Latest Lost Cause Project: 1979 Z28

[bucket]

WOW...the calipers I've gotten from O'Reilly's for my trucks had a gray paint on them, I don't think it's just clear over bare steel. Cause as humid as Houston is, that would be rusty in 15 minutes...

I believe Napa has been selling the black coated calipers for a while. Haven't really kept track.

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Other stores seem to be a mixed bag on coating types.

 

[Midnightmoon]

Doing another one right now on one of my trucks. Same finish from NAPA in this one also.

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[Midnightmoon]

Ordered these no joke yesterday from Amazon on their Prime Day special and arrived today. 215/70/15 Cooper Cobras for the front.

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[Midnightmoon]

Nice little Sunday surprise from FedEx 295/50/15.

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[Midnightmoon]

Boring but time consuming day today. One of the previous owners installed a fairly nice exhaust system. Unfortunately it was hitting the rear brake lines when the suspension is loaded. Spent a bunch of time bending, rebending, brackets and lines to make it clear for now trying to reuse as much as I can. I'll eventually replace everything i think. But, at least we have a little clearance.

Also ordered new adjuster kits for the rear brakes from NAPA. Got the driver's side finished up this afternoon.

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[Midnightmoon]

Now that we have everything where we want it to be, starting replacement of all the hard lines. These are from "The Stop Shop" through Summit.

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[Midnightmoon]

This proportioning valve just gives me the warm fuzzies.

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[bucket]

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That's a shame, as it’s already been replaced. If it was still working, I'd clean it up and continue on with it.

 

[Midnightmoon]

That's a shame, as it’s already been replaced. If it was still working, I'd clean it up and continue on with it.

That's what I'm going to do I believe.

 

[Midnightmoon]

Field trip today for a hood and some random brake parts.

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[Midnightmoon]

For my amateur radio friends, you know that my daughter and I had to stop in here while we were at Summit.

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[Midnightmoon]

New hood on. I'll work on the gaps tomorrow. 2" AMD cowl induction hood.

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[Sad Sack]

New hood on. I'll work on the gaps tomorrow. 2" AMD cowl induction hood.

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I put a Speedway motors cowl hood on my '78 Camaro and the gaping drove me nuts. It fit pretty good just required a lot of tweaking. I took the corner-to-corner X measurements of the original hood and called them to try and get one as close to the original measurements and they did their best, no complaints.