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Re: Slosh Tubz new company project "Square Peg" frame laying 1987 GMC Jimmy
i love those huge caddies but its going to take some work and cash to find new glas for it , from wat i see on the photo's the metal seems ......ok on it for its age and all the trim still seems to be there , to bad about the rearbumper part being rusted through
the wheelcovers in the back will prolly take some searching though those are the first parts that go missing on a wreck right after the hubcaps (you might be able to find those in dessert valley autoparts in arizona or ebay if you know the partnumber i heared those hubcaps are about as expensive as a set of aloy rims (it might be an idea for a wheelmanifacturer to make a 22 inch rim with a machined center thats close to a caddy hubcap btw ) i think they could hide the bolts behind a centercover like on the older machined wheels are you going to go new tech old steel on it like with cloud 9 or go with an original guzzlin caddillac lump and restore it like it was comming out of the factorie? from wat i understood the motors that caddillac made in those days where verry good they made out of a harder metal than the chevies out of that time (higher nickel carbon or chrome content in the metal sumtin like that ?) and there lighter than the chevy bigblocks too , unfortunately there allmost no go faster parts available and hardly any aftermarket dress up stuff there was an article a long time ago in hot rod magazine of a budget dragster that used a caddy bottom end from one year and the heads from another , it raised the compression a little and they mounted some bigger valves to get it to breath a little better , think edelbrock makes a manifold for the old v8 kindah wondering if theres room for a 7.0 LS7 in there or its caddilac escalade counterpart , the weight of the car is enough to warant it , if you use a running truck as a donor and adapt the chevy truck / escalade frame to fit the classic body it would make getting wear out parts like brakepads . balljoints , and steeringlinkage , they prolly have ready made kits for airride suspension on the newer stuff too , and the frame would have good working brakes and an electronic transmission
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i got a job again and having fun at it too idea's for the trucks and the order of things to do are taking shape and get closer to being realized , a few more months and i be able to start building for real i complete 2 of the trucks intoo running fashion one custom and one basicly stock the thirth will be sacrificed for parts |
03-30-2013, 10:46 PM | #1052 |
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Re: Slosh Tubz new company project "Square Peg" frame laying 1987 GMC Jimmy
IIRC... Didn't Richard (Gas Monkey Garage) already purchase "Dolly?"
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i got a job again and having fun at it too idea's for the trucks and the order of things to do are taking shape and get closer to being realized , a few more months and i be able to start building for real i complete 2 of the trucks intoo running fashion one custom and one basicly stock the thirth will be sacrificed for parts |
03-31-2013, 12:48 AM | #1054 |
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Nice save! Lay. It. Out. Smoothies. Black paint so deep you can swim in it. Lipstick red guts. Done.
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awesome save ,those bumpers are huge
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With the progression of trucks I would have sworn an 88-98 would have been your next SEMA project. Slosh Tubz for the Old Body Style.
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Love the Caddy! That's awesome already.
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Love the caddy!
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you only got 6 months to sema..
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I think he was intending for 2014 SEMA
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i know that... i was referring to 2013... for square peg...
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That caddy looks cool Mike!
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LOL...thanks man
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Did a little clean out.... I will start another build thread so I don't clutter this one up !
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Geez! Thats a lot of crap! lol
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there is more dead leaves in that thing than my backyard!
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Re: Slosh Tubz new company project "Square Peg" frame laying 1987 GMC Jimmy
Man--restore that old engine! Love those OEM valve covers!
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3 big trash cans full out of the back floor board !
LOL ! [QUOTE=jkeating1;5984474]Man--restore that old engine! Love those OEM valve covers![/QUOTE it does look cool ! |
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i think he be better off buying a running caddy engine if he wants to go that way, there seems to be a few parts missing and from all the rust i see i bet its seazed up too
it might be an idea to put the old covers on an LS7 as a cover over the ignition and the LS covers not sure if they would cover enough though
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Re: Slosh Tubz new company project "Square Peg" frame laying 1987 GMC Jimmy
Send the chrome to modesto great work and good prices. You are going to need it with all the trim on that beast
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Re: Slosh Tubz new company project "Square Peg" frame laying 1987 GMC Jimmy
Pretty sure that the front fenders & the doors & a lot of the glass & the patch panels on the rear quarters are same as '55 chevy 2-dr HT.
Lotsa parts-sharing went on across GM labels back in those years. |
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