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Re: 66 Buick Skylark - Ruth
Wow, that is some laser straight black paint! Red or Black you can't go wrong on the interior, but red does have a little bad boy to it.
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Re: 66 Buick Skylark - Ruth
I've always been partial to black with tan interior, just my opinion. That is a beautiful paintjob. Whatever color you choose for the inside will compliment well.
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Re: 66 Buick Skylark - Ruth
Strangest thing... For some reason I feel like an LS might be the way to go. ![]()
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Re: 66 Buick Skylark - Ruth
More progress at the LBR shop....
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Re: 66 Buick Skylark - Ruth
Awesome progress Kyle! Love all the upgrades Steve.
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Re: 66 Buick Skylark - Ruth
Kyle sure works fast and that car turned out great...
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Thanks, Mike.
If he didn't have to wait on me to get parts gathered up and make decisions it would probably be done already. ![]() I posted the engine for sale on a Buick board and it's already been installed in a 65 Buick Special. The new owner sent a pic of it's new home. You get to meet some great people in this hobby.
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The past few weeks have been spent figuring out what we needed for the conversion and waiting on stuff to arrive. The LS1 got sent out for a new cam, springs and lifters. Kyle added the new muscle car oil pan. We're using Dirty Dingo adapters, Chevelle SBC stands and mounts.
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Re: 66 Buick Skylark - Ruth
Front Runner set-up is sweet!
You are doing it right with this car. Looking forward to the end results!
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Re: 66 Buick Skylark - Ruth
Hard not to be envious when I look at your builds Steve. Dang that is a saweet setup!
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Re: 66 Buick Skylark - Ruth
very, very nice Steve... Looking forward to seeing it installed.
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I get envious when I see the neat pieces you dream up and make. That's way cool. I love to tinker on these things but my skill levels are not where Kyle's, Mark's, yours and lots of guys on this board. Fortunately I know when to get out of the way, but I wish I could do what you guys do. Quote:
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Re: 66 Buick Skylark - Ruth
Very nice!
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Re: 66 Buick Skylark - Ruth
Well, slight set back. Tie rod and oil pan aren't playing well together. Trying to occupy the same space once the steering wheel gets turned a full revolution.
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Re: 66 Buick Skylark - Ruth
The engine does look great! So what is the plan for fixing the interference?
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Wow, this is turning out nice.
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Re: 66 Buick Skylark - Ruth
It's really coming together nicely Steve (and Kyle). Seeing stuff like this makes me want to tear mine all the way back down and start over. It's sooooo clean.
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In the last few weeks I sold one of my pickups - a really nice BB SWB that I really hated to see leave, but it's going to a great home. To make a long story short, a forum member pm'd me and asked if I would consider selling it, just out of the blue. So Yeller is now in his new home in AZ and getting a full blown resto with tons of NOS pieces. That frees up resources to go ahead and take Ruth up to the next level. Nice how things work out. Here's a pic of the oil pan that I ordered from AutoKraft... ![]() This is a really well built pan, not stamped steel. This has a big advantage over cast pans in that you can 'customize' it for additional clearance, which it turns out still needed to be done to clear the center link and tie rods. ![]() The other advantage is that the kick outs at the deep part of the pan allow oil capacity and better road clearance than the LH8 pan I had tried to use before. But that makes it a much tighter fit when installing the engine/tranny. Just be aware that it does fit great once it's in, but the pan was fighting the cross member and the bellhousing was fighting the trans tunnel all at the same time. Anyway, the engine is back in for good this time and the steering will now go lock to lock with no interference. ![]() After spending last week waiting on parts we are moving back in the right direction again. Got the Griffin radiator this week, along with the shroud and fan. ![]() Went with a single 16" fan rather than two smaller fans as it turns out this will pull more CFM (3650) with less amps.
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Re: 66 Buick Skylark - Ruth
This ride just keeps getting cooler (no pun intended). Keep the updates coming.
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Some updates...
The radiator support and the front of the right inner fender needed a small an=mount of rust repair because of the old battery leakage. The speedometer on the Skylark is a long skinny rectangle which really limits the options for changing over to electronic. Dakota Digital makes a nice setup for the same year Chevelle, but it won't fit Ruth. The smallest you can get most speedometers and tachs is 3-3/8. The height of Ruth's panel is 3-1/4 and I don't want to cut into the dash to rig something up. Trying out some new gauges from Speed Hut. They have some gauges that are 2-5/8 that will fit, but of course the trade-off is that they are going to be harder to read. The neat thing about Speed Hut is they custom make the gauges stylistically - you can pick the face color, font, needle color, ring material, etc. The speedometer is GPS based, so that's much easier than getting the typical feed from the harness to work. The other alternative is to use a different transmission tailhousing which will drive the existing mechanical speedometer and still sends info via ESS to the computer. The tach and any other gauges will still require some head scratching. Ruth just has a gas gauge and idiot lights.
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Re: 66 Buick Skylark - Ruth
You better make sure that all gets back in the box..
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