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Originally Posted by randyr

maybe you should make a "Nopar" emblem......or maybe "Fopar"

As long as it's not "Fubar" you'll be ok!

I like "FOPAR"; I'll have to see if someone could whip me up a couple of those! I have these, too. They might look pretty good on both sides of the intake.

Pro Z could whip out some decals for you Falcon, he's got all that fancy sign making stuff!!!!

Might have to look into that, Dave! I was hoping to be building headers today but my flanges aren’t done yet so I tackled some other jobs. I got a bracket made for the belt tensioner. It came out pretty decent; I’ll have to add a rear support off of the motor mount for it one I mount it permanent. I also finished welding in the setback on my firewall and filled about 15 holes that will no longer be used. I patched a couple holes in the floor where the old accelerator and MC access panel were, made a new MC access panel, and made a panel to go over the trans tunnel where I had cut it out.

It is coming a long very nice!

Thanks, Ryan. Im anxious for this guy to get my header flanges done so I can get things rolling. Not much to do until then.

Perhaps I missed it but, how far back does the engine sit into the passenger compartment?

Looks like some good progress!!!!


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Originally Posted by 34_40

Perhaps I missed it but, how far back does the engine sit into the passenger compartment?

It's negligible; about 3". The box I made for the setback made a handy place to mount the accelerator pedal, too.

I finally got the word that my flanges are done although I dont have them in hand yet. So I should be building headers next week. I do want to get the car all one color before it goes back on the road so I started on some minor bodywork today; plugging several old holes in the decklid and rockers where Im eliminating some trim and emblems that I dont have anyway. The guy that built this had a motorized deck lid lift that was pretty cool but a little bulky so I decided to go another route. I saved this auto latch from a 96 Firebird that I scrapped; it was on the rear hatch. I'm going to use a GM trunk lock for the manual release cable and the button that worked the lift for the power release.

Thanks for the info.

Good progress Falcon, always something to do while waiting for parts, right? Are you going to stay with the same color on the exterior?

Dave, I'm going red since its got the red and white interior. I'm keeping this real simple and budget friendly and just using a single stage red eurothane.
I did a quick reprint on a Honda Civic with some paint from TCP Global and it really looked nice so that's what I'm going with again.

I figured you might go with a red on it, should look great with the interior! Will you be using the Restoration Shop single stage, or the Kustom Shop paint? When I still had the big shop, we used a lot of TCP's paint, still get most of the House of Kolor stuff from them.....

The Restoration Shop's "Corvette Red" is really close to the red powdercoat on the wheels and dash; I think I'll use it. That's what I have on the 48 dash, too.

It's a nice color, used it on a number of different cars! Good product for daily drivers!

I finished up both rockers and other than a little patch on the passenger side they were solid and no surprises. It's always the same area rusts out on these old Mopars; right below the taillights and the lip below the decklid. I could see some bubling through the paint so I decided to go ahead and fix it. Even though its going to be a budget paintjob, I dont want rust coming back through right away. I sanded it all down and its like I thought; several areas with pinholes in both spots. But it's worth the extra week or two of work to know its taken care of. The rest of the car is really solid.