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11-04-2010, 09:30 PM | #1 |
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Air baggin a Buick Riviera
MODS feel free to move or delete this thread , since it's not a Chevy truck.
Since my 69 SWB (Surf Blue) is essentially finished I thought I'd turn my attention to my 63' Buick Riviera. So far I've rebuilt the the front end with all new ball joints, tie rods, and bushings, setup the front end to accomodate Some Firestone 2600lbs. bags, relocated the shocks, and painted all the suspension parts that I've removed. I'm planning on running 2 Viair 480's and the E-leveling kit from Accuair, and I'm gonna finish the front end completely before I start on the back. I'll have more pics soon.
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11-04-2010, 09:41 PM | #2 |
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Re: Air baggin a Buick Riviera
How do you do it? your on number two and i can't get one done! lol I wish i had your energy and time to get stuff done, not counting your ability.... Looks great just like your truck does.
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11-04-2010, 09:45 PM | #3 |
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Re: Air baggin a Buick Riviera
Dang nice Buick! Whats under the hood?
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11-04-2010, 09:46 PM | #4 |
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Re: Air baggin a Buick Riviera
Subscribing!
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11-05-2010, 01:46 AM | #5 |
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Re: Air baggin a Buick Riviera
Nice Riviera! should look sweet after the bag job.
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11-05-2010, 11:25 AM | #6 |
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Re: Air baggin a Buick Riviera
Awesome, I love thoe cars. It will look great bagged! What kind of wheels are you thinking of running?
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11-05-2010, 07:30 PM | #7 |
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Re: Air baggin a Buick Riviera
Cool car, I will be looking forward to seeing more progress pictures.
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11-05-2010, 07:48 PM | #8 |
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Re: Air baggin a Buick Riviera
Awesome! Been looking forward to you slamming that one!
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11-06-2010, 10:21 AM | #9 |
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Re: Air baggin a Buick Riviera
Here is a thread from the HAMB you may have an interest in. I love these old Rivs. I have a customer (Im in the copier business) who's parents have a 65 they bought new, they are kicking around the idea of selling. I would love to have it but my extra car funds have taken a huge hit this year. So for now Im just gonna have to hope they dont sell it =)
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...d.php?t=293538
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11-07-2010, 08:35 PM | #10 |
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Re: Air baggin a Buick Riviera
I made a little more progress today, got the front end completely finished and reassembled so that's out of the way now. Ran some airlines and started on the back end. Out back I had to remove the exhaust from in front of the back wheels all the way back to free up some space. I also had to make upper and lower cups for the bags and do a few other small things. According to my measurements it should lay frame with no problems, but we'll see. Here's some more pics.
I enclosed a pic of Surf Blue in my garage also, my wife is all over my butt to get this project done so she can have her garage parking back
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'58 SWB Fleetside...Front & Rear Porterbuilt Dropmember, 6.0 LS /4L60E. Accuair E-level, 20 Billet Specialties (Vintecs) '63 Buick Riviera ... AccuAir E-level, 20" Billet Specialties (Vintecs) http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=528853&page=5 Last edited by Painter D; 11-07-2010 at 08:36 PM. |
11-07-2010, 08:48 PM | #11 |
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Re: Air baggin a Buick Riviera
Nice progress on the Riv D!
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11-07-2010, 09:40 PM | #12 |
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Re: Air baggin a Buick Riviera
Looking good!!!
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11-07-2010, 10:21 PM | #13 |
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Re: Air baggin a Buick Riviera
Thats going to look sweet!
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11-10-2010, 01:01 AM | #14 |
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Re: Air baggin a Buick Riviera
Very nice....I built a 64 a couple of years ago.
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11-10-2010, 08:22 AM | #15 |
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Killer Riv greens69!
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11-10-2010, 08:32 AM | #16 |
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Re: Air baggin a Buick Riviera
You are one lucky man. Keep up the good work!
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11-10-2010, 01:41 PM | #17 |
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Re: Air baggin a Buick Riviera
WOW!! That looks good!! Nice job
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11-10-2010, 10:09 PM | #18 |
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Re: Air baggin a Buick Riviera
That's pretty nice, I think I've seen that one somewhere before.
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11-11-2010, 10:46 AM | #19 |
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Re: Air baggin a Buick Riviera
Nice Riv man... I love those cars.... ! One thing you may take another look at is where you mounted your shock mount. Mounting it on the strut rod multiplies the motion ratio that much more which really knocks down the working stroke of the shock effectively rendering it useless. Obviously I am not there running the front suspension up and down to be able to judge the stroke so this is only a suggestion
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Could you elaborate more on what you mean by "the working stroke of the shock"?
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'58 SWB Fleetside...Front & Rear Porterbuilt Dropmember, 6.0 LS /4L60E. Accuair E-level, 20 Billet Specialties (Vintecs) '63 Buick Riviera ... AccuAir E-level, 20" Billet Specialties (Vintecs) http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=528853&page=5 Last edited by Painter D; 11-11-2010 at 10:02 PM. |
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11-11-2010, 10:36 PM | #21 |
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Re: Air baggin a Buick Riviera
very nice,I love old Rivis!
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11-16-2010, 09:33 PM | #22 |
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Re: Air baggin a Buick Riviera
Well it's essentially done. The only thing left to do is get and install the E-leveling system, but that's going to have to wait since I'm temporarily between jobs. So for now I'm just going to run a 7 switch , switchbox.
BTW the water trap is only mounted there temporarily.
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'58 SWB Fleetside...Front & Rear Porterbuilt Dropmember, 6.0 LS /4L60E. Accuair E-level, 20 Billet Specialties (Vintecs) '63 Buick Riviera ... AccuAir E-level, 20" Billet Specialties (Vintecs) http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=528853&page=5 Last edited by Painter D; 11-16-2010 at 09:41 PM. |
11-16-2010, 09:39 PM | #23 |
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Re: Air baggin a Buick Riviera
Thought I'd trow in a couple of pics of one of my buddies truck ,he's been helping me bag my Buick. He's runnin Porterbuilt front and rear dropmembers ,on 20" smoothies. It's a very cool truck.
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'58 SWB Fleetside...Front & Rear Porterbuilt Dropmember, 6.0 LS /4L60E. Accuair E-level, 20 Billet Specialties (Vintecs) '63 Buick Riviera ... AccuAir E-level, 20" Billet Specialties (Vintecs) http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=528853&page=5 Last edited by Painter D; 11-16-2010 at 10:02 PM. |
11-16-2010, 10:05 PM | #24 |
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The Riv looks GOOD!
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11-16-2010, 10:15 PM | #25 |
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Re: Air baggin a Buick Riviera
help, hell you did all the work.
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