BUILD THREAD "Monica" 18 year olds 1982 Monte Carlo Full Custom Build

[MonicaTheMonte]

Little backstory on the car:

its a 1982 my second cousin bought the car brand new as a leftover is late 82 and babied the car always garage kept and rarely ever driven car had a stock 305 in it with a 200r trans he eventually got into drugs and traded the car to a drug dealer for cocaine and weed and the car was beat for a few months until he sold it to an older man a few houses down the street from me where it sat on a car trailer since 1998 unfortunately with the windows down and the floor rusted out my father would always try ever few years to buy it but he would never sell it and the last time he asked him he said I'm not sure yet but I might sell it them he sold it to another one of my cousins to flips cars he did some bad work to it and slapped it together and I traded him my first car which was a 2004 Mazda rx8 in August of 2018 when I was 17 at the time the car was perfect and the monte wasn't but I wanted a project that I could build all by myself with no help from my father which I currently am doing now.

Now flash forward to current day:

I have the car completely gutted with a few extra hands from some of my buddies one night here's a list of the things ive currently done to it I want to make this car stand out from the rest of the other Monte Carlos and make it a one off build and as an 18 year old almost 19 I want people to see that not all younger kids sit at home all day and expect everything to be handed to them i currently have spent $450 on this car since owning it and its almost 100% complete mainly due to the fact that my father gave me a great motor for it that has been sitting on our engine stand waiting to be put into something for the last 9 years

Whats currently and going to be done to it:

1985 350 small block converted to a 383 stroker out of a motor home with what we believe has close to 400hp and 500tq after the stuff my father had put into it
new front coils and shocks
e brake cables
new floor pans
2 inch wheel spacers in the rear
big block springs from my 1970 Chevelle to raise the rear up a good bit
full interior out of a 2005 monte carlo intimidator
either side exit exhaust with chevy bowtie exhaust tips or fender exit with bowtie tips
hooker headers with a 3 inch straight pipe into 2 glass packs
and a lot more things I'm currently forgetting

 

[MonicaTheMonte]

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[MonicaTheMonte]

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[MonicaTheMonte]

Last pictures are of the car currently

 

[mclellan83]

Interested to see how all this works out, good luck and glad to see something different

 

[Longroof79]

I commend you for taking the initiative and doing much of the work yourself. Do you have friends that can also help you when you need an extra pair of hands?
Btw, those rear springs seem a bit too tall.

 

[83StreetMachine]

Keep checking off that list and before you know it you'll be on the road.


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[MonicaTheMonte]

I commend you for taking the initiative and doing much of the work yourself. Do you have friends that can also help you when you need an extra pair of hands?
Btw, those rear springs seem a bit too tall.

thanks and I do have lots if I ever need an extra set and I do find there a little tall now but im just using what I have so I can get it on the road but I am eventually going to swap the rear springs out for some air ride so i can lift the rear to the way i want it too