[bulletpruf]

Sounds like a great build -- EFI, overdrive, A/C. Glad you didn't put an LS motor in it.

Cool back story on the car, too.

Let me know how the body bushings work out -- curious to hear if you notice a harsher ride with these.

On the rear gear, certainly seems like 3.73 would be fine with an overdrive and 18" (or was it 17") tires. I'm thinking about an overdrive for my 68, which has 3.90 gears now.

No heartburn on the cloning, either. Most Judges are a bit too valuable to use as daily drivers.

Scott

[HWYSTR455]

Originally Posted by bulletpruf

Sounds like a great build -- EFI, overdrive, A/C. Glad you didn't put an LS motor in it.

Cool back story on the car, too.

Let me know how the body bushings work out -- curious to hear if you notice a harsher ride with these.

On the rear gear, certainly seems like 3.73 would be fine with an overdrive and 18" (or was it 17") tires. I'm thinking about an overdrive for my 68, which has 3.90 gears now.

No heartburn on the cloning, either. Most Judges are a bit too valuable to use as daily drivers.

Scott

Thank you Scott, and yes, the car does have a history. As a matter of fact, with the local 'enforcement' folks too, which was a driving factor of changing the look and color! No pun intended!

Drove the car like 90k miles with this combo, 461, 373s, 4L80e, and IMO, the gears are perfect. No sacrifice on the bottom end, and better gas mileage than most new trucks and SUVs.

The 442 is a small block, and it will get some hand me down parts for an OD, it's getting a 4L80e too, and am doing 411s in it. The 342s it has now is too much of a compromise on the bottom end, for a small block, and it suffers IMO.

In the 422, prior to the Holley Terminator TBI setup, it did around an uncorrected 13.66 as I recall, hot day, idling with AC on the staging lanes. It laid down some on the top end due to the 670 cfm carb, so pretty sure once it's dialed, it will be in the high 12s. With 411s, maybe mid 12s. Will see, but it's going to be like next year I do the trans, I need to finish this car first.

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[HWYSTR455]

Ok, just got back from Cancun, and the body guy texted me some photos, the cut in is DONE! Woo-hoo! They are going to do a mock up, break it down again, and then shoot the rest most likely this week! Talk about Christmas!

So the Cadillac Opulent Blue looks great! I was worried about the level of 'pop', and that it might be too dark in indirect light, but I think it's perfect, and exactly what I wanted! Guy knew I was worried about it, so he was nice enough to push the thing out into the sun to snap a pic.

You can see in the one pic the '67 GTX they are doing, incredible history on that car, big block 4 speed, manual brakes & steering, definitely order to fly.

I wil go up Friday and snap some more pics, and fingers crossed, they may have it ready for the booth or even sprayed by then!

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[JSPONT]

Sweet!!!!!