Motor looking good. Had the same problem with one of my pipe plugs.

Went through my old license plates and got the one I had my senior year of high school on my pickup that I had rebuilt from the ground up. Always liked it "MAG 007" so I have decided to put it on the Chevelle. Also found a new 70 sticker I never used so it will be also put on the plate. Should be street legal next week.

Got my engine and transmission installed today.

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Also managed to install the starter, heat shield, and positive battery cable. Got the upper and lower a-arms installed too. It's starting to look like a car again.

I finished up the brakes on the vert today except for bleeding them ,maybe do that tomorrow .

I replaced the turn signal assy, the ignition switch and the key tumbler. Damn tumbler locked up on me at the store and had to pull the power to the distributor to shut it down, figured i should replace everything while i was in there.

Car poor, you HAVE to be excited about that! :D Lookin' good!

I went out to a friend of mine's yard and found a solid axle, brakes, steering, and spring for a C-Cab I'm building. While walking about, I also found a new heater box for the Chevelle!

He has cars saved up from the mid '30's all the way up to mid '70's. He doesn't have any "new" cars. ('80's and up) Talk about a fun place to walk around!

I picked up a correct 70 power steering pump awhile back. Mine is not correct, return line fitting comes out towards driver's side instead of down toward center of car. Cleaned up and painted the 70 pump along with my brackets the other day. Installed the whole mess today, sure looks purdy compared to the mess that was in there.

Just hope that 70 pump works okay, need to buy some new hose clamps and fill the pump before I check it out. If not, guess I can always sit and look at it even if I can't drive it.

Isn't it great to track down a "correct" part? I never used to care, now I rather enjoy it.

I am more stressed than excited to be honest. I keep finding items I have overlooked, and haven't had much time or good weather since Sunday to even touch the car. Today, I rented a spring compressor after work, came home and crashed on the couch for 2.5 hours. I had no intent to sleep, but my body had other plans. Hoping I feel more up to it tomorrow and can get the front coil springs in. I think I'll be more excited when I get it closer to starting for the first time. It has been such a long process, I don't know how people stay motivated on projects that take 5+ years. I started planning and gather parts for this project about two years ago. I pulled the drivetrain out in April of last year. And I am kind of burnt out to be totally honest. :(

I use correct in a different way. A hodge podge mess that was cobbled up is "incorrect, or wrong". If I say something is correct, it looks and functions like it came from the factory like that. The '66 Ford F150 I'm building is anything but stock, but I'm trying to make it look "correct" by making everything appear to have come that way from the factory.

I would have said original, but they are only original once. ;)

Took a cruise today, 40 miles, and new/old power steering pump worked great. My car is not factory original/correct, it's more period correct. It has headers which are not original along with an aluminum intake and Holley carb. The rest I'm trying to make look original or close to original.

So Far this is it.
 

As you can see front end is almost done. I painted the calipers red to resemble the high end stuff with High Temp Ceramic Engine paint and Urethane Activator. Gas shocks by KYB Gas-A-Just, 2" lower spindle and 1" lower front springs. 1" and 1/8th sway bar and 700 P/S Box Variable Ratio, new center link and all tie rods.

If you go to Albums you can see the update.

Here is how you post big pics here. At least this is how I do it.

1.) Go to your profile page (just click on your name)

2.) Start an album

3.) Put all the pics you want into your album/albums

4.) Once you have saved your album, open it up and click on the pic you want to add to a post as a large pic.

5.) Scroll down to the bottom of the page and you will see 2 sets of codes, one says "Picture URL" and the other one says "BB Code". You want the BB Code. Copy the BB Code and just add it into the box where you are writing your message.

6.) I would suggest that you "Preview" your post before you actually post it, just to make sure that it is the pic you want. It is that easy. If you want to post more than one pic in a post, I suggest that you open 2 windows so that you can move back and forth easily between your post and your albums.

7.) If you have any questions please PM me and I will help.

I talked to my trans guy. My car should be home this weekend. Yeah !

Put mine on the dyno today and picked up 5 ft/lbs even after swapping to one of the heaviest and most power hungry autos along with a locked up flex fan. Wish I could have done a direct a-b test to see how much the car picked up but I'll take these results!

