Recent content by Buickspec6231

Does anyone have a drawing of a 401 or 425 that shows dimensions? I will attach a similar drawings that I have for the Buick 231 V6 so you understand what I'm looking for. I am trying to find a bunch of different measurements including, but not limited to overall width, length, bellhousing to...

I saw that you added this picture to your photo album, but it wasn't part of the post yet. To me it looks like a casting mark. It is fairly straight and there looks like a perpindicular mark meeting at the vertical mark. Here is the same picture where I marked what I mean with red arrows.

Quick update- I have been working on the rear of the car recently, trying to get an axle assembly back under it. I built a cradle for the axle housing. I used back iron pipe for most of it. I used some rebar and bent it around the axle tubes to hold them in place and used some threaded rod to...

Thanks guys. I haven't been out in the garage lately to work on it. I am waiting for the axles to come back from the machine shop. I am having them redrill the Ford axle shafts to the 5x4.75 bolt pattern to fit the common later model GM bolt pattern. I narrowed the Ford 8.8 axle housing 3"...

Anyone bringing their car to the Syracuse Nationals this year? Show usually has a very low number of Buicks.

A long overdue update Well, I didn't get much work done on the vehicle last year due to other issues going on. This year I got back at it some. I have the engine set it is final place, I tracked down a CZF code 200-4R transmission and have that mounted in place with a crossmember I...

I was just wondering if anyone knew why so many Opel ads in the late 60's and into the 70's had an elephant shown with the car? I was looking through a bunch of literature at some car shows and noticed this. This might be common knowledge for our more veteran staff here, but this guy doesn't...

Hello fellow compact Buick owners. I have a favor to ask of someone who owns one of these cars and has the stock suspension and stock sized wheels on the vehicle (15" prefered, but 13" will also give me some good info.) I am swapping in a different front suspension and a different rear axle on...

Easiest way to tell what GM transmission you have is by the shape of the pan. I will attach a couple pictures which will help identify the transmission you are running. Take a picture of yours and post it back up. Hopefully we can help.

My Father has had the same 1937 Mack BX for over 30 years now. My Father's Mack was owned by Gerosa Trucking down in the NYC and NJ area for many years. It has been his dream to restore it, but life always gets in the way one way or another. A friend of my Father's came across some old LIFE...

Thanks for checking the project out. It's been a ton of work but I enjoy it. It is amazing what you can do with an angle grinder with a cut off wheel and a welder. The engine hasn't been to the machine shop yet. That can wait. No sense in getting the engine rebuilt prior to knowing I can...

This is the most informative video I have ever seen on how a differential works, and it's from 1937. If a video was done today like this, I have little hope it would be so well explained. It is also amazing that this stuff is ending up on sites like Youtube, it is great...

Well, rear passenger side of the sub-frame needed to be trimmed to clear the cross-over. This section was first gusseted appropriately to re-enforce it. The notch was then trimmed from the sub-frame. Engine mount brackets were fabricated from 3/16" steel. The frame brackets to mount the...

Ok, so the notches I cut to clear the rack boot were cut and 1/8" filler plates welded in. These notches were re-enforced internally with angle iron. The interference problems between the coil-over mounts and the uni-body were corrected by cutting small notches in the uni-body. These notches...

Ok, so here is a quick update. The narrowed subframe rails which I fabricated where bolted into place. The Welder Series Mustang II kit pieces were marked for cuts and cuts were made. The crossmember and coil-over mounts were tack welded into place and the subframe was removed. In the new...