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Re: Would you consider this a "Barn find"? 65 Chevy
FinallyaVanner #491370 August 25th 2011 4:00 pm
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yay yay Congrats on this Great Find.


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Re: Would you consider this a "Barn find"? 65 Chevy
Star Dreamer #507076 October 25th 2011 11:40 pm
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Ok, time for an update. We took it to Taz's Vintage Chevy Fest for its first show. Had a great time as always, Taz puts on a great event.

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Then last weekend finally had a chance to do some more work on it. Removed the doghouse, and mocked up the 5.3L motor. Looks like it should work just great. Need to make up some motor mount adapters and get a tranny and get the rear mount mocked up.

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Re: Would you consider this a "Barn find"? 65 Chevy
Star Dreamer #507080 October 25th 2011 11:51 pm
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and it fits in the doghouse...! sweet...!

can't wait to see more of what you do to it...


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Re: Would you consider this a "Barn find"? 65 Chevy
Star Dreamer #507145 October 26th 2011 9:16 am
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Looks like enough room in there for an even bigger engine! shift


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Re: Would you consider this a "Barn find"? 65 Chevy
Superbeast #507150 October 26th 2011 9:33 am
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So you are going with a modern style fuel injected engine I see.
Nice mix of the old with the new. chevy


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Re: Would you consider this a "Barn find"? 65 Chevy
Keep_On_Truckin_WNY #507240 October 26th 2011 1:18 pm
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Originally Posted by Keep_On_Truckin_WNY
and it fits in the doghouse...! sweet...!

can't wait to see more of what you do to it...


That is a 2nd gen (67-70) doghouse, it will not fit in the 1st gen (64-66) doghouse due to the width of the motor. You can see in the pictures where the floor was cut wider to clear the exhaust manifolds and to match to the 2nd gen doghouse width.

Ken, it is a little tight, coil packs get close to the doghouse on the drivers side. may have room for a Viper V10 but someone would need to give us one to try!

Galaxy, yes, that is a late model fuel injected motor, plans are to also use the 4L60E electronic controled tranny but we will not be using the drive by throttle yet. We will have the computer reprogrammed to what we need.


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Re: Would you consider this a "Barn find"? 65 Chevy
Star Dreamer #507252 October 26th 2011 2:05 pm
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Ken, it is a little tight, coil packs get close to the doghouse on the drivers side. may have room for a Viper V10 but someone would need to give us one to try!


That's what I wanted to do with my Early Dodge, until I found out a totaled Viper would still cost me $10k frown

So I opted to drop my stroked 440 in it instead. grin Now to just find the time to get back to it shift


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Re: Would you consider this a "Barn find"? 65 Chevy
Star Dreamer #507942 October 28th 2011 2:54 pm
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Just use some of this and you're ready for show & shine lol
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Re: Would you consider this a "Barn find"? 65 Chevy
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