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FEB 19, 02:11 PM
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Lookin gooood man 
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2.5
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FEB 19, 02:12 PM
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This car would look good with a matte or satin finish in the end, thoughts?
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shemdogg
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FEB 22, 08:04 PM
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Nah I love a deep gloss for sure! Havent really done much w it lately, no time. Still messing w making the door seals look good and placement. Waiting on carpet. The beefy plate I welded in is too high, seatbelts too long durr. Those seats barely clear the roof w a lil help but are damn comfy! Getting in n outta those harnesses is a freaking chore
Experimenting w the headlights sommo, lowered n angles the lower end
Took it to the smog place today it passed. I think the machine was trying to fail it, it ran the car at both speeds for the maximum time limit. But it passed w low emissions. The guy was shocked it passed. He almost didnt wanna smog it unitil I told him I was there almost 2 years ago and I had to go back 4-5 times and the car died on the lift lol. Man its so low the rear rockers were rubbing on the rollers a smidge, some coolant steam shot out from the ds wheelwell after he was done w the 50mph test but didnt come back later.
Buncha people came to check out the car while I was waiting
bro-ferrari?
no pontiac
no way its a pontiac, looks like a ferrari
gmc baby!
what year?
86
oh I bet its rare then
yeah not too many like this one
hey im not lying lol Car looks awesome from far
Rides like sh!t tho, I think its on the bump stops. Rides n sounds like a rickety ashh pos. I run over a pebble im dukes o hazzard. Lost a hood latch. hafta go get it. The v6 sounds kinda like an old vw engine. Unless mines not supposed to sound like that. Its kinda ratty. One of the mechanics I was chatting with I mentioned it to as the smog guys trying to find first n revving the sh!t out of it and he agreed. More reason for a motor swap
Drove back home to check for coolant leaks, seemed ok. Drove it to the glass shop and have an appt tuesday to get a winshield cut n installed. Gonna top that off w some chick magnet uber cool chrome dual wiper blade wiper blades yeah buddy!
I dunno what im doin but im somehow doin it. Looking for a wiring diagram for the cluster that says what wires are what so I can hook up me new gauges n dashbird! Anybody got one handy, send it down hyah
shem
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engine man
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FEB 22, 09:39 PM
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bjc 350
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FEB 22, 09:55 PM
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Really looks right in a real world setting. Getter done, you can always ad a swap once all else is done. I have a used Archie V8 kit available, but not sure how you would get one through smog down there. I doubt I'll ever get another V8 done, running out of years! Can't wait to see that car all one glossy color.
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olejoedad
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FEB 22, 11:10 PM
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Shem, PM me your phone number and I'll text you the instrumentation information you need.
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turbodad2
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FEB 23, 10:18 AM
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sourmash
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FEB 23, 11:34 AM
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The eye candy it offers is great now! I can't believe you actually did that in this amount of time. Most people drive boring crap cars. Ratty driving or not, people appreciate it and then realize they have a boring belly button with obstacle indicators in their mirrors. That power train fix should be easy compared to what you've done. The interior is small thankfully, so no biggie.
If you decided to make a fresh new custom kit of any kind (existing or new) like the Vader guy did, you could pretty easily do that.
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shemdogg
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FEB 24, 12:42 PM
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Pm sent joedad thank you! Thanks for the kudos fellas! I think im taking a loooong time to finish this car. Its definitely looking good tho. The further away you are the better it looks lol. It was nice seeing it away from my house where I could look at it from more than 5' away. Looking at the car its quite a bit lower. Im petty sure its on the bump stops, that drive sucked. Didnt take it over 30mph. had to pull into driveways almost parallel to not scrape too bad. Gettin antsy for the airbag swap, might start looking around underneath the car soon.
Furnace is crapping out so I got a new one to install horizontally in the attic. Installed a pull down door yesterday and trying to round up some help to get the furnace up there. Lots of gas piping and electrical to do(gonna install lights up there and make storage), but the ducting will be much shorter so it should have more oomph.
The interior will be pretty easy to get the majority of it in. The only thing thatll slow me down is fabbing ducting to connect my new ducts to the fiero ducting, and making inside b pillar covers, door pnels, n making the door openings look decent. Piece o cake lol
I know me Ill get the easy interior stuff done then bounce over to the airbags. Just like a test in school I skip whats hard n move onto something easier. So ill stop halfway through the airbag install n finish up the interior. Good ol scatterbrain
shem
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RCR
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FEB 26, 06:52 AM
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You really banged it out. Nice job, Shem.
I vote for air bags next. I want to see how you take that challenge on. 
Bob
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