Thursday, March 8

Just finishing up the blocking now. The body lines are getting cleaned up and the car is getting primered and ready for paint. It's been a long road. Six months of solid body work. It has been a year since I had the car media blasted. It was september of 99 when I bought the car. I am really excited that the body work is done. This is definitely one of the more time consuming parts of the restoration.

Tuesday, March 6

The latest saga on the manifold search for my stroker motor. I purchased an A351 Roush manifold that I was hoping to use on an SVO block or Windsor block. What I got was a A351 that had been milled for a 9.2" deck block ( ie. standard clevland ). Now I have three 9.2" deck height manifolds and none for a 9.5" deck height. Thanks to Dan Jones for helping me ID the manifold.

I think I will just hold off on locating more manifolds until I decide which block to use. Maybe I will just use the cobra-jet block that came in the car, afterall.

Tuesday, February 27

Almost done! The hood scoops and battery box are in and flush mount windshield is almost finished. We are still about two or three weeks away from paint. I looked at several pictures of this type of hood scoop installed. There seemed to be two ways one way with the outer most edge of the scoop parallel with the hood line ( or hood/fender seam ). The other way with the front of the scoop parallel with the front hood line. There is only about ten degrees of difference between the two positions. It seemed that the former positioning was the most comonly used. Therefore that is the way we went. The outer edge of the scoop lines up and is parallel with the hood/fender seam.

The flush mount window kit has turned out to be more work then originally thought. You get six pieces a pair for each side of the window and a pair for the top of the window. However you don't get pieces for the bottom of the window. My body man made a bottom piece to move the windshield up slightly to achieve the proper gap between the window and the window fram so that the seal will fit between the frame and window. The lower portion of the window frame was rusted as well so it was better to replace it. It is a lot of work to hand form those pieces.