1933 Pontiac

Old Iron · Jan 10, 2013

Well with the help of a RRR member, I was able to acquire my next project so, I want to share it with the rest of the RRR members.
First I want to thank Sneakysnake and say it was a real pleasure to meet you and Tim

I will start on this project without saying what direction I'm taking so, it will unfold as I go

This is the car, it's as the title says 1933 Pontiac more door

zpi28 · Jan 10, 2013

Looks like a solid car to begin with.

sleazy · Jan 10, 2013

[dr cool car. I hope you are just going to get it running and knock off some bank jobs!

skull · Jan 10, 2013

nice

pretty nice looking start[dr

plans??

Later

Neverdone · Jan 10, 2013

add fresh rubber and roll??

Uncle Jimi · Jan 10, 2013

[P

How about some inspiration....

Old Iron · Jan 10, 2013

She's in need of some structural metal replacement.
I've got a new mustang ll tubular front end with 2" dropped spindles, that I'll be putting in.
A Chassis Engineering rear leaf spring kit for it.
Power rack.
A 70 Bonneville 455 with a 700r4 tranny.
90 Trans Am rearend with 3.42 gears

42chevy · Jan 10, 2013

Great plans, that will be a serious sleeper.

Flipper_1938 · Jan 10, 2013

I hope you keep the fenders. Those cars are pretty darn nice looking in original form..

andya1234 · Jan 10, 2013

Dang.....clean start!....wish mine was that good looking when I found it....cant wait to see it unfold!

Dirtyrat · Jan 10, 2013

That does look clean, I'll be looking forward to seeing your direction on this!

Old Iron · Jan 10, 2013

Flipper, I will be keepin the fenders along with the dual side mount spares

Snake Farm · Jan 10, 2013

Old Iron said:
Flipper, I will be keepin the fenders along with the dual side mount spares

[cl[cl[cl Very nice!

sneakysnake · Jan 10, 2013

Hey, glad to see you made it home in one piece.It was nice to meet you too. Hope you have fun building this to your liking.

Torch · Jan 11, 2013

dual supercharged v-6's with bbs wheels

Torch · Jan 11, 2013

build a custom straight 6 block out of aluminum to take a stock 400 Pontiac bore and a 235 chevy or 302 gmc crank and cam etc. but with a chevy/bop bellhousing and set up to fit 3 cylinders each from a set of edelbrock pontiac v8 heads.

Aw yeah.

I'd do it.

Another way I thought of (had this idea for a long time originally to big bore a slant six)
Machine the bores right out of a chevy block, spot face the bottom of the water jackets and drill them for head studs which would run completely through the water jacket down to the bottom of the block.
The deck surface would just be used to locate the top of the new sleeves and not have to take the load of the head studs
The sleeves which would have a wide flange at the top for the fire ring of the head gaskets to seal to not unlike a detroit diesel

And the heads could be sawed off flat just behind the 3rd cylinder and the exposed water jackets capped with some welded in plates

or you could just run with a 292

or a 302... they already have a 4" bore

I've been wanting a 302 for the collection. I missed out on a few during times i was broke and old farm trucks were getting scrapped

Old Iron · Jan 11, 2013

Torchmann said:
build a custom straight 6 block out of aluminum to take a stock 400 Pontiac bore and a 235 chevy or 302 gmc crank and cam etc. but with a chevy/bop bellhousing and set up to fit 3 cylinders each from a set of edelbrock pontiac v8 heads.

Aw yeah.

I'd do it.

Another way I thought of (had this idea for a long time originally to big bore a slant six)
Machine the bores right out of a chevy block, spot face the bottom of the water jackets and drill them for head studs which would run completely through the water jacket down to the bottom of the block.
The deck surface would just be used to locate the top of the new sleeves and not have to take the load of the head studs
The sleeves which would have a wide flange at the top for the fire ring of the head gaskets to seal to not unlike a detroit diesel

And the heads could be sawed off flat just behind the 3rd cylinder and the exposed water jackets capped with some welded in plates

or you could just run with a 292

or a 302... they already have a 4" bore

I've been wanting a 302 for the collection. I missed out on a few during times i was broke and old farm trucks were getting scrapped

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Torchman, ya might want to draw that combo up, my imagination isn't that good

05snopro440 · Jan 11, 2013

Old Iron said:
She's in need of some structural metal replacement.
I've got a new mustang ll tubular front end with 2" dropped spindles, that I'll be putting in.
A Chassis Engineering rear leaf spring kit for it.
Power rack.
A 70 Bonneville 455 with a 700r4 tranny.
90 Trans Am rearend with 3.42 gears

I think that's a great plan. I love that you're putting as much Pontiac stuff back in it as you can, it will make it a real unique ride, for sure! Of course, I'm partial to oddball motors in rare vehicles, and that you're planning on a 455 is awesome!

Old Iron · Jan 11, 2013

Sneaky, I can't say we made it quite in one piece

The first and only thing to go was, the metal roof that someone put on it

It took off and don't know where it landed [P All I know is, no one was behind us. Thank God.
Hind sight, I should have put a strap across the front part of the top but, I thought it was on there better.
It just saved me the time of removing it myself

I'll be putting a top off of a 62 Chevy wagon to fill the opening anyway.

Old Iron · Jan 11, 2013

05snopro440 said:
I think that's a great plan. I love that you're putting as much Pontiac stuff back in it as you can, it will make it a real unique ride, for sure! Of course, I'm partial to oddball motors in rare vehicles, and that you're planning on a 455 is awesome!

I like keeping the components true to the make, most of the time, too.
I put a 73 455 in my 40 Pontiac and was concerned that I may only get 5 or 6 mpg but, when we took a road trip to Quincy Il, for the Tin Bender show, it got 17 mpg at 70 mph. It was only turning 1600 with the overdrive

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