Thursday, April 16, 2009

Starting body work, and engine prep.

I have been working on getting the engine painted up and the gaskets changed in it. The engine is a 390 cid and was rebuilt by a junior college somewhere near Houston,Texas. Aside from a little carbon build up in the intake the engine is in good shape and should run real good for us. We decided to go with the ceramic coated hooker super competition headers on this car because the standard manifolds are hard to find and do not flow very well. We went with a holley 650 double pumper with mechanical secondaries for fuel delivery, this will also add horsepower and fun. The heads we have are c7me-a castings and did not have the gt bolt pattern so I had to drill and tap them out to make the headers bolt up correctly to them. Some of the other parts that we bought from summit racing were a lakewood explosion proof bellhousing, a ram billet steel flywheel, ram street clutch, misc gaskets and some stock appearing pertronix spark plug wires.

Mike has started the body work, and is working on getting the roof straightened out....when it was sitting in the shed someone jumped on the roof and put a million little dents in it. Here are a few pictures for yall to look at! Bye, Andy

2 comments:

Alexi said...

Hey - looks like you're off to a good start. I just started a 67 restoration myself, but don't have the tools/experience to take on any of the body work myself (and I don't have the benefit of working with one of those nice Dynacorn shells, either!). Good luck - I'll be following your progress as I work on mine!

Dave Shuck said...

I think these pictures are getting moldy there so old. Going through mustang blog blues