1984 monte carlo track car project

Pick this car up for 900$ with a worked 400 sbc and that was about it to the whole car. The trans was taken out the night i bought it and everything stripped. The kid was just trying to get rid of the motor so he threw it in the car. The 400 was running 12.8's in a stock full interior 79 malibu. Which is about the same weight as a monte.

Will be running a 400 sbc with cam work and a 770 holly double pumper, th350 worked with a manual valve body and transgo shift kit stall speed still unknown, ford 9in with 4.11s posi, 26x10xr15 m/t's.




These were the pics of it the day it was picked up.




Ripped out most of the interior and realized we had a rust bucket, going to be cutting out the floor mostly and channeling it and creating my own.



picked up some newer slicks for 100$ have 5 runs on them





Also picked up a 4in fiberglass hood the same day as the slicks for 100$ also, craigslist is awesome

Building a custom dash today with the temp, oil pres, volt, and 5in monster tach with shift light. Will be posting more pictures later

Let me know what y'all think about it so far

I checked the frame a bit when I put it on my lift n saw nothing but I'm redoing it and boxing for the 9in. I'm from jersey

Cutty454 said:

Dugan said:

I checked the frame a bit when I put it on my lift n saw nothing but I'm redoing it and boxing for the 9in. I'm from jersey

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where at in jersey? I live in blackwood nj

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Southampton/Vincentown area, near mt holly/medford

Ripped out 90% of the wiring, gonna rewire the whole car with the basics for racing. Gotta figure out how to get the wiring out of the kick panels on both sides thats all thats left.

How much yall think I can get for the factory wiring harness intact?

Started mocking up the dash for tach and gauges



Different gauge styles I was thinking of doing, but after a vote among friends #4 was chosen or atleast the flip of it








Mocked up the gauges, gotta trim a little around the edges of the plastic behind the dash plate


Next step is to transfer from the posterboard to metal and fabricate. That should be the easiest part of the build, then riveting it to the dash. If you look at the last image, where the check engine light and warning panel usually is im going to setup the shift light behind it and custom make a tinted panel that has shift written into it which can really only be seen when the shift light lights up, thought it was just something stupid and easy that would be pretty cool.

Dash finished just time to install it.

Went through about 5 Hole saws trying to cut the stainless.. **** that sh*t, i ended up calling my uncle after 5 hours of no good on trying to cut circles. He owns a plasma cutter, which is now my new favorite tool which i need to invest in.



Cleaned it up and gave it the etched look and cleaned it up with some 2&2

Sat most of the gauges in to get a feel for it, only missing trans temp gauge





Perfect fit

Final result havent opened trans temp package yet