Thread: The timesaver coupe

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Okay so here are some details on the car. It's a glass body from high boy classics. Chevy 350 (330HP) 700R4 ford 9" rear. It's driver quality that needs some tweekin. It needs interior help bad. Looks like the inside of a 70's boat. Polished P&J front end with super stopper brakes, unisteer and a chrome posies spring. Out back is a polished 4 bar setup with polished coil overs. Boyd wheels (don't like the raised white letters but the wife does) hell this aint no muscle car son! Power windows and power deck lid. Tilt column and generic white faced gauges. Paint and body work are nice but not Barret Jackson quality. The doors close reeeeeal nice. Can close it with your pinky. Bear claw mini latches and safety pins. Steel hood and grille shell, king bee headlights and an electric fan (puller). EZ wiring and no heater. That just about covers it.

Now on to things we are changing and or fixing.
I installed a 40 ford steering wheel, the tilt column is loose and needs to be taken apart and tightened up. She said the shifter was too tall (24") so I got a 12" and installed that. The rear end 3.55:1 one legger was leaking so I pulled it and swapped the chuck for a posi unit with 3.89:1 gearing. It pulls a little harder in second gear now. I put a smaller gas pedal in and I picked up one of those "Offset" brake pedals to see if I could make better use of the realestate available to us. I picked up a dome light and that will be installed along with the new interior soon. I have some 32 ford headlights I'm hoping will fit depending on how close the mounts are to the grille. The chrome horns up front are going to be moved to a hidden location. It needs a battery, pencil tip exhaust tips and a new tire wheel combo. Taller in the rear and thinner in the front. Rears are now 275/60R15 and we are changing it up with a 265/75R15 (almost 3" taller) and 165/80R15 up front. I don't like the Boyd wheels that are on it now. We are going to a halibrand replica wheel. I'm also changing out the chrome center bolt valve covers to some finned aluminum perimeter style covers with the use of some adapters and a finned aluminum air cleaner. This all sounds like a lot but they are all pretty small things (Besides the interior) that can be done late at night after work with little to no down time.





Then just for fun I put my red wire wheels on to see what it looks like. She told me to "Take those ugly wheels off my car!!" Yes dear! I don't care I think they look killer on her car.