OneStopRestoration's Special Orange 69 Chevelle 300 Deluxe Coupe

[Zman1969]

OSR have any updates on Engine? I'm close to that time myself

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Originally Posted by Zman1969

OSR have any updates on Engine? I'm close to that time myself

Not really. Still working on the quarter. I stopped work to install a new storgae deck in the attic of my shop. I also worked through starting 3 different l78 motors including my own for my 66. I should be able to get back to the car during the holiday.

The motor probably wont go off to the machine still till the late spring. I wont need it to next fall at the earliest. Here is a picture of me checking out the intake to head alignment. I snagged some 074 Zl1 heads as they are dirt cheap compare to the 842s. They look virtually the same from the exterior. Gonna have to probably get custom pistons made to eat up the huge open chamber these heads have to get the compression about the 11:1 i would like to see. Heads are nice and clean. No fixes to the rocker studs, no porting, and someone didnt deck them down to nothing, although i make have the shop take a heavy cut to shrink the chambers.

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It appears the drivers quarter was hit directly over the wheel. Hit looks like it happend high. The shop that fixed the car just pulled the wrinkled outer wheel house out and dropped a new quarter on. What never seemed to car about was the inner wheel house actually buckled where it meets the trunk floor and shifted into the trunk space. Not hard to fix. I had to remove the package tray outer trunk panel from the quarter/roof section and then after a some thought had to install a bracing setup to allow me to use a hydraulic ram to push back on the wheel house to roof structure. It actually was really easy to get it to move back out. Did a few dimensional checks to the passenger side and it all went right back into place.

I had to remove both the upper package tray wing, and lower wing that mountes to the outer wheelhouse. Once straitented I put them back in place along with a new donar seat back panel.