Gonna look nice tucked in the barn next to my 66’, used to use Pontiac Motors in the GMC’s. I have a high nickel virgin 69’ 400 block and forged Eagle crank laying around along with a 3:55 Yukon Chevy 12 bolt rear end. Need to source the motor mounts off an ol Jimmy…
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@Jdem075 I’m in the same boat I run old vehicles and do my own work can’t afford any other way lol. I’ll dig up some pics of some of the messes I’ve had to endure to keep a vehicle on the road.
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Right now I have a truck that runs, a car that needs a timing cover, and another car that needs a radiator. To much work to do.
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I have the upper plenum mostly off a 2001 Nissan frontier. A couple of back hoses to go, to get it off completely. Another too broke to pay a pro project. 
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Wow some nice hotrods!
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Was always into cars in my younger days, been into the Jeep’s last few decades. Always done most of my own work, until i got old with a bad back…
Nice Pontiac ^^… my last was a 66 Malibu i was able to hold onto till child #2.
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Some pics of some of the hack jobs I’ve done to keep these cars on the road.
This was when I discovered my car was quite rotten, luckily it was slow at work and they let me do it there. Wish I had after pics but I was trying to get done quick.
Than discovered 1.5 years later our other car was all rotted out as well. I had already bought my house at this point so I was able to do this in my garage.
Rebuilt my whole exhaust about 4 years ago manifold right to muffler, the muffler rotted out so i built a new end onto it , it looks horrible but it was thin so really instead of being cheap i should have replaced it, but it got me through another 8 months.
But than it was finally time for some new exhaust parts again after almost 5 years since it was new. ( something else I noticed in this pic the trailer hitch i was moving and needed to haul a small trailer and i was broke and didn’t have a hitch my buddy owns a salvage yard and said if I have a hitch for your car it’s yours he didn’t so I scavenged around and found a hitch with the right shape for my little Toyota echo but it was off a mazda mpv van so it was huge, after some cutting and welding and wiring i had a hitch just in time. I’ve hauled some heavy trailer loads since…
Transmission fluid leak I’ve chased was ready to replace all the lines and found a loose fitting.
And strut mounts, lifetime warranty and they don’t last, if i was offering lifetime warranty I would do my best to make a product that lasts. Brand new ones were clunking a week after I installed them.
There is so much more I don’t have pics of… i am looking forward to the day I can lease a car and have warranty and not have to touch a wrench.
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shouldn’t do a continuous bead on welding on cars unless its thicker metal.
Tac weld or spot with a mig gun and space them apart let cool then go back to start.
Otherwise metal gets too hot and warps.
I used to make convertible K-cars for a company is how I know.
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Damn if I knew that I would have hassled you for info in my cowl hood build lol.
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Buddy, not car related, but great advice…I recieved some of your ak’s the other day from another member…vroom, vroom, VROOOMMMMMM!!! Super stoked!!!
Everything here is tacks except the hitch that was burned together good.these are old cars 02 and 06 so I’m not to worried about warping panels their next home will be the salvage yard lol but I do know what you mean if it was something that appearance mattered normally I have a blow gun and I tack and blow tack and blow and move around so I’m not over heating 1 area.
Living in the rust belt sucks, Pontiac has seen rain twice in 10 years and is an Idaho body. Welded many a box patch on rusted frames. Half the parts for my 92’ Saleen clone came from a GT that had broken in half at the fire wall. And a Cali back half with zero rust. Whole K member is tube chrome molly. Wife wants me to put that project up for sale to use money for truck.
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Yours are on their way
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My monte carlo project i have been working on since the beginning of summer. Pulled out the stock 305 and 200r4 trans. Replaced with a 355 i built. All new internals, flat top pistons, comp xe274 cam and a th350 trans with 2800 stall converter, shift kit and semi manual valvebody. This saturday i pulled the open diff and 2.41 gears out and replaced with a yukon duragrip locking diff and 3.73 gears. Fun car to drive now. Looking to have the paint redone next winter.
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My buddy in high school had one. Was our booze cruiser for two years before he totalled it
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My nephew has one of those, bought it 5 years ago and probably only driven it 3 times, every time he goes out in it, it breaks down. He knows nothing about cars, it overheated the last time 2 years ago, not driven it since.
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Badass, those cars are getting alot of attention now along with the Buick Grand National which was also a beast.
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My dad has a 85 GN waiting to be restored. The 87 and 88 models are the really sought after ones though. 85 were non intercooled.
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So I have a question. My car is a 2011 Hyundai Elantra…a couple years ago I was driving in the summer with the AC on. I parked at the beer store (lol) and some guys like hey a car out there is smoking. I go out there’s steam hissing out of the hood of my car…not smoke but steam
I took it to the dealership and they said it was the AC drain being clogged and cleaned it out for me. Since then I’ve had as to get it cleaned every couple years, I can tell it’s clogged when water sloshes into the passenger footwell when I make a turn haha.
Today when I started it it made a hissing sound even with the AC and fan turned off. It hissed for a bit as I drove it then stopped after I blasted the fan for a while… I’m pretty sure it’s something in the AC system, no water sloshing sound yet but there’s pressure building up somewhere I think.
Any suggestions as to what I can look for or possibly clean?
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They’re real sleepers I had no idea how fast they were till I saw a YouTube video about it. Love the look of them and the Monte Carlos too.
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