Coil springs are in, and it is back on all four wheels. Hung the rest loosely together so I can move it out of the bay. I'll be thrashing on the Monte Carlo all week. Hoping to get it sold before the election.

Drove mine to work on this nice cool morning!

Feels very nice to sit behind the wheel again!

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Love the new instruments you have. Great picture. :banana:

That pic is so cool ,you should blow that up and frame it for your office .Love the gauges too.

The Chevelle is finally street legal as of today.

how did you do it.
 

How did you get a picture on this part of the web page. I can only put them in the album part.
thanks. and by the way great night show of road and dash.

You have to upload the photos to another site (flicker, photobucket, etc.) and then you can copy the image web address and click the little insert image icon above where you type your message (looks like a small yellow square with a mountain looking image.) Then just paste your photo's web address and viola.

See post 933 on here and it tells you how to get a picture from your album on here.

I just went and got some clip nuts and bolts so I can blow in my fenders and possibly rehang the front clip this week end.

I got into the bodywork on the fenders, but I found some uglies under the paint. I decided to fix them off the car, so I only got the metal work done on the passenger side today.

Been trying to tune my new 4L80 for WOT shifts but I keep throwing the stupid alternator belt, or flipping it, nearly every time I get on it hard. Also difficult to do on any roads around here and half expect the local police to be waiting for me at the front of the neighborhood every time I come home... I picked up a late 80s 454 crank pulley with a wide 5 rib alt. belt but could never find the water pump pulley I wanted/need. Anyway, decided to order a Black Mountain Precision 1" cog belt system this evening. From everything I read, this should help with my alternator belt issues.

Now just need to identify why I have what seems like a motor miss at 5k in 1st gear when accelerating at WOT.

Ready to get back to the track and run this thing!

Got an e-mail today that new trans is working great. Now I just have to get her back.

so not paying attention to details when i was putting my motor together when i took the trans out i noticed this
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so i went out today and got some starter bolts and corrected it
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thats all i was able to get done today

Ahhhh, that starter would have clearanced itself

I had the same problem with my first Chevelle. It turns out the alternator pulley was worn out. The belt is supposed to be suspended above the bottom of the groove in the pulley and ride on the tapered part. When the pulley wears out, the belt will fall to the bottom of the groove. It won't matter how much you tighten it, it will slip. I'll bet money if you replace the belt and alternator pulley, you won't have that issue anymore.

As far as the miss goes, check the seat pressure on your valve springs. You may have a bad spring floating when you get up in rpm's. It could also be a pick up coil or ignition module. ...Just some things to check.

LOL i am sure it would of

Thanks!

The Alt. pulley is nearly new, as are the rest of the pulleys. Actually put on a much larger alternator pulley with a deeper groove to try and slow the belt down a little but it is still flying off.

I think I have a solution to the problem on the way though.

What I don't understand about the miss at 5k is that after about .5 seconds the car picks up and pulls all the way to 6200 or so where it shifts. I did replace the module with another I had sitting around and will swap out the coil with a D.U.I. 50k coil later this week just to eliminate those from the equation. I found a few threads with similar issues related to the MSD Pro-Billet HEI distributors and it was often suggested that the modules are not the best. I'll see.... Hopefully nothing too difficult to pin-point.

Well, if the miss comes and goes, it's not the valve springs. I think you have it on the run with the module. Keep us posted in case I come across something like that. :D

Took the chevelle out today for a couple of outings. Car has only 15 miles on it so far.

put a spacer between the carb (Edelbrock) and intake due to it flooding sfter start up and smoking .Its been like this ever since we put the new motor in..

Put in a new Cowl induction flap door and new vent knobs and ordered a heater core that someone took out.

Man, that's a beautiful car.

Drove to Hell and back, Hell, Michigan that is. Yesterday was a beautiful day for a ride. 77 degrees, leaves are starting to change, perfect day for a ride.

Thank you, still working a few bugs out of it but almost there. Goes to the alignment shop next week and should be ready for a nice long drive.

well its been a LONG time since i had time to work on my chevelle. But i finally got the t56 under the car and INSTALLEd very little cutting. about as much as putting in a tko
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