Project Thread... my regal

[love.those.g's]

Figured it's about time to start a thread on my toy....

The starting point:
'82 Regal
350 Chevy built- mild cam, headers, unknown compression, holley carb, runs good
350 Trans. stall converter, shift kit, external cooler and filter. rubber in all 3 gears!
7.5 rear 3.42 gears posi

Purchased last fall for $2500.
Here is a "before" pic:

 

[love.those.g's]

Threw plates on it and drove it around until the snow flew, then parked it. Didn't do much to it over the winter. Fixed two loose torque converter bolts, one was stripped... that was fun...

The car had like-new 14" tires on steel rims on it and my winter beater S-10 had bald 15" tires on alloy rims. Why leave the good tires on the parked car and the bald ones on the driver? Swapped the rims and tires over thinking the S-10 rims would look stupid on the regal, but the more I looked at the car, the more I liked the S-10 rims on it so they are there to stay now...

Picked up a pair of 235/60/15 BFG Radial TA's for the rear, and will get 215/60/15's for the front next paycheck...

 

[love.those.g's]

Plans:

front tires

tune-up

stereo

loose the holley and replace it with a Q-Jet

new tailpipes (the ones on there now are kinda hacked together out of stock-replacement pipes...)

fix rust, paint car (two tone grey??)

Drive It! A Lot!

 

[Bweavy]

That is actually a pretty rare color combo that you have.

 

[love.those.g's]

That is actually a pretty rare color combo that you have

Interesting. I still don't really like it though...

 

[mr evil]

I like that color combo, however it's your car and it should look the way you like. Have fun with it 8)

 

[Rasheerh]

good start, wish my cutty started with me having posi

 

[love.those.g's]

It's not a bad color combo, I'm just not that into it... I won't have the money for a good paint job for a while, and I don't want to do a crappy paint job, so I will keep this paint for a while...

Swapped in a new set of plugs last night... runs much better.

 

[Phoenyx]

I don't like those colors either. But the more I look at the pic with the S10 wheels, the more it grows on me. It all goes really good together.

And something about those S10 wheels, they seem to look really good on gbodys.

Nice car. 8)

 

[trocutlass63]

That color combo certainly is different but I think two tone grey would look awesome on that car. I've never seen S-10 wheels on a g body but they're actually not bad. Overall it's a real nice car.