Hey guy new to the site Love that you have a Pro street thread here awesome Names George im building a 48 Chevy Fleetline Pro Street, Still in mock up but getting closer to being done lil by lil. Alot of custom mods SB 406 love to share the details cant wait to meet everyone Later''

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George,

Welcome to TC.

It is looking good. I like the stance and the big tires. Where in Ohio do you live?. My wife is from Hamilton and I went to High School in Ross. We just went to Goodguys in Columbus in June. Thanks for sharing your pictures. This site has some good info and alot of nice people.

that is straight badass.

George,Have you hit the welcome wagon yet might be good to introduce your self over there.Again the 48 is way cool keep us posted over in the PS forum on the progress its not just for Camaros so bring all you buddies over to show there stuff......

.........a '48 Fleetline!!!:thumbsup::thumbsup: You don't see very many of them Pro Streeted which makes it very cool :yes:. Glad you found us fellow Pro Streeters,George:beers:.

Thanks guys heres a few more pics, just got my motor mounts and tranny mount fabbed up and installed, engines about to head to the machine shop Heres a few other photos and a build link i put together thanks again later George

http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/journal.php?action=view&journalid=50465

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When you think you going to paint,what color you got in mind.

Honestly the color choice has been the thoughest choice yet! Had it narrowed down to a few colors, but finally decided on a color that i just love almost a factory orginal color for this car its off a CRV honda its called green tea met., Its a med green met and it will be two toned with an ivory off white roof with a off white and tan interior roll cage will be a satin ivory aswell.
I was hopeing to get the body back off the frame here soon but after talking to my painter he suggested to get the rest of the front clip lined up and and all the body gaps perfect and then insatall my cage finish the body itself to 95 % and then get it off the frame so i can get my air ride in and start smoothing the frame. Ive done all the work on the car my self and love every minute of it nice stress releiver to get away from the business. But its getting a lil closer engines about to come out and head to the machinest next weak! I'll keep you updated!

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Nice project!!

Honestly the color choice has been the thoughest choice yet! Had it narrowed down to a few colors, but finally decided on a color that i just love almost a factory orginal color for this car its off a CRV honda its called green tea met., Its a med green met and it will be two toned with an ivory off white roof with a off white and tan interior roll cage will be a satin ivory aswell.
I was hopeing to get the body back off the frame here soon but after talking to my painter he suggested to get the rest of the front clip lined up and and all the body gaps perfect and then insatall my cage finish the body itself to 95 % and then get it off the frame so i can get my air ride in and start smoothing the frame. Ive done all the work on the car my self and love every minute of it nice stress releiver to get away from the business. But its getting a lil closer engines about to come out and head to the machinest next weak! I'll keep you updated!


George,
What cubic inch small block is between the fenders of that nasty '48 Fleetline?

George..very nice.The 406 sbc is a nice addition.No replacement for displacement.:thumbsup:

It s a lil light weight lol

406 1970 4 bolt arp studs
Scat 6" 4340 I beam rods and 3.75 crank
Mahle forged 10.5.1 flat top's
Brodix IK 200 cc heads
PP Huricane polished single plane
750 mighty demon Msd ignition
Comp solid roller XR286R cam
248-254 @.050 3,000-7,000 rpm's
7 quart Kick out pan with trap door
coated fender well headers and 3" magnaflow exaust
meizere electric pump
350 with a 3,500 stahl and valve body 4.56 gears in a narrowed
9" with a 4-link 33x19.5's

Im so ready for the motor to start going together its been in mock up for a year now so i can work my front metal work around it. the front clip is a tilt unit and the hood i made open up backwards so, I need not remind you it didnt come that way from the factory lol alot of subtle custom mods to the car but should improve the look when complete. Thanks for the comments Later George

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Hey guys heres what i just finished fabbing up over the past weak had to make a little cleaner looking and lighter mount than what was on there, THere tacked in for now will do all the final welding when i start on the frame also had to build a tranny mount. Took alittle work to make sure the engine pitch was right and it sat level inthe frame. plus work around my steeing joints . Heres afew picks it will be comming out this weak and off to the machine shop and out of mock up clothes lol. Finally

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Cool ride man ! :thumbsup:

Picked up some new parts the other day for the 406!

