Quote Originally Posted by Irelands child
Hi Randy,
Made it back safely from Beautiful Burbank - but am still about an hour off kilter as far as time.

The engine looks nice and clean - what rockers are you using? They don't look like my Crane Energizers. Time for a paint job on it - and that's always a bundle of fun.

The firewall sure looks a lot better than that piece of Swiss cheese you had originally. Fits up real nicely. Did you get the trans tunnel as well?

Gotta finish getting my taxes ready today for my accountant - so will be basically off-line for most of today.
Welcome back Dave. Hope you had a good trip.

My rockers are Scorpion 1.72 rollers. They came highly recommended by the guy who designed my cam. I don't have all the specs handy at the moment but can fill you in later on that...

They painted my engine the new Ford Gray. It doesn't photograph as well as it looks in person. I kinda wanted to go with a pewter/stainless steel look on the cast iron parts and add subtle bling with polished alum valve covers, coated headers etc. The plug wires and dist. cap are red.

I got the entire floorboard to go with the new firewall. Once I started cutting, it just seemed to make sense...lol....I'm also moving the master cylinder back under the floor and putting the shifter on the floor instead of column. On my old setup the column shifter linkage cleared the exhaust manifold by about 1/4 inch. The floor shifter makes sense to clean up the congestion in that whole area.

I decided to buy a little Lincoln welder. It should be here tomorrow. It's a wire feed mig with the hoses & guages to add the gas. I'm excited to get it so I can do this stuff myself rather than trying to schedule time and money to get someone else to do it.

Anyway, glad you're back online. Good luck with your taxes. I still have to do mine too.....Egad!

Later,
Randy