Glad to see your handle pop up on the screen. And you're working on a project too. Thanks for the update.
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Glad to see your handle pop up on the screen. And you're working on a project too. Thanks for the update.
I installed new rear shocks in the stock location and on the Chevy rear end. Everything lined up like it was made that way.
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Finished the drive train tunnel.
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Found some 1962 vintage Mickey Thompson Tri Rib wheels for the car.
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I built the exhaust head pipe using the pipe I removed from my Camaro SS when I change to headers.
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Scraped, brushed, and ground the bottom clean and coated with Eastwood rust converter and indercoat.
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Working getting the engine all connected. Digging through boxes to see if I have what I need is a chore
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Been working on getting the fuel tank installed. I clean it up and painted it with Eastwood tank refinisher. The 69 year old tank looked brand new inside. I was amazed!
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The tank was originally mounted to the left frame rail and to the spare tire well. Since I removed the spare tire well I can now center the tank and run the exhaust pipe down each side,
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I made some brackets using a combination of original and bone pile stuff.
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Nice work on mounting and cleaning/painting the tank!
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Wow, that turned out nice !
Working on getting the radiator and cooling fan sorted out. With a shroud I'm about 1/2" too wide. I can try mounting the fan on the inside of the shroud, mount the fan on the radiator and not use the shroud, or use a mechanical fan?
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My other option is buy another electric fan.
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I despise those fosdick electric fans screwed to the radiator core. I have yet to see one of them that will cool the motor properly. Electric fans work well on OEM applications, but that's because they have in-house mechanical engineers on staff to use all the right stuff.
The best we can do as hot rodders is to use the tried and true 7-blade, 18" diameter mechanical fans bolted to a thermostatically-controlled fan clutch with the blades sitting halfway in and halfway out of a closely-contoured shroud and sucking through the largest radiator core that you can bolt to the frame and frame brackets. My approach to this has always been to seek out a 70's/early 80's big block Impala, Caprice or truck in a boneyard and take all the components including radiator. Cap this off with a quality 190/195 degree thermostat and you're home-free.
Do not use serpentine pieces unless you use the entire serpentine system. The fan blade is stamped reverse to what you need with a fan belt system.
Here's some good reading.....
https://www.crankshaftcoalition.com/...cooling_system
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Just read through your build. You're doing some nice work keep it up. Looks like you got a lot of the tough stuff done.