young olds

moved my lower radiator mounts and kinda mounted the radiator.
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i finished up a mount to take the place of a power steering pump, wanted drivers side alternator.
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young olds

I Worked oN my dash tonight, it was hacked for a radio. Still going to use a new style radio but I'm cleaning it up so it actually looks good. I'm running 6.5 components in front. Speakers in the kick panels and tweeters in the dash, where the factory speaker goes. So far I've got the tweeters mouned and I started working on where the radio goeS
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young olds

im not done but a bit further with the dash. added two usb chargers to the filler plate i made.
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TripDeuces

Is that power steering bracket going to clear the steering box?
I salute your industriousness.

young olds

i never thought about that but the power steering pump takes up more room in that area, i dropped the engine in without any problem.

young olds

t56 is almost in, modded crossmember to fitjust need to cut more floor out.

young olds

i ended up opening the engine today, and im glad i did.
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i could almost take the chain off

young olds

maw hit me on the engine. pulled intake and valve covers as well, put in a cam ive had laying around. ordered new chain and lifters and looking for holley street dominator intake

cherokeepeople

ah you are gonna want to pull that motor out and drop the pan.that cam timing gear should have a plastic coating on the teeth.it is now all in the pan ready to plug the pickup screen.

young olds

I guess you can't tell but engine is not in a vehicle. Already going to take the pan off, for multiple reasons

young olds

no pics but i installed a true roller and degreed it to make sure everything was right. installed it straight up but thats 4 degrees advanced on a comp cam.

nonhog

After seeing the time frame on the cl ad. I didn't bother contacting them.
I knew it was already accounted for, or at least put me too far back on the waiting list. LOL
Good for you!

young olds

the add for this car? im surprised i got it these things go so fast. thanks

young olds

I got my intake today, from a member in here but I forget his name. Very clean intake, did some test fitting.
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The intake is taller than I expected, with a one inch spacer idk if I'll fit under the hood

young olds

i got my valve train done today, bolted on the intake. hope to break in the cam this weekend.
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RonFX

Hey:
I can almost assure you the hood won't close, I found out the hard way in the 80's. I put a Torker Manifold on my Big Block when we did a major overhaul on my 66 Cutlass, we were headed to the Car Craft Street Machine Nationals in Illinois first of the week. The Cutlass had a brand new shiny paint and new engine rebuild as well, everything was fine till we installed and tried to close the hood. It was ALL BAD, wound up cutting a hole for clearance and putting a Butt Ugly small hood scoop on the car. Hope you have better results.
Thanks, Ron

young olds

i have a small block so im hoping for the best but i dont need the spacer if it wont work.

young olds

I got my wires ran and hooked up for a rear mount battery. Not mounted yet but going to mount a box in the right rear most I can. Got the engine broke in the other day as well, sounds good

young olds

video of it idling
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oldcutlass

Smooth, sounds great.

RAMBOW

Nice work! Sounds good!

therobski

It sound good. Nice work.

young olds

I finished mounting the crossmember, drilling new holes to work with t56. All I need is a driveshaft to test drive it, hopefully I will this weekend. A lot more goes on then what I post and the updates will likely be even lesser. I had my first baby yesterday, brought her home today. Ora Lucia

oldcutlass

Congrats, those wheels come in handy I see.

young olds

Oh and thanks for the comments on the vid

young olds

Yeah, that's one of the rear wheels for the 62 drag car. I only got two pictures before she started getting mad. And thank you

young olds

i finished my exhaust, was running out of the manifold now i have full exhaust. bought an x pipe kit from summit an already had the tail pipes on the car so he rest was easy to fab up.
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nonhog

Great baby pic! Good for you!

young olds

I put together a 4.11 posi, not bolted back together but hopefully in the next few day I can test it out. Never had a car with gears and a posi before so I'm excited.

young olds

got her all buttoned up and in a drivable condition, this will probably be one of my last updates for a while. i had a jacked up control arm in the back so i modded mine, i think it'll be stronger than a boxed arm and it was free to do.
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drove it a a bit and stopped to put some gas in her.
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oldcutlass

Awesome, great work.

nonhog

Not sure why but this car sure looks good with the post. Some A-bodies don't.


Keep up the good work!

RAMBOW

Nice work!!

Still bummed out its not mine!

young olds

are you still interested?

RAMBOW

Go ahead and send me a pm with what you would be looking for..
I'm interested, but likely its beyond my meager budget now that you've gotten it running & driving.

I really needed to snag it like you did, as a non-running, engine-less project. If I'd only sold my 66 a day quicker, it'd be me posting up pics of getting it on the road

I've got my eye on a 64 cutlass hardtop thats been sitting for a year or so on a back road near me. I've already tracked down the property owners contact info, probably going to make some calls in another month or so and see if it can be had for a reasonable amount, and find out its condition up close.

young olds

been taking it slow but i am still working on the car when i have time. i put a new carpet in and got new, junkyard seats. first engine died so i replaced it with another 350 but got lucky and found one that had already been rebuilt with .030 over pistons and i mad sure this one had decent compression, feels way better than the old one. i took the short tires off and got a more appropriately sized tires, looks way better and now im considering lowering it. i also converted to h4 bulbs for headlights and i got lenses with halo rings. she needs a lot more work but she's shaping up.


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young olds

i also got this 4 wheel disk brake kit for $160! looks like everything is there but curious if im going to need anything else to make it work? i have 4 wheel drum brakes currently
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oldcutlass

Looking good

Magna86

Nice score on brake kit! How was the install of headlights? Any pics? Which kit did you get?

young olds

i ordered them from octane lighting on amazon, the bulbs that came with them were cheapo no name so i put sylvania bulbs in, the little notches that locate the bulbs rotationally were wrong so the outer bulbs i had to file two of and the inner ones i had to file off one. when i ordered i did make sure i got some with glass lens, and i figured the halos would look cool.