[Berg]

Well, it is a month later and I didn't sell it. Actually I chased people away from it by telling them everything it needed and everything that was wrong with it-also had a few young punks come look at it and say how they were going to change the "lame ass 14 inch rims" and put some dubs on it and spray paint it some crazy color scheme with racing seats and digital gauges and I decided at that point the car was no longer for sale. I couldn't see this thing get chopped up and made into some ghetto cruiser and then have to look at it from time to time. I know it was also a bad idea but I managed to pick up some more parts for it to help me along. I ended up needing to get an engine for my '99 2500 Suburban (oiling issues) so i now have a Vortec 454 to rebuild for the Chevelle if I ever feel like it. It runs on 87 octane and has provisions for the clutch ball stud already cast into it- just needs to have threads tapped. I already have an adjustable valvetrain and roller rockers along with a Mercruiser cam swap and I have a dual plane aluminum intake manifold with a 750CFM Holley carb that matches up to the Vortec intake ports nicely. I'd say it wouldn't be hard to get 350hp and somewhere around 380 ft-lbs of torque out of it. I did some welding on the drivers side A post to get it stitched up. I think instead of changing them out I'll be patching them. It is going a lot smoother than anticipated and I'll just have to reinstall the molding clips with the screw kit in the catalogs. I doubt i'm going to be able to get away from doing a roof skin but I am going to try to make some patch panels to save it. I've seen people save a lot worse and I feel at this point if I cut the entire skin off the car i will never see it back together while I own it. Patches for now! It is impossible to work on the car where it is and I only had a very small window of making noise to do it. I really need to be able to glue a windshield back into it so I can put the car outside in my own driveway (as much as it sucks to see it outside-it's been out its whole life) and get a fresh coat of primer on it to give it a little protection from the elements.