Dafey
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Whats the most PITA mod you`ve ever done?
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reddog64
1/2 ton status
Get Married...
R134a retro on a 1977 Stingray
vortec
1/2 ton status
i'll never understand why so many people do that mod. it's like putting a restrictor plate on your fun carb
.not really a mod, but after some idiot ran into my 87 accord and totalled it, my dad and i stripped a bunch of parts off and stuck them on his identical 87 accord. actually, his didn't have the little pinstripes like mine. that's why mine had 5 more hp
. power steering hose was the worst swap. getting it off was ok, but getting it on was much harder because neither one of us could fit our hands or tools in those tight spots.
15" rims on a d60 front with 4.25 bs. Now that was a PITA mod.
Kjunky5
1/2 ton status
Swapping heads on a LT1 Camaro with big hands!!
Cajun4x4
1/2 ton status
removing the $hitty chrome paneling and the ape $hit glue it was held on with that covered my rocker panels... took 15+ hours to complete
vortec
1/2 ton status
tried messing with a cayman S engine? don't bother.
After MDOT vandalized my car over the years, I had to completely replace the rocker panel area. So I cut off all the rusty stuff (actually pulled most of it off with my hands), sandblasted everything, treated with Picklex-20, coated with Zero-rust, attached rectangle tubing up inside to reinforce the unibody and then bent 16-gauge sheet metal (in my garage, no brake available) to fit the rocker area. Fortunately, the car wears plastic side skirts, so this fabrication doesn't have to look perfect. I also had to replace some steel with fiberglass above the rear wheelwells.
Such a PITA, the job is still in progress and I started in November!
Such a PITA, the job is still in progress and I started in November!
zero cool
1/2 ton status
I bought an old 77 Cherokee. I had to get the engine rebuilt because I found out it was shot while I was trying to swap the cam for the TBI upgrade. As of right now, I've pulled the engine twice, swapped in another to get the thing running and had that engine barf on me. I still don't have the damn thing finished.
Full story, with pictures
Full story, with pictures
Building a Blazer totally from scratch. 
I thought it would be cool to be "one of those guys" to do a frame off with all new junk. While I should have, I never anticipated how the project would snowball. If I had it to do again, I'd buy a running truck and do the typical axle swap.
I thought it would be cool to be "one of those guys" to do a frame off with all new junk. While I should have, I never anticipated how the project would snowball. If I had it to do again, I'd buy a running truck and do the typical axle swap.
all my projects are involved..... to say the least...
one of my fave mods to do of all time is polished stainless steel firewalls... always loved the outcome of those.. bleach tanks in the trunk where always fun...The worst was polishing an intake probably and the custom stainless dash in my Chevelle.. There's soooo many over the years, not including sidework.....
for the current rig, probably the biggest time consumer was the dash... tho the shroud, e-box and glove breakers where all probably up there in hrs..
but the stuff I have going now makes all the prior ones pale in comparison imo..
one of my fave mods to do of all time is polished stainless steel firewalls... always loved the outcome of those.. bleach tanks in the trunk where always fun...The worst was polishing an intake probably and the custom stainless dash in my Chevelle.. There's soooo many over the years, not including sidework.....
for the current rig, probably the biggest time consumer was the dash... tho the shroud, e-box and glove breakers where all probably up there in hrs..
but the stuff I have going now makes all the prior ones pale in comparison imo..
Try doing the passenger side head, with longtubes still in the way and add in a set of ARP studs to get over.
That was fun.
Yep LT1's are definitely a pain.
For me it would be tubing out the truck. Lots and lots of work (I have no idea how many hours it took but its in the triple digits).
For me it would be tubing out the truck. Lots and lots of work (I have no idea how many hours it took but its in the triple digits).
01maroonz71
1/2 ton status
grinding for my 15's on my dana 60 was pretty ghey...but rewiring my WHOLE TRUCK headlight to tail light was HORRIBLE...took like 3days nonstop. next time, im buying a painless kit.
the dumbest thing I ever wasted my time on was trying to recreate all the emissions vacuum tubing after an engine fire by duplicating the diagram on the rad support. I wanted to be able to pass inspection so I worked on it every afternoon for way to long. I gave up and the truck has been offroad for 8 years now.
a close second for a huge waste of time was when my sister wrecked her Subaru Justy. I swapped the motor out of it and into another one that the previous owner had already removed the bad motor from. the wrecked car was AWD and the new one was 2WD. the motor had to come out the bottom and go in the same way. it was a lot of work for a throw away car.
a close second for a huge waste of time was when my sister wrecked her Subaru Justy. I swapped the motor out of it and into another one that the previous owner had already removed the bad motor from. the wrecked car was AWD and the new one was 2WD. the motor had to come out the bottom and go in the same way. it was a lot of work for a throw away car.
I converted my wifes 79 bronco from a 400M to a 302 EFI from a 93 Mustang. Everyone said the 302 wouldn't fit. Figureing out the wiring was hell too. It runs like a champ though. Sure fire starts & 14 MPG. It turned out well.
Dafey
1/2 ton status
You went from G/F 1.0 to wife 1.0 and now you can never go back to the previous version.
You went from G/F 1.0 to wife 1.0 and now you can never go back to the previous version.
Well you can go back, but downgrading cost a whole lot more than it did to upgrade.
TH350 to manual clutch 465/203 setup in a '76 K5.
