Technical What did you do with your car today? * NEW*

The painter is making progress

 

Only needs a clear coat now

 

Always great to see color going on. Looks like it laid down nice and smooth.

 

Final installment, very happy with outcome

 

^^^Really nice @mgtstumpy ^^^

 

Good work @jhansen, color me curious but what did you make the lowering blocks out of?

 

Just some square tubes,40x40x4mm

 

I torqued the heads down on my 312 and put tape all around in prep for paint. Hung the tank yesterday.

 

Nice color combination. Can't wait to see it put together!

 

Some pics would be nice

 

here you go. Slowly working the engine over-very slowly. It is cold out in that garage. With the door open for light.

 

I'm pleased to report that I got the oldest member of the fleet out of the garage and took it for a drive and a drink!!



It won it's first Best Engineered award at the Nats South in 1980 right after Mike Wiley, the owner and builder, got it on the road.
It has been around for a long time and I still get a thrill out of driving the car!
Just so special... not many are chopped 5" and SHORTENED 4"! That, coupled with the big block with a chromed tunnel ram; along with the big quick change that my pal, Bobby Built, and I added make it truly one of a kind. Somehow it got on the cover of Rod Action and Popular Hot Rodding at the same time! It had to be special to do that.
Mike had a heck of an eye! Tis perfect in my view.
I still feel honored to be the current caretaker of Mike's car.

 

That's neat, let's see a side shot

 

^^Thanks but Mike gets the credit.
Wheels not so hamb friendly so here's an older picture with some moons... not the best picture but better than none.

 

Dropped the top and went for a cruise.

 

Did some disassemble.

 

Termite abatement.

 

That's badass!

 

I pulled my truck out of the shop after 5 years and almost ready to go down the road in it.

 

While working on the heater and f cutting the fuel line out I discovered 6 more bullet holes. How the hell did people do these things……The big holes are for AC.

 

Looks like 45 cal.

 

Not super technical but I fixed a transmission cooler problem I was having. I had originally mounted the cooler with the ports facing down and had a problem with trapped air. The fluid was just running thru the first one or two rows of the cooler and back to the transmission without much cooling. So I flipped the cooler around to put the ports on top, and bent up a set of hard lines that run around the side of the radiator and connect up to the original factory lines underneath. The trans temps are now much better and I even managed to get the hard lines bent correctly on the first try (which never happens for me).

 

Modified the shifter detent on a GM floor shifter, to replace the Lokar shifter in my Willys coupe project.

 

Splitting the roof takes time. I'm using a small grinder with a 75x1mm cutting disc, and a.... I dont know what they are called in English , but in Sweden we call them Multimaster (multi purpose machine ??). Anyway I had a new blade from Bosch with Carbide that work on metal and spotwelds.

 

Emblem installation.

 

Why are you splitting the roof?

 

To replace rain gutters?

 

Yes Iforgot to tell you the rain .gutters are rusty. Got new ones from Dennis Carpenter.

 

Body is finally back home after paint and about ready to be dropped onto the frame. I still need to finish the brakes on the 35 and get it off the hoist so I can do the header gasket on the Fairlane.

 

Finally got back in the garage for a while to continue in my firewall flip and me being me decided that I needed to then reverse the stamping so it was going in the original direction. I still have a ways to go and it’s not perfect yet but I’m moving forward finally. Went to the fortune teller and she said there’s a lot of high build primer in my future.