like it tho...These are the og set for now. Just wanted to clean em up. The bushing and ball joints were still nice. I re-greased the ball joints and popped some new boots on em.. These are temps till I move and get the 3 car garage. Then I can tear it all back apart and go tubular. Im lookin for a tubular set WITHOUT bushings pressed in if anyone knows a spot. I want to chrome em and then press the bushings in..

Got em installed

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Working on the front today. Getting the spring compressor and gettin it done!! This is fun work. I cant believe I was paying peeps to do this stuff...

Thanks for lookin..

Warren 8)

looking real nice playa!

 

[Bumpin1ohmSS]

Re: 87 SS

looking real nice playa!

Thanks bruh!! I'm new to all this stuff. I kept gettin burned by shops so I decided to do sh*t myself. Once Im moved into the new crip, I'll have plenty of room(3 car garage) to setup my tools and tear it all back apart and do it right. This is a lil ghetto job Im doin. Im trying to do all I can while I wait for parts to come in. I dont wanna get to deep into things at my boys crib. Im driving his wife crazy. LOL

Got some work done today(Satudray). Finished up the passenger side spring install and got the Hotchkis swaybar installed. Loud shout out to Elco Chris AKA Kuruption of 80z Babiez CC for the help and direction on the whole front end install. Chris sat on the phone with me and talked me thru a few things on the re-installation of parts. Thanks big dog!! It was truly "Wrenchin time with Elco Warren" LOL! A lot of my pics I took were lost. Bad media card :x . Here's what I got. These are from the Driverside...


Wack *ss spring compressor I rented from Autozone. This is some medevil torture yo *ss sh*t right here. This thing wouldnt grab correctly. I finally got it to work. I'm used to the compressor with the 4 hooks..

Finally got it hooked in, and used my air tools to tighten it down. This is some DANGERUOS shiz! You must show MUCH respect to it, or end up pushin up daisy's... :shock:

OPG 1" drop springs and Belltech 2" drop spindles...

Closer looks at the spring compressor

OPG spring and Belltech drop spindle installed

A view from the bottom. This pic tripped me out. The tabs where I bolt the shocks in are wrong. All I did was take the lower A carms out and apply the chassis saver. I gues some sort of suspension work was done before I bought the SS 6 years ago. Its been corrected. I checked the set on my Elco. Looks good now..

Belltech Nitro Drop shocks

Had to do a lil grinding on the passenger side upper A arm assy. The old set rubbed the Doug's ceramic coated headers pretty badly. I massaged it to where I wanted it, dropped the shimes back in and checked. Once I got the desired setup, I cleaned, primered and painted em up. Came out ok. My media card took a crap so this is the only pic I had...

Right here is where the old A arms rubbed the coating off

Headers are coming off and getting re ceramic coated. Thats my suggestion to peeps. Get a raw finish. Dont pay for the manufactuers coating. Get all the fittiment issues worked out and then send em out for coating

Got my grind on and liked the end result..

I also cleaned, primered and painted up the calipers. Picked up some metal flake silver. Looks cool. I have new rotors, pads and wheels bearings. I'll add some braided hoses..Big brakes will come later. I'm rolling the stock 14's for a bit while I save some loot for some 3 piece wheels

I had some sweet angles of the Hotchkis swaybar setup, but lost the files. I'll snap some pics in the morn and upload em. All thats left is to do the brakes, add the nut codder (sp?) pins and regrease everything. Almost home. Feels good to turn my own wrenches and not some shop....

Thanks for lookin.

Warren 8)

 

[T-TOP TONY]

Re: 87 SS

damn doggy u putting in work!! looking real good!!

 

[Bumpin1ohmSS]

Re: 87 SS

damn doggy u putting in work!! looking real good!!

Thanks fam!! Just doin a couple hours a day on him. I got it this far. I dont know how to do front brakes, so I gotta wait on my bro to get back from camping. I probably could do it. Imma watch a few vids on utube and try to get things crackin in the morn. Im not gonna make it to the run today. Gotta get this car finished up. Runnin the lines for my coil spring airbags and greasing all the zirq fittings. Do a "final check" torque on all the nuts and put in the codder (sp?) pins. I might pickup some braided brake lines since its all apart... Got any hookups for tha braided lines?

Warren 8)

 

[kuruption109]

Re: 87 SS

NICE warren yea loks even better in the pics on the computer...5*S

 

[youngdeezy]

Re: 87 SS

damn doggy u putting in work!! looking real good!!

Thanks fam!! Just doin a couple hours a day on him. I got it this far. I dont know how to do front brakes, so I gotta wait on my bro to get back from camping. I probably could do it. Imma watch a few vids on utube and try to get things crackin in the morn. Im not gonna make it to the run today. Gotta get this car finished up. Runnin the lines for my coil spring airbags and greasing all the zirq fittings. Do a "final check" torque on all the nuts and put in the codder (sp?) pins. I might pickup some braided brake lines since its all apart... Got any hookups for tha braided lines?

Warren 8)

damn you cant make it to the g-body run but its cool. anyway i have the plug on the break lines i just got a set for the cutty about a month a go. i'll drop you the info in a day or 2

 

[rIbBaD]

Re: 87 SS

post some pics of your interior with all your custom sh*t homie, thatd but dopee.

 

[Bumpin1ohmSS]

Re: 87 SS

NICE warren yea loks even better in the pics on the computer...5*S

Thanks fam!! And thanks again for the help yesterday. Thats whats up!! We got it done. Jumpin on the brakes in the morning. I cant wait to move into the new crib. I can really get into the detail mode and do it right. Its all thrown together right now. I wanna get the ride back on the road this week...

damn you cant make it to the g-body run but its cool. anyway i have the plug on the break lines i just got a set for the cutty about a month a go. i'll drop you the info in a day or 2

I wish I went now. Tony called me, but my phone was on silent. I was cleaning up my boys garage and yard where my SS is. Did a lil work and cleanup on the undercarriage. Nothin major. I found a sweet thread on this other board I checkout for a braided hose setup. I wanna get him on the raod tomorrow and might wait and do the braided setup next month..

post some pics of your interior with all your custom sh*t homie, thatd but dopee.

Thanks for checkin the thread out bruh. My interior is a mess right now. All the parts are just mocked up to see how well they fit. I dont have any pics of eveything setup. Just a few pics of some of the parts. Interior will be last on the list for me...


I did a lil work today. Got the codder pins in and greased all the fittings up. Hotchkis Sway bar is in also. Brakes first thing in the morning. I wanted to get some braided lines goin, but I can do that later when I move in the new spot. This thing has been waaaaay past its bedtime. Time to get him back on the road...

New pins are in..

Notched out my engine bay panel for hood cable clearance.. All the lines, wires, alarm horn will be moved. I dont want anything cluttering the bay area up but the motor...

I got the ac compressor off and will install this cover tomorrow. Waiting for the compressor delete to show up. Im not gonna run AC in this ride. When I swap the motor over to the Elco, I'll use the compressor then

A lil goo be gone will take that old packaging tape off...

Gonna hookup my sending units right here. I have the "in-line" sending units. One for the true hot before it flows thru the cooler, and one for the cooled fluid as it returns to the trans. Adding a fan to this b&M trans cooler setup also

Rear end is all buttoned up. Swaybar is installed. Pumping the air up in the morn. Cant wait...

As he sits right now.. Hope my polisher is done with my panels. Im ready to get this old guy back on the road and see what the new mods look like and feel like...

Thanks for lookin.

Warren 8)