[old66tiger]

If you don't like the wood grain, I would do an insert, but either stain it really dark (almost black) or paint it flat or satin. I personally don't like the grainy texture of the plastic.

[Nicks67GTO]

Originally Posted by old66tiger

If you don't like the wood grain, I would do an insert, but either stain it really dark (almost black) or paint it flat or satin. I personally don't like the grainy texture of the plastic.

Tonight @ work I found a guy on ebay that sells a 67 real wood insert. I could stain it black and gloss finish it?

A few weeks ago I found a guy who was selling a plain aluminum one but I can't find it anymore??

[Old Blue 66]

Originally Posted by Nicks67GTO

Tonight @ work I found a guy on ebay that sells a 67 real wood insert. I could stain it black and gloss finish it?

A few weeks ago I found a guy who was selling a plain aluminum one but I can't find it anymore??

Whats the name of the company?

[Nicks67GTO]

Originally Posted by Old Blue 66

Whats the name of the company?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1967-67-GTO-...p2054897.l4275

[Nicks67GTO]

A lot of stuff going on but Ive been forgetting to take pictures....

I got a curveball thrown at me a few weeks ago. Heard a nasty clunking noise when I was trying to start the car. Found out that I sheered some teeth off of the ring gear on my flywheel. I believe it was caused by an issue within my starter. This also mangled the pinion gear on my starter. The starter is at RobbMc for repair and I got the flywheel re-ringed locally.

Since I was going to be in there anyhow, I ended up buying a Ram clutch from Bob {old66tiger} My clutch works great but its pretty aggressive and I wanted something smooth and reliable. The old clutch grabs fast and takes a little getting used to. Ill probably never put a set of slicks on it so the dual friction clutch I had in there was probably overkill. It will be for sale soon.

The Richmond 5 speed is leaking oil and it needed some seals and it scratches on a power shift into second gear now. Its 15 years old and had the crap beat out of it its whole lift so i'm not even mad. Iv'e got some synchronizers and seals coming and ill probably do the rebuild next week. If you have a richmond 5 speed do yourself a favor and shop around. I got seals from autoplicity for literally 20 bucks as opposed to 125 bucks that summit wanted. Yes I mean that literally. Same parts. What was going to cost me $375 bucks through summit, ended up costing me $175 bucks just by shopping around.

I also got my rear axle centered up with advice from Savitske. Apparently its common for these cars to have the rear axle off center a hair. Mine was a 1/4" too far to the passenger side making wheel measurements hard to take. So I turned my adjustable upper rear control arms a half a turn each. The driver side was shortened a 1/2 turn. The passenger side lengthened a 1/2 turn. Done deal. Perfectly centered rear axle. It wont mess with pinion angle either. Marc is the man. I also took my final measurements for wheels. Measure twice, cut once right? It looks like the verdict is 18x8 5" backspacing in front and 18x9" 5.75" backspacking in the rear. I'll be ordering on Monday or Tuesday.

[Nicks67GTO]

Trying my hand at some new seals and synchronizers in the old Richmond 1:1 Street 5 speed. Iv'e actually never pulled a transmission apart before. Sorry about all the pics. Im a little excited about messing with the guts of a transmission!

I definitely had some brass in the oil when I drained it. It was starting to scratch in second on a hard shift and was leaking pretty good out of the shift arm seals so it was time. Iv'e had it for a long time and I bought it used then. It's been ran hard for years and still looks pretty darn good inside!

Last night I got everything pulled apart and cleaned out. New shift arm seals installed and part of it reassembled. Ill be finishing it up in a few hours. Here's where I got last night....