BUILD THREAD The Mullet Maurader, The Epic of the LS swapped Buick

[olds307 and 403]

Vinyl tops mean, hey rust come hide under here and spread everywhere. People in the Nothern areas should have had the top deleted as an automatic. Remember S-10's used the same bolt pattern and the Extreme came with nice 16" wheels. Trucks are all over the place on the prairies. Most people up here buy trucks to hot rod, not cars, which is just stupid. I find 4x4 trucks a necessary evil to deal with icy and heavy snow covered roads.

 

[Northernregal]

Sorry to see you with the rust problem Duke..there's a couple members and likely more with the same situation. I'm sure you'll get it done up and looking good again before too long.

If you want to give the second frame idea some more thought I've still got access to alot of Gbody stuff out this way. One wrecker around here literally has a pile of Gbody frames.

I got mad last night and started pricing a Schwartz Performance frame compared to what I wanna do. Hahaha

If you want to inquire about a frame price, just in casual conversation next time you happen to be out there let me know. That would be worth a drive to Saskatchewan.

 

[ItsnotaGN]

I got mad last night and started pricing a Schwartz Performance frame compared to what I wanna do. Hahaha

If you want to inquire about a frame price, just in casual conversation next time you happen to be out there let me know. That would be worth a drive to Saskatchewan.

Did you see the Schwartz video with the stock Monte frame? I have a t-top car and can't believe GM didn't add some kind of extra bracing to the frame.

 

[Northernregal]

Did you see the Schwartz video with the stock Monte frame? I have a t-top car and can't believe GM didn't add some kind of extra bracing to the frame.

Dan Howe’s build is why I bought a G body instead of an older classic. That car is amazing.

 

[Rus]

Lol I should just find a frame for next winter and go to town.... probably find a unicorn here before I find another good frame though. Damn Canadian winter

There is a guy in Pennsylvania that has four to five frames pretty much on a regular basis.

 

[Northernregal]

Unfortunately that would be a real long haul to pick up. Us Canadians don’t have the selection you enjoy down south unfortunately. It sucks. What I would give to have a SummitRacing store even an hour away from me.

 

[Northernregal]

So the rust wasn’t that bad. A little bit of upgrading what GM didn’t do right and she will live. Thank god for early nights on night shift. Momma and the kiddos can sleep while I work.

Can anyone recommend a good pic hosting site? Preferably free? Hard to post a good write up if pictures aren’t in a good order.

 

[Canon_Mutant]

I got mad last night and started pricing a Schwartz Performance frame compared to what I wanna do. Hahaha

If you want to inquire about a frame price, just in casual conversation next time you happen to be out there let me know. That would be worth a drive to Saskatchewan.

We’ve all been there. I am lucky that my frame is in great shape so my initial Schwartz consideration didn’t last long. Now that I have to do a partial frame off (really a body off - why do they call it frame off?) to swap all my bushings I even briefly considered it again but am confident I can get mine solid enough with added boxing and bracing for it to perform adequately. Just be nice to have the solid frame withOUT the extra weight. Got the calculation somewhere but think I am losing 220 up front, adding 150 in back and will likely add that 70 lb delta back in bracing and boxing mine so net zero weight improvement. Had I not had my 8.5 blasted, coated, nearly rebuilt with all new hardened internals, drum to disk, plus all of UMI’s nice cute toys scattered on my garage floor to hook it all back up, I might STILL be considering biting the Schwartz bullet?? But fortunate for my bank account, they don’t have an 8.5 10 bolt friendly version.

 

[Northernregal]

We’ve all been there. I am lucky that my frame is in great shape so my initial Schwartz consideration didn’t last long. Now that I have to do a partial frame off (really a body off - why do they call it frame off?) to swap all my bushings I even briefly considered it again but am confident I can get mine solid enough with added boxing and bracing for it to perform adequately. Just be nice to have the solid frame withOUT the extra weight. Got the calculation somewhere but think I am losing 220 up front, adding 150 in back and will likely add that 70 lb delta back in bracing and boxing mine so net zero weight improvement. Had I not had my 8.5 blasted, coated, nearly rebuilt with all new hardened internals, drum to disk, plus all of UMI’s nice cute toys scattered on my garage floor to hook it all back up, I might STILL be considering biting the Schwartz bullet?? But fortunate for my bank account, they don’t have an 8.5 10 bolt friendly version.

The struggle is real. Haha. I happen to have a donor 3rd member and gears for a ford 9”. So the G-machine frame is not much of a stretch. “Much”. I was gonna sell my truck anyway.......

Little update for the thread today. The FedEx man dropped off some holiday cheer. .

 

[565bbchevy]

Dan Howe’s build is why I bought a G body instead of an older classic. That car is amazing.

He was a member on here for a short time when they built the Monte.