The Never Ending Project (86 caprice lq4 4l80e)

You are a brave guy! That's an enormous amount of work installing a clutch pedal assembly into a car that was never offered as a manual. Getting the geometry of the clutch pedal right is no easy task. If you get the clutch-brake peadlsin the wrong position it will feel funny to your feet.

Arc welding the thin sheet metal is difficult unless you have 0.025" wire and a mig welder. Even then, the sheet metal is so thin, it takes a good deal of experience to weld effectively.

Keep us posted on your rogress.

ALL RIGHT!! A swap to a manual transmission! I'll be watching this thread!

Same here! Looks good man keep us posted this is interesting for sure!

Check this out if you haven't, b bodies were designed to be had with a manual transmission just never went into production. https://www.gmbbodyforum.com/t288-old-school-manual-transmission-conversion-instructions?highlight=Manual+transmission

Boogie1468 wrote:You are a brave guy!  That's an enormous amount of work installing a clutch pedal assembly into a car that was never offered as a manual.  Getting the geometry of the clutch pedal right is no easy task.  If you get the clutch-brake peadlsin the wrong position it will feel funny to your feet.

Arc welding the thin sheet metal is difficult unless you have 0.025" wire and a mig welder.   Even then, the sheet metal is so thin, it takes a good deal of experience to weld effectively.

Keep us posted on your rogress.

Thanks dude, But I got to say that I didn't do the welding and the mounting of the pedal I left it for someone who knows better than me. And this might be the only thing that I let someone do for me xD.

Hello,

So I finally finished installing the brake lines, the pedals and the line lock. but after two day I noticed that I forgot to plum the Brake light switch with the lines xD. so I'll have to do that another day.

Time to start working. Started with mounting the pedals bracket and fitting the stainless steel lines and the -3an bulkhead.

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Nickle copper lines.


Here is when I already mounted the pedals and the master cylinders to the bracket and was trying to mount the Master cylinders tanks. I used rivet nuts to hold the tanks in place.


A look at the rivet nuts from behind. I notice that there was lots of surface rust so I painted this area (Didn't take pictures).






Pluming the line lock.




Front end brake lines done.


Routed the line to the passenger side through the trans tunnel. I thinks it better than running it under the engine.


A picture of the pedals mounted. there is one problem and by the looks of it the brake pedal is too far from the gas pedal. But I have to drive it this way to make sure. If it is too far I have a great idea i might try to fix this problem.


Rear brake line.


Here is the rest. First time doing this. That why it looks a little shitty xD. Zip ties were temporary.


I noticed that the Tee in the middle of the rear end was high a little. I might shorten each side of the lines to bring it down.


The old brake lines.


Bought some OEM engine mounts and filled them with polyurethane (Got this idea from Hot Rod Garage ).
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Painted the gas tank. I may start with the fuel system next month.


This pic was after the day I finished the front brake lines.

GM B-Body Forum wrote:Check this out if you haven't, b bodies were designed to be had with a manual transmission just never went into production. https://www.gmbbodyforum.com/t288-old-school-manual-transmission-conversion-instructions?highlight=Manual+transmission

Nice, I didn't know about that.

some progress with the caprice, installed the 4l80e with a manual controller from ebay, finished wiring the car, 94 camaro seats, centerline wheels and a kilduff exterminator shifter. burnout video at the end   .

Looks freaking good man! Love it!!!

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GM B-Body Forum wrote:Looks freaking good man! Love it!!!

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thanks

nice build man!

whats the size and offset of the rear wheel

Fierro51 wrote:whats the size and offset of the rear wheel

they are 15x10 wheels. as for the offset I'll measure it in a few days.

efladerr wrote:

Fierro51 wrote:whats the size and offset of the rear wheel

they are 15x10 wheels. as for the offset I'll measure it in a few days.

thank you does it rub at all? and is the rear end factory width?

Fierro51 wrote:

efladerr wrote:

Fierro51 wrote:whats the size and offset of the rear wheel

they are 15x10 wheels. as for the offset I'll measure it in a few days.

thank you does it rub at all? and is the rear end factory width?

It's a factory 8.5 rear end. and the tires used to rub really bad I rolled the top half of the fender and it rubbed less but still rubs a little in the sides going to roll the whole fender before I paint it.

efladerr wrote:

Fierro51 wrote:

efladerr wrote:

Fierro51 wrote:whats the size and offset of the rear wheel

they are 15x10 wheels. as for the offset I'll measure it in a few days.

thank you does it rub at all? and is the rear end factory width?

It's a factory 8.5 rear end. and the tires used to rub really bad I rolled the top half of the fender and it rubbed less but still rubs a little in the sides going to roll the whole fender before I paint it.

did you ever get the offsets measured by chance?

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Fierro51 wrote:

efladerr wrote:

Fierro51 wrote:

efladerr wrote:

Fierro51 wrote:whats the size and offset of the rear wheel

they are 15x10 wheels. as for the offset I'll measure it in a few days.

thank you does it rub at all? and is the rear end factory width?

It's a factory 8.5 rear end. and the tires used to rub really bad I rolled the top half of the fender and it rubbed less but still rubs a little in the sides going to roll the whole fender before I paint it.

did you ever get the offsets measured by chance?

sorry for not getting back to you sooner. I've been very busy and barely had time even work on the car. but I calculated the offset and its negative 52.5 mm. I just found out that it's illegal to have the tires stick out of the fenders in my country so I may look for wheels with different offset possibly the same offset on yours.

does anyone know how wide are the 9c1 rear wheels ?

Finally done with the paint job

Where did you find the buckets? And what brackets did you have to make?

Looking good though for a 4 door.

terry cronk wrote:Where did you find the buckets?   And what brackets did you have to make?

Looking good though for a 4 door.

sorry for the late reply . they are camaro 1994 bucket seats. it was pretty easy making them fit. all you will need to do is weld some thick metal bars to each bracket to extend them to the existing holes in the caprice and 2 of the seat brackets of the passenger side fit instantly without any work. I'll post more pics when I can about them and other progress