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I made them from the original dimensions back then. However there is someone on the forums.h-body.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=45112 who is now making and selling them. As far as I know there are no manufacturers for them yet.

@@BadBowtie91 nothing comes up i already registered on th site, thanks for your help

@@henryalicea6222 Its the second post in the for sale section. You might need to have a minimum post number before it unlocks. Also the search function broke earlier this year so thats not helpful. PM Monzamouse on the forum if you can to message him directly. Best of luck with your ride.

@@BadBowtie91 found the post and spoke to the fabricator, what I need now if you can help need to install upper torsion arms since mine is a 76 and only has lower. Is there somewhere I can find the front bracket for the upper?

@@henryalicea6222 can’t help much there, I don’t have much reference for that kind of modification. Although I’ve seen some adjustable torque arms for 3rd gen Camaros, I think spohn can make one. To add in upper 4 link brackets would be tough but not impossible.

Thanks, I'm hoping to do just that this year!

Thanks!

Thanks! Honestly they are a lot harder than people give them credit for, sounds like you've actually tried because thats mostly whats out there. Keep looking and if you get one dont forget to join the forum forums.h-body.org/ facebook is cool for quick answers but the forum is where all the info lives.

@@BadBowtie91 I definitely would join the group if I ever get my hands on one, I have wanted one for years because my dad has 71 camaro rs and I thought it would be cool to have the miniature version of his car. Unfortunately I live in Florida and as we all know 70s gm cars weren't made with the best sheetmetal so the ocean air and humidity just eats them all up and not many survived, i have found a few decent race car shells but that's not what I want, I want a completely stock looking car that is streetable, honestly if I found a 100% intact 4 cylinder car that ran , I would drive it like it is until it blew just because how odd and rare those cars are.

@@briang4470 My dad has a 72' Z28 and I live up in Canada. I feel your pain for rust! I spent forever looking for an early 70-73 for the same reasons but when i came across a clean-ish any model that wasnt butchered I jumped. To be honest the 74 and up has grown on me a lot, same with the yellow. To this day i still look for them but it is a lot of work to do all the 5 lug, v8, rear axle stuff. The 74-75 non cosworth is definitely one of the better starting points for the larger tunnel, deep pocket front control arms and older 4 link rear suspension. Definitely start with as much of the car complete as possible, parts and glass are hard to get.

@@BadBowtie91 yeah the 74 and up cars seem to be the only ones left for some reason, a year back a guy that was 3hrs away had a complete cosworth roller minus motor but everything else was there even the transmission and interior was flawless with zero rust but he wanted 6500 for it and I couldnt come up with those funds for a car like that. Its crazy how gm made so many of them but there are almost none left, and I have been doing some homework on them and you are correct that certain parts simply aren't available anymore. Also I know they are very weak but my dream is to keep one 4 lug with the vega gt wheels, I really like the look of them. The last vega I personally seen was over 10 years ago and it was owned by a local guy that ran a machine shop and it was a perfect cosworth that they did a fuel injected 4.3 swap on, it was kind of a shame but that car has been sold way back and as far as I know is long gone. There is another guy here on TH-cam with a 73 with a 305 in it and the car is almost exactly the way I would want it minus the th350. With the prices of some of these cars these days I dont think I'll be finding one anytime soon but I'm always on the lookout for one. And I understand that it will be alot of work to put together but I have been around a repair shop my whole life and have done some v8 s10s so I know about miserable swaps lol and I have access to alot of tools. Hope to see more videos of your car in the future it's a pretty badass ride.

262-350 you can cut a stock pan or get a monza pan. Anything bigger and you need an aftermarket pan. Exhaust is always tricky with a sbc.

Can we talk so more a about car

Thanks! Never too late to get another and fix that!

Thanks for the comment! With the SBC, M21, Ford 9", S10 front brakes and a full interior no gutting anywhere it weighted 2950 on the local scales.

@@BadBowtie91 oh man that thing must be fun to handle full throttle. This just happen to come up in my feed, glad it did. The last one I saw with a V8 was in 84' and back then people didn't seem to have all the mods to make it work completely figured out yet, plus the way that have aftermarket kits and parts nowadays I bet it's a lot cleaner build. Thanks again for the video

Just a short convoy with the black BMW to the local spot, if you want to see me doing the passing just check out some of my other videos.

My cousin tells me stories about doing 180's and 360's by student drivers in his back in the 80s to scare them. They were extremely disposable! Sounds like a fun car to have had!

