64 daily driver project in NC

[TJ's Chevy]

Much better.

[Ryguy442]

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope Santa brought you everything on your parts list!

Ryan

[Ryguy442]

Ok got my tail lights swapped out for the 39 ford's. Yes I know ford parts on a Chevy... But they where in my budget (free). They cleaned up the rear of the truck pretty good. Pretty easy job, I also threw an old tail gate on for now. Spent most of today working on my buddies chopper

[Ryguy442]

Did some work last weekend, had two buddies come over and give me a hand. Found a guy in town with some lowering springs for sale. Not sure on the drop but I'm still going to have to get some spindles for the front to bring it down just alittle more. I also changed the wheels out the old one would've been too wide to lower it without hitting the rear fenders. What us guys think?

[rusty76]

Truck looks to be in pretty decent shape.

[Monte's62]

Man I usually like chrome wheels, but on your truck with the gray, I like the black wheels. I think your tires and wheels are the right size but for me I would want to tuck them inside the fender more.

[Ryguy442]

Originally Posted by rusty76

Truck looks to be in pretty decent shape.

Thanks yeah part f a reason of why I bought it was it was pretty solid, someone did do some patches on it but it was minimal it still have all the original floors. Bottom of the doors are showing some spots where there is rust, I'll have to fix that. I do metal work on old cars for a living, so it's no big deal to fix that.

[Ryguy442]

Originally Posted by Monte's62

Man I usually like chrome wheels, but on your truck with the gray, I like the black wheels. I think your tires and wheels are the right size but for me I would want to tuck them inside the fender more.

Thanks! I'll be changing that gray that on it now for a darker "gun metal" color in a satin finish. I think the black will really work well with that. I'm not a big chrome fan.. Also the rims in the back where 15x10s with a 295/60 tire and I knew those won't work with that off set. So I bought some 15x8s and put 275/60s. I figured that would give me plenty of room to tuck them in alittle. Turned out is still had to cut and fold the edge of the rear fender and they still barely clear. But my plans later will be using a explorer 8.8 rearend which is more narrow so that will bring them back in. Not to mention posi,3.73, and disc brakes. I can't wait to get the spindles and get the front alittle lower.

Ryan

[Ryguy442]

Hey been a long time since I updated on here, have really been working on the truck a lot, been driving the crap out of it. But I ended up have an issues out of the motor it kept kicking not a rocker out sideways and bending the push rod. Found there was a notch wore into the rocker stud that was causing it. Went to pull the stud to replace it when the head cracked around the bossing where the stud comes out. So it was time to do some top end work.

So bought a set of heads, brought them to the machine shop. Had screw in studs and guide plates, and had them check everything out. The two guys I work with helped me out and we replaced the heads, while we were in there I went with roller rockers. And changed the headers to a-body style headers. And of course I had to change a bunch of other things while I was in there to make everything work together.... Taking the top end off gave me a good change to see what this motor had in it, so it is a .30 350 with flat tops, something around a .520 lift cam. The heads that came off were 2.02 valve heads. Seems like a well built motor.


Since I was running a body headers they dump out right into the transmission crossmember so I ended up making a new one out of the scrap laying around. I also threw in another turbo 350 I bought off a friend that was just in better shape then the old one. We also put a shift/reprogramming kit in there with it.

Here's the new transmission crossmember


Well that's it for now. I think next will be re-wiring the whole truck. It needs it badly. And finding another frame for it, this truck took a good hit at one time and the frame is bent.... But it still drives fine just wanna replace it sometime.

[Smooth68]

Nice work...keep the updates coming.

[rusty76]

Cool mount. Looks solid.