Aggitated Monkey

This is my 78 that I have been working on since April. I have installed the Skip White 383 with the Mad Dog 700r4.

To date I have 122 hours invested. I only work on it the weekends mostly Saturday and some on Sunday. Parts chase during the week.

I have disassembled cleaned painted and reassembled the full under carrage.

The car is on the ground and now its the little stuff.

This forum over the years has been a great contributor. I find many answers without asking.

Attached photos will bring you to date.




Frame painted with POR15



















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Aggitated Monkey

New spicer joints. Drive shaft was cut 3 " and balanced then painted black. Shafts are poweder coat








A Arms are poweder coat. Links are POR15.

Aggitated Monkey

Missed a spot!

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Moved PB pully bracket over (left) 3/4" as part of the 700r4 install

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Mad Dog Punisher with 2200 stall converter.

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havesometo

Man it's looking good.

C3Hawk

Thanks for taking the time to submit the great pics!

Serial Steve

Wow!

The13Bats

Nope, if I didnt do the work, or at least most of it I could afford a c3 or even want one,
Your car...wow...I'm pretty jealous....

Aggitated Monkey

Worked on the fuel lines. Still need to plum in the ele fuel pump. And run the wires. That's tomorrows project.

Close to start up...

Aggitated Monkey

Thanks Bats!

Yeah. I now how it can be for some. This forum can help many with just a little mechanical skill, a lot of patents, a few "F" bombs, and Pandora it can be done.

I have 130 hours in it now. Little more to go. Then body paint.

pltmgr

I'm impressed you only have 130 hours into it considering all the work done. It would have taken me about 500 hrs.

Aggitated Monkey

I get on a role and do 9 to 11 hours on a Saturday and from 4 to 6 on a Sunday. These cars seem simple but there are a lot of parts.

I can appreciate the guys who do the full body off.

Aggitated Monkey

Installed fuel lines and regulator.

Jesse 982

That looks awesome. The front suspension looks good with powdercoated part and POR 15.
Are the front spring powdercoated, painted or POR 15 and did you sand blast or hand sand them? I m just taking the body off my 68 and plan on cleaning up everything when I replace the frame. I have a major break in the frame at the drivers side rear kick up.
Jesse 982

Aggitated Monkey

Springs are POR 15. I just removed any loose scale and painted them. The rest of the suspension is POR 15 excluding the A Arms.

Same with rear Suspension. POR 15 excluding the half shafts.

Jesse 982

Aggitated Monkey
Well the parts all look great. I now plan on using POR after seeing how good your parts look. I will do some research on how to prep it but the end result looks great
Jesse 982

Aggitated Monkey

The POR 15 is very easy to use. Goes directly on bare metal. Likes a rough surface. Realy nice on cast parts. I ckeaned everything with Naptha. The POR brushed on like urithane and leveled out real good. Seem to be very durable. I used gloss black on all the steel and satin black on the under body. Having the "A" Arms powder coated then building them myself was much cheaper than purchasing a set all done. And I used Moog tierods, idler and ball joints.
I plan to drive this car and wanted my effort to not only last but look good a while. All my cotter pins are stainless.

7T1vette

If you've done all that in only 122 hours, put yourself in the "AMAZING" category. (I think I have that many hours just in filling in 'paint dings'!)

Great work. You have obviously mastered the philosophy that "it's the JOURNEY" that is important...not only the completion of it.