Recent content by rod70

For those of you following the wacky Mini conversion at Bad Obsession, episode #10 was just released. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3DTTL9xRQ0

For those of you following Project Binky, Episode #9 has arrived. If you haven't discovered Bad Obsession's story yet, two Brit Monty Python-esque creative car builders are reconfiguring an old Mini to hold an Celica turbocharged 4WD drive train and engine. The inventiveness and...

I am humbled by the details in the Frankenstein thread, but here goes…. I found a chrome bumper Vette searching on Kijiji (Canada’s Craig’s List) and I knew nothing. This was my starter car. The ‘stalled project’ was advertised as a half finished 1970 complete with a rebuilt 350 in an adapted...

Help. I can't figure out how to load a post with explanations between pictures. When I 'preview post' what I get is a series of thumbnails at the end of the story.

I've see these in auto sales centers. Were I building one I might want a boat trailer winch to pull up rather than drive up. As well, bolt together joining struts so it could be stored as two frames rather than one wide unit...

Thanks again.

OK, thanks for that. It is hard to see between the lines on the advertisements.

I'm putting a LS into my '70 C3. This requires an electric fuel pump. From what I've read so far, it is better to have the pump in the tank rather than surface mounted on the frame for reasons of noise and additionally keeping the pump cool while running. 'Tanks' sells a nifty Walbro universal...

I am integrating a complete factory '86 front suspension system as an intact unit into my '70 frame. As I was thinking fabrication mods to the '86 carriage for attachment purposes, I noticed the upper '86 framing has identical upper and lower holes where the upper A arms bolt on. The irregular...

I bought a '86 rear end that my 70 frame is being adapted to accept. The unit must have been sitting a long time because the differential was temporarily 'frozen'. Nothing moved. With the calipers and rusty discs removed the wheels eventually loosened up but they only turn exactly together...

I am replacing the 'windscreen to the frame' portion of my birdcage. While I have removed everything else from the interior the attachment mechanism for the interior plastic cover of the 'T' eludes me. Push, pull, slide, pop out? How does this thing come away?

Could a 1980 hood replace a 1970 hood? Assumptions are the wiper door is removed and the latch would have to be reconfigured. Would 1970 the wipers work?

Well hello there. I discovered Vettemod in a search for previous owner's work done on adapting a C4 suspension to a C3 frame. I picked up a half restored '70 Vette and took it down to the frame intending to upgrade with the newer composite monosprings and lighter A arms. Then I got a deal on...