Hello,

First post and am glad to be here! I am a 1987 Monte Carlo SS owner and look forward to interacting and learning.

Thanks!
Chris

 

Welcome to the forum Chris!!
Please post pics when you can.

 

Hi P343,

Thanks for the tip! I certainly plan on posting some car pics soon. I plan on restoring my car this year and will be taking plenty of pics along the way.
A little more about the car, I'm the second owner and bought the car in 1992. It's been parked for the last 10 years and is still in pretty good shape overall. The car is stock, 305, white with grey interior, stock bucket seats, T-tops with SS rims, 373 posi rear.

 

What are your plans for the car? Daily driver, show car, racing?

 

The plan is for a street, pro touring type flavor. I plan on replacing the stock 305 and computer module with a new GM crate 350 ram jet EFI or Edelbrock pro flo EFI with stainless headers and true dual exhaust. Lowering the car an inch or two, Wilwood 6 piston disks (red) front and rear, rebuilding the 200r4 trans., 17 inch "year one repo" SS rims, replacing stock instrument gauge cluster with white face auto meter pre-loaded cluster. repaint car without stripes in GM summit white or possibly white diamond tricoat or some other metallic white.

 

Sounds like you have a good grip on your plans.
You probably already know this but just passing along something I just recently noticed on my cross member. Make sure you look around for, or fabricate, a double hump cross member when going to true dual exhaust. The guy who had my car before I did, put true duals on and the drivers side portion of the cross member does NOT have the hump for the exhaust. Making my exhaust revisions to cut outs and glass packs a bit more challenging. I guess he forgot the exhaust ran below that flat cross member and he jacked it up at some point and smashed the exhaust....ARGHHH Not to mention if he was jacking the car up there, he was doing so in the wrong place..LOL

 

Yes very true and a great tip! I just learned this myself. I plan on buying a pre-fab. Also a cool side effect from using these double hump crossmembers is increased frame stiffness and rigidity, more than just using a stock single hump. At least from what I've read.

Thanks!

 

This is the one I am probably going to get JEGS Performance Products 640600, JEGS Double Hump G-Body Transmission Crossmembers | JEGS Performance Products

 

That looks like a good one, and at a good price too! I was looking at the G-Force for $229.00 but might have to re think that after seeing yours.

Thanks for the info.!

 

Welcome to the forum, sounds like you have a nice plan to put in motion