New to me 1982 Grand National project basket case

[NCTyphoonKid]

Wow! Your parts car looks pretty good. Is it the same year as the GN? BTW, do you ever sleep?

No it’s a 1985 Regal Limited but it’ll give me plenty of usable parts plus help others out

 

[81cutlass]

I thought I'd rile people up a bit first 🙂

It is posted in "non g projects" after all...

My buddy has a 13 gt mustang with 100k stock and spun a rod bearing exprovoked.

5.0's are 2500-4000 and parts are a pain to find. He needed a crank and 1 rod so it was cheaper to buy this core 5.0 for $600 with a broke piston and make a good engine out of 2.

One thing to think about since your wanting to do a newer grand national motor with your older regal. Wiring harness bulkheads were different from 78-81 all the same ,82-88 the same. Since your regal is 82 the 86-87 grand national engine harness will work with your bulk head on the firewall without doing any mods. Now for my 81 malibu it was a different story I changed the whole car to 82-88 wiring which means I had to also change wiper motor,steering column, gauge cluster,on top of the wiring to make everything work due to the bulkhead different.

I think it's 78-82 and 83+ is the split. I could be wrong but I looked into it when I swapped my GN harness into my 80 century and thought 83 was the split year.

 

[pagrunt]

I think it's 78-82 and 83+ is the split. I could be wrong but I looked into it when I swapped my GN harness into my 80 century and thought 83 was the split year.

My run to the junk yard yesterday had a '84 with the newer bulkhead.

 

[NCTyphoonKid]

This is the bulkhead I have

 

[pagrunt]

That's the earlier one. So you'll be able to use '78-'82, just need some one with a '83 to see if that's the year the change was made.

 

[el camino ss 84]

If your harness that bolt to that bulk head is the sae bolt with the big head then it's the older one. if its metric and small head its newer.

 

[NCTyphoonKid]

Gutting the parts car and picked up a mini 82

 

[NCTyphoonKid]

I’ve been slacking, spent most of last weekend traveling yet again. Did get the rest of the rear seat out. Still have a couple more things to remove and the interior is completely gutted. Ive been looking at rotisserie’s just can’t decide on whether to buy a new or used one since most used ones I see are about 500 and up. I’m hoping to get the remainder or the interior out and would like to get the wiring harness removed so i can start repairing it.

 

[NCTyphoonKid]

Steering column removed. Been working on getting the harness disconnected and ready for removal. Will probably finish that up tomorrow. Also want to do some more organizing on my parts that I’ve removed just to make my life easier for when this goes back together. Goal for this weekend is to finish up wiring removal and get the rest of the insulation and interior panels removed.

 

[NCTyphoonKid]

Making progress. As everyone can see the firewall is not in the best of shape. Good news is the parts car has a perfect one. Wonder if it would just be easier to drill out the spot welds and use the parts car firewall. As far as the floor the parts car is so so the front is ok but the back is not great. I think it will be easier just to order a whole new pan