Kevin, the Olds is looking good, brings back memories from the Buick! Nice job on smoothing that frame too. Just watched the suspension, spotweld andpatched fender segments, keep up the good work.

The V8TV crew has been making improvements to the S71's chassis, namely adding reinforcing steel in areas where the original frame was "C" shaped to completely "box" the design.   This will help the chassis resist flexing and improve overall handling and traction.   One design modification was the need to re-engineer the transmission crossmember, as it no longer will use the original mount holes because their access was closed off with the reinforcements.    Once the chassis was welded solid and ground clean, it was treated to a single stage enamel paint coat in a satin-black factory appearing sheen.   

The follow up to the spot welding blog... here's some techniques on plug welding and using a commercially available electrical resistance spot welder on restoration projects.   

They work really well, obviously.    The machine says 2mm+2mm max panel thickness, but we've burned 3 panels together successfully also.    It's a tremendous time saver!

We finally made up our minds on how we wanted to fix the quarter panels without destroying the original panels.     Here's the approach we took to fixing the wheel lips and bottom edges.   

This is going to be awesome man. Glad to see someone appreciate an Olds haha. I also saw something on it over at ROP, I'm a member over there. I got a 1970 442, can't wait to see the final product, and see how it does at the track, turbocharged 350rocket eh? that would be a beast haha. It looks as if it is coming along great. Keep up the great work bud! I see you guys get a lot of parts at Yearone, if you can't find it there, you should be able to find it at OPGI, they have good parts, I have ordered a few times from them, if not, there are guys close by to me who specializes in Cutlass restoration located in Stillwell, Kansas, here is their website www.oldsparts.com

The 442 I got is nothing special really haha, but thanks alot for the compliment. The rear end is practically brand new, the guys in stilwell at BAP rebuilt the rear end for me with a later year cutlass housing, and did a lil fabrication to get it to fit the 68-72 cutlass. The Eaton posi unit in it is brand new, so everything is holding up great. As for the upper control arms, I went with the e-brock fully adjustables and e-brock boxed lower trailing arms. I had a pair of ebrock antihop bar that I was going to install on it before, but it was for the correct year rear end for my 70 442, so with the new rear end from a later year, it didn't fit, and is just sitting around, practically brand new lol.

BTR Performance are very good, Bill Trovato knows his stuff, and one of the most trustworthy olds performance builder, you are in great hands. I was talking to Bill, and was going to ask him to build the BBO 496 stroker for me, but an emergency hospital bill came up, and shorted me a few grand, so now I just got a 1968 455 on the stand, and going to build it myself, and just take my time with it, never rebuilt an engine before, so it would be a cool learning experience. The 428 that you are going to build will be good for the car. The diesel block is a small block am I correct?

You are welcome on the encouragement, you guys are doing good things here, I love muscle cars, and you guys are making them nice and powerful, and as for the oldsparts.com guys, they are very reliable as well, they know their stuff. Have a good one KO

Chino

Not realy a 2 d ht, but i  was cleaning out the garage and look what i found !!! ( gonna clean  more often  ) well ...been sittin here since 1989 got to get it out so i could install some earth heating eqp.


 


Not a bad car att all, hardly any rust att all, just had to change the starter, who i fixed 18 ysr agoe ( took me 2 days to finde it, cleaning again...)





awh....runnin...350,350 holley 600 vac. edelbrook valve covers, cal custom....



mmm...just love the early spring out door, mud qrawling, freezzing ( sweden- above the artic cirkle ) where did the damm nut go, nose dripping, neigbor yakking, car playing.
so get out your fancy garage´s and get back to basic...


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Just the ursual hod, fender, dorr, front HELL !! always yelling out my anger when i se ya "pros" putting newly painted car parts together without chiping the paint....





Aww....runnin..nothin fanzy 350 / 350 holley 600 vac. some edelbrook valve covers, cal custom air. just have to install the rear windows, crome trim..(.hmm dont realy know where to get the mounts ?? )...