Topic: Aldo`s 1980 full clone 1977 trans am project

[aldo]

Well next i had replaced all the seals and swaped out the gears,new shocks and drum brakes.also rear leaf bushings.



the leaf springs were off another doner car but they were like new.

[aldo]

I was building this car on my own extra time,im married now 13 years and have a 12 year old son,life is busy,
a few months pass and i spend most of that extra time getting much needed parts.
i got a great deal on t-top moldings .


other parts


 fisher t-bags o got 5 of them


more to come 

[Greenbird76]

Your build brings back memories of what I did to my 76 last year.  Great job!

[aldo]

Your build brings back memories of what I did to my 76 last year.  Great job!

Thank you,heres more.

ok started with the body stuff now the rear end is done



Paint removal of parts that needed work.(way to many layers of paint on the donar parts.)

[aldo]

The hood was hell i removed all the paint and glued the under nieth skellatan back together to make it solide.


I also had to replace the passenger side door with another ,the other door was damaged and had bondo.


My donar parts car



WANT MORE....

[Mongo]

Is that donar car picture recent?  What's with all the white stuff?

[79taman]

i'm diggin it, keep up the great work man

[aldo]

no thats last season just near the end,they call that SNOW......lol    im sure you know we all live in igloos too......

[Mongo]

Oh yaaa. I know all to well eh?  Have heard some other stuff aboot you frenchies up der in quebec too. 

[aldo]

Next step was to send the mags out to a good friend of mine who was restoring them for me,
before.



 2weeks later

[aldo]

now to start working on all the bushings and fron end mechanical stuff..
took apart the engine because defective cam and i replaced it.

i never payed for it just done the repaire myself,i belive it was a bad break in that mess up the cam.



next was front suspention parts

with the car at work it was great to have the lift to work on ,made things much more easy.

[aldo]

This is just a before shot to give you an idea how low the front was sagging.


after

[aldo]

more to come.....

[Justin]

Looks great. What size tire do you have? Those things looks huge.

[aldo]

Looks great. What size tire do you have? Those things looks huge.

Actually those mags are not the ones im using ,i have the 15x7 restored and put factory size tires on them bf goodrich radial TA is what i run with...the mags with the big tires were just a loaner from a friend.