G-Body friends

[David]

I am new and need friends that know about G-BODYS

[TC]

I'm a newbee to the G-body crowd myself, I just bought a '85 Monte SS about 6 mouths ago, there are quite a few of us G-body owners on this board, so ask away and I'm sure someone will have an answer to your questions......

[Loren]

Yes, welcome to BangShift. Be patient and all will be responded to... If you really swapped out a V-6 for an eight, yes you get immediate credibility here.

[DNut]

Don't believe anything that anyone on here tells you about me, I know nothing about G-bodies...


By the way, I highly recommend joining www.montecarloss.com

Probably the best forum for 4th gen Monte Carlos.

[BOOOGHAR]

http://www.maliburacing.com/ is a good site, i use to troll the site looking for a G body wagon to come up for sale, that was before craigslist

[JeffMcKC]

Let me know if I can help. I know a couple things about them

[200kss]

I've owned at least one G-body since 1995.

What direction are you taking your car? Stock resto, drag racing, pro touring, DONK, etc? Also what make model?

[383S-10]

I G-body quite a bit...........

[Barry Donovan]

I am the aging fart that drove them 46k miles a year from the hills to the city and back..every day. Even exceeded antifreeze once..way below zero.

3 at the same time, only keeping one running.

all rare. all factory floor shift, two t-top, one genuine HO SS hardtop. I even totalled one.

staying factory into a big v8 swap is going to hurt you...
the no bullshitters making suspension parts and links, do hang out there.

I wish that ss forum existed while I had my stuff. I was like a kid worshipping gm as if no errors at all back when...

[David]

I have a bench seat in my 87 Monte Carlo ls and i am thinking of putting a floor shifter. what kind of floor shifter would you think would fix best. With out having to put bucket seats in any idea.

[DNut]

Any aftermarket shifter that uses a cable should work, but it's not ideal since you will have to mount it close to the dash.


Couple of random topics with photos:

http://gbodyforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=33013&start=15#.URKUjqU0V8E

http://gbodyforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=227673#.URKUcKU0V8E

[BOOOGHAR]

its rare but a few cars in the G-body platform came with a floor shifter, my neighbor in arizona who had three G body wagons, one of them had a floor shifter with the bench seat, factory 3 speed

[DNut]

its rare but a few cars in the G-body platform came with a floor shifter, my neighbor in arizona who had three G body wagons, one of them had a floor shifter with the bench seat, factory 3 speed

It's not THAT rare. Ton of G-bodies came with automatic floor shifters, but they always had bucket seats and a console.

I've yet to see a car with an automatic, floor shifter, and bench seat, but like you said there were a few bench seat/manual transmission cars (Malibus and whatnot).

[David]

My monte is auto so I guess I'll just have to find out if it works.

[DNut]

My monte is auto so I guess I'll just have to find out if it works.

You won't have any problems installing a B&M or similar shifter (Just need to remove the factory linkage, cut a hole in the floor, and install the new shifter cable), but as I mentioned before it may not be in an ideal position for use, even with the seat all the way back on its track.

Take a look at the links that I posted for photos of the install that others have done.