Back in Black! rpu build thread

Very nice.

 

beautiful work!! Keep the pics coming....

 

Lookin good !!!

 

Beautiful Dan, beautiful. So.....black it is.

 

Oh yea, now your going to try to tell me that was your idea...hey, it's all fair for who ever get's it done first!!

 

Dan,Glad to see that its finally coming together for you.

 

Black injynes are so.....last week



Hey...and go easy on the teal thing


OK?

Cutting a little too close to the bone there

 

Of course my engine is painted in 3 year old rattle can enamel. That Imron looks beautiful. My heap is not worthy of such nice paint. Looking great.

Oh yeah. You reinforced my reason for running 3 bolt carbs. I never get them on backwards.

Pete

 

Well, for now. I might redo the entire car again before it is finished

Thanks man!

Keith, that WAS my idea, don't try & steal my thunder! Plus we all know that anybody will finish their car before me.....

Heap??? We should all be so lucky to build such a "heap"!! Your car is looking kick @ss! I love the color, it fits the car really well.

And, for the record-I could STILL put 3 bolt carbs on backwards













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HAHAHA...since were so close to the bone, you must be goin with the pink wheels, right striper???

That's looking awesome, real nice color and the Nailhead is looking good also!

 

Well, we got a ton done in the past couple nights, & I now have a completely assembled motor! I kinda treated myself to all polished stainless ARP bolts for everything on the motor & tranny, since I needed most bolts anyways. Totally traditional no, but they look real nice against the black, I must have used a gallon of anti-seize putting it together

Friday night after work I can finally get the motor & tranny bolted in the frame, and I am really excited. Then we can work all day Saturday on hopefully firing the thing up

Well, here's a few pics as it sits, time for bed, morning will come early tomorrow. BTW, yes, I will be painted the distributor cap black Thanks for looking

Dan













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Very nice truck. I'm looking forward to seeing this one finished. Glad to see you got all the carbs on the right way this time around.

 

I hope you have a small kid that is going to get the job of crawling around under and above the frame keeping the brass freeze plugs all nice and shiny with Brasso.

But besides that your engine is NICE shows the amount of detail you are putting into your project.

 

My engine IDing sucks, is that a Poncho?

 

That engine looks awesome, Dan...I see you had some help from your father getting the carbs squared away!!

Good luck this weekend.

 

That engine is a piece of jewelry.. looks great.

 

lookin great dan!

 

Great job, looking great.

 

Awesome, gonna be nice when finished, can't wait to see it!

 

Thanks! Actually, I put that carb backwards on purpose, just to see how many would catch it

I actually arranged for Carmen Electra to do a monthly freeze plug polishing while wearing daisy dukes

My & my dad were just talking about how this won't be terribly easy to identify. It is a 455 olds. You don't see many with tripower, as no aftermarket manifolds were available-only the 66' w30 442's had it available, & they only made something stupid like 1200 of them. I am glad to have it!

Yep, I still need plenty of adult supervision

I am excited to get it fired finally!

Thanks man!
Yep, I agree! The wires will be black, and I will definitely paint the cap black too. The oil filter will be on there so short before I change it that I can deal with it. It actually photographs more yellow, but it is kind of gold. Gold is traditional, right?





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Very nice. I am always happy to run on to your progess posts. You do exellent work.

 

The engine and chassis are lookin great.

 

I'll bite, what is the tank off of?

Dodgerodder: great build!

 

That thing is just awesome.....

 

tractor ,way kool !

 

The kool thing,is that when this Rod is in all the Hot Rod mags around the world,we can say ,we watched that thing get built..........bloody top job mate,have been thinking of ya after the PC hassle.Good to see things are back on track for you.

 

Yeah, almost looks like my 425 Olds

 

Thanks for all the support guys, it means a lot!!


Well, I didn't get it fired, but still made great progress this weekend. We got the motor & tranny mounted in the frame finally, and I am really excited!

I still have lots of little things to do to get the thing fired up, but it won't take much to get there. I am so happy to finally get a glimpse of what I have been picturing in my head for so long, it's a good feeling.

Here's an overdose of how it sits tonight, thanks for checking it out. I am anxious to post up a you-tube first fire-up

P.S.-I DID paint the distributor cap black tonight, I swear!

Dan

 

Dan that is freaking art!!! This truck kicks ass already and you don't even have a body on it. Great work.