87 Monte SS

[Bumpin1ohmSS]

moving right along, we need to fire up BCT too... hell both these nice *ss rides, will be hitting the streets soon!

Yep.. The el is all down hill from here. Waiting for the wheel wells and it's a wrap. Im about to go work on the fire wall for a lil bit right now. May drop the tank...

 

[Daves85]

hey warren,
i just went through this whole thread. and i see you've been working hard.
that monte has been through a lot, but is coming along REALLY good.

im about to grab my second monte, (my first is a 1985 ss) the next one is a 1987 ss, its in good shape. but this thread inspires me to go out and work my *ss off till im happy with it... and then do some more!

anyway, just stopping in to say, your doing some killer work. keep it up :!:

 

[84cutlassjuggalo]

hey elco, just wanted to say awesome thread and i also think you're youtube videos are great. i spent a whole night on youtube looking at them. it's cool to beable to say hey i kinda know the guy that posted them videos. Keep up the good work and it's helping me keep motivated with my tear downs and resto.

 

[Bumpin1ohmSS]

hey warren,
i just went through this whole thread. and i see you've been working hard.
that monte has been through a lot, but is coming along REALLY good.

im about to grab my second monte, (my first is a 1985 ss) the next one is a 1987 ss, its in good shape. but this thread inspires me to go out and work my *ss off till im happy with it... and then do some more!

anyway, just stopping in to say, your doing some killer work. keep it up :!:

Thanks for checking the thread out! Yep.. The old guy has been thru a lot over the years. As I learn more and more from you guys here on the forums, I dig deeper into it. I was looking thru some threads and it hit me, everything's off the car! Mel and Chris said man just pull it off the frame. And now it's happening. Lol! Glad I did too cuz I see so much was messed up by the last shop that worked on him. Just when I think I've seen the last of that shops shoddy work, I go a lil harder on the S and find new stuff. Thanks for the comment. 😀 Keeps me motivated to learn more and keep chipping away at him..

hey elco, just wanted to say awesome thread and i also think you're youtube videos are great. i spent a whole night on youtube looking at them. it's cool to beable to say hey i kinda know the guy that posted them videos. Keep up the good work and it's helping me keep motivated with my tear downs and resto.

THANKS!!! Thats what you guys do for me.... Keep me motivated to work on the rides. Working nights and doing two cars at the same time is murder!! But I look at what you guys are doing and it keeps me pushing to get em done. It's funny with the vids cuz I originally started posting vids for my bro's to see I was doing the work on the cars now. It started after I got the car back from the last shop. After seeing the bs work done, I grabbed a wrench and my camera and started in on it. Lol! Then I moved into a new spot with a decent garage and things really got crazy. Lol.thanks for checking back and watching 😀


I soaked all the bolts down with liquid wrench for the past week. Bolts came out with ease!! Not a single probbo and all of em look good enough to re-use. I'm gonna get new hardware tho. Rainbow bolt is close to me so I'll just swing by with an old bolt and size up some new ones. I'm gonna do a silver/black hammer tone finish after a few mods are done to the frame. Nothing major as this lil SS is really just a cruiser. I may box a few areas in here and there is all. No real pics. Just doin boring stuff right now. Lil clean up and removing stuff...

Total of 12 bolts were removed. I think I got em all. Just need to get the 4x4 wood blocks and 4 more jacks and I'm good to go...

Thanks for checking back. 😀

Elco Warren 8)
80z

 

[468SS]

Yoo Warren. I just went through this whole thread and I'm very impressed. I just bought me a 86 ss a few months ago and she's coming along but not like yours. My hat goes off to you bro. What's the latest progress??

 

[Bumpin1ohmSS]

Yoo Warren. I just went through this whole thread and I'm very impressed. I just bought me a 86 ss a few months ago and she's coming along but not like yours. My hat goes off to you bro. What's the latest progress??

