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I know the feeling. I've been working til 10pm every night this week trying to button up the show truck for a cruise in this weekend.

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So it was my fault the trans burnt up, let’s just say I had an oops moment with the filter when I put the aluminum pan on. Either way it soon won’t matter

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Damn bro, that would make me sick.

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Drives good now, so problem solved

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Don’t shame me as it’s a work in progress. Got the tank and valves mounted, plumbed and wired. Yes the wiring is just laying there looking like crap, but until I mount my amps and valves for the front bags, I’m not going to look it all up and have to redo it. Also torched the bottom coil on my front springs so the car doesn’t look like one of those stupid squatting trucks until I put the new control arms and bags in the front.

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I love the new stance!

-Josh

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And on today’s agenda, windows. Started with the drivers door and be damned if there wasn’t a regulator even in there so I have one of those on order. But moving to the other three, converting the out of date 3 wire motors to OBS truck motors. Have to use to relays to reverse polarity but it all works and the power no longer comes through the switches. And anyone that’s ever wondered how useful a smart TV is in the garage, I mirrored my phone to it and had a great wiring diagram while I stood there

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And today’s update. I’m getting big girl into true daily driver form and then hopefully I can get some paint on her. Upper balljoints were screwed, appears to be physical contact or “clearancing” for the wheels that were on it before. Speaking of screwed, that’s the first time I’ve ever seen this screwy spacer/but retainer. Tried a set of springs and they say it on the bump stops so I had to put the originals back in but with a little cutting.
The real problem is it looks nasty sitting on the bump stops and I have everything to do air ride on the front also.
But I really wanna stay static on the front so I don’t have to ever worry about having no steering if I lose a front bag.

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man that looks good! hows it been driving it around town?

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Pretty well. Been trying to take it instead of the truck. At summit right now waiting on wiring supplies. Installing all new wiring from the inside to the outside for the headlights.

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The two are damn near beggin

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Well the only original wiring for the headlights that is left is the power wire to the dimmer switch and the high beam indicator.

https://youtu.be/vfCI3BwK1RE

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The lights look awesome!

-Josh

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Well look at all those lights, it’s like a scene out of the 70s. So my new used passenger regulator came in this week and wouldn’t you know I found something when I pulled the door panel. The drivers side regulator was laying in the bottom of the door to figure. Well atleast now both the front t regulators are all clean and lubed up. After this I’m going to rebuild some of the window switches so each will work from their own door as well as the drivers door

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So I enjoyed most of my long weekend but had to get some stuff done. Last night I made an amp rack out of an old door panel for the c10 so I could rob the mini clarion amp. Then today I did all the fabbing on my center console. I’ll order some speaker grilles and get it put in when they arrive. I also put two holes in the wood incase I want to add power ports. I’m going to shoot for 5-7 speakers in the car. I’m thinking possibly two 4”s under the dash powered just by the head unit. The 6x9s in the package tray, the 5.25s in the console, and a single 6x9 on the top of the dash will be run by an amp.

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I lied. I went into my parts room before ordering grilles and I found a box with brand new Orion speakers so there ya go

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Well hell. I messed with the stereo a little today and got the sub hooked up, nothing cool to look at. But I got curious tonight, let’s just say if the rest of the car blocks out as flat then I have no choice but to paint it black.

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lol, and the snowball rolls. I say might as well go for it all

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But the blue does look good and I wouldn’t have to take it apart to jamb it out.

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ain't nothing like a murdered out Lincoln though

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Yea but I hate black for a daily driver

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Black is SOOoooo hard to keep clean.

My son's factory color is charcoal frost metallic. Is that what yours was too? It's a real dark blueish color.

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No Huron blue. Almost silver

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Just popped over here after reading about your S15. This car is coming together nicely. Was glad to see the paint come off the door handles since those siamesed handles are such a distinguishing feature. I vote for the blue. Was black the stock color for the top? That blue, with a black top, and your gray wheels? Or yeah. Plus, you sold me on putting a big screen in my garage. So frustrating trying to look at a phone sized screen when you're trying to figure something out.

