Captain's Build Thread (56k? how cute)

[tuned4trash666]

Itll be my first body work attempt but i think i can do it. im a drywall taper and finisher. same concept tape it, apply compound(mud) in small coats and sand in between coats till it smooth as glass. your help is much appreciated, thanx man ill keep you posted how it turns out for me.

[urcaptnspeaking]

oh yeah shouldnt be a problem. same concept. my interests are widely ranged so (knowing drywall) yes it is the same basically.

[tuned4trash666]

dammit raining all day today. so much for tryin my hand at bodywork today. maybe next weekend. never have enough time in the day.

[urcaptnspeaking]

its done nothing but rain here for a while as well.. I want to go out and get this thing finished up... but not yet i guess.

[urcaptnspeaking]

So yeah things are finally dried up a bit. So there should be an update tomorrow : )

[tfreker]

good job fixing the rust

[urcaptnspeaking]

thanks. That update... had to be a little postponed, due to me having to go out of town last minute , BUT tomorr Im buying my HLVP gun and and gonna shoot some paint on it if the weather holds out. Keep close : ) and there should be tons of pics.. myspace angles all up in the hizzy

[tramp_drift240]

not sure where this thread is, but im gonna bump it anyway.

you in charleston yet? i still dont know anyone here after maybe 8 months of living here.

plus, you could check out my wrecked coupe and all my parts, and depending on when, you could check out the next coupe im gonna be putting all my stuff on.

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! you should help me on some body stuff ^__^

[urcaptnspeaking]

hey man. Not in charleston just yet BUT i have to move there in like 2 weeks cuz my girlfriend just got a job at wells fargo. heres where im at on my car: I started to pain it my compressor messed up and now wont hold air well.. (dont know) and it wont restart the pump when its getting low so it messed up while painting and I had to sand what I did off. But thats ok cuz I didnt like the color that was going on (Silver)

I will definately help you will body work though. When I get down there Ill let you know whats up.

[sloweighty]

if you are still wonder where that wire goes, then look under your throttle body and you will see this plug for it, so let me know if i am wrong

[urcaptnspeaking]

i mean its not that it REALLY matters as that motor is coming out as soon as I get my RB20... yes RB20 hah... No hatin'. I dont want to build it too much I just want to push around 225-250 rear wheel horse...cuz I have a trans am Im starting on after this. And that motor will be pushing around 325 rear wheel horse and over 400 lbs of torque (the motor stock is 220 horse and 320 lbs of torque)

[tramp_drift240]

trans am? i approve as long as you dont sell the 240 or something, because that'd be very lame.

yeah man, lemmie know whats up when you get into charleston.

HOPEFULLY, within the next few weeks i should be rebuilding my motor (again) and swapping it into a new body, swapping over all my aftermarket suspension, all of my interior, etc.

cant wait til your cars all nice and rb'd, and mines all nice and kat'd and noice. we can go roll up 240-steez and be all super cool and stuff.

[urcaptnspeaking]

no sir. 240 is going to be my daily driver and the Trans Am will be just for fun. Im getting ready to upload some pictures here in a minute.

[urcaptnspeaking]

So here are some new pics of the car.

The body line is filled and smooth a lot better than it looks in the pic..



Remember The non existant rocker ??



I even had to shape the inside of it that wasnt there, and how the outside flowed with the body..



This is the color that went on the car that I didnt care for.. it looks better in the pics than what it does in person.



NOW FOR SOME GOODIES

This is my next project:1978 Trans Am 400 auto. If any of you all saw my introduction thread then you saw the other my dad has (this one is mine)



You can see door damage(I have a new door) and rust.. mostly on the surface



The motor is in need of a lot of love.. it will BARELY move on its own power.

So instead this is the motor thats going in it (the motor out of dads car). Dont worry it isnt the original motor in his car either.. that original one is sitting in the garage and is getting rebuilt to keep that car numbers matching.. which is something Im not too concerned with that. The motor Im getting (currently in dads car) is out of a 69 Gto with 6x heads that had the bottom end rebuilt and an Edlebrock Torquer intake. Before I put it in Im going to cam it and do a few little things to it to give it some more pep.



