Get anything done on your car this weekend?

[Blake442]

I know quite a few of you went junkyarding, but who stayed home and worked on their junk? :lol:

I slacked off saturday, but today I finally swapped out the rear springs that have been sagging since I bought the car 8 years ago. I got a set of brand new cargo coils off ebay for $20, so I thought I'd give them a shot. It's hard to tell on my crooked driveway, but it sits up better now, and is more obvious when the car is in the level garage. Still need new shocks though...

Before

After

I also finally installed the rear seat X-braces I bought.

So what'd you guys get done?

 

[Munkey B]

i picked up a set of buckets on sunday to replace my very bad ones.

 

[billyjack]

I spent Sunday morning at my buddy's tire shop with my El Camino. Got a pair of 275/60 TA's mounted on my 8 inch rally wheels to replace the off-brand 275/60 rears. Front 235/60 TA's got remounted on 8 inch rallys. Had them on 7 inch wheels for a while, but with 4 1/4 BS wheels, the inside sidewalls were rubbing on the frame rail. Clearances are real tight everywhere, but so far no rubbing. The TA's seem to have a fatter sidewall profile. so we may wind up trimming the rear wheel opening lips a bit just for some tolerance. Thanks to my background in autocross and circle track racing, I keep trying to stuff more rubber in the wheelwells of my cars. I think we might have reached the limit on this one.

Bill

 

[85 Cutlass Brougham]

Well... I drove mine around the block once before it started acting up. I am thinking about a wonderful day of junkyarding, or sleeping today...can't decide which to do...

 

[pontiacgp]

Friday nites races were real nice and our race car only suffered some minor tin damage when it got jacked up and spun on turn 1 so not having to work on the race car on Saturday I picked up some parts for the standard transmission and I installed tie rod adjusters made for me by a local machine shop who also runs a late model at the track we run at. Sunday I picked up a 5.7 L98 that is supposed to be a roller and it has the serpentine belt set up with all the components including a 140 amp alternator, I'll be changing the heads for a set of vortecs along with a nice cam and that along with the T5 wc should move the car a little better than it moves now..it's tempting to do more with the engine but it's a daily driver and I don't own any shares in a gas company.... :?

 

[2000.malibu.ls]

i swapped transmissions but yet again no luck

 

[IrvJr]

Finished the motor/trans swap on the T Type and actually drove it out of the garage under its own power. Got it up to operating temp and got all the bubbles out of the cooling system. Made sure all the fluids were good and buttoned up all the little tidbits. If it hadnt rained i would have taken her for a ride, hopefully its nice when i get off work at 4.

 

[dirtywhiteboy]

sadly I did not....I worked on my tan 😀 ....and the boat
8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTd1j6xMcco


car looks great Blake!

 

[86CutlassUCF]

nada 🙁

 

[Minion1186]

my cutlass suffered sitting in rain and sun for three days,but i waxed it twice and got a hood and trunk for it sunday