Re: Caprice engine swap?
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2018 8:37 pm
Doesn't cancelation also happen when I don't renew?The DMV requires you to surrender your license plates upon cancellation.
Doesn't cancelation also happen when I don't renew?The DMV requires you to surrender your license plates upon cancellation.
Performance back in GM's production? Oh, you mean after the 1980s? Yes....You, me, everybody we know, has had to pay our dues. Whether sweeping up the shop before we get to learn how to weld, or rebuilding 100 four-cylinders before we get to put together a nice, healthy V-8–we don’t jet to the top right away.
Neither did Jon Moss. After all, he worked on the Chevette for a while.
Of course, the difference between Moss and the rest of us is that he eventually headed up GM’s Specialty Vehicles Group, in charge of what the enthusiast magazines in the 1990s called GM’s “toy box” or “skunkworks.”
“We really got the performance back in GM’s production,” Moss said.
I know it's not the same car, just making a point...not sure what the point is yet.By that time, he had already become a hero to many Chevrolet performance enthusiasts, largely for the 1994-1996 Impala SS and the one-year-only 1999 Tahoe police package, but also for numerous magazine articles that featured the one-off experimental vehicles he developed: a 502-powered Impala SS, a big-block fourth-generation Camaro, an LT4-powered six-speed S-series Blazer and an LS1-powered 1955 Chevrolet among them. Yet he considers the C5 Corvette his most successful project of that time.
“In about 1994, the engineers were struggling with the concept for the C5 because it was radically different from the previous Corvette,” Moss said. “The investment costs were quite extensive, and the decision makers needed more than theories of hydroforming and a rear-mounted transmission. So about five months before the concept approval, the engineers came to marketing and wanted to know what they could do to make this happen. Marketing funded the building of a real testable prototype, which they ran through Specialty Vehicles.
“I gathered about 100 designers, technicians and engineers, and we worked on that prototype 24/7 until it we had a running prototype 93 days later. We did all the build testing, presented it to senior management and got approval for the design, which went on to become the C5 and the state of the art for sports cars.”
Had Specialty Vehicles not built that prototype, Moss said, it’s likely the Corvette would have remained simply a redesigned version of the fourth-generation Corvette, rather than a radically different car altogether.
From that point until his retirement in 2004, Moss said he had a hand in many of GM’s recent successes–bringing back the SS as a high-performance upgrade, reimaging Cadillac as an upscale performance marque, removing the heavy cladding from Pontiac products and instigating all sorts of performance battles with O. John Coletti, his counterpart at Ford (see Hot Rod Hero, HMM#41, February 2007).
Need to pull remaining parts off Caprice to junk it. Here's a short list:kevm14 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2018 9:40 pm I will put my list of Caprice parts to harvest in this thread.
Here's a short list of things the Roadmaster could use:
- Idler arm and center link
- Rear axle (and rear discs?)
- Electric fans?
- SS wheels/tires
That's about it for things it could use that really jump to mind.
As for a more comprehensive list of things I should save because I might use them on the car at a later date:
- Front control arms, though the bushings are tired (again). The ball joints are still good.
- Front and rear springs
- Tie rods
- Steering box
- Steering shaft
- Front brakes (rotors, calipers, pads)
- Driveshaft
- Bulbs
- Windshield washer fluid tank
- Exhaust manifolds and cats? Maybe the intermediate pipes and mufflers and maybe the tail pipes. Over the axle are getting crusty again.
- Speakers
- Subwoofer and amp
- Battery
- Power lock solenoids
- Front window glass?
- Master cylinder and proportioning valve
- Front air dam stuff (assuming it is compatible with the bespoke front clip on the RMS)
Stuff to save and maybe sell because it is not compatible with the Roadmaster:
- Gauge cluster
- Stereo head unit
- Air intake (mainly the Cadillac top hat part which may be hard to find these days)
- Those giant battery cables...maybe try to repurpose them to the Roadmaster
I will grow this list if more things come up.