not-so-sleeper

been workin on this for about a year or so, as far as the motor swap is concerned.

This was actually my first car. My dad was the original owner and he gave it to me when I got my license.

I started modifying it with an FBI lexan window cause it had a camper and no rear window.
Next came a roll pan, tail lights, 4wd sheetmetal, exhaust.. and so on.
and I ended up with this.


had 2 10s behind the bench and that made for back aches.

after rockin the bench with a $110 cover(plan ahead) I decided to switch to buckets which I pulled from a saturn. they fit the front bolt holes. after that I also redid the dash.




I was pretty satisfied with where I was at but the power just wasnt doing it for me, it was a pain just tryin to get on the freeway. I originally looked intp doing a 4.3 v6 but realized that would take the same effort as a v8 so I opted for an LT-1 350 out of a caprice.



Had it in. couldnt fit the tranny, so I decided to go with a 2 inch body lift rather than sacrificing my heater core trying to cut the tunnel.



right now its at a buddies house, with the body off and I'm working on the front suspension. full coilovers. the rear I've already done a 4 link and coilover setup.

hopefully I'll get pics of that soon.
feel free if you have questions

bad ass man! it may just be the pictures but it looks like you have a pretty good amount of rooom. Did you have to cut the firewall any?

i only ran into issues with the trans tunnel. since the lt1 has a front mounted distributor i didnt have the usual problem with the distributor.

any pics from the side with the body lift?

the body is still off. should be equivalent to about a two inch drop

post up some pics of the coilover setup....

Also liking the black dash

thanks.

next time I have access to the camera I'll go snap some pics of the suspension. its a triangulated 4-link from FBI and a QA1 universal coilover kit. I'm wishin now that I would've done a parallel 4 link

I've decided against doing a body lift. Hopefully I dont have to move too much shit around behind the dash.

after not posting in this forever and actually doing work. the frame work is done! got a rolling chassis again. now its onto fuel lines and brake line mods and then I get to hack the front clip and the fire wall on the cab to get the trans to fit and get the motor in easy. I may end up with a full tilt nose. If anybody has done a tilt nose on a toy before let me know. I'm trying to figure out whether I should tilt the bumper with it or what it would take to get the front end around it.