87 Monte SS

[bigjoenvegas]

Re: 87 SS

I can't wait til Saturday morning! Get up early, drink some coffee and watch wrenchin with Warren! Looking good! When I bought my Elco it came with brand new brake pads, rotors, drums and wheel berrings all the way around, I just gotta do it all up! This is definately gonna motivate me to do so. Thanks homie!

 

[georgeathtx]

Re: 87 SS

damn bro ur work is lookin spify...keep it up

 

[youngdeezy]

Re: 87 SS

I can't wait til Saturday morning! Get up early, drink some coffee and watch wrenchin with Warren! Looking good! When I bought my Elco it came with brand new brake pads, rotors, drums and wheel berrings all the way around, I just gotta do it all up! This is definately gonna motivate me to do so. Thanks homie!

X2 on that.....WRENCHIN WIT WARREN is a must on saturday mornings, then horsepower tv ! I Have no idea why these guys cant get there sh*t together when we drop off are parts to get beautified. I hope dude gets your parts to you so you can get that bad boy back on the road again.

 

[bowtietillidie85SS]

Re: 87 SS

I have told ya once before great job, but the thing you got going on with that car is spectacular. Great job!

 

[Bumpin1ohmSS]

Re: 87 SS

I can't wait til Saturday morning! Get up early, drink some coffee and watch wrenchin with Warren! Looking good! This is definately gonna motivate me to do so. Thanks homie!

damn bro ur work is lookin spify...keep it up

Thanks fellas!! 😀

X2 on that.....WRENCHIN WIT WARREN is a must on saturday mornings, then horsepower tv ! I Have no idea why these guys cant get there sh*t together when we drop off are parts to get beautified. I hope dude gets your parts to you so you can get that bad boy back on the road again.

HAHA! Yeah bruh. I wish I hadda kept my parts. I dont want em polished up now. I wanna take a scotch brite to em and have a more satinless feel. The only part I want polished/chrome is the intake. I think the combo of chrome and brushed aluminum will look ill. It would make the Intake pop out even more. Too late tho. Polished it is. They started on em. Imma hit him up monday to see whats up. Hard in the Paint C.C. ia having their 2nd anual show/GTG on May 15. Im hoping the OG Iroc king will be ready for it...

I have told ya once before great job, but the thing you got going on with that car is spectacular. Great job!

Thanks again bruh! That really keeps me motivated to stay in the trenches...Preciate you checkin back on the updates.. 😀

Got some work done today. Swapped in some elbow zirq fittings on the upper rear trailing arms. I couldnt get the grease gun fiiting up there to pump em with grease. Worked out great. I got my ac compressor cover on and put back together. I also ran the lines for my rear coil air bags. Its coming together finally. Went thru and doubles checked all my nut/bolts and torqued em. Everything is greased and ready. I rolled around trying to find some 14" tires, but came up with nothing. I will put the old wheels back on and see how low the drop is in the morn. I still gotta bleed the brakes. I wasted 3 hours driving around looking for tires :x But I did get a lil sum sumthim done.....

old fitting for rear upper trailing arm

new Elbow zirq fitting

Old fitting on upper arm. I couldnt get the grease gun fitting in this tight spot. I should have pre greased em. But Im glad i swapped the fittings out for later re grease jobs..

New fitting on...Straight shot makes it waay easy to grea up now...

Got the Mr gasket cover on my ac compressor. I had to cut the allen screw mounting tabs off. I forgot to tape the surface before hand and scratched the chrome up bad. I was gonna order a new one, but decided to use a scotch brite pad on it. Turned out sweet. Gives it a "machined" look. Buffed it with a lil metal polish and poped it on. I used some 3m tape to hold it in place while I dropped the compressor in place...

mounting tabs cut off...

I love the end result...

Gettin there slowly but surely. Im gonna drop the old wheels on just to see how low the drop is. Hope the stance is what Im looking for.

To do list for in the morning..

1. Bleed and set all brakes

2. Finish up airbag install- install air valve stem and pump em up is all thats left

3. drop wheels on and get some photo's

4. run sending unit lines for the "hot" temp gausge and "cooled" temp gauge

5 Figure a way to get a sending unit for the oil temp gauge-Hmmm. Any help on that one would be great. I was gonna run a remote filter re-lacator and oil cooler. Makes it easy. But lack of funds put the brakes on that..

