59 camaro

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sick ride, one day ill be doing a swap on a 59 cadillac coupe d ville

sprech

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sprech

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Picked up a 1961 Series 62 Coupe. Has been sitting for about five years. Last time it ran, it blew smoke pretty bad. I'm going to try and start it up tomorrow. L96 with 6L90E w/2k on it is on the way. May be a while until I actually get to the swap with everything that is going on.



'61 Cadillac Series 62

For the helluvit, I dumped a little gas in the carb, turned it over and it fired.

Ls1.63cad

Got the disc brakes done just need to finish plumbing master cylinder

sprech

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What set up did you use to convert to disc?

Do you have any advice on this swap? Things you ran up against or that you would have done differently?

Ls1.63cad

I used the classic performance products kit it will let me keep the stock wheels so I can run the white walls and caps. The space for the exhaust header on driver side is super tight with the steering box and took some work to build a header and the engine mounts hade to be built other then that It was all the same swap stuff with most cars

Ls1.63cad

The wheel and tire

sprech

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Nice! I am really leaning towards a good set of white walls on steel wheels or maybe something aftermarket, not sure if white walls would go with a set of torq-thrusts or not, but I'm keeping my options open. Not really a fan of the 20's it currently has.

Ls1.63cad

The trans tunnel did get cut for the 400 and shifter the battery moved to drivers side odyssey dry cell I built the exhaust to be off ground when car is laid out a lil work getting it out and around X frame a lot of mandrel bends made it nice and tight

sprech

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You said the muscle car pan, which I believe is the LH8 sits about 3/4" above the crossmember, correct? I think I'll take the LH8 I got from BRP and use it on the Cadillac instead of the Bird, and get an autokraft pan for it instead.

sprech

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I do love these hubcaps, I wonder if anyone is making an aluminum wheel with this design. I figure it would be pretty pricey to have one offs made.

Ls1.63cad

Colorado customs made some for this 60 I called they said would be 1700 a wheel. The caps I'm running are 62 caps 61 look the same but have the big crest

sprech

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Holy moly, that's a lot of $$$

Sub-par

I want to do a 77 or so square headlight D-body coupe with a twin turbo 6.0... On Daytons. Wide Daytons, I'm talking a 17x11 with a 335 series tire.

Great builds guys. Once my money tree grows up...

TEDSgrad

If anyone's interested....My elderly father is not going to finish his '65 Eldorado convertible build - 2,150 produced. All original except block (threw a rod). My father is the second owner and has owned it since '75.
http://1drv.ms/1jmcNF3
$5k takes it.

Jason454

Awesome car. But what does a fake Cadillac look like?

sprech

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Among other things, I believe they were called Catera's and Cimmaron's.

Ls1.63cad

Real as in all Cadillac parts as in the engine trans rear end are all cadillac and don't share with any other car

autocomman

Wrong wheel drive caddys

59belair

Some wrong wheel drive Caddys were good for something. heart donors for example. but you do have to correct a few things that Cad had all screwed up and bass ackwards first



I do love those older Caddys also. ya gotta love anything with fins. nice work LS1.63Cad :thumbs: