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Chad
  
| #1 posted August 30, 2008 at 10:37pm (EST)
edited March 21, 2009 at 8:20pm (EST) |
Project costs to date:
Product..............................Cost
71 Lemans........................$3,200.00
Sound deadener.............$244.00
Carpet.................................$134.00
Trunk mat...........................$45.00
Seats...................................$200.00
Radiator..............................$227.00
Misc......................................$117.00
Engine.................................$1780 + $30 freighting + $476 freighting = $2,286
Holley 650 CFM carb... $110 included rebuild kit and a older style edelbrock performer intake (4 barrel). Will be selling the intake for probably $50ish.
Motor mounts....................$20
Total to date:....................$6,583
Up coming costs: Distributor - will likely go MSD pontiac ready-to-run for $350ish. Comes with coil. Also will need MSD ignition, either a used 6AL-2 or 6 series digital, 100-200 respectively. After that need headers, at which point I will decide if I will run edelbrock aluminum heads (will flow 330 CFM for $2300 from kaufman racing) or stay with my current heads that flow about 210 cfm but for $600 in porting could flow 250cfm or so. Headers will be 200-400 depending on what i get.
Pre-my ownership:
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im a sucker for a pretty face, even when shes got 6 eyes. removing 2 helps.
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look at dat ass
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some might call those dents, I call them beauty marks.
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finding an old a-body with a rust free trunk is like finding a unicorn.
 http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/ogrechad/7... 1024 768{img}
old super ass raggedy ass front seat
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a crappy pic that im showing just cuz.
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ChosenWarrior
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| | #2 posted August 30, 2008 at 10:38pm (EST) |
Is that the one your sending me, cuz i wanted one of the other 62! |
Chad
| | #3 posted August 30, 2008 at 10:39pm (EST) |
stfu noob. |
ChosenWarrior
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| | #4 posted August 30, 2008 at 10:43pm (EST) |
But i want me ma Lemans ho! |
Chad
| | #5 posted August 30, 2008 at 10:44pm (EST) |
once its in my hands:
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eek! rust!!!!
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more rust?!?!?!
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thats more like it, less rust.
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even less rust and getting ready to take out the raggedy ass rear seat
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its getting there
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alllllmost there. unfortunately the last pic of my rust removal, because the next one shows it already painted/sealed.
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well crap, thats an improvement.
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heck yeah!
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ooh la la
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ChosenWarrior
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| | #6 posted August 30, 2008 at 10:48pm (EST) |
Damn, son, you got a built in fan in that dog with no need for seats and a seatbelt hanging from the roof. If that's not hardcore i dont know what the fudge is. |
Chad
| | #7 posted August 30, 2008 at 10:52pm (EST) |
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engine shot boyeeeeeee. yes, its coming out, yes, im going to paint over the green,
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shot of the engine compartment boyeeeeeeee
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fresh carpet! yum!
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thats to show the sound deadener. it will be covered up eventually by a speaker assembly. not going to have rear seats in it.
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super comfy seats from a 98 Buick Regal. Comfy as fudge old man seats.
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you can see the rear seats there. pay no attention to them. they will not be there in the end.
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pointless close up of my driver seat bolted in. grade 8 bolts son. that crap wont break!
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ChosenWarrior
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| | #8 posted August 30, 2008 at 10:54pm (EST) |
Dude, how much did all that cost |
Chad
| | #9 posted August 30, 2008 at 10:56pm (EST) |
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thats like in the movie girl next door when elisha cuthbert asks if you want to fudge her.
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so is that.
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and thats you prematurely ejaculating and fudging everything up and spending 3 weeks to figure out what you did wrong and getting pissed and wanting to kill everyone and wishing that chicken that seduced you would die but secretly wanting to fix it, and then not having a picture of when you do fix it (that was electrical problems and me taking crap apart) |
Chad
| | #10 posted August 30, 2008 at 10:58pm (EST) |
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approximate paint scheme i will go for when done.
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out with the old
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in with the new
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side by side
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ChosenWarrior
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| #11 posted August 30, 2008 at 10:59pm (EST)
edited August 30, 2008 at 10:59pm (EST) |
Wish i knew my way around a car.
