1Bad37: C5 meets '37 Chevy...

[DER E30]

This is so badass.... Im going to be picking your brain about the frame.

Got some pics of the frame for you Simon!

Didn't get the camera out in the shop till after I'd pulled the nose and spilled the entire contents of the rad on the ground minus 1 gallon... THe petcock valve dumps on the frame so it goes everywhere and is a flipping mess, need to fix that...
IMG_7822m by Der E30, on Flickr

IMG_7825m by Der E30, on Flickr

Suspension shot! Love the heim ends on the steering. Makes it super direct!
IMG_7828m by Der E30, on Flickr
Snaking the steering around the manifold was a pain...
IMG_7835m by Der E30, on Flickr
Pulling the cab with handy dandy hoist.
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IMG_7842m by Der E30, on Flickr
No cab now!IMG_7843m by Der E30, on Flickr
Dat LSIMG_7844 by Der E30, on Flickr
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[DER E30]

I kinda forgot about taking pics, so this is the beginning. You didn't miss much, I spent probably an hour thinking about making this cut and welds

I cut out the entire stock gauge mounting area as one piece. That seemed the most logical and straightforward solution.

What am I cutting the dash for? This Dakota Digital VHX, the cluster wil glow orange/red with white needles at night.





View from the driver's seat. The protective plastic is still on the gauges, that's why they look weird.
Then I put some body filler on...

[iansane]

Definitely 2. If those have all the information you need then a whole cluster makes packaging super easy.

[DER E30]

This is a killer project, right up my alley

Thanks mang!

THoughts on these choices?

1. Stewart Warner "wings"?

2. Then there's this... I'm starting to like this a lot...

1 is more classic and stuff. A pain BC I can't fit them all in the spot for them in the dash, so several end up somewhere else...:(

2 is more modern and looks awesome. A clean package and install, they all fit behind the steering wheel where they should... I think I'm leaning this way now.

I've been sort of on the fence for a while now on what to do for gauges. The time is nigh for a decision. I WANT TO BE DONE SOON!

[semaj4712]

This is a killer project, right up my alley

Love it! I remember seeing another user, don't remember his name, but he used a smiley as the single headlight on an older motorbike that also looked killer.

That would be ctnewman on his CB Motorcycle

[DER E30]

And now I will blast with many unedited/blurry/crap on the lens and generally BS iPhone pics! Couldn't find the camera for the new ones and the "in progress" pics I almost always forget the camera and pull out the phone as its ALWAYS in my pocket pumping tunes into my earbuds...
Here's the sanding station! I spent too many hours sitting on that stupid yellow bucket!

Putting the mainshaft into the case on my official GM workstation!




This part is a pain to get right! THis is the actual shift gate/link where shifts happen. THe 5/6 and R forks are on their own linkage that is a pain to make interface with the 1/2/3/4's shift fork. You might pick up that I did the brass fork pads and Viper steel 3/4 fork...

At this point I forgot all about pics and was wrenching. If you ever rebuild one of these, to put the pressed on 5/6 gear back on the mainshaft, heat it up in your oven at 500 degrees and it will fall right on. If you ever take one of these apart you'll know which gear I mean, its a HUGE PITA to take off!!!
Trans back in and no leaks! I hate the smell of ATF in the morning

The seating arrangement in this aircraft, the plain black seats are the ones I've been using. My dad and I reupholstered them several years ago, they're a stock style replacement. I'm gonna have to replace them though as they hurt my tailbone after about an hour of driving...:waah: I hurt pretty bad after driving to the Goodguys show last year, and that's ~1.5-2 hrs away...:waah: I'm leaning toward doing them in a chocolate brown color rather like a king ranch ford truck... Probably stitched somewhat like the E30 seat leaning on the wall next to the truck seat. And no, that seat won't work, trust me, I tried to make it work... Its too wide and stuff...

This is the trans as it sits currently, the diff cover is freshly polished, I could polish it for months but this is close enough I think...

What the shop situation looks like now...
THe diff as it sits about 10 mins ago NOT looking forward to polishing that. Thoughts on painting the center part gold and polishing both of the side covers??

[DER E30]

Yeah, I ended up ditching the idea of smily plates after I made a set, this just looked more badass without them. I love them, looks badass all black.

