The SSheriff (1996 9C1)

Thanks. Not sure if I'm going...work and all with an already skeleton crew. Workin 8 days a week as it is lol.

MASShole9C1 wrote:

Thanks. Not sure if I'm going...work and all with an already skeleton crew. Workin 8 days a week as it is lol.

But... but...but that's not possible!































Well I hope you can sneak out for the afternoon.

Wow dude, that looks great with those wheels on there now!

Matt Trakker wrote:

Wow dude, that looks great with those wheels on there now!

Thank kehhhhd

Inspection sticker- check
Oil change - check
Techs at the shop drooling over car- check
Nice comfy ride in style - check

Officially out of steam and wrapped up for winter.

MASShole9C1 wrote:

Officially out of steam and wrapped up for winter.

Steam or cash?


I'm losing both right now!

Steam. Plenty of $$$. It's time to call it quits for the year. I'm sick of living in a 3rd floor apartment. Time to start actually putting this shit away for something bigger and better! Imagine, a nice warm, clean man cave shared with the car, my tools all neat and easily accessible. No time limits, plenty of storage...

Pull the whole damn thing apart and organize every nut and bolt. Just fine tooth combing after that. Should only take 10 years to finish

MASShole9C1 wrote:

Steam. Plenty of $$$. It's time to call it quits for the year. I'm sick of living in a 3rd floor apartment. Time to start actually putting this shit away for something bigger and better! Imagine, a nice warm, clean man cave shared with the car, my tools all neat and easily accessible. No time limits, plenty of storage...

Pull the whole damn thing apart and organize every nut and bolt. Just fine tooth combing after that. Should only take 10 years to finish

pfft warmth is for girly men!








No but really that sounds like a good place to be in this cold!

Ha! Consider me girly then (no Justin, I will not make out with you (Adam Sandler voice)lol)

I will work all day in 100 degrees...

...but once it's below 60, I tend to question wether or not it can wait.

MASShole9C1 wrote:

...Plenty of $$$.

Dream on.
Before you know it you'll be paying for college.

MASShole9C1 wrote:

...Time to start actually putting this shit away for something bigger and better!

Welcome back to reality...
The early you get it ^^^done, the earlier you can get to getting what you want.

MASShole9C1 wrote:

....a nice warm, clean man cave shared with the car, my tools all neat and easily accessible. No time limits, plenty of storage...

Dream on.
Who do you think you are? Dan Tanner (old TV reference...Andover guy )

MASShole9C1 wrote:

.... Should only take 10 years to finish

Welcome back to reality...
No matter how early you get it ^^^done, you can never seem to get it where you want.

Spend time setting up a plan that works...
Back it up with life insurance in case you cant personally oversee the plan...
Stick with it...your on the roller coaster of life...see if you can win the game.

OK...now I'll come back to reality..
GREAT job on the car...its gonna knock your eyes out after paint.

Thanks for the notes Steve! Ha. I just might be putting the 9C1 off for quite a while. I NEED to stop throwing my money away in rent and car mods. For what we pay in rent for this shit hole, it can be a mortgage, something that WE "own".

Oh, an there's still plenty of money. I've already gone to "school" myself, and started saving already for my son. I've got that on point if nothing else. I want my son to be happy. And a junky 9C1 ain't gonna make anyone happy if we end up living in it in a Walmart parking lot...

sdstick wrote:

MASShole9C1 wrote:

....a nice warm, clean man cave shared with the car, my tools all neat and easily accessible. No time limits, plenty of storage...

Dream on.
Who do you think you are? Dan Tanner (old TV reference...Andover guy )

LOL, I actually got that one! Badass reference Steve!





I remember watching Spenser for Hire religiously when I was like 7 years old, even if I didn't quite get what was going on I was fascinated by seeing places in Boston that I knew on the TV. RIP Robert Urich, heard somewhere once some contractors worked on his house in Andover and he made them lunch and everything, haha.



Brian, the car looks great, honestly it doesn't really "need" anything at all for quite a while from what I see. Steve is right, drive that thing and enjoy the hell out of it. I need to stop spending money, it may not look like it but I do and need to start saving more. Just have to do a couple more things to my truck...

Thanks Matt.

It is not a good thing when you get blinded by spending. Defeats "keeping up with the Jones'". I'm at the point where it's not fun anymore because the project, in its "on paper" progress has essentially peaked with a few $$$ exceptions. Exceptions that can be easily put back on paper until the time is right.

