my 66' impala hardtop :)

[Sabbath']

License plates need blanking out better!

 

[Jonno]

niceee mate )

 

[ari666]

research material:
Chevy 454 502 Gen 6 Comp Cams K Kit Hydraulic Roller 270HR lifters springs | eBay

 

[ari666]

so umm, is this normal? according to my book, this 1-2 accumulator is mean to have a spring in it, which pushes the piston... this trans has a bolt...

and here you can see the damage to the piston:

and here you can see the damage to the body...

 

[Pub247]

home made shift kit?

 

[ari666]

yerp. got a new 1-2 assembly for free-free-free the damage to the "body" was actually just the shield plate, so i hammer and dollied it flat again and stuck it all back together.

 

[yZoH]

Interesting.. Current box I have sitting there has a machined piece instead of a nut. I'm curious about that one.

It's not a cheap/diy shiftkit. But it is a way to gain an additional ammount of fluid pressure over just a conventional shift kit installation, It'll juse expose the weak point of the box to more stress causing a failure, ie: Pump magnets/Old pump.

Cheers
Mat

 

[ari666]

TH700-R4 is in and running perfectly. id post more details, but if you were a donating member and had access to chatbox, you would already know all the gorey details

 

[ari666]

ok so ill do pics anyway:
TH700-R4 is in!! shifts brilliantly!, need to do some final adjustments, namely shift cable adjustments and neutral safety switch. was a mission though, i stuffed up the measurements for the tailshaft length and had to send it back to get more removed (which cost a bunch) learned that even though LOKAR are top quality, DONT make the cable go sideways... they snap reeeeeal easily, and NPT fittings are different to normal fittings

once the trans was all back together after the rebuild, stuck on the shift cable and ditched the old linkages:

dropped the old glide:

and empty home:

and what i thought was "fitted" did all the bolts up, moved the trans mount 30mm rearwards:

then discovered:

had to bash the sh1t out of the trans tunnel. took 2 goes to clearance enough too :s each go was completely fitting everything only to find it still had clearance issues. think i must have bashed around 2 inches off. cant seem to feel the lump in the floor so im happy enough.

this afternoon gonna put it back on the hoist and see if i can adjust a few more gears into the column shift. it the moment it only does P N R and D, no 3, 2, or 1. which kinda sucks, but i dont really care cos the kickdown seems to be working fine.

got some exhaust wrap just now so gotta wrap some cables to protect them and maybe, if i am feeling motivated, i might just swap out the engine mounts while its up.

thanks for reading

 

[Reaper]

:rofl: The car is the size of a aircraft carrier and you still have clearance issues.

Reaper