Just Got Carried Away with the Family Project

[OVRKILL]

C'ya there?

I'm a judge, so I'll be around....critiqueing the 4th gen crowd

The day was spent today cleaning and painting more parts getting ready to lift this thing into its new home.; trans mount stuff, trans lines, crossmember, brackets and new struts.
Thanks to the boys for doing the dirty work.

Hmmmmm.....where have I seen that color before. . Looks pretty good Jim....they stockers?

[BlackBirdDaddy]

The day was spent today cleaning and painting more parts getting ready to lift this thing into its new home.; trans mount stuff, trans lines, crossmember, brackets and new struts.
Thanks to the boys for doing the dirty work.

[BlackBirdDaddy]

This is a great thread! I painted the 305 in my old T/A the same medium blue metallic, looks great!

Thanks. Post some pics of your engine if you have any.

Very nice build you have going there.

Did you find that 3.73 rear on LS1tech? There was 1 in Flint I offered the guy $150 for... He respectfully declined my offer

Yea Mike, I did get this fom a fellow on LS1Tech in Flint. That was about two months ago when I picked it up and I also couldn't get him to budge very much on his price. Although I'm not complaining because it is a nice piece. Thanks.

[BlackBirdDaddy]

Wish you would hurry up already and finish this thing.....geezus, how long does it take to finish a little engine swap?

Btw, you and the fam headed to Camarofest this weekend?

Yea, yea, yea!

We may be headed down that way on Saturday morning if everything goes as planned.
C'ya there?

[c0ncEpT]

Very nice build you have going there.

Did you find that 3.73 rear on LS1tech? There was 1 in Flint I offered the guy $150 for... He respectfully declined my offer

[nascarnate326]

Wish you would hurry up already and finish this thing.....geezus, how long does it take to finish a little engine swap?

Ahh yes, I see what you did there.

[scholtmj]

This is a great thread! I painted the 305 in my old T/A the same medium blue metallic, looks great!

[OVRKILL]

Wish you would hurry up already and finish this thing.....geezus, how long does it take to finish a little engine swap?

Btw, you and the fam headed to Camarofest this weekend?

[bigjon88]

drool

[BlackBirdDaddy]

Nice looks as your making great progress. When you drop the body on the kframe/engine is best to have engine on 4 wheel dolly for movement and adj. 3 people are best for job, one on each side and one to lower the body and watch the front. OBTW we also had engine wire harness installed before we installed engine.

Larry thanks. We must think the same! The orginal 3.8 engine and trans was lowered out of the chassis on a cart and the new powerplant (as seen in previous pictures) is already loaded on that same "home made" cart.

I'm glad you said "3 people" because if you would have said "4 people", I would have to recruit my daughter or wife and they would not be cool with stepping into the "MAN CAVE" garage.

Picked-up another piece of the painted puzzle today.

[98blackbeauty]

Nice looks as your making great progress. When you drop the body on the kframe/engine is best to have engine on 4 wheel dolly for movement and adj. 3 people are best for job, one on each side and one to lower the body and watch the front. OBTW we also had engine wire harness installed before we installed engine.

[BlackBirdDaddy]

.... nice throwback to early Pontiacs

Hey thanks.

Now for a little modern Pontiac - The big brown truck just dropped these off and of course they will need to be modified. I already reworked the fuel rail so the fuel line enters at the rear instead of the side of the fuel rail cover. Then the GTO script will need to be removed, painted and hmmmm?

[birdie2000]

As long as the headers fit well then you shouldn't have a problem. Again, on an LT1, but I've done it several times with a couple different brands of headers. Just take it slow and constantly check for clearance and adjust as necessary.

And beautiful project btw! I love seeing builds like this with attention to detail.

[94_LT1_Z28]

That's awesome! I love the blue on the engine.

.... nice throwback to early Pontiacs

[white97z28]

Wow what an awesome project! Love the pontiac blue on the ls2!!