The car is great, looks great, runs great, drives, handles great etc. I will sit back and enjoy it for now, and try to deflect the urge to keep going like there's no tomorrow.

It's unsatisfying to think that this car has become such a high priority over many other real life high priority items.

Not to be a drag on people building cars, just make sure your priorities are in order before you start turning wrenches and swiping that debit card. You'll thank me as its taken me a few years to realize I need to slow down, spend more time with the family, and make sure they are taken care of first.

The car looks balls-out awesome.

Maybe consider relocating west of Worcester. Yeah, we don't have big city "excitement," but this is a good area to raise a family and each of your dollars will go a lot further than out east, if you pick the right town. Might be some friendly people out this way, even.

Or build them when you're just the member of a family not the head!

That being said, don't do it while you're in college on the student budget!

Thanks for the tips guys. I don't want to move too far from work. I'm gonna able to purchase this company when the owner retires (full time cop) and it will be nice to run it more in depth and make some changes. It's already a great gig and experience in the position I have now!

If I had it my way, I'd move down south. That's where my 'rents live and they love it. I haven't been since 2009. They absolutely hate New England since they moved in '05 and don't miss a single thing. It's safe to say they will never return to mass lol. I have to do the traveling...

What general line of work are you in?

I hate the politics and the cold up here. But the South has poisonous spiders...which probably love dropping on your chine while working on your back under a project car...

It WAS law enforcement. Now I'm currently employed as the operations director for a private security company. My own take home car, debit card, etc

I was thinking about working for the railroad tho.

MASShole9C1 wrote:

It WAS law enforcement. Now I'm currently employed as the operations director for a private security company. My own take home car, debit card, etc

I was thinking about working for the railroad tho.

It's funny, I've always been into trains and railroad related things myself. I've often tossed around the idea of trying to get into that field, any facet of it would interest me really. Lately I feel overwhelmed a little, like my life has "stagnated" and I need to change careers or something. You're not alone Brian, lol.

When it comes to the cars I've been thinking of selling the Caprice, keeping the Impala as my "fun" car, and the Tahoe for regular/work use. Kind of like how you sold the Monte. I feel like I have too much on my plate, and I don't really have the room for three cars and obviously do not need them. Part of me feels the Caprice is a solid daily driver that allows me to park the truck for when I need it and isn't a lot of money to own, but I dunno. Even thought of selling the 2 cars both and trying to find a really nice SS or something else equally "practical" that is special interest enough, but I can actually drive in the rain if I have to or leave parked outside in it.

I should be saving money to try and buy a house someday instead of playing with cars just like how I collected Hot Wheels before that...

Car looks boss, dude!

Thanks man! Yours is perfect the way it sits! I can't wait to get me a boxy project next!

Wanna trade? Lol!

My mod today, to continue my SS clone... ...headlight decals, like a real SS.

Gotta go to the post office to pick up the boxy steering wheel I purchased.

MASShole9C1 wrote:

Thanks Matt.

It is not a good thing when you get blinded by spending. Defeats "keeping up with the Jones'". I'm at the point where it's not fun anymore because the project, in its "on paper" progress has essentially peaked with a few $$$ exceptions. Exceptions that can be easily put back on paper until the time is right.

The car is great, looks great, runs great, drives, handles great etc. I will sit back and enjoy it for now, and try to deflect the urge to keep going like there's no tomorrow.

It's unsatisfying to think that this car has become such a high priority over many other real life high priority items.

Not to be a drag on people building cars, just make sure your priorities are in order before you start turning wrenches and swiping that debit card. You'll thank me as its taken me a few years to realize I need to slow down, spend more time with the family, and make sure they are taken care of first.

Amen Brother!

Coolant flush done. LOTS of air in the system from the water pump swap. Water was boiling and shooting out of the overflow tank.

It was even boiling in the machine still when I left.

I lied tho, car is gonna be at the last bass pro shop show tm.

I missed all of the nexus shows this year, but since they will be there tm, so will I.

MASShole9C1 wrote:

I lied tho, car is gonna be at the last bass pro shop show tm.

Excellent!! I'll try to make it if I'm not stuck at work late.

When is the last Bass Pro Shop Show?

NM I answered my own question.

I don't think I can make this... Maybe next year.

Cool! I hope to see you there!

I was thinking about trying to hit that up tomorrow since it's the last one. If I get out of work early, I already have the Impala out and here so I won't have to make a special trip to go get it.

Just never went to it before, is it a pain to get into or anything?