What kind of faggy car do you usually drive to work |
Chad
| | #12 posted August 30, 2008 at 11:09pm (EST) |
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that
and project costs in the first post.
in hind site i could have done better if i was more patient.
http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/cto/817258844.h... i would have rather owned that. better year, with 400. i will probably end up spending $3200 or so on the engine itself all said and done (though i could get by on about 1k, but i want max powah) |
ChosenWarrior
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| | #13 posted August 30, 2008 at 11:13pm (EST) |
So besides your time and initial cost of it, youve spent little under a grand, not so bad.
Engine cost is understandable, not a biggie for you since you make abour 4 grand a day
You got him to go for 3200 to save 300 though |
Chad
| | #14 posted August 30, 2008 at 11:27pm (EST) |
the craigslist posting isnt my car, its one i want if i hadnt bought mine. its a 69 with a 400 and th400 transmission. i have a 71 with a 350 and 350th transmission. from the fenders back, the cars are the same minus a couple of lines. but 69s have much sexier grills and compatible with ram air hoods. for mine to be compatible with a ramair hood, i would need the t41 endura package. to buy a front clip, i would need to spend about $500 and then 400 on the hood. it would then look like this in the front 
and with an existing 400/400 combo, i would need to spend about $2k to get to the power I am wanting and would have a numbers matching car.
and the guy i bought from originally was asking 3800, i talked him down to 3200 |
Chad
| | #15 posted August 30, 2008 at 11:30pm (EST) |
and the only days im making 4k is when i kick ass in the stock market and thats only a couple days a year. after taxes and 401k and ira, im only having about 200 take home a day. still decent, but thats not why im mr. moneybags. |
Chad
| | #16 posted August 31, 2008 at 12:17am (EST) |
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/High-Performance-Po...
this auction made me cry. i was outbid by $50 and i suspect the other guy only went to $3500. |
kzn
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| | #17 posted August 31, 2008 at 12:49am (EST) |
You should just take the seating back out and sell it to me.
I need some sound deadener, but I'd have no idea how to install it in.
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Chad
| | #18 posted August 31, 2008 at 1:01am (EST) |
im wanting to make the rear seats into a badass sofa. i dont know if i should use metal or wood for the frame though. |
kzn
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| | #19 posted August 31, 2008 at 1:29am (EST) |
I guess I wasnt being cleared. I meant take the seating out, and sell the car to me (cause you know, I dont need seats).
But use metal, fudge wood.
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Chad
| | #20 posted August 31, 2008 at 1:31am (EST) |
it doesnt have power brakes. you would break your leg trying to stop it. |
Chad
| | #21 posted August 31, 2008 at 12:30pm (EST) |
oh and bones, the sound deadener, you would need to take everything out of your car (seats, carpet, trim, anything below carpets) so youre at bare metal. you then peal off back of paper part of the sound deadener, lay it down and roll it like its wall paper. it sets pretty much instantaneously. do like 1'x1' patches and your good to go! |
LiL_Ramsey
 
| | #22 posted August 31, 2008 at 12:43pm (EST) |
Shocker, it was raining in Washington when you took those pics.
Rock Band forum |
Chad
| | #23 posted August 31, 2008 at 1:05pm (EST) |
not quite, only time it was raining was when i didnt own it and the last owner took the pics. |
kzn
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| #24 posted August 31, 2008 at 1:20pm (EST)
edited August 31, 2008 at 1:31pm (EST) |
Chad wrote:
> oh and bones, the sound deadener, you would need to take everything
> out of your car (seats, carpet, trim, anything below carpets) so youre
> at bare metal. you then peal off back of paper part of the sound
> deadener, lay it down and roll it like its wall paper. it sets pretty
> much instantaneously. do like 1'x1' patches and your good to go!
Yeah, mine doesnt have the huge floor or carpet (which is why I need the soundeadener in the first place), so that's already taken care off. I only need to bust out the doors (and the top?), but that's still more work than I want to do, or possibly handle. Plus I hear you can fudge it up if you dont do it right?
