[Cmwry8]

Originally Posted by applebutt89

My 65

65 by Jake Boger, on Flickr

Awesome picture!

[Cmwry8]

Rippin' engine out tomorrow. Time to rebuild the trans and engine.

[SparkyGT]

about to start messing with it, a whole stack of parts and some sheetmetal

[Cmwry8]

Awesome man! I oughtta update my progress my car is taken A PART to say the least but what magnaflow are you going with?

[applebutt89]

Interior by Jake Boger, on Flickr

[Evil_Paintball_freek]

This whole thread is just like being at work lol.

That cowl, in all honesty isn't terrible. You should see some of the ones around here, Good ol' Wisconsin cars.

[Cmwry8]

Pulled my Engine / Trans... Doing some cowl repair... Got all my new full length floor pans in... Lot of work still left. I'm thinking of doing a t5 Conversion... Not quite sure yet though.

[Shemp 5]

I said id drop in eventually. Finally got some time. Mostly been working on grinding paint and rust off of the smaller parts, headlight housings etc. Bought a new compressor and a sand blaster(thank god). Took the seats out about a week ago just working on the interior. The floor pans need to be replaced too. Here are some pics.




Watcha guys think?

[Cmwry8]

Looks good man, just cut them pans out... Weld in some new ones she'll look good. I just got done doing that myself. Little bit of work but damn nice to have a good solid floor.

[Shemp 5]

Yeah, it scares me. I feel like if I stamped on the rusty part my foot would go through. We gotta pick up a drill bit for all the spot welds first. What year are you workin on?

[Cmwry8]

Originally Posted by Shemp 5

Yeah, it scares me. I feel like if I stamped on the rusty part my foot would go through. We gotta pick up a drill bit for all the spot welds first. What year are you workin on?

66, It's not too bad... Just leave like a 1 inch overhang to lay the new pans down... Drill holes in the new pans and plug weld along the frame and anywhere else you can really. Then, seam seal it up and she'll be good. To be safe, I also stitch welded the pans together because it amazed me the entire factory floor had 5 plug welds. That's it... So.... It being a unibody I figured why not just stitch what I Can together...

Didn't quite get a picture of my pans cut out... but yeah I just cut em out... Nothing special...

Little cold galvanize just on the fresh welds...


Seam seal on the bottom and undercoat... it'll be hard telling I ever replaced them.

[Shemp 5]

Nice shoes

So did you just straight up saw the pans out?

[Cmwry8]

Originally Posted by Shemp 5

Nice shoes

So did you just straight up saw the pans out?

Yep, Then just did fine cutting with a little air saw.... Just left about a one inch overhang where the new pan met the old floors... Takes a little trimming here and there to get them to fit just right but... It's not that bad.

And, Chucks that's where it's at man!

[SparkyGT]

Originally Posted by Cmwry8

Awesome man! I oughtta update my progress my car is taken A PART to say the least but what magnaflow are you going with?

Stainless Cat-Back System PERFORMANCE EXHAUST part# is 15815, im getting some stainless flanges cut though

Originally Posted by Cmwry8

Pulled my Engine / Trans... Doing some cowl repair... Got all my new full length floor pans in... Lot of work still left. I'm thinking of doing a t5 Conversion... Not quite sure yet though.

Nice progress, whats up with the cowl piece/ 3 piece one? or did ya section it to do the hats/rust?

[SparkyGT]

im also thinking of chopping of those export brace pieces that bolt to firewall and getting the one piece setup

[Cmwry8]

Originally Posted by SparkyGT

im also thinking of chopping of those export brace pieces that bolt to firewall and getting the one piece setup

To repair the lip that goes from the firewall to the cowl, I've welded a piece of angle iron all the way down... So it's nice and study I'm not going to do the one piece but I am going to do a monte carlo bar.

[SparkyGT]

have a straight monte on mine, bought a curved one, but some other billet ones have caught my eye. I always get into trouble with the "Oooh , Shiny" stuff

[Shemp 5]

I'm the same way. Kinda why I have a chrome alternator. And soon to be more chrome shiny stuff

[NinJaaaaaaaaaah]

I swear my dads car is bad luck.

First off we took it to our friends brother to do the upholstery. He had the car for 5 months. He messed up the headliner, one of the front seats, and the lower half of the back seat. So now we've bought/are having to buy new ones.

After the second new headliner gets put it right, we take it to the glass shop. The glass goes in no problem, but they go to put the trim on and everytime they try to snap it down, it just bends. Damn repop trim is too thin..But luckly they are buying the new trim


/end rant

[cougar20th]

shemp: your car apears to be a convertible, make sure to be careful with that seat crossmember. It is different than a coupes & if its made will be expensive.

[Shemp 5]

You sir are correct and thank you.

New sandblaster/box