**Update** on Big Red

[patmckinneyracing]

After much debating, I decided to put my money towards fixing the malibu since I already have a lot of money invested, it would be a waste to let it sit. Plus I lost a close friend of mine recently and I've been buying up most of his mopar parts that are going to go towards restoring the Roadrunner. To fix the floors, I found a donor floor out of an 84' cutlass supreme. Thats the good thing about down south is that steel stays clean. On top of repairing the floors from the catastrophic failure of the driveshaft, I've already got a 700r4 to replace the TH350 trans that has a busted bellhousing now. Bought the geometry corrector for the eddy carb as well.

The engine is gonna come out here within the next few months so I can go through it and make sure everything is good to go. I'm also upgrading the rockers to a set of stamped steel 1.6 ratios to give the benefits of a larger cam without doing a cam swap. So it'll take my .442/.465 summit cam and give it a .471/.496 lift. I've also bought a set of energy suspension body mount bushing set as that is the only part of the suspension I have not replaced and am hoping that I'll notice the difference. Along with that, I'm also going to box up the rear lower control arms.

I figured well the car is already getting new floors, trans, rebuilt engine, and body mounts, so I decided to buy a set of roof rail seals (mine are rotted) and get some new window felts which have been gone for a decade now since they rotted out as well. I've also got a buddy who is selling me the front ss spoiler form an el camino for 50$.

Here are some pics of the progress along with pics of the interior cause I've had a lot of people asking:

Before shot of floor destruction:

Donor floors:

The 700r4:

 

[JBreu]

Nice progress...........Love the interior.I just dropped my Baby off at the transmission Shop on Sat. for the 700r4 install and 4:56 gears.....If I knew how to add photos to this I would. I keep trying to upload my photos and the site tells me the image is to big???? I got a basic digital camera so who knows......That's why I have no photos with my sig

 

[patmckinneyracing]

Try using photobucket.com. That's what I used and then you just take the direct link and paste it here. Never had a problem so far. Good luck with the 4.56's, I think Im gonna stick with my 3.73's.

 

[khan0165]

Nice progress...........Love the interior.I just dropped my Baby off at the transmission Shop on Sat. for the 700r4 install and 4:56 gears.....If I knew how to add photos to this I would. I keep trying to upload my photos and the site tells me the image is to big???? I got a basic digital camera so who knows......That's why I have no photos with my sig

hey JBreu,
normal digi-cameras these days take HUGE pictures. So you may need to go into MS paint and shrink all of them.

But the easiest thing you can do is go to a photo hosting site like Photobucket.com and upload your photos there. That site takes them any way they come, and it's all free... Then you just need to add the web, or url, or img link of the photo from that site to your thread post on this site. It seems like a long process, but it ends up quicker than trying to upload to this forum.

 

[beermonkey9417]

lookin nice. oh and on the pics, i use myspace as the photo sizer. thats why all my pics are the same size.

 

[Jg85350Regal]

Good call on not letting that sit, you would of been kicking yourself two or three years later like I am now when the car needs three times as much work. Thats a really sweet malibu by the way.