And here is the SSEI running on 12lbs of boost about 260 whp that my mom wrecked. It still runs awesome.. just ... as you can see it bent the control arms destroyed the doors, and buckled the piller between the front and rear doors on this side. could be fixed but instead Im selling it.Any Buyers? $500



So there you go .. theres some pics for you to chew on for now until I get can some white paint and fix the compressor. Enjoy!

[soulflyfn69]

my dad had a 78 trans am with a 400 in it, his was in like mint condition, I have a 1968 GTO right now with a 400, 2 4 barrel carbs,ram air 3, bored out, racing cam, etc. my dad did a whole lot of stuff to the engine throughout the 90s

Nissan and Pontiac FTW

[urcaptnspeaking]

Oh yeah man. But if its a Ram Air 3 and you replaced the cam... its no longer a Ram Air 3 ... right? I thought that was just the cam. If im wrong please tell me.. i know trans am's like the back of my hand, not Gto's though. All I know Is the ram air 3 and 4 are pretty powerful motors out of the box

[soulflyfn69]

The engine is a 6.6L 400cid frankensteiner out of his old grand am it has the ram air 3 hood and headers. The engine is bored .30 over. He bought the car wrecked with no engine or transmission for 150 bucks, his friend tied it with a chain to the back of his 69 camaro and towed it while my dad steered. Lol He bought it when he was 18 he's 46 now. About two years ago he gave it to me. He dropped a whole lot of money into it though. The trans am they sold, it was a shame that car was sweet.

here's some pics of the GTO







it needs a cleaning it's been sitting around for awhile
Modified by soulflyfn69 at 10:00 PM 6/5/2008

[urcaptnspeaking]

yeah I have the same motor. Not ram air 3 but the 6.6 400 in both cars. The one Im putting in is just going to get a decent sized cam and maybe a few other things. My buddy can get all the surfaces decked and planed for like 100 bucks. so i may do that.
Modified by urcaptnspeaking at 8:20 AM 6/6/2008

[Uberck]

i like what your doing looks good so far2nd to last pic of the 240 body, door and qp, maybe unbolt the door and lift it up a bit to align the body line

[urcaptnspeaking]

yeah I may do that. I never realyl payed any attention to that to be honest.

[Uberck]

yea might as well get all the little things out of the way before paint because after it will be a *****, i remember i had to do that with a painted fender man it was hell

[Uberck]

you planning on spraying it in the garage or taking to a shop?

[urcaptnspeaking]

haha yeah i figure. I know for a fact one fender is going to be a ***** to get lined up.. it was bent when i bought it and I didnt feel like sending it back since i got it real cheap anyways.

Im going to spray it either here under a make shift booth, or at my buddies house who has an incredible garage.

[Uberck]

haha thats what junk yards are for

[Uberck]

Im going to spray it either here under a make shift booth, or at my buddies house who has an incredible garage.

good deal, always nice to have a nice closed space to paint instead of guess spraying outsideregarding the fender, trick is to have plenty of water and do it out of the sun or else you will loose your sanity trying to bend that ****er and get it into place and want to run it off a cliff, good luck

[urcaptnspeaking]

hah yeah thanks man

[urcaptnspeaking]

still having problems with my compressor... so thats what is holding me up for the time being. As soon as I can get something worked out It will be painted. Also I have about half the RB money saved now and should have the other bit in a month or two, so that will be next : )

[soulflyfn69]

With those cars lying around ou know what you should do

[urcaptnspeaking]

haha yeah A few people have said that now. I just cant bring myself to using the T/A as a parts car...

[urcaptnspeaking]

So I feel like i just kinda left this whole thing. I was going to sell my car...well I still am but Im going to keep on going with it until it sells. And yeah the price will go up accordingly. But I am finishing the body work/ primer. There were some spots I didnt care for really, So I am revisiting them. After this is done (which should only be a few days) Im going to talk to my neighbor about spraying it for me (my compressor wont handle it). Its going to be silver for now cuz I have the paint just hanging out. I will get pics here soon ; )