Thanks bruh!!! The old guy is on jack stands waiting for help to pull the frame. Ill tackle anything by myself, but figured I wait for a more experienced wrencher on that job. I'm working on the wire job that old shop hacked up and installing the quicksilver floor shifter correctly-another shop eff up! Lol. Also, ill be smoothing the fire wall. That's something I've talked about for over 8 years now so now it's time to get it going. I picked up a 78 Malibu and have been goin hard on cleaning up the parts and getting things up to my standards. That's why no real updates in here. Man I appreciate the love. Motivates the hell outta me to get things goin. The bu will be my daily driver so all my efforts are on that right now. I do work on the SS a Lil here and there. The Malibu came with a 400 small block and ill be building that for the SS til I can afford a big block for it. Ill be working on the floor shifter install tomorrow and will get some updated pics. Thanks again bro!


MC Warren 8)
80z

 

[lg1200]

i spent a while going back over the older build posts for some added motivation..alot of the things you did with the SS i'm doing now with my regal..i know the Alibu is gonna be sick with the goodies lined up for it..off the clock in 45 minutes and i'm off til monday so i needed this!

 

[Bumpin1ohmSS]

MAN!! Flickr killed me! LOL! I'll be going back thru all the pages and re inserting the pics. Threads with broken pic links suck! LOL! Her's a few quick pics of where the #OGIK SS is since my last update waaaaaaaaay back. Headed to work no, but I will start fixing the old post when I get off in the morning..

The frame will eventually be pulled, notched. I just wanted to clean the front up cuz I was tired of looking at a mess when the garage door opened. I eventually did a garage overhall(paint, lighting ect) and wanted the SS to look like it was showcasing some suspension parts..

Sanded the frame to metal and sprayed some primer..

After pulling the front end apart, I started in on the smooth firewall..

knocked it down and started smoothing it out.

SOme filler primer..

Rustolium "Sandable Primer". After the car gets painted, I'll wet sand this to 1500 and then use the VHT Roll bar and chassis paint in Satin. Should look clean..

Mocked up a few cleaned up parts. This setup is actually for the Elco.. The SS will have some C6zo6 calipers with 14" rotors

This is where he sits now after some work. Just a quick few pics to bring it up to date



I'll start updating the old broken links tomorrow. Thanks for checking back!!

 

[Bumpin1ohmSS]

OK.. Ive been trying to fix all the broken links thru my flickr account, but all the url's are different now. So i started going thru ol post to fix the broken links. Lots of work whew. Ill do a few ech day til Im all caught up. I ended up finishing off the smooth firewall on the SS and now have taken on the frame notch to fit a wide wheel.Also added bracing and welded the frame seam up.

sanding and shaping

Yanked the motor and used some filler

First coat of filler primer. I use different colors so once I start sanding, if i see the color underneath i know ive gone a lil too much...

And the frame is allll the way out.

And thats whats been going on. Still a lot of updates on the frame and undercarriage clean up. I'll post up over the next week as I clean up the old post with the broken links. Thanks for checking back!!

 

[Bumpin1ohmSS]

Back to updating my SS thread. Took a lil break from the frame to work on my 78 Malibu's LQ4 motor. Thats really starting to pick up speed. Few pics of the SS frame progress. I cant weld for crap and my guy that comes thru to do it is like AHHH STOP!! hahaha! Now that I have the Eastwood Mig 2250, once I get a tank things will be better lol.

Tied the legs first before cutting and put the rear bumper on... Tape mock up..

Git it burned in nicely.

Braces for the lower trailing arms.

Notched em up

I have a sweet box in kit for my Bu, but i decided to use the metal i had in the shop tio save some loot..

Made some templates and boxed in this area...

Saw a thread that had this done. I made some templates up and copied...

Mocked em up and set the spring in place to check for clearance.

LOL! Me trying to tack em in with my lil flux welder. Im driving my guy crazy ha!.

Thats about it. Ill be back on the frame this week. Waiting for parts to come in for my Malibu's LQ4 build. Will post up the progress as we get things done.

Thanks for checking back!!