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55 Chevy Bel Air

Motortopia Staff . 16th September, 2022
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Vehicle Details

Owner/ Builder

Ira Horwitz,

Vehicles Highlights

Manufacturing year: 1955

Engine:

BUILDER:

  • Mike Thieker, Thiekers Street Toys, Muscating, IA

TIME TO BUILD:

  • Three years

FRAME:

  • Morrison (GT Sport)

SUSPENSION

  • FRONT: Upper/lower control arms: Morrison
  • SPINDLES: Morrison/Wilwood 2-inch dropped
  • STEERING: Morrison power steering rack-and-pinion (20:1 ratio)
  • SHOCKS: Morrison adjustable coil-over gas filled
  • SWAY BAR: Morrison
  • REAR: Triangulated 4-bar Rearend housing: Ford 9-inch 3.56 gears
  • SHOCKS: Morrison adjustable coil-over gas filled
  • SWAY BAR: Morrison
  • REAR: P185/70R-15

BRAKES

  • FRONT: Wilwood disc brakes Calipers: Six-piston
  • ROTORS: 14-inch cross-drilled/ball-milled
  • REAR: Wilwood disc brakes, four-piston calipers
  • ROTORS: 13-inch cross-drilled/ball-milled
  • MASTER CYLINDER: Wilwood

WHEELS

  • Raceline Explosion Five polished aluminum; front: 18 x 8; rear: 20 x 10
  • TIRES: Nitto 555; front: 245/40-18; rear:285/30-20

ENGINE

  • 2011 GM LS3 376 ci Hot Cam crate engine
  • HORSEPOWER: 550 hp, 475 lbs-ft torque
  • BUILT BY: Mike Thieker
  • BLOCK: Aluminum
  • HEADS: Aluminum
  • INTAKE MANIFOLD: Holley Hi-Rise aluminum
  • INDUCTION: GM EFI
  • IGNITION: GM electronic
  • HEADERS: Doug’s long tube
  • EXHAUST: 2 ½-inch diameter in stainless steel
  • MUFFLERS: Flowmaster 18-inch

Transmission:

Exterior Color:

Interior Color:

Specification

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BUILDER:

  • Mike Thieker, Thiekers Street Toys, Muscating, IA

TIME TO BUILD:

  • Three years

FRAME:

  • Morrison (GT Sport)

SUSPENSION

  • FRONT: Upper/lower control arms: Morrison
  • SPINDLES: Morrison/Wilwood 2-inch dropped
  • STEERING: Morrison power steering rack-and-pinion (20:1 ratio)
  • SHOCKS: Morrison adjustable coil-over gas filled
  • SWAY BAR: Morrison
  • REAR: Triangulated 4-bar Rearend housing: Ford 9-inch 3.56 gears
  • SHOCKS: Morrison adjustable coil-over gas filled
  • SWAY BAR: Morrison
  • REAR: P185/70R-15

BRAKES

  • FRONT: Wilwood disc brakes Calipers: Six-piston
  • ROTORS: 14-inch cross-drilled/ball-milled
  • REAR: Wilwood disc brakes, four-piston calipers
  • ROTORS: 13-inch cross-drilled/ball-milled
  • MASTER CYLINDER: Wilwood

WHEELS

  • Raceline Explosion Five polished aluminum; front: 18 x 8; rear: 20 x 10
  • TIRES: Nitto 555; front: 245/40-18; rear:285/30-20

ENGINE

  • 2011 GM LS3 376 ci Hot Cam crate engine
  • HORSEPOWER: 550 hp, 475 lbs-ft torque
  • BUILT BY: Mike Thieker
  • BLOCK: Aluminum
  • HEADS: Aluminum
  • INTAKE MANIFOLD: Holley Hi-Rise aluminum
  • INDUCTION: GM EFI
  • IGNITION: GM electronic
  • HEADERS: Doug’s long tube
  • EXHAUST: 2 ½-inch diameter in stainless steel
  • MUFFLERS: Flowmaster 18-inch

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TRANSMISSION

  • 4L70-E with push button by Master Shift Rearend gear ratio: 3.56 with posi-unit

BODY & PAINT

  • BODY MODS: Thiekers Toy Shop roof chopped 1-inch, shaved roof drip rails, gas door relocated behind the taillight on the driver’s side, shaved door handles, frenched turn indicators
  • DOOR HANDLES: Kindig-It Design Salt Lake City, UT
  • BUMPERS: front sectioned and smoothed, rear sectioned and smoothed
  • GRILLE: stock smoothed, Tiarra Custom Grilles insert, Eddie Motorsports billet aluminum hood hinges with actuators
  • TRUNK HINGES: Eddie Motorsports
  • BODY PREP: Thiekers Toy Shop
  • PAINT: Sikkens water base in Cyber Gray Metallic by Thiekers Toy Shop
  • PINSTRIPER: Jeff Roberts, Upland, CA

INTERIOR

  • SHOP: Elegance Auto Upholstery Upland, CA, Mark Lopez
  • FRONT SEATS: 1988 Cadillac Eldorado buckets (no headrests) cut down, peanut butter leather with graphite inserts
  • REAR SEATS: 1988 Cadillac Eldorado buckets (no headrests) cut down, peanut butter leather with reverse suede and graphite inserts
  • CENTER CONSOLE: Waterfall front to rear
  • AIR CONDITIONING: Vintage Air with Dakota Digital controller
  • DOOR PANELS/KICK PANELS: Peanut butter leather with reverse suede and graphite inserts
  • HEADLINER: Peanut butter with reverse suede and graphite inserts
  • CARPET: Black pile
  • DASH: Custom passenger side hump removed and smoothed
  • GAUGES: Dakota Digital VHX series analog/digital gauges
  • PEDAL ASSEMBLY: Billet Specialties with gas pedal-pad used on brake pedal mounted vertically
  • WIRING: Thiekers Toy Shop
  • STEERING: ididit chrome column with Billet Specialties Waterfall 14-inch wheel, peanut butter leather wrap

AUDIO

  • AUDIO SYSTEM: Art of Sound Upland, CA
  • HEAD UNIT: Alpine IVE W530
  • AMPLIFIER: Alpine
  • SPEAKERS: Rockford Fosgate
  • SUBWOOFER: Rockford Fosgate 10-inch

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