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Pictures of my 69 Chevelle Malibu. I had this car since I was 15-ish I am now 33 and decided to do a frame off on her. Prior to the frame off in the 17 or so years I have do alot of things to her, to include two different paint jobs, engine rebuilds, tranny replacements ect.. For the most part I have had every single bolt off this car a few times.
When I got the car it had a 350 four bolt with a 4 barrel Q-Jet and an automatic 350 tranny column shift. Interior had a bench seat, and all the interior was green. Also had P/B, A/C, P/S, Disc in front, 12 bolt posi rear end with 373 gears, tilt steering. For the most part the car was complete and very solid. The car was built in Fremont CA. I bought the car in San Diego county. Recently the car was towed to my new town in Katy TX.
69 Chevelle Maibu as it was prior to the frame off.
The tear down started around Aug 07. First thing I did was to tear the car down to the bare frame. I sent the frame, rear end and all the suspension parts to the powder coaters. This guy did a great job, I can not see any of the old frame even deep inside the rails. I highly recomend him.
Heres the link to precisionpowder
Before
After (with suspension bolted on)
I went from front disc to four wheel disc. Kept the old rear axels but plan to replace after about 1000 miles on the new motor. Figured I would make sure budget allowed complete reassembly first. Also kept the old gears. I added new shocks, seals, differential cover, brake lines, fuel lines, new springs, poly bushings, rear sway bar, boxed arms, emergency cables and new disc conversion.
For the front end I went with all poly bushings, stock control arms, a Moog front rebuild kit, new springs, shocks, and continued the disc conversion kit. Nothing fancy about the disc kit for the most part the parts are near factory specs, I did add 2" dropped spindles. The brake kit came from CPP. Decided to reuse my power steering box, I never noticed anything wrong with it. Again I have to budget for a complete rebuild and then I might circle back with one of the quick ratio boxes. All other stearing componants like the center link are new.
Dec 2007 got my new 383 stroker from Heres the link to Strokermotor To many specs to list but proud of the AFR eliminator heads. You can see the other specs on his web site its the 485 hp 383 turn key. Talk to Rob. Super nice guy very helpful and delivered as promissed (so far) Yet to start the motor. For a transmission I went through OPGI to get a 200R4 which was built by Art Carr who owns California performance transmissions.
Heres the link to CPT
Art is also a great stand up guy. He went the extra mile to make sure my tranny had the correct spedo gear for the gears and tires I was running. I got the 400+ hp rated 200R4.
Well thats the last 3 months or so, I think its moving alog nice considering I can only work on it weekends and have three little ones at home. Actually wife gave birth to the third one 6 weeks ago so that weekend was booked. :-) In the means time I am working on cleaning up some brakets and such. I had a work bench I temp converted to a sand blasting cabinet. Check it out. I made it for $50 in parts and large enough to handle the drive shaft, radiator support ect... Has a light and all.
Some of the recent progress. I added alot of the nick nacks to the motor including the A/C. Think I just need some sending units and the engine will be complete. Today I added the radiator support, radiator, condenser, tranny cooler, and welded up some of the exhaust. Also got the tranning pluming mostly completed.
Picture of the exhaust. Its a 2 1/2 inch exhaust from flowmaster. I added the cutouts for fun. Kit came with the h pipe. All in all it went together pretty smooth. I did the welding with my mig welder and covered the welds up with some spray paint so you can't see my bird droppings. (No it came out ok I am happy with it)
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