1960 Impala

[southrod]

Yeh I know its not a Camaro,but Ive allways had a soft spot for the big GM products.
This ones one of mine been on and off buildng this thing for a couple of years now its time to get serious and finish it,got the rest of the paint done over xmas and dropped the body on the frame, this thing is running a alloy head 502 0ut to 540, TH400,full airride etc, next up is to get the motor back in and start putting a isis multiplex system in and then the tedious task of polishing all the stainless and refitting and fitting up glass etc.
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[camaro_1967rs]

beautifull peice of work, look forward to seeing it finished.

Just a question what is ISIS system?

Paul

[CI-1968]

Amazing! I have seen a few of your builds on this forum now and your work is gun! Can you get some pics of the front end air bag set up please?

[southrod]

beautifull peice of work, look forward to seeing it finished.

Just a question what is ISIS system?

Paul

Go to www.isispower.com

[Nev68]

[QUOTE=southrod;9301]Yeh I know its not a Camaro,but Ive allways had a soft spot for the big GM products.

Doesn't need to be a Camaro to look good.
The Impala looks great and should be better with a bit of bright and shiny stuff on it.
Good stuff! More progress pics please.

Rgds,
Nev

[muggz]

beautifull peice of work, look forward to seeing it finished.

Just a question what is ISIS system?

Paul

Paul,

http://www.usmuscle.com.au/Forum/showthread.php?t=2216&highlight=isis

We had a little chat about this amazing system :)

Back on topic... That Impala looks beautiful!
What paint is that.. it looks like a Torch red 'vette colour to me? Regardless, The car should be a head turner when its all together :)

[Nev68]

[QUOTE=southrod;9301]Yeh I know its not a Camaro,but Ive allways had a soft spot for the big GM products.
This ones one of mine been on and off buildng this thing for a couple of years now its time to get serious and finish it,got the rest of the paint done over xmas and dropped the body on the frame, this thing is running a alloy head 502 0ut to 540, TH400,full airride etc, next up is to get the motor back in and start putting a isis multiplex system in and then the tedious task of polishing all the stainless and refitting and fitting up glass etc.
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A little off topic, but is that BMW ute in the background?

Rgds,
Nev

[tonner]

I have been following some of your builds here and on pro touring.com, and all I can say is WOW. and the presentation of your shop is an absolute credit to you guys, outstanding work.

Regards

Greg

[southrod]

[QUOTE=southrod;9301]Yeh I know its not a Camaro,but Ive allways had a soft spot for the big GM products.
This ones one of mine been on and off buildng this thing for a couple of years now its time to get serious and finish it,got the rest of the paint done over xmas and dropped the body on the frame, this thing is running a alloy head 502 0ut to 540, TH400,full airride etc, next up is to get the motor back in and start putting a isis multiplex system in and then the tedious task of polishing all the stainless and refitting and fitting up glass etc.
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A little off topic, but is that BMW ute in the background?

Rgds,
Nev
Yes Nev, That is the M5 ute that we have built for Stuart Appleby the Australian PGA player,we will have it and the 59 Buick Electra you can see in the background of one of the other pics at Summernats in the ppg tent, we'll also have 2 cars in the PWR radiators stand.
Cheers Shane.

[southrod]

Paul,

http://www.usmuscle.com.au/Forum/showthread.php?t=2216&highlight=isis

We had a little chat about this amazing system :)

Back on topic... That Impala looks beautiful!
What paint is that.. it looks like a Torch red 'vette colour to me? Regardless, The car should be a head turner when its all together :)
The color is our own ppg formula we use it on most of the red hotrods we build it only has 2 tinters in it which makes it very clean in the sun it is sensational .

[southrod]

I have been following some of your builds here and on pro touring.com, and all I can say is WOW. and the presentation of your shop is an absolute credit to you guys, outstanding work.

Regards

Greg

Thankyou.

[usautomotives]

I'm glad it's not another camaro build up!... :D

Love the big GM cars. I'm currently restoring my '59 BelAir. Do you guys restore panels that are pretty crusty? I've got a hood that needs attention.

Cheers

Jesse

[CI-1968]

Could you please put up pics if you have of your front airbag set up?

[EAT-30T]

Holy sh*t... I'm in love!! :)

Looks great

[chevman]

That will be a sensational looking car when its finished. Being an American Chev.... where did you source the air bag system from? Did it come in kit form?

[southrod]

That will be a sensational looking car when its finished. Being an American Chev.... where did you source the air bag system from? Did it come in kit form?

The front system is an Airride front shockwave strongarm kit and the rear is a modified airride tubular rear kit in which I have gotten ride of the normal double covolute bags and set up rear shockwaves.

[cluxford]

Awesome car, outstanding work, love the large GM family of cars...

[bricho]

Nice car cant wait to see it finished, cool shop setup and group of cars you have there.

I was reading a car mag yesterday on the plane (cant remember which mag) with the write up on the M5 ute in it. That is a huge amount of custom fabrication by the looks of it and the car looks like it came from the factory that way, top work!
Would love to see him cruise into some golf event in it, everyone must be just thinking WTF?

[TUFF68]

another awsome build, love the colour

anyone who has a workshop floor that clean obviously has a lot of pride in everything they do

[AUSCAMARO]

Nice car cant wait to see it finished, cool shop setup and group of cars you have there.

I was reading a car mag yesterday on the plane (cant remember which mag) with the write up on the M5 ute in it. That is a huge amount of custom fabrication by the looks of it and the car looks like it came from the factory that way, top work!
Would love to see him cruise into some golf event in it, everyone must be just thinking WTF?


Yeah, I've seen it in a mag somewhere too... Nice bit of work that.

Mitch

[CI-1968]

I read the article on you and your work in the paper. Mate you are a gun at what you do.

[AUSCAMARO]

Any updates on this Shane?

Mitch

[mike]

beautiful looking car, can't wait to see it finished

[18htan]

Ahhh...

A big beautiful Belair!

[southrod]

Any updates on this Shane?

Mitch

Nothing to report on this at the moment,the customers cars come first.!
Shane.

[southrod]

Well we've fired along on this a bit since I dont own it anymore,and were getting paid to finish it so this will get finished sometime in 2010. motors in and weve set up all the Accuair digital air system and starting to set out the ISIS wiring modules.

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[chevman]

I can't wait to see the finished product:)

[blackoutsteve]

Have you used ISIS wiring before? How good is it?
Sounds like a really neat and smart set up that saves big on wiring looms.
Do you needs heaps of relays with it?

[southrod]

Have you used ISIS wiring before? How good is it?
Sounds like a really neat and smart set up that saves big on wiring looms.
Do you needs heaps of relays with it?

This is the first one we have fitted,easiest way to understand it is to go to isispower .com and watch their online video.

[blackoutsteve]

They just did a wrie up on it in HotRod and it's pretty good by the sound of it.
It sounded like you need a heap of relays for it because of the lower power signals to each component though.
Looks like a great way to wire a rod or custom.