67 Belvedere II sedan.

[Rattman1]

Not worth much and I know it but sentimental value. My family is helping with money things so I may be able to actually get this off the ground this time. I'm wondering will auto metal direct floor pans fit a sedan chassis? I need the full front pan because it's gone. The frame rails also may need to be replaced but it's held together for 20 years of crappy texas backroads so. But I saw auto metal direct makes those as well. I'm pretty sure those are weld in right? I literally have not been under this car for 4 years and can't remember what problems it has exactly. But front disc conversion along with a bunch of other stuff is on the list to make it more driveable. I'm just looking for suggestions at this point. I still don't have a harness for it. I patched together a cobbled mess of dodge truck harness from the junkyard to make it run for now.

 

[mmissile]

I take it, it's a 4-dr. The front floors are the same, and the rears just have an added piece on 4-drs. I also think using 40+ year old wiring is a crap-shoot, at best. If you can swing a new harness...it'd save a bunch of headaches. You gotta figure what you want to spend on your project.

 

[Rattman1]

Well I'm building a harness right now. I ordered 12 spools of wire and am running 10 gauge power and ground to everything with a custom breaker box/fuse panel. My budget is up in the air right now. Probably around 5k'ish. I'm doing 90% of the work myself aside from welding and paint. I am doing body prep though. Body is straight and true aside from a few rust spots that are surface and a couple dings.

 

[Bart K]

Please post some pics!

 

[Rattman1]

I'll post some pics when I get everything started. Right now it's on the back burner to my 6.0l lq4 swap into my 93 chevrolet c1500. That is my daily and I'm driving a beater right now.

 

[Rattman1]

Well It's got some rust issues..... Far worse than I originally thought. After a couple months of sitting I ripped the interior out. Don't have any pictures yet but I'm close to abandoning the project all together and stealing everything from the drive train and swapping it into something with less rust. The front cradle is mostly fine. The floors are pretty well rusted through. The rear cradle is fine save for needing springs. The body itself after going at it with 180 grit down to metal in places I thought were surface rust turned out to be pretty nasty. Rust covered with caked on bondo. The unibody isn't much better. The front floor brace is eaten through in a few places. It does have an underbody coating so it may only be that but I didn't think it was nearly this bad. I've got a few questions. One being how hard is it to swap floor pans? Also can I just weld and box in the under body? Sort of like a frame or maybe like those cradle bars or whatever that go from the front to the back cradles to help stop frame twist? I'm in the planning stage right now and have abandoned my LQ4 swap for now and just have a 350 in my truck for now because I blew up my beater. This is all still planning. It's going to be quite some time before I get any parts. I'm just trying to decide whether or not I can do this or if I need to have someone do it.

 

[Rattman1]

Well I'm back with interesting news. My cam is missing 3 lobes! No wonder it ran so bad for all those years! My question is what cam can I run on stock heads and rockers? Mind you this is a totally stock 318 la from 1967.