and here the finished parts in silver...:

 

Wow!

Doin' great! That is a good idea to use fiberglass to fill in the broken parts on your grill.

 

Thats amazing workmanship. Saved yourself some cash and shipping fee's. It's great that you have the talent to do that yourself. Keep the pictures comming

 

Thanks,

its a really shi*tty work but turned out nicely....

Not show car like, but showable...

If you look close to the grilles you can see some minor surface irregularities but i can live with that....

200% better than before and that s what i wanted.

Torsten

 

So today,

havent done much but a bit on the rear axle..... not ready for paint but you can see the famous detroit iron already

Then i get a call that about 5000$ of parts waiting to pick up on the airport Parts i need to start forward and put it back together slowly.....
Tomorrow i will pick them up.
Christmas is a couple of days later i thought?!?!?!?!

The rear axle i dont want to dissasemble till i have the rear disc conversion

Has anybody done a rear disc conversion on a 12bolt O Axle?!?!?!?!
I will keep you guys posted !!!

Thanks,
Torsten

 

Today i picked up my small boxes from the airport....

The first picture shows one of three packages from that size
2nd and 3rd shows my old partyroom which is now a too small storage for my parts

 

here are some parts that were in that packages....

 

and some more parts

Front disc conversion with drilled and slotted rotors, standard height spindles, 9" booster complete conversion lines from front to back ....

Rear Disc conversion with vented rotors....

Front control arms, stock
and UMI performance control arms in the back....

 

and last but not least ....

New Bumpers...

Torsten

 

Santa was good to you this year. Of course you had to bribe him with a little more then a few cookies I bet. $$$$$$$$$$$$

 

Yeah,

That was hard working money.....

But when "he" cames over we baked a really big assortment of cookies last weekend and of course our fireplace is hot all the times and ready to take some martinis in front of it..............

 

So today i got no presents so i had to go back to work

Ive cleaned the rear axle and painted it

Also cleaned the power steering pump and box, primed and painted....

After that i did a little TLC on the Steering box screws and shims...

My first rule on this project was; always use new screws, bolts, nuts, and shims....
But the exception proves the rule...

 

Here the steering pump and steering box....

Torsten

 

Finish

 

Very nice work Torsten. I admire your diligence and skill and am sure your car will turn out beautiful when it is finished. Contact Monzaz about the rear disc conversion, he might be able to give you a lead on how to accomplish it.

 

Thanks a lot, even for your advice!!!

Regards,
Torsten

 

Man, you need to slow down!! I cant keep up with all the pics and progress!!!!!

Looks great, keep it up!

 

Looking great Torsten! What color are you planning on painting it? Are you keeping the interior the same color? How about any suspension or driveline modifications?

 

Thanks big mean and OLD SKL 69,

my plans on paiting the car is either this metallic blue or a very high shiny black.....(maybe ebony black)

Interior will be black, with the new Scat Procar Seats (they look awesome and fit me great ) (the bench seat that came with the car is, i really dont know, never seen such a bench in a cutlass....nothing works, the retainer, the seat falls forwards the ashtrays are missing and youre sitting directly on the old old springs..., so it was a hard decision what i will do, but i did it right, these seats lookin classic and stock, and of course they are safer than the bench

With the drivetrain, ive a built
455 0.040 over with factory muscle camshaft, Performer ALuminium Intake, 750 cfm 4bbl from Summit, Stock pump, stock pan, HEI Ignition, HV Aluminium Water pump with a 3 core Aluminium Radiator with 2 x 12 elec. Fans.... Hope i didnt forget anything
Tranny at first will be the rebuild th 350 with a large tranny cooler

Suspension, yeah ehm :
Front stock arms with eibach 1.3 lowering and a 1 5/16 sway bar
Rear UMI Perf. control arms also with eibach 1.3 lowering and 1" sway bar
And a 4 wheel disc conversion with drilled slotted rotors and stock spindles in the front and vented rotors in the rear...
Yeah i think thats it

Greets Torsten

 

So guys,

a lot of progress today....

i cleaned the front control arm bolts and nuts ....
bolted on the new bump stops...

 

after that ive started to bolt on the new control arms, put the shims back in, and torqued them with the exact numbers that told me my manual...

i put on a bit of grease on the surfaces and bushings from the lower arms for an easier installation and anti squeeking....

 

here we go with the disc conversion...

compressed the springs and hold them in place between frame and lower control arm (CHECK for correct seat!!!!)

Bolted on the new spindles on the lower ball joints and tightened the nuts correctly.
then jacked up the lower arms that the spindle slides in the upper ball joint, bolt the nut correctly and slide the cotter pin in.
Then i could release the pressure from the spring and lowered the car jack.

 

Check this out: Old vs. New Eibach springs looks horrible ha????

and a picture from the correct seat of the cotter pin

 

so, after that it is a simple and easy bolt on...

installed the gasket , dust shield and Bracket and
bolted them together with the steering arms....

 

now the rotors...
greased the inner bearing itself and in the rotor, then tap the seal in (i used a piece of wood, be careful!!!!)

After that the outer bearing, its the same procedure (do not economize on grease!)

 

then install the rotors on the spindles ...
again, be careful when sliding on them...

put on the lock shim??? , spindle nut, tighten it and put the cotter pin in.
then the dust cap, put it full of grease and tap them on carefully....

 

So last but not least (it was late today)

The front shocks (KYB gas a just) bolted on...

 

i am just wondering, what direction of rotor on which side, it looks curios but it is the right direction, they where marked on the rotor with a small L and R.

So thats all progress of today..

Hope you like it!!!

Regards,
Torsten

 

Nice work! Your moving along real fast. You must be taking some vacation time to get all that done so quickly.

 

Yeah, youre right.

I have to come down from 600 extra hours
So i do a "little vacation" on my cutty......

 

Amazing job and great photos. You really have the room in your garage for this project.

 

Thanks Dan,

But remember, you cant have enough room to work

So the progress from Today:

put the calipers on and pre installed the brake lines...

 

hmm, here the pics

 

so after that ive pressed the poly bushings into the rear axle....
The drivers side on the 12 bolt o axle is a bit more tighter to work well, so i have to cut an edge on the shim ive used...

 

ITs time for the rear control arms....
Bolted them on but not tighten yet, slide the axle in and bolted them all together.

Then put the rear springs in and installed the shocks (also KYB gas a just)...
Thats it for this week...
Tomorrow i will relax and indulge my Girlfriend

Regards,
Torsten

 

Looking great. I bet you'll get a lot of people staring at you when your finally driving that around your neighborhood. I'm sure there's not a lot of American Iron cruising around tearing up the streets!

 

Torsten,

Those seats look great. What kind are they?

 

Thanks darrell,
Here are not that much of classic cars (especially muscles)....

The seats are PROCAR BY SCAT , here ´s the link:

http://www.procarbyscat.com/Products_Pro90.asp

Regards,
Torsten

 

Hi guys,

Not much progress today, i just bolted on the front and the rear sway bar.

Then i cleaned the shop a little bit and moved the old parts to the city dump...
here we go....

Torsten

 

Jeeez Torsten, not even freezing temeratures can stop you.
The way it looks we will be driving to the german inspection at the same time in April.

I got the slide hammer today so we can do the diff one of these days. The way it looks we can hit it on Friday if you want.
I know that it is christmas day in the USA but they don´t know that we do all that on the 24th.

This Cutty is going to be an eye catcher when she´s done.