LS power into 1980 Firebird
Thanks nunan,
11-13-2010, 08:08 PM
#102
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You did post that link. Well got the car home, and It looks great without the rust! My wife asked why i did'nt get it painted. I said i need to install everything before paint dont want to scratch it. Good luck!!
11-15-2010, 07:14 PM
#103
My kore3 set up is in, and I got to say this is some pretty good stuff. Took awhile to get them in, damn holiday.
Either way, they are here and I need to get to Home Depot or Lowes and get a drill bit, a tap, and tap oil along with a cut off wheel for the grinder. Next couple days should be fun.
11-18-2010, 08:50 PM
#104
Small update, finally found the damn bit and tap that I needed to modify the spindles for the c5 brake kit. Home Depot didn't have any and neither did the damn auto parts stores, so got them at the Fastenal in the same shopping center where I work at.
Anyways, today I had enough daylight after work to drill and tap the holes on the spindles successfully. I almost fugged up on the last hole that I needed to tap. It started good, at least it seemed, but then it started getting harder to tap, took a look at it and it was going in sideways.
Took it back out turned the spindle around and made sure it was going in straight, luckily the first threads did not mess with the new ones I made, screw went right in. Hopefully tomorrow or Saturday I get time to cut the ears off the spindles and start assembling the brakes, after that I can get the qa1's and brakes on, along with the steering components.
Anyways, today I had enough daylight after work to drill and tap the holes on the spindles successfully. I almost fugged up on the last hole that I needed to tap. It started good, at least it seemed, but then it started getting harder to tap, took a look at it and it was going in sideways.
Took it back out turned the spindle around and made sure it was going in straight, luckily the first threads did not mess with the new ones I made, screw went right in. Hopefully tomorrow or Saturday I get time to cut the ears off the spindles and start assembling the brakes, after that I can get the qa1's and brakes on, along with the steering components.
11-19-2010, 08:05 PM
#105
good deal man. lookin forward to hearin how they fit, as i may do them later on down the road. I finally got all my parts i need to get this bitch started, and hope to have it fire up by early to mid next week
11-20-2010, 10:01 PM
#106
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Well ran the wire's, got the PCM inside (barely). Been working on everyone else car (Got the wife a 87 Mustang), and got a BMW that need alot of work. Going to try, and get on mine next week! Send me some info, on brake upgrades!
11-21-2010, 03:48 AM
#107
11-23-2010, 07:47 PM
#108
Well I finally got some pictures of the spindles being cut and finished up. Tomorrow I might get off early, I'm going to try and get everything on and make sure that it fits correctly. After that, its on to the qa1 coil over cheapies I got, I hope I can get them on myself, if not, I'm going to have a shop do it for me.
11-26-2010, 09:21 PM
#109
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That looks scary to me. I got the car fired today to make sure I had the wiring right, run great, cant tell I got a cam in it. Will try to start getting it road ready.
11-26-2010, 10:54 PM
#111
TECH Fanatic
Just looking at the metal being cut, you know what your doing, I just would be scared to cut a lot on the parts that hold the weight of the car. Let me know how great it works!
11-27-2010, 12:13 AM
#112
Well it will be a while before I actually put them to use. Cutting the spindle has to be done to fit the new calipers, but it has been done numerous times and I haven't heard anything going wrong. Didn't have much time for the car todayas I would have liked, but I went and grabbed some red caliper paint from O'reiley's and had them turn the rotors, cleaned up the calipers and painted them. Need to go back and get some upper ball joints as well, will go back at it tomorrow.
11-27-2010, 01:15 PM
#114
nah, modding the spindle is easy. its super easy if you have a mill, lol but obviously most of us dont.
i'm getting my brake/suspension set up back together too. and i'll have the t/a running this week to check my self modified harness. lookin good zamora
i'm getting my brake/suspension set up back together too. and i'll have the t/a running this week to check my self modified harness. lookin good zamora
11-27-2010, 01:49 PM
#115
I'm heading out to O'reilly's for the upper ball joints in a minute.
11-28-2010, 12:34 PM
#118
Eventually I will get the spc adjustable control arms with the tall ball joints, and their lower a arms as well.Not running yet, I want to get the car really cleaned up underneath or over wher the motor/tranny will be set. That way I wont have to remove them when I want to clean up the rest. Witing on gray por-15 for the firewall.
12-07-2010, 09:25 PM
#119
Worked overtime today on the car, I'm off all week so should be able to make a little more progress. Well, after I went and took care of the registration for the WS6, I started working on theupper ball joints and then the QA1's, those things were a pain in the a$$, mostly the one ring that slips onto the shock, the rest was easy. After that got the spindles with the kore3 hubs bolted on. Took some pica of it as well.
Well, after I went and took care of the registration for the WS6, I started working on theupper ball joints and then the QA1's, those things were a pain in the a$$, mostly the one ring that slips onto the shock, the rest was easy. After that got the spindles with the kore3 hubs bolted on. Took some pica of it as well. 