while you are at it - are you going to clean up the engine bay and re-coat it? since the engine is out of teh way it would be a great time to do that nicely! I do like the 71 too!

 

Never mind ... I had not seen the enitre thread! LOOKING GOOD!

 

Ah yes, Brutus the assassin.
Assassinating Ceasers and Chevys. lol.

 

The tranny and driveline are in. Ran into more problems. Had to adjust the right header to go around the C6. Shifter linkage on the Torino is for a column shift. The throw on the shifter is too short. FMX shifter won't fit the C6. Modefied the FMX shifter to fit the C6. FMX inspection plate won't fit, had to make one. Tranny cooling lines are different, had to modify. Kick down linkage is different.

Tuesday night I was working in my yard and I heard an engine start up a ways away from my house. I stopped to listen to it and my wife asked what was going on. I told her wishful thinking. Come to find out it was Brutus 1 mile from my house. Dale started my car but it didn't run long. The carb flooded out.

Wednesday, checked in and found out the problems for the day ( carb flooding, kick down still needed done, vac line to tranny needs done). With any luck I will pick it up on Thursday, and I haven't had a lot of luck on this project.

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hey man luck is just around the corner..looking good!

 

1 month and 12 days, it has been a long wait for me. I finaly got it back. I spent the afternoon putting the hood and grille back on, installing a rearview mirror and fixing a few things. The tach wouldn't work with the MSD box without rewiring so I removed it and rewired the distributor. Gas gauge didn't work so I fixed that I think. It now reads above full, but it does have a full tank. I will see if the gauge goes down. I took it for a short drive, about 30 miles. It runs smooth, but I didn't get in to it hard because I want to break it in a bit. I got a lot of looks from people, and a few kids pointing at it. I still need to get th right speedometer gear, Dale guessed on it an it is about 10 mph off. I was doing 70 on the highway and keeping with traffic. This weekend I will post pix of the new engine and the long awaited interior pix. I may have to add a leaf to the rear, after the coil over shocks were removed it lowered it a bit. It still needs to be painted but I am going to wait on that for a while.

ghettoct;
I guess you were right. Did you get yours up and running? Did you get your door panels yet?

 

looks good !!!! cant wait till im in that stage but im in a delima right now just getting some things figured out. dont forget to take pics of the first burnout!!

 

shr;
Did you get you hood hinges figured out? How is that coming?

 

no thats the delima still, going over lunch today to measure out a car and see what i get. once that gets taken care of i can start to put the frnt end together! which will be nice, then its time for final block and paint.

 

Well I spent most of Saturday playing with Brutus. I still haven't gave him a good workout yet. I have about 160 miles on it now. Not sure on exact miles because the speedometer is off by 10mph. At 60 I read 70mph at 3k rpm. It sure sounds and runs good. I am going to raise the back end up to get it back to the hieght that it was before I removed the overload shocks. I think it sits too low now. After that it is tire time, and maybe wheels too.

Here's a few pix of the engine.

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