Outrider70

Drove it to work this morning! This is after yanking the tranny and replacing the input and output seals because it was hemorrhaging trans fluid and looked like I was fogging for skeeters! I still need to replace the header gaskets, fix lights, put the hood on, install a/c, paint, suspension upgrades, bigger wheels, Vette brakes....jeez, I need to win the lottery

Finished breaking the cam in today on my lunch break, got a rough tune on it, topped the trans fluid off, told my 16 year old to take shotgun and I drove it for the first time in 17 years. I was 23 the last time I got to drive that car, Dad tore into it about 6 years ago, and he's been gone almost 3 years now. We idled out to the end of the driveway, turned around, and idled back to the shop. I had to do a quick chirpie, well, just because that would have drove Dad nuts!!!

STARTED IT TODAY!!!!!!! Got the cam broke in, and it sounds great! Dad's brother and his son came out to help. Seems fitting that we fired it up on Father's Day. Miss you Dad, wish you could have heard it. Although, you may have heard it. 3" duals have a pretty good bark!

Put all of the front sheet metal (except the hood) on this weekend. This is the first time it's looked like a Monte in 5 years. And between it being hit in the front end at some point, all of the body bushings being replaced with poly, replacing a 70 fender with a 71 fender, missing parts, mystery parts and just being a 44 year old car...NOTHING wanted to line up forward of the core support! What a PITA! But I persevered and got it all together and tightened up! I just love putting something back together that someone else took apart, its kinda like getting a jigsaw puzzle in a plain box with a written description of what it's supposed to be! The GM manuals aren't the most descriptive and the drawings are kinda puzzling but thank doG for these forums, I was able to find enough build pics to figure everything out!

Drive down to your local friendly Chevrolet dealer and have the parts guy look up P/N #14070997 for the tank and 15630112 for the cap. Came in around $39, fits a 3rd gen F body, mounts to the pass side inner fender and had a return line nipple molded into it.

Got my fuel pump installed, had to heat up the frame with a rosebud and um...."massage" it for some clearance. Next is putting the airbox on, figure out what I need and don't need on the new harness, get the rad support on and start hanging some body parts on! Freakin ready to have this thing RUNNING AGAIN!!

I tried Tom's trick converting a 71 fender into a 70. Had to do some creative spotweld location techniques (black sharpie and an angled lightsource), drilled the welds out on the keeper fender and used the die grinder to just remove the whole outer piece on the donor fender, beadblasted it, installed and welded up. Easy peasy!

Was it an Energy poly kit? Because mine was and there were no insert collars for the core support with it, or washers. [edit] Nevermind, just looked at a pic of the kit and realized that they are still in Dads garage! I wasn't there when he did the rest of the body mounts, and he's not around to ask anymore...so most of this car has been a lot like, well, finishing someone elses project car that you didn't get to take apart! First was then... then...

I had my kids help me pull the hood, front fenders and rad support off so I can make this Summit alum radiator fit (2" too tall, Dad bought it over 2 years ago, doubt they'd exchange it now lol) Yanked the master cylinder and vacuum booster to prep for paint, reman booster had gold paint on it that was flaking off and looked awful when Dad put it on there anyways. I'm thinking semi-gloss black or hammertone grey. Stopped by my buddys garage and helped him finish up puttin the powerglide back in his 55 Chev gasser. Probably head to the drags with him tomorrow to see if it can break an ATI case, factory cases didn't have a chance behind an alchohol injected 540 BBC!

Not trying to hijack, but does anyone know where you can get the spear that goes in the center of the factory light? None of the aftermarket outfits list them, although the spear from a 70 Camaro looks like it may be the same part.

Thanks guys, thats what I was needing to know!!

It says in the instructions to mount it with the motor up. Almost sounds like a bigger pain in the butt than it's going to be worth for a fairly tame 383.

ok, thanks a lot. I can visiualize where you are saying, I just didn't know if it would run ok there.

As some of you know, I inherited my Dads 70 Monte this summer. Its in the final stages of the build and he had bought a new Holley elec red fuel pump for it. The instructions say to place it as close to the tank as possible and level with the bottom of the tank. It has a new repo factory style tank with the usual pickup tube arrangement. As anyone who has spent time under these cars knows, the factory steel fuel line runs from the tank forward to the pass side of the car at about the top of the tank (if I remember correctly...) passes over the rearend, drops down to the bottom of the body then is attached to the frame and on up to the front of the car. My problem is this; there really isn't room close to the tank, there's bearly room on the frame and the inlet and outlet on the pump are on the opposite side from where they need to be to mount on the frame. The instructions say the pump needs to be close to the tank because the pump is designed to push the fuel, not pull it from the tank. Has anyone used this setup on a Monte (or other GM A body) with a stock fuel tank? It would be a cinch if the tank had a sump and bungs in the bottom, I'd just build a bracket and let it hang below the bumper a little for all the world to see The other option is just to use a mechanical pump. To be completely honest, I'm not really sure why he chose to use an elec pump. p.s. Its carbed, not injected.