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You're gettin' closer George!!!!!

Thanks like chapters in a book! lil by lil lol

Hey guys been working on my front clip now!
I have so much time in this front clip only its scares me to think about it probably more than most subtle street machines have in the whole car! lol
welded the hood to the fenders down low open the hood pancake style at the top where the body line is molded the head light rings removed all the trim and that just the outside of it lol,
custom built inner fender wells reversed the top part of the hood to open backwards made new mounting points and custom hood braces, still have to smooth the under side of the hood and did i mention this thing tilts as a whole forward!
flipped the front bumper aswell as the back! tapered the ends made new filler panel and bumper brackets smoothed bolt holes on bumper etc.
OW my brain is hurting.
Was at the engine shop the other day and arrived when it was heading for the hot tank cleaner. He Said everything looks great on the motor so far, dropped off my cam etc. while i was there cant wait to get it back.
He mentioned being that i plan on deburring and smoothing the block too probably to get the machine work done take it and smooth the block and paint it then bring it back for him to put it together, Motor will be body color! I'll keep you posted.

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Wow. Nice work.

Thanks guys! rebraced my motor mounts and should be getting motor back from the machine shop soon so i can start deburring the outside of the block for paint! here a few misc. photos of the car.
Frame will be smoothed up like the car and painted body color all in metal mock up as of yet! But getting closer lol

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Worked a lil on the front clip tonight added some round bar to the edging of my hood to be able to tack my inner fenderwells to them and smooth them up and makes for a cleaner lip, Will be no visible bolts anywhere under the hood.
And will all tilt forward as one unit!
" Man this metal work will be the death of me " lol

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Looks like it is coming along pretty good. I want to see how it will tilt. Good job.

I'm liking this project more and more as I see it progress

Some serious metal working skills.

Keep the updates coming.

Thanks guys love to share the photos nobody comes to the garage anymore they realize i put them to work! plus they see what im into and its alittle more than an oil change they want nothing to do with helping! lol

I'm searching for my tilt photos i know i had soe if not i'll snap some this weak end! But i have to make a confession, " I never new how to turn a welder on before i started on this car" I have built a few of my cars in the past but had others do what i wanted metal wise and none were quite like this anyway but i have always wanted a custom Hot Rod. And one that you done see much of and when i painted a mental picture of all these curves with fat tires and the right stance thats all the motivation i needed. Going on 2 1/2 years now from scrath but really, never welded a day in my life. But learned real quick and just paying attention to deatails and not rushing! so far i havent gotten bored with it , just try to remind myself its like lil chapters in a book. Anyway glad you guys like and heres a few other pics through out the build a few of my under hood mock up and i had to raise my drive shaft tunnel to clear saft with air ride!

You can see what the old dash sarted out as in the sec photo too now 3rd photo
Also running a 56 2-10 Wheel and an IDIDIT column no ignition i will use a flip switch panel above the visor hidden to start car like a race car.

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Oh Found this shuffling through pics! my ten minutes of fame! lol

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Well no luck finding those tilt pics i'll snap a few here in the next day or so! It works pretty well the whole unit tilts forward and i had to make a slide latch on the side of the firewall to latch to. Plus it will make working on the car so much easier, Heres a few other photos I found Hope you guys like photos lol
I smooth up my calipers to cleaned up the face of them did away with that oval arch on the side of them and smoothed rockers up under the doors etc.
And an older side shot before i smooth up the firewall!
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We all like pictures. LOL

Well guys "FINALLY" decided on my body color figured i better get on it pretty soon the decision part of the color that is being im smoothing and painting the block body color aswell.
Heres a color real similiar the color im looking at is from new Lexus a sage green pearl. Wanted a soft color that has the feel of an older vehicle still too it and you just really dont see this color much let alone on a 48 let alone on a pro street let alone well Hell lets just say i figure i will not be parking next to many like it!