Its a Edelbrock ST-10 and two 390cfm dbl pumpers (old PN holleys). The Y block was just my way of copying the original DZ302 block and it wasnt easy to make but I think it was worth it. To keep from vapor locking I also used a fuel pump with a return to keep fuel circulating and I never had issues doing 4hr highway trips even under the hood of a vega with 190deg water temps. I have an M21 which has the same gearing as an M22 and honestly its good for putting power down, the 350 makes a significant amount more torque than the 302 so I can see how it was a bit loaded down low. The crossram (and tunnel ram) inherently make good torque because of the long runners, more so than a single plane and theres dyno numbers to prove why GM/racers did it in the Camaro Untold Secrets book. The only issue I ever had was I couldn't fit a vacuum advance distributor so at idle and on the highway I would be running less than ideal timing. I did tune it to perfection with an AFR gauge for idle, cruise and WOT and honestly performed way better than anyone could expect even with the small 390cfm carbs, more than enough to keep up with 650cfm other sbc's of similar power. Ive been working on this car for 10 years now and I drove it like this for 4 years or so. Just last year I started my conversion to EFI making my own kit, wiring harness and well everything to go on the SBC! I appreciate the sub and comment, usually I just post videos of banging gears and doing things I probably shouldnt these days but its worth it. Check : th-cam.com/video/OXDOAXmc2Tw/w-d-xo.html or th-cam.com/video/kLlZT1Ktpfw/w-d-xo.html (unlisted)

@@BadBowtie91 It's been a while, but you could still buy Y blocks. But GM, didn't make things to support the cross ram, and I made, are adapted a bunch of the parts for the linkage, fuel lines, and even the power steering, alt brackets. Sounds as if you did the same, and other than a little shaking on your test run, you had her almost dialed in on the money. You probably know everytime the weather changed from one season to the next, carbs had to be adjusted slightly to allow for it if you wanted them to stay at their best. Worse problems we have is trying to get good non ethanol gas around here in NE Texas, as we've lost several big Holley carbs to that monster. Helped build couple Vega's back in the 70's, we kept twisting the frames due to torque, and ended up putting front, and mid plates on blocks to frames, to beat that issue. We were a little radical back then though, and tended to over build things, like sb chevys that that had to be chained down, because they ripped motor mounts out. I'm sure you wouldn't build anything like that though, like your stroker in the Z28 you had, are may still have. lol Addicting isn't it

@@timothymilam732 Being up north in Canada we also have plenty of weather changes and cold morning starts, always had to keep playing with the carbs thought the season. For fuel we're lucky the 91-94 octane fuels are required to have less than ~10% ethanol or be ethanol free in some places. I got the running engine much smoother than this at idle, I had a bad vacuum leak from it backfiring on initial startup / a warp in the lid. My father and I have a couple of cars but we're street car people so nothing too radical but we're hard on our stuff, run 4 speeds and set them up to turn rpm but still have as much power under the curve as we can. Addicting? I wouldn't know I'm too busy planning the next step or buying more parts ! lol

The only car you will ever love, is the one that tries to kill you.

Swapping in a 61 to 63 Buick 215 with 64 300 internals and heads will solve this :-)

@@Epik-hm8ws yeah , good luck finding a Buick 215 , an engine manufactured for only 3 years , over 60 years ago., Cmon. ! I had trouble finding a Buick 215 for my '73 Vega GT back in the late 70s. Good luck with that !

Takes crazy to recognize crazy! Sometimes I stop and think why am i doing this? The struggle of not having a catalog of parts or the availability of used components is always a fun challenge. Hopefully you're on the H-body forum! Lots of like minded people who don't mind a challenge.

@@BadBowtie91 I couldn't have said it any better than that. H-body owners everywhere are shaking their heads YES that's right. We wont give up on the unloved Almost Hotrods. Now I am retired, and for the first time joining a H-body forum is making sense to me. I need to tap that h-body collective for info. Any suggestions would be great. I would love to attend a hbody gathering sometime.

Never wound up making more since the music got Copyrighted, but you can see the whole build at forums.h-body.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=30039 . Or check out some of my other videos for some action.

I used 80-87 S10 spindles, but its not a drop in deal unless you use adapters (www.v8monza.com/faq-fsus-S10_front-walk-thru.htm). I welded in a sleeve to install s10 balljoints and correct the camber issues. The blazer spindles are a bit of an upgrade because they have dual pistons but they also have a wheel hub thats prone to failure and stick out an extra 1/8-1/4" (if i remember right). Some info on the sleeves here: forums.h-body.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=46214 . A lot more info on that forum too.

