Thread: My 15 week rat rod build or bust.....

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Back from another porductive day. We got the car tore down all the way. Donny welded the frame, now it's all done. I took the motor out and took the tranny off the old motor getting it ready for the new small block. We want to put front and rear seals on the tranny before we blot it back up. While Donny welded, I blasted zinc coating off blots and started the pass seat.

We are going to get the front and rear susp back on the car Saturday and start workin on the brake lines!!!!!!!

Oh and I took my old big body out of storage and started drive it around today.

Boy, that thing is clean. How many more weeks are left in your build?


Don

We have about 30 days till it needs to drive down the road. Will it be done....yeah never.

Now, on to today. We started putting the car back togather today, the front and rear susp is back in. We started on brake lines too, mostly putsy stuff today. Here you are.

And new thoughts or ?'s....?

So we aged the intake mani, made a custom PCV port in the block. Cuasr the newer small blocks are not cast like the old ones. We changed a few seals and put the tranny on the new motor. Also dig the braket Donny made for the alt.

Well there was big things today, the motor and tranny are back in for good and all plumed. The fuel line is done, the positive and ground are run and bolted in place. The brakes are done and bled. Donny is going to finish welding up the bottom side of the body.....then we can get it back down for good on the frame.

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Right on, looks like you might make it.

Movin right along........
I do not see how you can resist the urge to clean and paint and make it shiney
Its a downhill process for me once I touch things....
It starts well ,let me clean the grease off that soo I do not get dirty,better get it all off,so it looks uniform atleast,now that all the grease is off it looks pretty good,....but it would look better painted and shiney, I will just hit it with the brake clean so its clean,Hmmmmm now that its clean all its lacking is some cheap spray paint and it would look brand new,,,,,,I have a little paint left in that one can,spray it on and bam shiney new part

Thats pretty much why I am on year 4 of a engine swap

I was thinking that at 1st, but all the parts on this car look like they have been togather for years. I do not belive that this car will ever be painted....while I own it.


Zach

More progress was made today. I got the other seat done, while done dreamed up the head light supports and shock mounts. I also set the rear 3 windows in and got them ready. We still have some work to do when the body goes back on, so the windows will be dead last.