1978 Caprice, the new on-going project! (Yes, I'm still alive!)

[Bobcat]

These cars are pretty awesome, I'm not gonna lie. The two door ones have interested me for quite a bit and one day may have to be owned.

454 - T56, let's go!

[87gtVIC]

lol

[murphmobile2]

Even more of the body is finished!



I also got tired of having a broken turn signal switch, I guess now it's a "multi function" switch? Haha...

[murphmobile2]

More body work finished! Most of the rear driver's panel is done, along with a large portion of the rear passenger's door.



I also picked up a three gauge set from Harbor Freight, on sale $17.99. I didn't have a lot of time to mess with it today as I spent the morning through early afternoon at work, and the rest of the afternoon grilling out with my dad. Looks good so far though, mounting like I did on the Ford!

[murphmobile2]

Let's just say that it was up to my knees where I stood to take the photo of it haha.

And thanks man!

[87gtVIC]

Nice work. I like seeing the progress you made, also nice seeing someone work on their car every now and then.

So I have to ask...how's ya get to the car in all that water?

[murphmobile2]

We had a flash flood in my city last week as well. The car was in the back of my work parking lot, and the whole exhaust system was under water. Fired right up, not a problem! Of course, I had to do a burnout in our flooded lot too... That was interesting lol.







Oh yea; progress! Started the body work! Just a little bit done on the driver's rear panel, rear door, and front fender.

[murphmobile2]

1978 Caprice, the new on-going project! (Yes, I'm still alive!)

They didn't offer the aero in a four door unfortunately, but I wish! And I'm slowly moving towards a Vortec 350 swap now, but still in the far future! Now for a bit of updates, been a little crazy lately, so it's been difficult...

Blue calipers!



I also tore the headliner out, I was tired of being rained on by brown dust when is accidentally bump it... Here's a photo after I pulled it out, lol. And yea, I know, sweet teal duct tape huh!

[watchdog]

I know it's been done before but an LT1 would look nice in there.

[zwack88]

Badass car. Love the new wheel tire setup. Only thing this car was missing is the glasshouse aero back window. Did they offer that in a 4 door?

[sly]

be different... drop a 408w in it

[1990LTD]

6 liter Vortec swap!

[packman]

I finally got around to doing some more work on this old thing!

Has anyone ever had shocks do this when you remove them? And the oil in these things smells awful when it splashes up into your nose! Haha!

No. But I had the top of the stem break off right at the nut on my S-10. I was giving some serious thought to firing up the torch in the driveway to get those shocks off.


Packman

[packman]

454 or nothing

Yes, I forward this motion. Run that 305 until you save up the $$$ for the 454. Then don't look back until you get it running.

I think I have settled on a 454 for Putter Project. For now I will rebuild the 292 short block and run that for a few years.


Packman

[Brown_Muscle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig4jbcU9db0