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As with any project, I always look for the best body I can find in a color I can live with. Body and paint work typically comprise 50 percent of the build budget, so if you can avoid that portion, you have more money and …
I want to build one just like that. I'll only accept 4 colors. Black, white, grey, and tan.
It's like you are reading my mind. I was just running through a G-body CAM build in my mind over the last couple days.
Coincidence or sign from the universe?
02 blazer zr2 front spindles bolt right up and give you 11.75 rotors and dual piston calipers.
Nick (Bo) Comstock said:It's like you are reading my mind. I was just running through a G-body CAM build in my mind over the last couple days.
Coincidence or sign from the universe?
Plate of shrimp.
In reply to David S. Wallens :
Ooh, so close.
I've owned so many G-bodies its scary. Love them. Everybody had one but they were so cool.
Only reason I ditched my latest one (85 Elky) was because I sold it to buy Duke's 67 LeMans.
I'm going to take issue with two statements in the opening story. 1)The stock brakes are marginal in a performance setting. 2) The GM G-body is a great platform for any kind of racing or performance driving. The metric chassis is crap for racing. The front end geometry is completely wrong for performance use. The upper trailing arms in the rear are way too short. Lowering the car much quickly gets things in a bind without some fabrication. The rear ends are weak, designed more for runs to the grocery store than anything else. Luckily, upgrades are plentiful, if not always inexpensive. The brakes are barely acceptable for daily use, never mind any kind of racing that involves stopping or slowing down often, but again, upgrades are available everywhere. The street stock crowd has developed a crap ton of performance parts, so finding used stuff is pretty easy. With a little bit of fabrication and welding the upper A-arms in the front can be relocated to a better position easily enough. Being a GM car, there's also a boatload of parts that interchange between the different GM divisions, even Cadillac. With some luck, once I rearrange my finances, I'll be building some new A-arms and rebuilding the front end on my Monte Carlo over the winter.
I would love a T-Type built to "Pro Touring" specs, even though the interiors were hideous even back then.
yupididit wrote:I want to build one just like that. I'll only accept 4 colors. Black, white, grey, and tan.
At first I thought you said 4 doors and saw this. https://baltimore.craigslist.org/cto/d/1983-chevy-malibu/6306758464.html Never mind. 
stan_d said:02 blazer zr2 front spindles bolt right up and give you 11.75 rotors and dual piston calipers.
ZR2 spindles won't work. The ZR2 was 4wd. You need the 2wd spindles which were used on the 2wd blazer (not the pickup) to score the dual piston calipers.
For those wanting to upgrade a G-body for CAM, Speedway Motors has a Metric Buttload of parts that fit the Camaro, Nova, and G-body cars. One in particular is a front upright that fixes the camber curve without altering the chassis pickup points and also has mounts to use the Metric caliper with a 13" disc and really bring things to a screeching halt, over and over again.
Some old threads for handling tips when I was researching G-bodies a while ago:
Some old threads for handling tips when I was researching G-bodies a while ago:
These were great looking cars, and still a time when Chevy, Buick, Olds, and Pontiac all had different looking bodies.
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