So, what all is everyone planning on doing to their rides this winter? repairs, addons, performance mods, stereo, interior, or body mods....

Well heres a list of whats getting done, main note is my car will be taken off the road from mid December to spring (I don't want to take a chance with ice), Heres a list of what I have planned:

1. Repainting my car*
2. Pulling my engine so I can repaint it and redo the engine bay*
3. Putting in a Lunati 214/224 cam*
4. TH200r4 OD tranny swap with a D5 converter and shift kit*
5. Jet Hot coating my headers
6. Either 2 1/4 or 2 1/2 mendal bend dual exhuast (which ever I can afford)
7. I might be getting a Edlebrock Performer RPM intake for x-mas (but my parents told me it would be my only gift, oh well)
(*=things that will happen, the rest is hopefully but not postive due to finacial reasons)

I taking a set of #5 heads off a old 67 442 in my friends woods, but that is going to be a side project that I don't expect to finish till summer maybe, I'm going to rebuild them and slightly port them and then port match them to my intake

I'm going to get a paint job and put in new carpet, and hopefully a center consel

Over the winter I hope to actually get some stuff done to my car!

I am going to be learning a new trade... Fibreglassing! I am going to try and tackle the job of creating a new, smooth, curvy dash in my delta! I smell a lot of work ahead of myself!

I'd tell you how it's going to look... but I dont even know myself!!! I've got some ideas of where I want to start, but i guess its up to my imagination for the rest!

I'd love to get some deep green or deep purple velvet to accent around the vehicle. I had a small peiece of both, and they both look killer with the tan color interior that exsists.

I'll make sure I get some pictures up here of what it all looks like after I'm done! (if it ever happens!)

winter plans for my ride include:
Airride Technologies SoftRide air ride conversion for the wagon
interior work
repaint to Red with white w30 stripes and hood insets
8 or 10 point rollcage in the cutlass
repaint the cutlass ( unsure of color yet), but will also have w30 stripes and hood insets
maybe make a few changes in the cutlass before spring racing begins

A small tune up (oil, filters, etc) a good wax job and some time for it to watch the snow from the garage

this winter i will be hoping the Delta 88 doesn't break down again, had to get it towed back to work on tuesday when i went out to pick up lunch. of course it started once i got it off the flatbed . stalled twice the night before, and once that day before it stalled and didn't restart. replaced the crank sensor, seems to have fixed it.

other than that...

i further sound deadened my trunk, but from the outside. i took off the rear panel (where the lisence plate goes) and the tail lights and sprayed it with Stinger Road Kill sound deadener. my new trunk lid is fully dynamatted and the voids were filled with expanding foam so the skin doesn't rattle against the frame of the trunk lid. put 2 layers of B-Quiet Xtreme on back of the lisence plate and then siliconed it to the car at the top where there are no screws. still have rattles in the trunk latch area. i fixed a few interior rattles too, discovered alot more rattles after i turned up my sub amp a bit.

thats about it, not doing anything that is going to cost me alot of money except maybe an Optima Yellow top battery. i think i am going to have to replace my heater core, which is gonna suck. i think a few GM cooling system sealer tabs will hold me over till spring.

Hey everybody! I got pictures of my intake, new stereo install up... still far from complete, but gives you an idea... Let me know what you all think!

I might get bigger vlaves to speed up my airride system, wheels. i also plan on doing donuts in parking lots, and plowing snow w/ my back up and front dropped!

Well here's my updated plans:

Going to get done no matter what:
1. New paint job
2. repainting engine and engine bay
3. Installing new 214/224 cam
4. Installing built TH200r4 O/D unit
5. New 2 1/2" true dual exhaust with either Dynoflows or Magnaflow mufflers
6. At least repainting the headers


Things I would like to get done but probably not:
1. Get and install #5 heads
2. Either get a A4 intake or Edlebroke Performer RPM intake
3. Get and install electric cooling fans
4. Build custom box for my 2 subs and amp while neatly hiding floor jack, spare, and tools (I might do this)

I'm waiting till I get everything I need together before I take her off the road and start ripping my car apart. I might not have her back on the road till spring maybe even early summer as it looks right now, but thats 5 months I should be able to get everything together and finished by then hopefully.

Well my original plans were to get my car repainted but I seem to keep falling into the "might as wells".

So what turned into just fixing some rust and painting the car is now going to be:

Gutting the interior
replacing the carpet
reupholstering the front and rear seats in dark blue leather
adding more sound dedening material to the floor boards
Building a custom speaker box in the trunk for 2 10" subs

Pulling the body off the frame
Replacing all body bushings with polyurethane
Notching the frame 1" in the back
Mini-tubbing the wheel wells
Fix the rust
Roll the fender lips

Add the FE3X front bumper spoiler, rear bumper, and fender flares

And finally either cut a couple of notches in the rear bumper to allow the exhaust to tuck up closer to the body and run exhaust tips similar to a late model Z28 or.......

Pull the tailpipes off and reroute the exhaust so it dumps out to the side of the car just in front of the rear tires.

And of course with the new found room in the rear wheel wells I'll be adding a set of 17x10" wheels with 305 or 315/35ZR17 tires.

And on top of all of that I need to pull the intake off and replace the gaskets as I screwed them up the first time and I have a pretty bad oil leak now.
Oh, and I need to buy a new torque converter since mine is about to blow up.

There is just not enough time.

"There is just not enough time"

Damn Andrew, aint THAT the freakin truth!!!! I'll have my new wheels this next week for the 72 (15x3.5" front and 15x10" rear Weld Draglites), still need to get the 8 point rollbar here and installed, swap the rear gears to 4.10's, header evac system installed, different wheel studs in the front. On the 74 I have to get the engine problems fixed and trunk floor installed, and I was hoping to get the Vista painted yet this winter....

Yeah. I'm thinking I am going to cut back on some of my plans just so that I can get the car painted and the rust fixed.

I'll probably skip the frame notching for the time being unless me and my paint/bodywork guy can get it done while the frame is still under the body.

I'll have him go ahead and widen the wheel wells as he will need to cut them out where they meet the trunk floor anyway since there is rust there.

I'm also thinking about putting the old hood back on it. The more I look at the H/O scoop the more I wonder if I like it. :?

Oh, and then there are the headers I just bought that I will need to weld a ball-flange collectoron each side and O2 sensor bungs installed and then be sent off to be Jet-Hot coated before I install them.

I had hoped to have mine in for paint too by this time but it doesn't look like thats going to happen until spring. Hopefully I can get it done before Norwalk this year!

I like the hood scoop, but if you don't you could get the 70-72 w-25 style hood, a stock hood just won't seem right on your car.

The thing I don't like about the H/O scoop is that it looks "bolted on". Which it is but I would just like it to flow a little better with the body.

I have thought about using the W-25 style hood also but that would mean I would have to go back to a fiberglass hood and I didn't have much luck with my 4" cowl fiberglass hood. It was a big hassle.

The biggest thing is selling the H/O scoop since I have modified it a bit. It won't really fit a '68-'72 anymore and it's not quite trimmed enough to fit a G-body just right. It'll be tough to find a buying for it I'm sure.

The stock hood will probably do until I figure out exactly what I want.