[stanhayward]

Love it! I remember seeing another user, don't remember his name, but he used a smiley as the single headlight on an older motorbike that also looked killer.

[DER E30]

So I did a thing.

This also happened.:rofl
Much shiny:rofl

[DER E30]

Haha ok I'll be ready!

On a side note, I'm building a set of projector headlights for it that are euro smily inspired. Morimoto mini d2s projectors and the current headlights minus lots of material on the back pics maybe this weekend!

[2mAn]

This is so badass.... Im going to be picking your brain about the frame.

[DER E30]

You have a need for speed.

I do, I'd love to FI it... A polished magnacharger would be the topper.

beast. cool project with a lot of customizing.

Thanks man! everything's been modded at this point but the motor itself and the diff A cam might be on the list for summer but we'll see.

[ttrousdell]

beast. cool project with a lot of customizing.

[TimeMachinE30]

You have a need for speed.

[DER E30]

Pics of taking it apart... Dang, didn't realize they were that dark...


Put some sound deadener stuff in over the summer, makes the doors not sound like tin!

Always ***** the way the mufflers could be seen from the side under the fenders...

I WILL FIX! :eek

Actually the second time the exhaust went under the knife, or should I say grinder!:rofl I angled the cans up so they can't be seen from the side, it looks 10x better...

Pull driveshafts

Diff comes out!

Time to start another pile of parts!
Like my shaft?:rofl:eyebrows

undo some more bolts and this heavy hunk of metal comes out!



I've always ***** the look of this solenoid on the side of the trans... AND it serves absolutely ZERO purpose. It's job is to MAKE you shift from 1st gear to 4th! Thanks Chevy!
Stupid thing out of there for a small mod! (it had no idea what was coming!:rofl

I kinda broke the connector last year stepping on it, But I never had it hooked up anyway since I want a 6 speed not a 4!
It met the (cough) reaper (cough) I mean grinder.
Made a weld on that little rod to keep the plunger thing from rattling out and jamming something up in the trans. Sand it up with the DA and done.


Finished install! Looks much cleaner! Looks much better to me and that's all that matters. I can shorten the wiring harness to get rid of the 1-4 solenoid wires and I have a 6 speed again!

More parts for the pile!!!:rofl

Shaft is getting longer!

The rest are pretty much random pics of stuff! I may or may not be trying to polish this shiz up.:rofl It would look killer but it would be a major PITA so IDK yet...:rofl





Why tear it all down?
Well, 1st gear pops out and grinds pretty much every time I select 1st and use some throttle (apply torque). The weird part is that if I select 1st and hold the shifter in 1st (pushing on the gate) and slowly let out the clutch, it will make a loud clunk. After the cluck it will operate as it should, I can burn the tires or whatever, and shift into 2nd like normal...

Also, when engine braking like when rolling up to a stop sign, I can stick it in 1st and let the clutch out while rolling slow and it will still pop out and make all manner of grinding noise. Again, once I've clunked it into 1st, I can decelerate just fine...

All the other gears work normally, and the clutch works ok as well...

I asked on LS1tech and these pics are recycled from that thread...

1st gear




IMG_7439m by Der E30, on Flickr
1/2 fork, looks fine to me…

IMG_7435m by Der E30, on Flickr
3rd

3rd:4th slider by Der E30, on Flickr
3-4 slider from 3rd side… Most of the sliders look more or less like this, pretty good as far as I know...

3rd slider by Der E30, on Flickr


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The more I look at the teeth on 1st gear itself, the more I think that the circled area could be the issue, the teeth all look the same, almost rounded off right on the corner...

IMG_7446m by Der E30, on Flickr


IMG_7459 by Der E30, on Flickr

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IMG_7460m by Der E30, on Flickr

Gonna build basically a stage 2 trans with bronze fork pads and billet keys, new 1st gear slider, plus a short shifter and shifter cup along with some GM fluid. No new 1st gear for now, my wallet hurts enough for one day...

It throwing the lever out of 1st was the number 1 reason for second gear short drifts and burnouts.. It is enormously pissing to have it pull that crap, especially when you've driven the stupid thing like 600 miles EVER