john's 74 s&h clone build thread

Regul8r wrote: I like the photo album!

  the devil is in the details! right?

should i be worried? 

what did you do on the trunk floor? is it flat? did you use material/filler in the low spots to make it flat?

got my piece of mirror polished stainless today  a little bending, trimming, and fitting... BLING!!! i'm tired of those "chevelle boys" having all the cool chrome stuff available, so california johnny's got this taken care of!!!



Edited by californiajohnny - 25-March-2015 at 5:47PM

Ha! I thought that myself.

i know, i know!
 i said that when i got the vette...it's not going to be all chromed out, just something nice that i can drive...weeeell one thing led to another...and...
 so then i got the torino, and said i'll paint it nice and not all chromed out ,this time i'll have something that i can drive...well i got into it that far and one thing led to another, then i saw something that just wasn't acceptable...well we'll make that a little bit better...and then it became an obsession! so here we are  (again)

i been working on one more item for the torino (every night this week) it's almost finished...

the car it came off of is in the last row (over by that house with the RV in the top center of the pic) 3 rd car from the left. this is how far i had to walk through swampy wet grass (sink half way to my ankles) 

it doesn't look like that in the pic, and it doesn't look like that much of a slope but that area is about the same as walking on a 3:12 pitched roof!!!

Nice wiper motor cover 

also got the bigger sway bar cleaned up and painted: now just waiting on new energy suspension bigger bar bushings 9.5112R to get here, then install and road test 

joe, the only things left on the list are: (1) get the sway bar on...(2) get the speedo right (just put a 16 tooth gear on the cable...closer but still will need a ratio adapter to get it the rest of the way) then she's DONE!

revised list:
(1) install larger front sway bar   (DONE)
(2) correct speedometer reading (DONE)
(3) billet alternator bracket          (DONE) finally! 9/9/15 ******
(4) larger rear sway bar???          (DONE)


Edited by californiajohnny - 09-September-2015 at 6:00PM

nope that's it! well maybe some nice aluminum heads later??? but that really would be it!!!!

...maybe a stroker kit...


Edited by californiajohnny - 11-April-2015 at 8:04PM

i just wanted to upgrade the front a little for a little less body roll, better cornering! 

still better! but if i was to find a size larger rear bar that would be nice  the rear of my car stays quite level even being raised, i guess boxing the rear lower arms really made a difference! i wouldn't have thought that, but seems to have.

 i just swapped bars, now just waiting for the new urethane bushings from summit in a few days

I love Summit, best guys to deal with. They truly have customer satisfaction in mind, just like llBeans.