A 67 in Oz
 

So after many many hours spent reading Kwhizz builds on this site and learning a whole bunch of awesome goodness from them (thanks Ken) I figured I should throw my build up on here as part payment :beers:

This project kind of found me which was nice, a good mate of mine imported it into Australia a couple of years ago for his cousin. Clean Cali car (I've got the sand from the rockers to prove it), genuine SS, fastback, 327, t400, land barge. Unfortunately though there was a slight fire issue last year and it ended up with me a couple of months ago :biggthumpup:

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Thats the night we got it home, looked pretty sad really. Most of the damage was in the engine bay but the dash was pretty well burnt as well. All the plastic from the dash was melted nicely into the scorched carpet but surprisingly the seats are fine, they'll get re-trimmed though im sure.

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Pulling the thing down I could not get over how solid this car is, zero rust in the floor pans throughout, the only bit I can find up until this day is a 1 inch hole in the lower guard.

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Off to the blasters we went and it was finally time to start putting new things on rather than pulling burnt n rusty chowder off.

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While this was happening I ordered the first lot of parts for the rebuild. Steering column bearings, Rag joint, front and rear disk brake conversion, tubular control arms and every bush I could find for the front end.

Then I painted things, I'm definitely no painter but I have to say I'm pretty happy with the end result. Buy good products get good results they reckon.

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Running disk brakes on the yacht was a no brainer for me and if I could improve the handling a little while I was there I thought I may as well. New energy suspension body mounts and sway bar links went in, tubular control arms, steering links are all in and she rolls again at least until i pull the rear apart for the rear disks

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Must be about time to sort out an engine for it now i think, hopefully ill have an update with that soon.

Thanks for reading and I hope the pics work

Cool project. Keep up the good work.

Jason

:biggthumpup:

Way cool so far!

Awsum...........When you are finished,.........you will enjoy every second put into it .........Great Job !!!!

67 Build...
 

Looks great...nice work. :biggthumpup:

Do you have access to a purse like Ken :rolleyes2::hmmm:

-wilma

Good work and welcome to the site A67!Looking forward to update pics!

Thanks a lot guys. I have enjoyed it all so far just need some time away from work to get a bit more done.

Not sure on the wife's purse depth yet, I'll skim it lightly to start n see if she notices :tongue:

Been a bit busy lately which means shed time has been pretty hard to come by. I finally got a bit of a chance today to get the booster and master cylinder out and trial fit it with the rebuild steering column (remembering how all the brackets for the column went together was uhhh interesting). Annddd the instructions in the kit sucked:no:, I had the mounting brackets on n off about 5 times to get the angles for the brake pedal anywhere near lining up.

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Quickly found out I'd need to make a plate and seal for the rather large holes that still exist in the firewall so ill have to go back and pull it all apart once thats done, but hopefully then I can get it all in permanently.

More shed time last weekend meant it was time for the rear disk brake "bolt on" kit :hmmm:... turns out it wasn't as "bolt on" as expected.

Turns out i only had the trim a little corner off the mounting flange on the rear axel housing to get the brackets to fit, i didn't want to trim the bracket as they're already quite thin in that area to clear the housing. Didn't get pics of this part sorry, was too busy being fascinated by how easy it was to pull the Dif apart to get the axels out. Having never played with a Dif before i was surprised just how well it all came apart (and want back together).

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So this weekend I'm hoping to have a look at an LS1 thats for sale locally and a gearbox to suit as well... then i get to wait for my sump and mounts to turn up before i can do to much else... im getting so keen to get it back together now but man there is a heap to do..:3gears:


Cheers guys

Looking good, thanks for the post.

So engine shopping day finally arrived the other day and so did a 5.7 LS with 190,00 kms (120k miles maybe?) on it, looked nice and clean but was already out of the car so no idea how it runs.... guess we'll figure that out later

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A few days later I remembered I had been talking to a guy about his 4L60e that was apparently rebuilt, Shift Kitted and had a decent converter with it. But of course he had no receipts to prove it and was selling it priced as if he did, so i thought id offer him bugger all for it and he took it... great... so we got all the bits back to the shed and then my weekend install came to a crashing halt when I realised I didn't have any bell housing dowel pins :hmmm: ... so I'm stopped and waiting for a 2 dollar part to be shipped from the other side of the country... beers on for the weekend instead I guess :beers:

So I got done what I could which was install the Holley oil pan, and Mr Kwhizz's fancy looking engine mount plates. The engine already had a GM truck sump on it but would have hung too low (below the cross member). So that came off along with the oil pickup aannnddd all the threads around the bolt that holds the pickup.... :frown:... out with the taps n locktite and we got that sorted, as well as modding the Holley oil pickup to fit the windage tray.... and we're done, at least until my dowel pins show up.

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While I was at the shed I took the axels out again n put longer studs in to accommodate the new disks and started looking at the handbrake install... immediately there are problems. Looks like the cable housing that runs from the chassis to the calliper isn't long enough by about an inch. Thinking that its something I stuffed up I pulled it all apart again to check that its all in correctly... looks like it is and the cable is still short so I'll have to figure something out there, its a battle for another day tho.

Now that the tank is out and I was under there I thought I'd have a good look around at the trunk floor... and wow she's solid, could use a clean up so we'll hit it with some deadener before the tank goes back in but I'm pretty stoked with it none the less.

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While I'm on the subject of fuel tanks what have you guys found the best for a in tank pump conversion?? I have looked at the TanksInk kit and while the kit looks great i hear that Walbro pump is loud so I'd have to swap it for a DW pump... or there is converting a GTO pump, but from what i can find if have to get a sump welded in the tank. So basically I'm not sure which way to go with this, given its a bit of a budget build as well.

Cheers guys. :beers: