Well considering how much I enjoy looking at other peoples builds I figured I would keep tabs on mine here as well.
Story goes I have had my 1988 GT forever and slowly built it up since high school. Started out with bolt ons, then put in a fresh short block with the Trick Flow top end and a new transmission. Drove it like this for a couple years then wanted more so went with a Hellion Turbo Kit and AEM EMS system.
Was now happy with the power so drove it for another year and half at which point I blew a head gasket. Pulled it apart and found some wear on the bearings and cylinder walls so i pulled it all apart and refreshed the entire engine. All was well and was actually breaking in the motor, about 110kms on it to be exact, when I got rear ended at a stop light and pushed into the car in front of me. :kicknuts:
Long story short there was a fair bit of rust where the shock tower meets the frame rails and it buckled bad in the accident. Insurance fixed the damage from the accident but obviously wouldnt touch the rust damage. So either way I was done with that shell as its not worth fixing with rust comming in other areas. New shell time!
Stumbled across a car for sale on this forum actually, one alot of you might recognize actually, this is 92cleancoupes old car. He did a full out build and built an extremely nice car, he decided to part it out and we eneded up striking up a deal for the rolling shell. Few months later and a truck shows up out front of my house and the project begins!
Have to throw out a thanks to him though, wouldnt be possible without his determination making the deal work and I can only hope to get the car close to the state he once had it!
Few pictures of my 1988 GT:
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Pictures of a build thread of the new shell's build. Shows a 408w but most recently was a Turbo 302w.
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Story goes I have had my 1988 GT forever and slowly built it up since high school. Started out with bolt ons, then put in a fresh short block with the Trick Flow top end and a new transmission. Drove it like this for a couple years then wanted more so went with a Hellion Turbo Kit and AEM EMS system.
Was now happy with the power so drove it for another year and half at which point I blew a head gasket. Pulled it apart and found some wear on the bearings and cylinder walls so i pulled it all apart and refreshed the entire engine. All was well and was actually breaking in the motor, about 110kms on it to be exact, when I got rear ended at a stop light and pushed into the car in front of me. :kicknuts:
Long story short there was a fair bit of rust where the shock tower meets the frame rails and it buckled bad in the accident. Insurance fixed the damage from the accident but obviously wouldnt touch the rust damage. So either way I was done with that shell as its not worth fixing with rust comming in other areas. New shell time!
Stumbled across a car for sale on this forum actually, one alot of you might recognize actually, this is 92cleancoupes old car. He did a full out build and built an extremely nice car, he decided to part it out and we eneded up striking up a deal for the rolling shell. Few months later and a truck shows up out front of my house and the project begins!
Have to throw out a thanks to him though, wouldnt be possible without his determination making the deal work and I can only hope to get the car close to the state he once had it!
Few pictures of my 1988 GT:
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Pictures of a build thread of the new shell's build. Shows a 408w but most recently was a Turbo 302w.
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