The Jalopy Journal
If this weekends work had a title it would be "A little progress and a lot of cursing". It started off great with several of my buddy's showing up...
On Sunday my friend Randy was kind enough to come over for the day and help me hook the trans up to the engine and hoist into the car. This...
Progress for this weekend included a dreaded degrease of the cross member and front frame as well as assembly of new cherry picker on Saturday....
Probably should not have spent half the day at a car show. It took way longer than planned but with plenty of help from my buddy Randy (pictured...
I'm pretty happy with the progress made the last couple weeks. No actual work done on the car BUT, I found a 6l80e transmission with 80 miles on...
I have been trying to figure out the best way to get all my wires as well as bag lines into the frame. I will look into that flexible conduit. Thanks!
Please don't use this thread to waste space about arguments and opinions of engine preference. I started it to simply document my own build and...
I've spent my whole life wrenching on old motors in unplesant conditions for myself or friends, and in my opinion it's worth it, because nothing...
Yup that's me... And yes welding from the floor sucks but I was just happy to be indoors!
Looking to sell my 331 well running engine and trans, (approx 65k miles). Description on page one of this thread. Just picked up this 6.2 Escalade...
Didn't get to enclosing the trunk or the front bags but here is a pic of the progress: [IMG]
In case your wondering what is going on in this picture, I temporarily hooked up all the electric 1/2" valves directly to the bags and after...
Suspension done! Now onto the bags... [IMG]
I cut those to size and removed the bags so I could weld tabs into place. [IMG]
Next I installed the bags so that I could get the measurements for the uppers. [IMG]
I then had to cut away the floor for the axle to clear. [IMG]
Believe it or not, the above work took about 6 hours to get to this next step. I finally got the lowers in place! [IMG]
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