My 70 Pro Street Chevelle project

Well it's not a Ford but I thought I would give you guys a look at what I have done to my 1970 SS 468 Chevelle . The car was bad ass when I bought it but I'm making it even better !!! The plan is to build a pump gas car the will run in the 9's on nitrous and win any car show I go to . So far I have taken the car down to just a shell . I am having everything on the car powder coated . The guy that is doing all the work for me in my best friend back home in NJ . I have seen a lot of work done by powder coaters but nothing comes close to the work John does !!! He also polishes aluminum . If anyone is looking to get something done just give him a call and tell him I sent you . His prices are the BEST you will find as well . Here is his web site www.teampowdercoating.com

I will ad pictures as I get more done and as I get more stuff back from powder coating . Here are some pictures of what the car did look like when I bought it just in case some of you didn't see it . Here are a bunch of pictures of what I have already done . I will also list everything that I'm doing .

Thanks Lew

BODY- Everything on the outside will stay the same . The only thing that will look differant is a set of wheelie bars and it will be 3 inches lower . The engine bay will be smoothed with all holes welded up and painted flat black.

INTERIOR- The car is getting new carpet and more cage . I'm also making a custom "factory looking" dash with all AutoMeter Phantom gauges . I am also rewiring the hole car sence it is 40 year old wiring "lol" All the wiring will be hiden and under the dash .

SUSPENSION- I'm powdercoating "EVERYTHING" with the syspension and steering !! I also got 2 inch drop spindles and a disc brake setup . All new polyurethane bushings in the suspension and body . Also new ball joints and tie rod ends .

FUEL SYSTEM- This will be all upgrated to 12an lines and bigger pump to handle a 250 shot of nitrous .

MOTOR- Everything inside the motor is staying the same because its a all forged 468 .It is getting freshend up . The only thing that I'm changing is a bigger roller cam , new carb and a ATI balancer . The motor was all orange and I didn't like it ! The motor will now be silver , extreme chrome powdercoat , chrome and blue pwdercoat .

TRANS- The trans is all staying the same built th400 , 4000 stall , Trans brake

REAR- The rear will be the same with a spool and 4.56 gears .

before pictures




Here are some pictures with everything stripped .





Here are some pictures of the rear after we welded gussets to make everything straight and stronger . The rear will be powdercoated the same as the intake Extreme Chrome

Here are some of the thing I just got back from powdercoating





These are the ladder bars . They are the same color as the valve covers it's just the way that the light is hitting them .



This is my hood latch and bracket .



This is a picture of my overflow tank after John polished it and shot clear over it . The nice thing with it being cleared is you never have to hand polish them again !!! I'm having my wheels and everything the is aluminum done this way !

Here are my 2inch drop spindles and disc brakes . The spindles will be extreme chrome powder and the calipers will be blue like the valve covers .



I made these plates to cover up all the big hole on the fire wall . They will be chromed and should realy look good on the flat black !!




Here are some pictures of the engine bay . I still need to paint instide the fenders and the hole underside of the car . It is turning out REALY good !!

Looks good..............for a chebbie.


Are you leaving the exterior color the same? What did you use to paint the firewall with?

and I thought this was a FORD site Looks good tho

Gonna be REAL nice !!!!

Will you ask you buddy if he can powdercoat bumpers in that chrome stuff like you are using on your rear? Also post a pic of the rear after he does it please. I paid to have my Galaxie bumbers rechromed, and they went to shit within a few years. Thanks !!!

I'd put a 460 in that so fast it would..............what am I saying, it would still be a Chevy on the outside...........I couldn't do that to the poor motor.........

Nice...


Liked your Stang waaay more, though!


(yes, hard to get some love on a Ford site for that - but think of all the crap you'd get if you were to bring a Ford to a Chevy site...they'd slaughter you for it)

Thanks, I'll check him out.

Got the rear back in the car and got some more back from powdercoating

You coulda built one bad bbf for all that....

I've built a TON of Fords and wanted to do something differant . This car will be worth a lot more then any mustang when its done .

Lew

Wow Lew, you don't mess around. I thought your last project was detailed....... When can you drive over and detail my car

Nitro Lew wrote:I've built a TON of Fords and wanted to do something differant . This car will be worth a lot more then any mustang when its done .

Lew

More than any Mustang?? That's a big statement Lew Especially on a ford board

Dont them chebby guys know even ( MERLIN ) cant help them chevys. .. and Arthur is dead too

I never said it wasnt a nice car..which it is quite nice...but im just sick of no matter what ford forum i join lately theres always some chevy pos that pops up and it really pisses me off...and dont we seriously see enuff of this gm crap at every fricking car show, drag race, etc etc... i just get ticked about this stuff dont mind me. lol

and that WAS quite the statement,,,,this chevelle will be worth more than any mustang..lmao

my azz!

looks really nice Lewis. My 1st car was a 70 hevelle. What happened to the 02 GT ?