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Oh Hell might aswell share the wheels aswell!
Beleive it or not it took almost 2 years to really decide on paint and wheels and just when you thought you had it figured out comes some sweet new wheels but centerline made this decision easy for me i really love the older salt flat style wheels and wasnt really impressed with american racing street versions " finish , weight of them etc" so what do they do come out with a new line of wheels in exactly what i was looking for and in the look in racing light weight form!
15x4's - 15x15's

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Damn,

I changed my wheels on my 69 about 6 months ago. There are not alot of new wheels in 15 x 15 size and now Centerline comes out with some new wheels. If only I had waited a little longer. Thats the way it goes. Nice rims though.

New Griffin Rad. showed up today! was time for it have to work my inner sheet metal around it!
1 1/4" tubes 2 row 16" fan is on its way in a few days!

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Finally got a few pics of the front end tilted!

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Lookin' good George:yes:

I like it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice work George. I like it:thumbsup:

Very nice.Keep up the good work Bro.

A couple more peices im roping together lil by lil why'll waitng on block to get back!
New water neck, spring return and new 16" Fan

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George,

I would see about having a aluminum shroud made for your electric fan. I am not a big fan of the holders that go thru the fins. I had a griffin radiator that leaked after about 3 years. There is the small area on the top and bottom where you could bolt it on with some nutserts. That is what I did.

But it still looks good.

Good minds think alike im building a fan shroud around the fan to blend in with the inner fender wells, lol
Not a big fan of plastic holders but have it on now for mock up and for placement the goal is to have all fastners under the hold not visible, " or at least as many as possible. for a smooth look like it should not be able to run look to the engine and engine compartment, by smoothing it up! More metal work starts tonight. i'll keep you posted!

A couple more peices im roping together lil by lil why'll waitng on block to get back!
New water neck, spring return and new 16" Fan

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George,
Is that a Weiand Team G intake or a Dart intake? It looks very nice polished:yes:.

Thanks Its a Professional Products peice. Its an exact copy of the Victor JR. just not made in the states and it does have a pretty nice finish2 it
And better yet when compared to all other intakes this one actually out flowed the others in a side by side test. Alot of Dirt track guys are using them and cleaning the ports up some and getting some really big numbers out of them and for the cost cant beat em!

I bought this peice new as is for like $165.00 I know people swear by Victors and they are great peices aswell as Brodix and team g's even dart makes a nice peice but none are polished, flow near aswell and are in this price range wasnt a hard decision lol

This is how it looked out of the box i havent even started smoothing the runners up or any port work yet, going to run a 750 mighty Demon with it and a HVH super sucker 1" 4 hole tapered spacer

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"going to run a 750 mighty Demon with it and a HVH super sucker 1" 4 hole tapered spacer"

I like the Demon carbs, having run one on a 68 427 and on my zz502 car. But, 850 on my 502 started giving problems after a few thousand miles. It took a while to find, but it ended up all the screws in the bottom that hold it together worked loose.

I knwo people tht love em and hate em lol but love the quality in the parts itself with the billet bodies and parts. Have noticed a good of the pro builders using them and John Kaase won with a demon in the Engine building Challanges. Plus they are probably one of the best looking carbs out there aswell IMO.
Started fitting radiator last night and boy it barely fits. but it does and should work well may have to wait till motor gets back to build final placement brackets to make sure the electric pump will clear etc.

Nice work George, dig the car! You don't see them much but they have sweet lines.
Definitely brings back some memories, my cousins' first car was a '46 Fleetline that his dad did in the late 70's, I remember back when it at first had fender well headers and a tunnel ram, seriously old school :thumbsup: . He got it as his first car after an engine fire cooked most of the wiring underhood (note the primered hood) , he had to rewire it before he could drive it! (it should be like that for every kid's first car, learn to work on it first). It was a blast we had a ton of fun cruising around in it.
Here's a picture of him and I with both of our first cars, his '46 and my '68, the good 'ol days :beers:
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Wow great story! I loved the crager erea my first car was a 70 GTO my father and i built and had cragers aswell on it. that 48 looks cool as hell yo ustil have your 68? nice looking ride

