Three frame-offs at once!

And I thought I was ambitious with one! LOL

 

Wow! That's quite the set up Bob! Yeah, a strap or two gives me good piece of mind. I noticed it sliding around a little on the rack so why not. Better safe than sorry especially considering how often times there is beer involved when I am working in my barn.

 

Making some good headway on my build. Brakes are rebuilt, I decided to stick with the lip seals right or wrong. I got the runout on all of my rotors to .003 or less. I've got my blue print 383 home and a Trimic TKX mated up to it. I must say I'm very impressed with silver sport transmission and their installation instructions and the fitment of everything thus far. I'll take a little break from my build now to work on a few other projects, but the next thing on my list is to start rebuilding the differential.

The beautiful mess

 

Time for a little update. First of all big thanks to Gary Ramadei for all of his advise on rebuilding my differential! It was a lengthy and time consuming process but I'm very pleased with the outcome. I certainly learned a lot taking that job on myself.

Last night I got the rear suspension mounted and half shafts installed. As I was setting the chassis down on the ground, it occurred to me that this is the first time in ten years that my car has sat on tires, completely on its own running gear and with a complete drive line! It's a good feeling!

I have order a March serpentine system and a vintage air system for the car. Im super excited to see how everything fits once it arrives!

 

It's been a while since I updated, which is ok since this for me to journal my progress as much as anything else.

I have my March serpentine system installed and it looks amazing. I went with their outward mount system. They say it will fit so let's hope!



I've got my fuel system put together


Even test ran the engine and man did it sound amazing!

I still have some odds and ends to tie up on the chassis, but I started shifting gears onto the body. I've stripped out everything from the engine bay and got a good start on tearing out the interior.







It's kind of overwhelming seeing it like this. But I'm confident I will get through it and I know it will all be worth it!. I have a vintage air system on the shelf to put back in once I get everything cleaned up and painted. I also have a universal painless wiring kit to put in the car. And a Dewitts radiator with the dual spal fans on order

Painless lol
I've decided I'm going to convert the headlight doors to electric, and I'm also leaning very heavily towards investing in new updated gauges from Dakota Digital.

I have enough to keep me busy for a while. Right now my goal is to get the engine bay and underbody cleaned up and painted, and route wiring and reassemble everything else in the engine bay that makes sense to do so I can get the body married back to the chassis. Hopefully this will happen by fall.

 

Before you look at any other electric headlight conversion kits, send a PM to Richard Hayes (Richard454).
He was the first to design an electric headlight system and if he is still selling them, his are the best manufactured.
Many forum members have purchased them and all give his five star reviews.
Richard doesn’t post on the CF much these days but I know he had a Facebook Forum.

 

Thanks! I have emailed him about his kit. That's definitely the way I'm leaning. I just haven't pulled the trigger on buying anything yet. It's good to get some more reassurance on my thoughts though!

 

Lots of updates on my build. I got the engine bay painted.


My core support was rusted out, so I replaced it. I started installing a vintage air system.



I got an electric headlight conversion kit from richard454
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And the biggest milestone was getting the body married back to the chassis!












I still have a long way to go but I feel like I've beat the odds at this point. I've throughly enjoyed every step of this process.

One of the first dates I had with my wife was sitting in the car in the garage at our old house going on a pretend drive and being clowns. All these years later, my amazing wife and I got to sit in that car again and go for another pretend drive and clown around. I'm blessed to have her support throughout this project!

 

Cool car with an awesome story! I'm glad to see you kept going with it. So many people would've abandoned the project.

It should be a blast to drive with that 383 and a 5 speed!

 

Nice update, Thanks!
Thats a nice serpentine set up!
Is it from March?

 

Yes it's March's "outward mount system"

 

Cool story and build pics . Your doing great things in that awesome barn shed you have .

You will love that car when its up and going .