Thanks so much brother Im working on a 75 vega and Im not happy with the tiny a arms .

@@cushionface09Anytime, having a 75 you're saving yourself a lot of hassle since you have the deep spring pockets 74+, theres a lot of improvements with the bigger balljoints and brakes especially if you correct the camber offset, with the s10/blazer brakes it also opens the door for corvette or LS1 brakes if you want to run 16" + wheels. Id check out forums.h-body.org/ for all your questions and also use this to search the website for information: www.google.ca/search?q=site%3Aforums.h-body.org&rlz=1C5CHFA_enCA708CA708&oq=site%3A&aqs=chrome.0.69i59l3j69i61j69i57j69i58.1086j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Thanks again 4 the info you're awesome.

Running a Muncie M21 with hydraulic throwout bearing. H-Pattern hurst competition plus shifter. Great setup for a street car.

@@BadBowtie91 does your Vega still have the torque arm running from the rear axle to the tailshaft? I've got a rebuilt 3 ring Saginaw with the mounting holes for the torque arm. Gonna run that with the cable operated clutch and a Mr. Gasket vertigate.

I have the factory 4 link, in 1975 only the Monza and Cosworth had the torque arm if I recall correctly. 1976+ they all had torque arms. Sounds like a fun ride with the vertigate.

@@BadBowtie91 mines a '71 hatchback. It has the torque arm and lower control arms. The rear axle has been swapped at some point cuz it has the mounts for the uppers, telling me it's out of a later model Vega It's got the 3.42 posi in it.

Flip the header core and extend the pipes, block off the old holes and drill two more. If you're handy you can fill the old holes but once its in there you don't notice too much. Head on down to forums.h-body.org/ for more info, theres an FAQ and forum with plenty of extra info on the swap.

I sure do, you can see more recent videos listed here: th-cam.com/users/BadBowtie91videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=0

My family has had all sorts of cars that would be worth a fortune now, thats life sometimes. Get out there and get another and enjoy it! We're here to preserve history but also enjoy them the way they were meant to be driven.

Oops, saw you're running an M21.

The crossmember is custom, used stock vega pedals without the cable/pulley assembly. Throwout bearing is a Quartermaster 721 series hydraulic unit and I used a wilwood master. With the hydraulic setup you can use any GM bellhousing/ trans that fits the firewall/tunnel, I had to use a small flywheel 153tooth / 10.5 clutch and small bellhousing with a little clearancing. Im in the process of putting a quicktime scattershield which also fits because of the tapered shape and would allow for a large flywheel / clutch potentially. I did have to move the fuse box over for the master but there is someone on the h-body forum who posted up how to make a conversion bracket here: forums.h-body.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=45000 Any other questions/parts feel free to ask, more can be seen here on the build thread: forums.h-body.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=30039 Thanks for checking out the vid! p.s. if you're not on the forum you should be for the FAQ and the forum wizards.

Yeah, running great. Tuning with an air fuel gauge really helps. Between that and manifold vacuum you can tune just about everything. Still tweaking the primary/secondary jetting.

+BadBowtie91 year brother we have an xc-8 on a 327 that we made streetable an even gets decent fuel milage. we're running 390vc holleys with 10" velocity stacks

Thats sweet! People have the wrong mentality thinking tunnel rams and crossrams cant be made streetable. 390vc holleys are perfect, these are 390dp holleys from the 80's with only front idle mixture, the new dp's have 4 corner idle mixture.

+Rob C Thanks! I swapped a T56 6-speed into the camaro and a muncie 4 speed into the vega. Nothing beats banging gears!

Nice!! My 79 camaro is a auto but my vega is a four speed. I like the vega more just for that reason. Cool cars

+Ricky Walden I modified it to accept the balljoints from an s10 using a weld in sleeve, much larger than the factory vega one. Also while doing this you move them slightly to improve camber characteristics. You can find pictures and a PDF instruction here : forums.h-body.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=23253&start=60

cool thanks for the tip, h-bodies rule

Stock v8 Monza frame plates and motor mounts

Thanks check out my other video's to see it running!

good job i am looking for a gas tank for one

good job i am looking for a gas tank for one

good job i am looking for a gas tank for one

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