Yes you gotta love the cragers, I kind of chuckled when I posted that picture because of the obviously 'vintage' camera and both cars where sporting cragers :D . The Camaro actually had cragers up front and aluminum slotted mags in back, oh the good old days.....;)
We had a blast with his car, It's still somewhere around here but I have not seen it since the early 90's, it actually was getting a pro street treatment kind of like yours.
My Camaro on the other hand.....was not so fortunate. Heres the short story...
It was a 6 cylinder base model car, but I built a screaming little 283 for it, dug up a set of 15X8 ralleys in a junk yard if you can imagine and spent every night and weekend as a high school kid helping a guy do bodywork and paint on it, it was pretty nice looking especially for a 16 year old punk kid (but I did do ALL the work on it but the paint and body).
I always loved cars and remember sitting in my Uncles garage with my cousin (the one with th 46, of course :thumbsup:) rowing through the gears of a 68 Camaro that he was painting when I was about 8 or 9, that was the beginning of my love of 68 Camaros.
I got a job as a mechanic at 17, and shortly after realized working on hotrods I loved, working on other peoples greasy junk I hated, so I quickly burned out on cars and sold my beloved Camaro to a kid that was 18 or 19, and he totalled it about two months later. I think my cousin still has not forgiven me for that especially after I showed him the 'remains' of my Camaro. It ended up scrapped in field and years later disapeared, I have no idea what happened to it (I do still have the original registration with a vin on it however).
I had a TON of good times in that car and somewhat regret selling it, but my current 68 rs is 10 times the car and in much better shape to start out, so I don't really regret it.
Here's a kind of crappy 'after' picture of it, missing the gas cap because some jackass stole it just before I took the pictures.
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Heres another of the Camaro before paint, and the 46 (with gratuitous burnout :D )
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Sweet lil rides two of my favoriates side by side:thumbsup:

Started smooth up my hood a little more tonight. I had to weld a lip onto the edge of the hood that i cut open it the top. i test fit the top of the hood seems to line up real nice. have to build radiator mounts from scratch as is everything else on these damn Custom hot rods lol

Being the front end tilts forward the rad. has to stay on the frame so i just cant mount it in the normal locations that would be to easyyy lol.
But hey if it was easy everyone would be building one lol.
Heres a few pics of the hood after first cut of grinding now i will have a smooth lip to weld my inner fenders to aswell.

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Looks good George. I removed the drip rails on my buddies 69 and I used 3/16" round rod for the edge. It makes it real nice. Good job.

Hey guys made a lil progress on the custom rad. support Unlike most normal cars where you have a rad support to bolt to my front end tilts so everything goes forward and the rad stays to the frame! so i had to make up a simple yet effective solution to mounting it from the frame only and, its all just tached in for now but seems to work great plus its still fairly light weight!

Also just got my Block back today, Couldnt wait to get started on smoothing it up, this is first cut so far but looks like it will smooth up quite nicely, it will be body color aswell. I'll keep yo uposted Later George

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Finished up the rest of the smoothing tonight should take primer pretty well! it actually smoothed up pretty well just alot of time in all the crevious's but should be worth it when painted!
I decided to do the pan to instead of powder coating it!

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Looks like your hitting it pretty hard are you shooting for a 09 debut.Are you going to have the block hot tanked before you paint I might be worried about shavings in there I know you taped it up just a thought.Are you putting it together and what cube is it.I know this was a run on question I just popped in didn't read the whole post if the answers are in here some where sorry..

Yeh great ? thats why i didnt have the short block assembeled because of the possible metal shavings, will get it all painted and polished up and send it back so he can clean it real well!
Cant wait to get the assembly together!
Im going to do the top end engine guy will do the botton end.
And no not any dead lines to make thank god. thats the best part i can take my time and not rush any details and make it the way i want it! will be getting on the firewall to finish smoothing it up and my chassis guy is comming out to check car out for the roll cage. body guy is lined up for dec. sometime were going to get all the body panels fitted and than break it back apart and start smoothing the body and finish blocking it!

Motor is a 406
10.5.1 Mahle forged flat tops
scat crank internally balanced and 6" scat rods
lunati Vodoo solid roller 243-249 @ .050
215 canfield heads 2.05 1.60
PP huricane 750 mighty Demon
350 3,500 stahl 4.56 gears
9" 4 link with air ride
car weight apprx 3,100-3,200 lbs

Yeh great ? thats why i didnt have the short block assembeled because of the possible metal shavings, will get it all painted and polished up and send it back so he can clean it real well!
Cant wait to get the assembly together!
Im going to do the top end engine guy will do the botton end.
And no not any dead lines to make thank god. thats the best part i can take my time and not rush any details and make it the way i want it! will be getting on the firewall to finish smoothing it up and my chassis guy is comming out to check car out for the roll cage. body guy is lined up for dec. sometime were going to get all the body panels fitted and than break it back apart and start smoothing the body and finish blocking it!