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Chad
| | #25 posted August 31, 2008 at 1:29pm (EST) |
you can fudge up just about anything if you dont do it right. its ridiculously easy for norms to do. |
kzn
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| #26 posted August 31, 2008 at 1:33pm (EST)
edited August 31, 2008 at 1:35pm (EST) |
True, duh! And I really dont know if there are any wiring crap in this one that I can fudge up, I might void the warranty and wont get free service if something goes wrong anymore! Maybe in a few years. Im a pussy.
PS. I just read your 1'x1' part, why didnt I think of that! 
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Chad
| #27 posted August 31, 2008 at 1:40pm (EST)
edited August 31, 2008 at 1:40pm (EST) |
cuz youre stupid? and theres no wiring crap. you lift the wires up and put the deadener beneath it. you can only void warranties on things that you are actually effecting. |
kzn
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| | #28 posted August 31, 2008 at 1:47pm (EST) |
Um...mine is different with all the automatic electric craps, y'know?
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Chad
| | #29 posted August 31, 2008 at 1:49pm (EST) |
you still do the same thing tardo. if you have more wiring you just lift more wiring. you dont cut any crap or anything. |
kzn
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| | #30 posted August 31, 2008 at 1:51pm (EST) |
i'll yonder over it.
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ChosenWarrior
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| | #31 posted August 31, 2008 at 2:47pm (EST) |
You should just supe up your wheelchair with nitrous boosters and spinners and just zoom zoom zoom on doges |
Chad
| | #32 posted October 10, 2008 at 8:06pm (EST) |
My new engine doges. $1780 +shipping... |
Chad
| | #33 posted October 24, 2008 at 8:09pm (EST) |
my engine should be here next week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
invisibleink
| | #34 posted October 29, 2008 at 2:12pm (EST) |
WARNING FOR 56K
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John
 
 
| | #35 posted October 29, 2008 at 2:47pm (EST) |
Doh! Why haven't I seen this thread before?? Stupid Chad. Not telling me and all.
Great looking stuff, Chad! That engine is nice!
Do you know the weight of that sucker? In any case, we were talking about shipping, so I pulled up my old stuff from 2005 when I bought the 396. Engine cost me $1200 total (but it didn't look anywhere near as nice as yours). Plus I paid another $200 for the carb and fuel line from the guy.
In any case, total weight was 590 lbs and I paid $291 to get it from Texas to Michigan. Price was good because he dropped it off right at their freight terminal -- and I had it shipped to a local loading dock here (as I said in the other thread).
- John...
"I'll give you candy; give you diamonds; give you pills...
Give you anything you want... hundred dollar bills..."
- Dramarama |
Chad
| | #36 posted October 29, 2008 at 3:09pm (EST) |
650 pounds but about 50 pounds of that is in the crating. pontiac engines weigh right at 600 pounds +/- 10 pounds.
the heads it has on now (#13) flow about 210-220 CFM. To get them ported to flow 250-260 (about as good as the d-port heads can flow) it would be about $600. Or for $2350 I could get aluminum edelbrock that are based on the ram air IV heads (basically factory racing heads) that flow 280 CFM stock at $2000 or through Kaufman racing flow 310-330 for $2300.
As it is set up right now, with a good ignition and exhaust set up, should be 400 HP give or take. With the e-heads it would be in the high 400s. At least based on what people with similar builds get.
carb i am going to be going fairly cheap with a 600 CFM quadrajet to start. |
Chad
| | #37 posted November 6, 2008 at 5:16pm (EST) |
anyone know crap about headers?
for example, would there be a measurable difference between
http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?autof...
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etc? other than tube diameter and gauge of steel, is it basically all full length headers are basically created equal? |
invisibleink
| | #38 posted November 6, 2008 at 7:55pm (EST) |
REPOAST
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Chad
| | #39 posted November 6, 2008 at 8:09pm (EST) |
LINK TO PROVE IT! |
Noltillian
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| | #40 posted November 6, 2008 at 11:06pm (EST) |
whoa, whoa, whoa... WTF?!!
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