[rohrt]

Looking good.

What does it run for the Tilt conversion?

[Qball]

Originally Posted by rohrt

Looking good.

What does it run for the Tilt conversion?

At gmtilt.com, it's $795 with shipping. Very interesting....

[Old Blue 66]

Those gauges area must for me. They're beautiful. NIce work.

[Nicks67GTO]

Thanks guys. I'm not 100% sure what Jim is going to charge. Mine was the first GTO one he had done so I got a killer deal on it.

GT182 The dash is actually the stock 45 year old stuff. I haven't replaced the plastic or the woodgrain

OldBlue. The dash is great to look at. I am extremely happy I went this route over the Dakota Digital stuff.

[Nicks67GTO]

Got my Eddie Motorsports billet hood hinges in today.

It took way too long but that's because I got sent some 2nd gen Firebird hinges in the mail first. Matt's Classic Bowties and Eddie Motorsports had new ones to me in a week and call tags emailed in a day. An unfortunate mistake but it happens and I respect good customer service.

The new hinges are light years ahead of the old Chinese **** re-pops I had on there. I had one break on me 2 years back, had another one laying around and it was about to break. I was done with re-pop stuff so it came down to rebuilding some 45 year old hinges or getting something I knew would work..... I paid good money for these but I doubt ill ever have to buy hinges again. The truth is though I would call these complete excess. They are in fact just hood hinges.....really nice hood hinges. With that said Im no longer afraid to open my hood and leave it open. It shuts and opens perfect, the rear of the hood doesn't stick up and they look pretty sweet. Now if my body panels lined up worth a damn I would actually have something!

Matt's Classic Bowties had the best price on them by far FWIW. I got them in matte black to blend in with everything else since I don't care for a lot of flash and I drive my car a lot so its hard to keep really clean.

I'm getting my Vintage air Gen IV finished up tomorrow by a local radiator shop. They will crimp the line ends on and charge the unit for me. Ill report back on that this weekend.

Anyhow here's some pics....

[GT182]

Originally Posted by Nicks67GTO

GT182 The dash is actually the stock 45 year old stuff. I haven't replaced the plastic or the woodgrain

Wow! You are lucky it's still the original and in great condition. If you hadn't said so I'd still be thinking it was replaced.

[1966geeto]

What brand speakers did you go with where did you mount them ? if you don't mind me asking.

[Nicks67GTO]

The last few weeks iv'e gotten a few more things done....

-I finished up my Vintage Air. Its great to have a functional AC/Heat/Blower system back in the car. It was a huge PITA to be honest but I'm glad I did it. The heat is hot and the AC is ice cold!

-If you notice the 4 SS screws in the fender in picture 2. That's where I mounted the electric coolant valve and then I doubled back on the coolant hose to the rear of the car as seen in picture 1.

-In pictures 3,4,5&6 you'll see I used VA's lines but cleaned up the suggested install. I tried to keep the install as clean as possible without flopping stuff everywhere. You will also notice an aluminum bracket I bought off Ebay to mount the dryer. It was about 13 bucks and looks a world better than the strap VA gives you. I also need to do a quick scuff and shoot on the dryer its mounting. It got scratched up pretty good with all the tinkering around.


-I also relocated a new radiator overflow can to under the passenger side fenderwell. Although the canister is sideways I don't see any sort of issue with this and it's out of the way of everything. Its also running downhill so it should be easily drained. Worst case is that I have to unbolt the canister and drain it. That would take all of 5 minutes where its at.

[Nicks67GTO]

Originally Posted by 1966geeto

What brand speakers did you go with where did you mount them ? if you don't mind me asking.

2 6x9's on the rear and 2 6" speakers in the kick panels using the custom autosound kick panels. The speakers are Memphis Audio speakers.

[1966geeto]

Looks great always nice to have a/c this time of year. Hood hinges are nice to looking at some for my 66 but need to save up just got new seat foam and cover ouch.

[Nicks67GTO]

Originally Posted by 1966geeto

Looks great always nice to have a/c this time of year. Hood hinges are nice to looking at some for my 66 but need to save up just got new seat foam and cover ouch.

If you go for the Eddie Motorsports hinges, Matt's Classic Bowties had the best price, by far.