No worries man. I'm married to a teacher with degrees in English and Spanish. Why do you think I hit the edit button so much on this forum?
So will we see before and after pictures of Grrretchen?
I have some old before pictures. Currently the interior is completely out of her.
Since the pictures were taken, the following mechanical mods were made:
- Engine
-- refurbished 460cubic inch short block
-- bored cylinders over 0.030 "
-- Cobra Jet racing heads
-- 650 CFM holley double pumper carb
-- Edelbrock performer intake
-- rocker rollers
-- dished KB pistons
-- gaskets/seals etc.
- Transmission
-- Replaced C6 with custom AOD transmission (required complete new bellhousing)
-- wide planetary gear ratio
- Rear end
-- went from 3.05 to 3.55
- Exhaust
-- went from 2.25" to 2.5"
-- removed cats and other emission junk
-- Flowmaster low pressure muffler
Currently:
- all seats and vinyl removed and repaired -- in process of dyeing to a light cream color
- wheels removed and replaced with offset mag wheels
- all carpet removed
- restoring door panels
- replaced stereo and speakers (am/fm and cb were in it)
- removed headliner
- removed all plastic interior parts
Work to be done:
- exterior paint (duh)
- replace dash gauges with custom New Vintage dials and gauges
- replace old roof rack with new
- rechrome hardware
- put new 'wood' vinyl on
- restore brakes
- upgrade suspension with anti-roll and variable rear
- install roof mount DVD player
- install dash GPS
- window tint