Re: Donnie`s new 1969 Dover White L78 Chevelle
 

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Re: Donnie`s new 1969 Dover White L78 Chevelle
 

Nice! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/whistle.gif[/img]

Re: Donnie`s new 1969 Dover White L78 Chevelle
 

Egg-sa-lant-taa............

Re: Donnie`s new 1969 Dover White L78 Chevelle
 

All of the hard parts for Donnie's engine are in now and (almost) everything's back from the machine shop, and I got started on the engine build today.

Barring any further delays and/or snafu's, I hope to have the engine long blocked tomorrow or Wednesday, and the engine should be built by the end of the week.

I'll post up a build thread in my forum and link it in this thread once I'm a little further along.

Re: Donnie`s new 1969 Dover White L78 Chevelle
 

Donnie car is looking good. I saw it at Daves when I picked my car up. Car was in reall great shape to begin with. Look forwad to seeing the finished product. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

Re: Donnie`s new 1969 Dover White L78 Chevelle
 

Here is the build thread for Donnie's engine:

Click here

Re: Donnie`s new 1969 Dover White L78 Chevelle
 

The dyno results are in.

Click here

Re: Donnie`s new 1969 Dover White L78 Chevelle
 

I thought I would add in a little piece to Donnie's restoration. I stopped at his place on my way back from MCACN to drop off some parts to him. I also brought his drive shaft back with me to drop off to Quanta for restoration. Since we all know how picky Donnie is in regards to his attention to detail [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img], I decided to clean up a part of the drive shaft to reveal the original stripes painted on it and take some measurements.
Cleaning revealed stripes in this pattern... Orange Blue Black. Each one is approximately 1/4&quot; wide and spaced 3/4&quot; between orange and blue, then 1/2&quot; between blue and black. The orange stripe begins 26.5&quot; from the front of the drive shaft (outer edge of the U joint casing) The black stripe is set 27.5&quot; from the back

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...C/IMG_5981.jpg

I even used correct colored Sharpie markers to illustrate!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...C/IMG_5980.jpg


I am going to drop it off at Quanta on my of my journeys to Maryland in the next couple weeks.

Re: Donnie`s new 1969 Dover White L78 Chevelle
 

That is some nice detail! That prop shaft is in real nice shape. Anyone have Quanta restore one before?

Re: Donnie`s new 1969 Dover White L78 Chevelle
 

Thanks Tom!