HaV

Making some good progress on the first of the two project cars I bought.

We brought it home on the trailor looking like this:





Anyways, I straightend the little bit of frame damage over the gap for the air box (need a little bit of welding done.. soon as she runs again we'll take care of it), sanded all the rust in the bay down, new alternator, battery, valve cover gaskets, upper to lower gasket, and a ton of sanding then paint on the upper manifold and valve covers, new radiator, new coolant hoses, and new gaskets for the throttle body (which I haven not put back on yet.

How's it looking so far?








Also.. it for sure has a cam in it, high end after market rockers, springs... hell pretty much the stock heads completely rebuilt (possibly P&P?) with top of the line pieces. When we pulled off the upper manifold, which all gaskets on the top side were horrible, the gasket there and everything else looks like it was almost new. I was told that the entire bottom end had been redone right before it was wrecked when I bought it.... starting to believe they werent kidding.



And had no idea it had that color rockers in it (the ford racing b351's) when I picked out the color for covers. lol

5.0buildnherup

Looking really good so far man nice work and nice find . what type of paint you use to paint the plentom/valve covers how many coats?

91hatchgt

Looks to have aftermarket headers of some kind too.

HaV

It was a blue metallic engine block paint from autozone. I used 3 coats on all, with a plain white primer I sprayed on first.. Had to break out the dremel for some of the sanding in tight places. Turned out pretty smooth though and pretty tough so far.. dropped a rachet on it and didnt scratch [&:]

HaV

Yeah.. has equal lenth headders, x pipe, and flow's.. no cats. It'll sound good here soon

88BlueGT

Not a huge fan of the blue but looks good so far. Nice progress.

georgiaguy246

Lookin good man, love what your doing! Love the chickens in the yard as well, must be nice to live on a farm, man i sure miss it.

LS1this

sweet, it looks good man!

how much did you score it for if you don't mind me asking..

ahittz24

Wow something about your car strikes and erie chord in my head... ohh wait, its becauseless than a year ago I was in a very similar situation.....







And with LOTS 'O MONEY and time a patience... itnow looks like this....







The Interior is now finished 100% complete and in perfect condition. The Engine has a FRESH rebuilt 306 and is about to be swapped to a 408. The Engine bay is now painted the same color as the car and everything shines like new, and my wallet is empty.

Ohh and its good to see a fellow Oreilly shopper... I know they are big in the midwest...

HaV

Very nice. Its a lot of fun isnt it?

this thing should be up and running shortly. I have a little to do to the interior but not as much as you did.

and the pic at the little farm house.. thats the guy's I bought it from. I live in town... had my camera out there to take pics of the parts car that we still need to pick up.. to bad its so over grown that we can barely tell wh at it is.. lol