Motor is a 406
10.5.1 Mahle forged flat tops
scat crank internally balanced and 6" scat rods
lunati Vodoo solid roller 243-249 @ .050
215 canfield heads 2.05 1.60
PP huricane 750 mighty Demon
350 3,500 stahl 4.56 gears
9" 4 link with air ride
car weight apprx 3,100-3,200 lbs

Keep it up I'll be watching the progress cant wait to se the finished product.

Keep it up I'll be watching the progress cant wait to see the finished product.



..........same here George :yes:. That '48 is gonna be an awesome ride when it finally hits the streets of Ohio:yes:. Lookin' forward to more progress updates!!

Starting too pick up some speed on the motor! Just went out tonight and sanding it down once more and reprimered it really turned out pretty smooth so far! should have it in paint by the weekend have to get a new fitting for my new spray guns.

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Well finally got to see what color my car will be up close and personal like. Painted the motor and pan today, Green Tea Met. New Honda CRV color,
took awhile to get it all smoothed up but looks way better in paint finally, lol now back to the machine shop to install the short block. Later George

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"Well finally got to see what color my car will be up close and personal like. Painted the motor and pan today, Green Tea Met. New Honda CRV color"

I painted a 68 BB Vette metallic green mainly because it was the factory color (well almost, British Racing Green). I have never had so many people give so many positive comments on the paint as with that green car. Seems like a lot of people like a metallic green car.

Nice work on the block!

Ive always liked those orginal style colors and you just dont see many green cars they really stand out in the crowd. There really subtle and timeless

George,

The block looks great. I like the color. My wifes parents said it was cold there today. Like in the 20's....

Well it rained allllll day today and yes very cold assual sucks, But the garage was warm and i got alittle done!:yes:

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That Green Tea Metallic looks great George :yes:.

Motors back at the machine shop about to get put together, still deciding on my heads 210 afr's - 200 ik brodix - 215 canfeilds metal work is coming along on engine compartment.

http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/journal.php?action=view&journalid=50465#Added%20edging%20to%20opened%20hoo d%20area

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Double tilting hood/front end. Nice touch.

Thanks i should of paid more attention in geometry class with all these angles lol ecspecially the top part of the hod and the mounting hinges i built, Should be pretty slik when done, lets just say if i ever loose my brakes and damage this steel front end im going to jump off a cliff lol wow the time in it already.

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Still looking good George how long before paint ya think....

Looks good George:thumbsup::thumbsup:

looking good

Will be a little why'll i was going to get the body off the frame and start smoothing it up but i had my painter come in and i got his input he mentioned that may be better to get all the panels to and door gaps razor sharp and straight, get all the metal hung " inner fender wells ecspecially" witch i still have to finish and hood lined up nice and tight than start on body get it 95 % done than break body down off the frame and i can get too working on it and smoothing it up,
Still have to get my cage in probably a month or so with that, but like i mentioned before lil chapters but wow how the holidays screw up schedules work and hot rod work time had to visit the inlaws in Wisconsin for a weak what fun -14 % wheather not for me glad to be back in ohio.

Cant wait to get it in some color hell even one color of primer would get me excited but when you start a custom hot rod or any car as far as that goes you have to be patient to go the long haul on all the mods and not rush the details within them, This car has so many subtle mods some that most would not even notice! There is times i wish i built a stock bodied car restoration wise, you buy a fender and bolt it on etc, Here your fabbing almost everything BUT when comepleted and all shiny, standing tall I beleive and HOPE the effort will be worth it!

Heres an example of what an original 48 fleetline looks like and a pic of mine looks like side by side see if you can point out the changes! lol

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Looking good - I really like the fact that its a different car than most of the cookie-cuttter ones we see all the time -- keep up the good work and I'm looking forward to seeing more progress pics