Nope it's free and traffic usually isn't too bad. It starts at 430. The wife and I are gonna go early to check out the aquarium and guns before the show.

MASShole9C1 wrote:

once it's below 60, I tend to question wether or not it can wait.

That's when I do my best work. lol. Can't stand it hot & humid!

I like it much better sans red pinstripes...

Hmm....

I think I like it with the stripes better but I could give a $hit because the car is out!

Hey dude! Good to see ya back!

Hope all is well.

Car looks bitchin!

They were messing with the "rake" of the car. Made it look funky.

But yup. She's re registered and ready to cruise this summer. I need an alignment after the complete rebuild I did, tuned computer still, paint etc etc. definitely buying a new truck before those things happen. Well, it'll get a tune first. I really like the look now with the "lowering" springs and the rear extended tubular control arms. Last summer was nuts. I don't think I posted to many pics of the build here. I'll have to go back and look.

Thanks Bill. I'm surprised I stayed away as long as I did. Needed a break from the "car scene" for a while. I now feel well rested.

MASShole9C1 wrote:

Thanks Bill. I'm surprised I stayed away as long as I did. Needed a break from the "car scene" for a while. I now feel well rested.

That's a damn good thing! More posts are needed and your car better be at some meets whenever we have them lol

I've been emailing back and forth with Bryan Herter getting ready to set up a tune. Waiting on Tim who says he has a PCM for me. Didn't get the alignment done, but soon. Hopefully this week. Who knows.

I know I said I wasn't going to deal with streettrends anymore, buuuuuuuut my birthday was this week so I ordered some black powder coated headlight bezel covers. I also bought a book on building up an LT1 fir slmost any use. Hasn't come in the mail yet, but it offers a bunch of different recipes and tips to "go fast". I'm sure a few of you guys have the book I'm speaking of.

Hopefully Sunday (weather permitting) I'll finally install the tach and temp guages I got last summer. Came with a cluster bezel already opened up but I've got to trim the clear window that goes over the cluster. With my luck, I'll probably crack it. Maybe a few round files will work good.

I installed the stealth brake bolt and bolt II mod today. Ran out of time, after bleeding the system, had to go to work.

Super simple "upgrade" tho I can't vouch yet for the difference, as I haven't driven it, you're wrong if you haven't done it or don't plan to.

It probably won't make that big of a difference until I put new pads and rotors on. That's coming soon too.

I'm gonna start hitting the yards in the next weeks in search of a PCM if anyone knows where to look sprcificàlly or wants to meet up. Thinking about ditching the dented up section of exhaust (H pipe and all up to the muffler inlets) with another section. Got to talk to done exhaust shops. Definitely looking into buying another LT1 in the future to build with more horses and what not from the bottom up. I'm pretty excited about that. In lieu of all the pics I've recently posted, these are probably the better quality of the bunch. Also, if anyone is reading this and has a drivers airdam, inbox me. I broke mine already :/. Less than 200 miles. Already broken....

I might have a '96 PCM. I'll take a look.

Thank you. Let me know as soon as possible. I'm ready to get this done yesterday

I found it, serv. no. 16214399.

Sounds right to me. Correct me, as my PCM knowledge is slim at best. 161 is OBD I and 162 is OBD II? Can I get a break down?

serv. no. 16214399 BSCZ

What more do you need?

http://www.lt1swap.com/all_lt1.htm

http://www.lt1swap.com/lt1_bcc.htm

Got it. I sent you a PM.

We've gone retro

Still spending $ on the little things.
I snagged a set of rear PPM autox springs from the big board for $55. Says they were never driven on.
I'm going to swap out the drop shocks in the rear too. They are short enough that they have to be unbolted to remove the springs.
The rear is a bit too bouncy around town. Any suggestions for a good set for a lowered rear? The Gabriel's I had worked ok but were toast iirc.

I installed those headlight bezel covers from streetrends. Black powder coat. They look pretty good beside the fact they are the shiniest bit of paint on the entire car

Also, since I installed the box body steering wheel, its 10x more fun to drive. I love the classic feel of the big circumference/skinnier gripped wheel with the finger grooves.

Getting the spare '96 PCM I need, from Jim Sunday, in order to send out for a pcmforless tune.

The wheel looks great. I should do that to match my hood ornament .

Here's a few interior pics.
Box steering wheel, blazer console and shifter, leather roadmaster buckets, etc etc


Caprice SS name plate that was cool 10 years ago

I like the control knobs waay better this way. I just need to find blue bulbs to swap in


Oh, and the PPM autox springs came today.