Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser 1985

[herrakani]

Dat snow plow

Haha tell me about it.

[herrakani]

Ok there was about a half an inch of bondo on the driver side rear quarter. IDK why, there was only a small ding or two and a palm sized repair patch.



Not much to bondo about. I use this 2 feet wide spatula to spread the bondo and sand it off with about similar size of block when doing panels. I'm doing a panel at a time, then when done, strip the silver enamel off and paint the effing car first 3 layers of anding color then some silver then some clear. Then either candy OR oem style woodgrain vinyl.

[Jlyons617]

Woodgrain, do it! It would remind me of the Family Truckster.

[herrakani]

There's people actually done replicas of the Family Truckster! I love the National Lampoon-movies.

But yeah, I've thought on and off about the woodgrain vinyls, just to give it more sleeper look.
I'll fab up something for the front end tomorrow, a little more adjustability and protection for the adjusting knobs. Maybe even extend the a-arms a bit. And maybe install the quick steering box too.

[Trif0rce]

Dude that looks pretty damn low to me. Looks like you've got similar suspension to my gran torino. It's gonna be really hard to get that car to sit even a little low. Love it so far man, it looks awesome.

[P78]

woodgrain!

[herrakani]

I hit a dip on the road 60mph or so KAPOW! one AfCo coilover gone.

It went through the fuckin lower A-Arm and hit the ground and at least lost the adjusting system and all the oil.

So I put it up on the jackstands and started to dismantle. I'm atm debating wether I can afford to get me a set of tubular a-arms or just box the fuck out of the old ones. The lowers were constantly hitting the frame so anyway it was no good. You can see on the upper a-arm how the rust is caking on the metal, but there's still around 3mm of steel in it. Ok one cheap option would be to buy a better set from the wreckers and box them...

But f/t. Stock or tubular, let's let the rallycrossshopguys decide if the old coilover tube is repairable still.

And while I'm ranting: I just spent nearly half of the day getting to my brothers house by public transportation to loan his car and driving back from there. Ok, he lives some 150 miles away or so. But yay, now I'm able to go to work and haul my parts to the repairshops and get some more steel from the junkyard guys.

[herrakani]

Then I had a cup of tea while thinking about the new engine.

[P78]

lol

[herrakani]

Waste of money.
I bought a B&M Street & strip shift improver kit.

It consisted of a spacer and a drill bit for either street or strip application, a sticker which I put on my dog and valve body gaskets.

SO if you are thinking of improving your shift on TH-series gearboxes, go for TransGo shiftkit.
TransGo shiftkit is a real reprogramming kit which has different springs for all the valves for different applications, not just a fancy sticker to the rear bumper.

[herrakani]

Finally got my C-clip eliminators so I can start fabbing up the rear axle. So these are Mark Williams versions.

* BMW measurements for the flange. 139mm 75mm->72,5mm
* BMW 120x5 bolt circle with Grayston M12,5x1,5mm studs
* BMW e34 M5 brakes 300x20
* BMW handbrake
* GM stock positraction
* 2.73 gears
* Sway bar on uniballs
* Edelbrock lowers
* Adjustable uppers
* M/W c-clip eliminators
* Strange coilovers

[milano_red]

And you do all this in the snow

You sir are a boss.

[Isuzupickup]

Seems like there's a lot of attention to detail, I like it! I'll be keeping up with the build.

[herrakani]

And you do all this in the snow

You sir are a boss.

Thank you, sir.

I have gotten used to it, I've wrenched cars for almost 25 years now and we got 6-7 months of winter...

Isuzupickup: Yes, that is one of my objectives, do it once and do it right.

[herrakani]

Decided to go full cage and swiss-cheese the frame rails-way.

Snow, that's what we got.

Slowly dismantling stuff, secretly fabbing up things too. Rear end ratio came, 3.42 it was. So soon I have at least an rear end to it. Then it's just up to get the money to get the engine and gearbox intact and FluidMotorUnioning an exhaust somewhere. I think I'll lift the passenger side floor to run the exhaust.