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70's Street Machine

Postby day2vega » Fri Sep 25, 2015 12:43 pm

Building a 70's street machine or street freak...Been collecting parts for some time...Have a long ways to go but it has been a fun project just finding all the parts..
Had a few hours thought I would get the motor mocked up...This is just a mock up using a blank block and heads while my motor is getting built...Wanting kind of a 70's performance time capsule..
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Re: 70's Street Machine

Postby SeniorSavage » Sat Sep 26, 2015 4:13 am

nice start - good luck.
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Re: 70's Street Machine

Postby monzacoupe » Sat Sep 26, 2015 10:10 am

Doesn't look big enough! :th:

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Re: 70's Street Machine

Postby day2vega » Thu Oct 01, 2015 1:00 pm

Few goods going into the build..
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Re: 70's Street Machine

Postby 1975monza2+2 » Thu Oct 01, 2015 2:43 pm

day2vega wrote:Few goods going into the build..


Really cool old speed parts! I love the vintage Sun tach. Are you only using parts that were manufactured in the 70's for your time capsule project?
Those are intersting adjustable control arms. I bet they are hard to find these days. Are you going to use a 12 bolt rear end?
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Re: 70's Street Machine

Postby day2vega » Fri Oct 02, 2015 6:25 am

1975monza2+2 wrote:
day2vega wrote:Few goods going into the build..


Really cool old speed parts! I love the vintage Sun tach. Are you only using parts that were manufactured in the 70's for your time capsule project?
Those are intersting adjustable control arms. I bet they are hard to find these days. Are you going to use a 12 bolt rear end?


I'm trying to stay in the 70's as much as I can...Still looking for parts, will be using Cragar ss wheels those are hard to find if you want nos, so may have to purchase some new ones..the motor is a 1970 350 lt1 which was my dads, he had it for over 25 years and passed it to my brother, took me several years to squeeze it out of my brother, it had never been rebuilt just a paper weight basically...only things that will be used from original motor is the steel 1182 crank, block, 186 heads which one is cracked, so purchased a replacement head, and pulleys..Motor specs will match pretty close to the 1970 lt1 corvette
350/370hp...

As for the rear end, yes 12 bolt, still looking for Don Hardy 12 bolt housing, found one in Cali for $$$$ but the owner couldn't prove it was an actual hardy rear end so I passed, now I'm still looking and nothing is surfacing....err

Those are Ansen control arms, quite unique....
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Re: 70's Street Machine

Postby Smiley » Fri Oct 02, 2015 10:34 pm

Was your Vega a Cosworth ?
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Re: 70's Street Machine

Postby b_pappy » Sat Oct 03, 2015 11:03 am

Yeah, some cool vintage speed parts, like the Sun tach and Ansen snubbers. Best of luck with the project.
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Re: 70's Street Machine

Postby day2vega » Tue Oct 06, 2015 8:12 am

Smiley wrote:Was your Vega a Cosworth ?


The guy I bought it from said it was, I never checked to see if it was...When I got it it was stripped, no motor, trans, front clip, had the cosworth dash panel so I'm guessing it is a Cos....Body has very low miles, completely rust free.
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Re: 70's Street Machine

Postby Smiley » Wed Oct 07, 2015 1:50 am

The heat shield around the drivers sider coolant tank is what gives it away.
It shoud have a torque arm rear suspension, Strange Engineering and Moser make a 12 bolt torque arm housing.
Dadhad1 used one in his V8 Cosworth build with an early front clip.
Looks like a 70's 12 bolt from the rear but has the provision for the more modern torque arm.
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Re: 70's Street Machine

Postby day2vega » Thu Oct 08, 2015 9:50 am

My plans are to change the rear end over to the 1st gen 4 link, want to use a Hardy rear end if I can find one..
As for the rest of the car it will be changed over to the 1st gen body, been collecting parts for some time to do this,
NOS front fender and tail light panel, perfect rust free hatch, bumpers front back, head light buckets and so on..
Will change side marker lights to correct location of 1st gen, gas tank fill neck....

It's a lot of work to do this but I was unable to find a first gen body that was completely rust free...The body I have now is unbelievable, rust free, all the bright work is perfect, glass is perfect and so on...body has 30 k miles on it.
I think it was garage kept most of its life. I hate rust, since I'm not a body man it would cost me a ton to fix a rusted out body, I have one in my garage and its a mess once you get deep into the car, so it's now my reference car for my build.
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Re: 70's Street Machine

Postby 1972vegaz28 » Sat Oct 10, 2015 11:28 am

Love the old speed parts, cool build! My car is day two , and I'd love to see more builds like this :th:
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Re: 70's Street Machine

Postby day2vega » Sun Oct 11, 2015 6:11 am

1972vegaz28 wrote:Love the old speed parts, cool build! My car is day two , and I'd love to see more builds like this :th:


You have a true day2 Vega since yours was actually built in the 70's....
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Re: 70's Street Machine

Postby 1972vegaz28 » Sun Oct 11, 2015 5:19 pm

Yes , built around 76. But still neat to see builds that are old school, you never seem to see stuff like that. All of them are normally drag cars that I see around. And yours is v8, which Is awesome lol.
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Re: 70's Street Machine

Postby day2vega » Wed May 18, 2016 9:25 am

More stuff...going thru all my boxes of parts forgot what I had...
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