What Did You Do To Your Chevelle Today

[carpoor]

Spent some time cleaning and painting more parts, great weather for it today!

Finished cleaning the intake manifold and got it painted.



Also sand blasted my M21 and steering shaft.



I used Eastwood's Aluma Blast paint on the trans. I know they were raw aluminum from the factory, but this is a driver and I don't want it to tarnish again.





Doing what I can while I am waiting for the machine shop to finish my cylinder heads. I still have a bit more detailing in the engine bay to complete.

[70SS396]

^^Looks good!

[carpoor]

Thanks, at this rate... it might be done by the end of this year. I won't hold my breath though, been working on it for 15 1/2 months as it is. On the bright side - interior is done, paint mostly done. Car has been in the family since June of 06'.

[carpoor]

I guess their ears were burning after my post yesterday, got a call around noon today from the machine shop...





I'll install them after work tomorrow, and measure for pushrods. Maybe even install the harmonic balancer while I am at it.

[flash]

Those sure do look good. I looked at the Chevelle ,El Camino ,55 Bel Air and Trans Am for about 5 minutes and then had to do some work on the house but hopefully I get to do something fun with the cars tomorrow.

[carpoor]

They are an old set of heads off a D/SA 72' Corvette. (LS5) I am part # restricted by the rules for the Pure Stock Muscle Car Drags. (72' LS5 calls for part # 3999241 cylinder heads)) They are milled to 100cc, from 113cc factory. Multi angle valve job, tulip cut stems on the stainless valves - lighter + more flow, all of the valve springs are set to the same installed height. Doing all we can with stock parts to get this pig to run hard. They have been coated with Glyptol before I got them too, helps the oil return back to the pan. I'll give them a coat of Chevy Orange tomorrow.

NHRA factors the 71' & 72' LS5s @ 390 flywheel HP. I'd like to stick it on an engine dyno to break it in, tune it, and get some real #'s. But, not in the budget right now. I'll settle for chassis dyno #'s when I get it running. If it's between 365-390 @ the crank, it should make around 245-265 RW on a dynojet. TQ will be about 320-345 RW.

[SS Shaun]

putting myself on a mission. this weekend put all my tools away and clean it up nice. get in the chevelle with some boxes and some creates and take everything out of and on the chevelle. once i do that the goal is to get the shifter on correctly so i can get it in N, and put in the z-bar, put in the drive shaftand get the dash harness labeled and cleaned and tested all by march 1st lets see if i can do it

[shadowgray396]

Looking good. Heads look very nice. Looks like a small block steering shaft. You can rebuilt the top half of the shaft if it has not been taken apart for 40 years. I took mine apart and replaced all the old grease that was in it. After 40 years it wasn't grease any more. Here's what mine looked like once I finished it.

[Bowtie-Bri]

Originally Posted by shadowgray396

Looking good. Heads look very nice. Looks like a small block steering shaft. You can rebuilt the top half of the shaft if it has not been taken apart for 40 years. I took mine apart and replaced a the old grease that was in it. After 40 years it wasn't grease any more. Here's what mine looked like once I finished it.

Mine looked just like that after I finished it.

[carpoor]

It's actually a big block shaft, has the splined end rather than being press fit. I guess it's kind of hard to see in the picture.