72 Z/28 - Day 2 Brainstorming

[396L35]

Darren give me a call we need to talk... I have some stuff you need for your day 2 look... The hood is up in the air, I like the L88 but I am attached to the Grump Lump. It all depends on what intake and carb set up. Just call me tonight. Mark

[TDW]

I am doing something along the same lines. I have some original, numbers cars and wanted one to play with. I bought a 70 Nova just for that reason. One of the local hot jobs around here when I was a kid was a 70 Nova with a 427. I am going that route, day 2, as close as I can get it to the one I remember.

[Tenney]

L-88 Hood, Lakewoods, Ansen Sprints, Hurst Autostick 1, Sun Tach, SW's, 140 off-road, Hookers, Cherrybombs.

[396L35]

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L-88 Hood, Lakewoods, Ansen Sprints, Hurst Autostick 1, Sun Tach, SW's, 140 off-road, Hookers, Cherrybombs.

[/ QUOTE ]That sounds like a hell of hookup. I would change it to a 4 speed and let her fly...

[427TJ]

Gotta' have an L88 hood on a 2nd Gen--no other hood really works, especially for a '70s/early '80s Day 2 look. Okay, maybe a Grump lump. 15-inch skinnies in front, 8 or 10-inchers out back--slots or American 200S with the cast spokes (as on njsteve's '70 Hemi Charger) or even Cragar S/S's. Turbo mufflers. Yellow Lakewood bars. Electric fuel pump(s). Big-block motor with M/T valve covers (or chrome Moroso for the early '80s look). Accel coil mounted on the firewall pass side. Tunnel ram or Edelbrock Torker with the angled carb mount. The possibilities are endless! I wanna' do a 2nd Gen Day 2 car now.

[whitetop]

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A lot of us are getting tired (and broke) after searching for that last damn date-coded, dog dish hubcap from 1969.

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People are also getting tired of the car magazines pushing the latest g- machine part and 8 months later the very same magazine saying that same part you spent your $2000 on is now passe'.

This is a whitetopism. Notice how many sets of aftermarket wheels you see at the swapmeets anymore that are in a quantity of 3..not 4. That means somone bent/destroyed one and that particular wheel is now discontinued 1 year after after the person bought the complete set new.

[waynemiller]

The Day2 craze is great I have owned a 69 Z since 79 and have alot of the Day2 stuff on it. I bought a Grump Lump a couple of years ago and I might put it on.
I just set it on the hood for a couple of pics. What do you guys think?

I normally run a hole in the hood, it has a Blown 502 in it!!

[whitetop]

Where did you get the Grump scoop at? Showcars out of canada?

[musclcar]

Darren did my car get the day 2 bug started here ?? LOL and your car looks really nice .the motor has that day2 look aready i would look for a green fiberglass flex a lite fan and get a edelbrock tarantula intake also mentioned in this thread paint your headers with VHT "white" hi temp paint. now the interior if you have a B&M star shifter that'll be correct i've got the B&M quik-clik in mine.now for gauges i've got the U-41 gauge package in my camaro but i'm using sun blue-line oil press,volts and water temp gauges along with a sun blue line super tach. i did the same thing and removed the center console and mounted the shifter to the tunnel. now for the hood 3 types of scoops were used the grump lump,mopar pro-stock and the L88 any of these would look good.the hoods back then were just painted flat black not body color.now mine i've got a L88 hood but i grafted a grump lump on to it and it looks awesome,i'll get pics when it's finished. the wheels your running now didn't come out until the mid 70's so if i were you i would look into ansen sprint or us-indy mags.on mine i'm running hard to find 15x4 us-indy mags for the front.we always ran different rims back then or mismatched set like in my pics. you could run 15x10 torque thrust "D" for the rear and 15x4 slots on the front. ET wheels are still around and have the old gasser style wheels available ,those look cool too. here is some cool vintage wheelshttp://www.etwheels.com/et/classic5.html

[Rick H]

How about a set of Gabriel High-Jacker air shocks to go along with the Lakewood traction bars.

Oh yeah, and maybe a mural across the deck lid. Now how many remember that??

I am making my list now.

Rick H.