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I think you may have looked at a picture at the wrong angle, door handles have never been painted. The factory color on the whole car was the blue. And the tv is useful as hell, but also when it’s just me I play videos in the background and just listen

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Well I finally got rid of that heat soaking sheet metal intake. Found me a good deal on an LS2 intake, throttle body, fuel rails, and even good injectors for only $420 to my door.(already had a new vette pedal) Needless to say if you aren’t up to date on pricing that’s stealing, but it did come from the Netherlands so sometimes looking or being patient pays off. Haven’t test drove it because of how late it is since I waited till dark to start. I can say that just free revving it, it sounded like the serpentine belt slipped, that’s how crisp and quick the throttle response is now.
Only part that sucks is I had my harness setup to run the injector connectors to the inside of the rails so the harness doesn’t sit as clean as I’d like but I built the car to drive so whatever

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Y’all get garbage pictures today. But last night idling in the garage it squeaked on me. I knew that sound unfortunately so after letting it run a little while today with it not making a sound I went ahead and made the call.
As you can tell by yesterday’s log it was making good oil pressure.

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Was this just a used engine that had not been gone through? Seems like possibly loose clearances.

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Well fellas check out the sketchy. Hoist wasn’t long enough to get the engine all the way in so I had to turn it sideways and sit it on the frame rails, then slide the arm out way too far to be safe/stable. Now on to the real issue, the most difficult broken exhaust bolts I’ve ever had to fight but I discovered a new technique. Slide a washer over the bolt and weld it all the way around, then weld a nut to that giving a lot more contact area than just a weld in the center of a nut

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Man that's a good idea on the washer!!!

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I seen that washer trick good idea. I got lucky with mine and just a welded nut worked.

sucks about the motor though, you going full rebuild?

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That’s what I normally do but after 15 nuts not sticking with weld in the center I had that moment of genius.
The motor is a core to me, heads are 243s with Ls6 springs and don’t have 500 miles on them. Hoping to sell the engine or the heads. Plus I have an Ls2 intake now I won’t be using that literally got put on a week ago.

The new engine is an LY6, iron block 6.0 with rectangle port 823s and for good measure put an ASA cam in it. Should be healthy this time.

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Well it lives again, I could listen to this thing idle all day long.

https://youtu.be/V6z6YZBuYFw

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I don’t wanna paint my car blue, but damn it makes me like it when it’s wet.

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Back when I had my 61 my plan had always been black with a white top. It was darkish blue (looks to be the same as yours) with white top, the paint was nice when I bought it. The blue grew on me so I never had it painted while I owned it. I feel like if I ever stumbled on to another I feel like I would go with the same blue.

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Oh crap now I feel bad, well 4th gear slipped one night 2 months ago so I parked it until I could get the trans taken to my guy. Long story short while I had it out I mocked up a 6L80 to see how bad it did not fit. Long story short, now the car has a 6speed trans without cutting the floor. It’s a monster now, almost 19 foot long car will hike the front end up on the 1-2 shift. As I was finding pictures I remembered I had to fix and then brace my front 4link mounts, they couldn’t take it.

Sorry if the pictures are in the wrong direction, wasn’t thinking when I took these

And yes that’s a bolt on yoke for double cardan joints

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I have an idea, since there is no way to adapt the Speedo cable to the 6L80E like I did with the 4L60e. Well see what happens

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So kinda updates kinda not. I bailed on making a late model speedo work on the old faceplate when a good deal fell into my lap. I somehow managed to get $1000 worth of Dakota digital gauges and the LS BIM module so it’ll read everything from the ECM, oh yeah got it for $435 to my door.
Well part of why I never went that route from the start was price which obviously isn’t an issue now, the other was looks. I prefer how the original gauges are black up top and silver below. Dakota only sells black or silver so I did a little custom work with vinyl. I’d prefer the top be black but it’s $385 from Dakota just for that so this will be good enough to keep me happy.

Next on the list I ordered an air damn for an OBS truck which came in tonight. Mock up went how I hoped, going to order a couple of 3/4” aluminum spacers so I can bolt it to a factory plate just behind the bumper.

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gauges look nice!

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So if I keep up with the way I do things, with the GM power plant and now Cadillac seats. I guess I won’t be too upset when someone asks if the car is a Cadillac.