Hacking A Car Up...
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Hacking A Car Up... So I have the opportunity to buy another LT1 car very cheap. VERY CHEAP. Now its a pile of **** though. Lousy interior, faded/damaged paint, squeaks, rattles, the whole works. It is a six speed but its bone stock beside ricer painted interior parts and a muffler. The car is way too far gone to restore. The cost involved are just not worth it. But I don't wanna get wrapped up in two LT1 cars economically speaking. So I figure I can buy this car, not put a dime into it right now, and gut the **** out of it. I'm talking door panels, dash, back seats, passenger seat, carpet, consoles, radio equipment, inner genders, etc. I'm talking ALL THE WAY gutted. I wouldn't be hurting anything because the only things worth a **** on the car are the motor and trans. So has anyone ever done this? Gutted a stock LT1 car completely, stuck some DRs on it, and went to the track? It seems like you could remove 700+ pounds of stuff if you just went karawak on everything. Hole saws, grinders, sawzalls, the works. What kind of times could you be looking at doing this? I'm gonna be ballsy and say that it could hit bottom 13s at least. Maybe not though. Input?
thats not that cheap.. i found mine under 800.. lt1 with bolt ons and a built auto trans and rear.. crap body and nasty interior ran like crap.. (burnt plug wires) and took the good stuff out and sold what i could.. pretty much made my money back to and was able to keep everything good for almost 300$ and put it into my 86 trans am.. still have it.. but now im driving an 06 gto
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Well the asking price is 1200 dollars. But I ain't gonna pay that much. I figure I can get it for 900. Dude needs money for court fees and fines. So he will take what he can get. I just know it'll be under 1300. And at that price I won't feel bad about gutting it and prepping it for a dedicated race car.
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Depends on your area i guess, Id ****** up that for 1300 in a heart beat if it started. I paid $2400 for my 150k a4 hard top 3 years ago. Paint was shot, and had only one rust spot. Ran like a champ tho.
oh man, I'd walk in with 8 crisp $100 bills knowing that....
oh man, I'd walk in with 8 crisp $100 bills knowing that....
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Verdad Gallardo i paid 2000 for mine 7 years ago with two blown headgaskets dented and stratched body....and shitty replacement glass and a busted up interior.........car was a recovered theft car on its way to the grave......feels good to take a good car from death to kick ***....mine would be a coca cola can right now if i didn't grab it............id say go for it!!!
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Interior is the normal gray/black scheme. Except with hundreds of doo-doo stains and dozens of different flavors of kool-aid staining the carpet. The whole dash is cracked. It's total garbage. Prolly the worst I've ever seen in an fbody.
Now I wanna see how bad it really is lol 
Sounds like a fun plan. Sometimes I wish I could find a nice shift boot or something and just get rid of my center console, kind of an old school look.
Eh if the money is burning a hole in your pocket go for it! Let us know what it ends up weighing and running.
Eh if the money is burning a hole in your pocket go for it! Let us know what it ends up weighing and running.
I want to see an LT1 car weigh 2800 lbs with driver..........................DO WORK, lol. This could be sweet. Tint the windows and go street racin. Keep the salad shooters for the stealth effect. Eric L
it could deffinetly be cool. Ive wanted to do the same thing and tuck the wireing harness's somehow, paint the floor with truck bed liner or just spray paint it black. Just so it looks somewhat decent inside and a bunch of wires arent exposed. Just some black wire loom would probably go along way looks wise. Removing door panels never really seemed worth it to me, they are light weight anyways. I think sheet metal door panels would be the best.
Other things to consider, suspension parts...Thats a safety issue lol. Seats for the front on the cheap.
Sounds like it could be a fun project, nothing fancy...purpose built.
The fact its an M6, and the thought of it gutted....Id go more for autocross or road racing then drag racing. Could be VERY fun.
Other things to consider, suspension parts...Thats a safety issue lol. Seats for the front on the cheap.
Sounds like it could be a fun project, nothing fancy...purpose built.
The fact its an M6, and the thought of it gutted....Id go more for autocross or road racing then drag racing. Could be VERY fun.
