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Hi! I'm Dave. So, as many of you know, I acquired an 84 GS last year. Long story short, rotted out floors and trailing arm mounts necessitated structural repair. I looked around, and found a 79 shell that had been restored years ago a few states away on Craig's. Drove through Chicago getting there, almost lost the car, good times.
Here's my plan. I'll post pics as I move along.
79 shell
84 GS front clip and bumpers
84 doors with aftermarket mirrors and no power options
84 seats, console and grey carpet
79 dash(almost have all of it)
79 manual trans(bought from an awesome dude out in the middle of the state)
84 12a motor (planning rebuild and street port)
Aftermarket clutch assy
Racing beat intake and custom carb
2 into 2 exhaust.... not sure what else yet
13b water and oil pump
Larger oil cooler
Aftermarket sunroof. Necessary due to current sunroof (it is aftermarket, and glass did not come with the car)
I hope to keep y'all updated as I move along with my plan. I'm currently stripping the 84 to make garage space and test fitting some of the parts to the 79.
Curious why you're putting the 84 clip and doors on the 79?
The 79 doors were gutted, windows were sticky and over sprayed with primer. The left side 79 fender was literally cracked in the middle. I did not get bumpers or air dam with the 79. This is all bolt on from the 84 so why not?
Little side note here on door panels. I love the checkered 84 interior. The only not salvageable part of the checkered interior was the leather on the door panels. Here's my solution.
Ugly cracked leather
Peeled back the leather and padding and wire wheeled the metal down.
Primed and painted
Almost done. I bought a trim strip online to go between the fabric and metal to cover the staples.
Nice project, that 84'er is a little bit rusty, but It HAZ MONEYZ :p was it a airco and power steered car?
And what is a 2 in 2 exhaust?
Thanks. I've read your build thread as well, nice to see other guys keeping the 1st gens alive. The 84 had air, cruise, automatic, but was not power steering. And yeah, the 84 part out has paid for itself.
2 into 2... Perhaps it's a 2 into 1? Right before the muffler it's still 2 separate pipes, but maybe I had the phrasing wrong.
Also, another forum member helped me make sense of the counterweight requirements of the motor. Lucky for me, it's from an automatic. I'm going to run a Racing Beat 74-82 lightweight steel flywheel, auto counterweight, 79 starter in almost new shape that I was lucky enough to acquire, and aftermarket clutch.
And here's a pic of the door panels, now complete.
Thanks. I've read your build thread as well, nice to see other guys keeping the 1st gens alive. The 84 had air, cruise, automatic, but was not power steering. And yeah, the 84 part out has paid for itself.
2 into 2... Perhaps it's a 2 into 1? Right before the muffler it's still 2 separate pipes, but maybe I had the phrasing wrong.
The 84 is pretty well picked over now. My 79 is becoming more complete. I've got the air dam off the GS fitted up now, got the dash almost done, started stripping the motor down, and I've got a lot more parts organised now.
So that's the dash, I have a roll of high density padding and a new vinyl dash top, but it's been too cold to fit it up.
All the lights work now too, after isolating some wiring issues.
Converted the chassis wiring to plug and play with the 84 electronic distributor. Thanks to help from people here.
The 84 front end is beat up, but I like it.
Starting to strip the motor also. I've got a s4 water pump assembly I'm looking at fitting up. I want to have the motor ported long term, but I wanted to set it up with the accessories I wanted first.
Thanks for the help so far y'all. I appreciate it.
12-09-15, 11:28 AM
