Father Son Use What You've Got Build

[TURNA]

Great looking car.

What is wrong with the frame?

 

[L67ss]

Any brake upgrades planned?

 

[DROLDS84]

Sounds like a good project for your son to learn a lot from. Experience is the best teacher and if he's into cars then it's probably a dream come true for him to have a project car to work on with his dad.

Is this gonna be his car when you're finished or yours or both?

It will be his once he shows me he is responsible enough not to do anything stupid in it.I will be driving it occasionally until I get my 84'Hurst back on the road.Last time I drove it him and his younger brother were in diapers riding in the back seat.

 

[DROLDS84]

It will be his once he shows me he is responsible enough not to do anything stupid in it.I will be driving it occasionally until I get my 84'Hurst back on the road.Last time I drove it him and his younger brother were in diapers riding in the back seat.

Here is a pic of my Hurst and the engine going in it.Also a pic of the Cutlass with a Hurst hood bulge and moulding,have alot of extra parts for a Hurst too.

 

[DROLDS84]

Can't post the hood pics says the file is too big.Have to work on that.

 

[DROLDS84]

Can't post the hood pics says the file is too big.Have to work on that.

Great looking car.

What is wrong with the frame?

Just has extreme surface rust.When I got it home we pressure washed it and it still had marl packed in the frame from being in a flooded farmfield 20 years ago.Going to clean it up and give it a couple coats of Por-15 and replace the body mounts.Already have all the bolts out,not a single one broke!

 

[DROLDS84]

Any brake upgrades planned?

Not at this time.Have a couple of new complete front and rear brake sets with all hardware stashed in my basement.I will give the kid one of those to use and buy a new set of lines and proportioning valve from Inline Tube here in MI.He's buying everything for his car we need to do this project so trying to use what we've got,thats the name of this build thread anyway.

 

[DROLDS84]

Dimpled the front and rear end rails this morning over coffee.Beautiful flaking burgandy metalic paint,I don't think its even engine paint.Someone painted it after assembly because they sprayed it over oil in some spots on the lower part of the block.Tearing the internals down today and getting the block degreased,nothing wrong with cam bearings so don't want to hot tank it.But also don't want to try and clean it up and paint it gold and have it look like crap by the end of summer.Going to use Oldsmobile gold Por-15.Have used it before and it is a great product.

 

[Texas82GP]

What's the purpose of the dimples? To give the RTV something to grab? I haven't seen that before.

 

[DROLDS84]

What's the purpose of the dimples? To give the RTV something to grab? I haven't seen that before.

Exactly.Built a 403 years ago and had a vacuum leak on the back endrail.Nothing I hate more than re-doing something I should have done right the first time.