My Chevy Project

Hi

this is my awesome chevy project

it is a Chevrolet Suburban made in the fine year 1985 with a 6,2 liter diesel engine. the plan was to do something cool with the paint but since that plan was made the automatic transmission thought it would be a great idea to break down but it is raised for 35" tyres by icelandic standards NOT the american way

So now the plan is...

1. Take care of ALL rust in the car ( witch is not much )
2. Put some awesome color on it maybe matte black or matte candy apple red or maybe gloss candy apple red I have´nt made the selection yet
3. Put some cool rims on it
4. Stereo
5. Lighting ( xenon )
6. Re-tint the windows
7. New Grille

this will all take a lot of time but I will bring updates as sonn as something happens.

I am currently looking for a place to restore the car but it is not going so great

but enough talking lets see some pics

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[Ingo]

I could not put all the images together

 

[thexav]

Thats a monster . I guess you go off road quite a bit?

 

[Ingo]

Thats a monster . I guess you go off road quite a bit?

sometimes, yes. There is a kind of offroad track for the motocross bikes in my hometown I sometimes go there and offcourse I try´d to do something at the offroad track where the 1000+ hp steeletube v8 muscle jeeps compete.

this is the formula offroad track where i live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENEuNkulwCU

 

[obi_waynne]

Looks like fun! Are you going for 1000bhp as well?

 

[MrB]

Nice

 

[Tex]

Now that's defo pimping material!

 

[Ingo]

Looks like fun! Are you going for 1000bhp as well?

no i dont think so, maybe i will put a 454 engine in it with either turbo or a blower but the most sensible thing to do for this car is a 350small block with blower and that could produce 500 - 700 hp

the car is 2,25 tons so 350 small block is good for it because it is a cruiser not a 10sec drag racer :toung:

 

[Hansi]

Þetta er töffari

I would reccommend the 350 motor... It's a great motor and me and my friend are planning on putting one into an old Willys (can't remember the year right now) which is currently sitting on 33" or 35". The only problem is that since it is a convertible the old top can't handle much more than 80-90 km/h (around 50 mph). But then again I think you could solve that by just taking the top down:toung:

 

[Prince]

Nice car mate! That's screaming for a set of 24s!

 

[Ingo]

Nice car mate! That's screaming for a set of 24s!

thank you and it will probably stay on those rims he has on now

 

[obi_waynne]

Wait until you get the modding bug, you'll have it jacked up and with a roaring V8 turbo engine!

 

[Wcnwzrd]

hey no fair you stole my truck and repainted it. lol j/k. i have an 84 with the 350. don't plan on doing anything economical as far as gas goes. a stock 350 in a burban gets between 10 and 12 per gallon. not sure what you mean by icelandic standard vice american. currently i have 15" rims and 31" tires on mine. check out this site for alot of good products. they have an entire catalog devoted to the suburban 150+ pages. the ones im going for mine are the front bumper conversion (gets the turn signals out of the grill and puts them on the bumper) LED light kit for the back, also the LED light bar. and the EURO light conversion for the head lights (makes em light the modern ones with the bolb that twists into the reflector).

 

[Hansi]

The icelandic way most often means wider tires than the american wersion:blink1:

 

[Wcnwzrd]

oh okies.

 

[Ingo]

by icelandic standard I mean

this

vs
this

some one told me that if you want to put 35" tires on your car you have to raise it up like the car I show in this post :?

 

[obi_waynne]

It easy! What about this. 10 minutes to jack it up and a respray as well!

 

[Hansi]

yeaa...I think I like the icelandic one better on that car...

 

[Wcnwzrd]

not all of the off road trucks in the states are like that. in fact i would be extremely suprised if either of those ever say a dirt parking lot yet alone a mud bog. i prefer a slight lift for clearance mayb 2 but never higher than 4 and never a body lift they just look tacky to me.