6. Run wires for my Badlanz electric cutout kit....

7. Move the SW1 and SW2 buttons that control my Digital gauge to a cleaner spot.

8. Instal my radio bezel gauge...

Got my work cutout. But I can get it done. "ITS WRENCHIN TIME WITH ELCO WARREN!!" :wink:

Thanks for lookin

Warren 8)

 

[Bumpin1ohmSS]

Got a lil more finished up. Ran the air line for my Airlift 1000 coil airbag setup. The kit came with "T" air inlet setup, or you can run a valve stem out to each bag. I chose the "T" setup. Basically I ran the tubing along side of the brake lines. Used sone small zip ties and the install came out pretty clean. I was worried the zip ties would look ghetto fab, but you cant really see em. The hose exites right below the back of the driverside door just before the wheel well. Makes it easy to pump the bags up and I can see what the bags are doing while inflating em. The valve stem is not noticable at all..Set at 35 psi. I have a huge sound system and needed the bags to help level out the rear..

Hose setup...Plenty of slack for when the suspension moves. The hose is out of the way of moving suspension parts, heat and sharp edges...

The big homie TTOp Tony shot thru and brought me a Danali mirror and temp probe. Wired it up..

Ran the wires and set the probe up behind the front grille. This is where the probe is on the big Chevy SUV's. I put a lil bit of 3m tape behind it to damen the vibrations a lil...

Wired it up and it works nice...I didnt snap a pic of the compass working tho. My postion was NE(North/East) which was accurate.

Flows well with the other gauges..Im working on the individual gauges this weekend. Pretty easy to do. I have to get a bung welded in my header tubing for the EGT gauge to work. I can get one of the homies at work to do it..

Picked up a brake bleeder and did the rear brakes. Doing the front passenger and then the front driver. Drop the wheels on and see what happens. Wish me luck!! Gotta wait till I get out to AZ for the tires I want. I'll snap some pics with the old wheels/tires on to show the stance. Thanks for looking. 😀

Warren 8)

 

[rIbBaD]

Good luck! Hope she rides nice once your done :!:

 

[dogsht]

Interesting never seen anybody put the air valves on the body of the car. On both of my gbodys I did it behind the license plate and on another car I put it at the end of the frame rail just under behind the bumper. The first car back in the day I did both bags with the T to lift the rear of the car for looks. On my gbodys I was interested in performance so I only did the passenger side set between 10 & 15psi to pre load the suspension for maximum traction. On both of mine 12 psi usually left the best flat across the tread burn outs with the most equal in length burn out ie best traction which proved out for the best 60 foots at the track. At that pressure it does not raise the rear much or change the ride or lift one side over the other enough to notice. I bet at 35 it lifts it noticeably and changes the ride. Well if you ever have to load the back with fat chicks you got it covered.

 

[Bumpin1ohmSS]

Interesting never seen anybody put the air valves on the body of the car. On both of my gbodys I did it behind the license plate and on another car I put it at the end of the frame rail just under behind the bumper. The first car back in the day I did both bags with the T to lift the rear of the car for looks. On my gbodys I was interested in performance so I only did the passenger side set between 10 & 15psi to pre load the suspension for maximum traction. On both of mine 12 psi usually left the best flat across the tread burn outs with the most equal in length burn out ie best traction which proved out for the best 60 foots at the track. At that pressure it does not raise the rear much or change the ride or lift one side over the other enough to notice. I bet at 35 it lifts it noticeably and changes the ride. Well if you ever have to load the back with fat chicks you got it covered.

LOLOL! I was gonna run em like that, but I wanted to be able to see the bags as they pump up. You dont even notice the valve. Lil plastic paint for the valve stem cap and you really wont notice it. I pumped em up to 35 psi just to see how much they filled the springs up. I dropped the psi to 15. No leaks so far. I'll mess around with the number and see what works best for layin some rubber down. The bags were really installed because of my sound system and dynamat in the trunk. The rear sagged big time. But with all the new suspension stuff, I probably wont have that prob. They do look cool tho. Thanks for the tips and air pressure suggestions.

The wheels my big homie Chris (Kuruption) picked up for me. Im gonna run a 225/70/14 raised white letter rubber on all 4 corners. With the drop they should look decent..

I didnt get anything done today. I couldnt get any sleep when I got off from work. I'll try to get tomorrow off and get things going. I'm finding all kinds of b.s. work the shop did. The brain for my digital panel sparked and blew a fuse. They have too many wires crammed into the litlle holes for the power and ground wires. All the wires are exposed. When I moved the brain to look around, zzzzzzzzzz!!! Scared the hell out of me. I got that handled for now. Im moving to a new house and will tear the car apart and go thru everything once Im settled in. Im getting all my tools together now. Air tools, suspension tools, specialty tools, the works. No more shops!!! This stuff is too easy. And if I run into a prob, I have a ton of bro's that will roll thru and help. The car can sit for free while I figure out how to fix it myself :wink: Thanks for lookin fellas!

Warren 8)

 

[melman109]