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should work great Falcon!!! Nothing like some good old fashioned low-buck engineering!!!! 3" of drop with not much more invested then a bit of labor and some welding, really good plan!!!!!

Falcon another good weekend for you i see. I took a 5 day also to work on car but got side tracked by my oldest son. Spent better part of Friday and Saturday over there. Removed a section of deck to put in drain tile to move water away . Then installed a french door for him. One door is bad enough but getting 2 at once to close properly is a PITA . I'm sticking with cars alot easier LOL.

Falcon your moving along well .

I have managed to get the new engine in but I have come across many little things I have had to deal with so far, every mount is a little different or doesn't work at all. The fuel pump will HAVE to be electric, no choice with the vortec engines, and I don't even want to talk about the old factory air compressor. All in all though probably nothing we can't figure out with some time.

What is that engine in Brick?

Got the guys together this morning and shuffled everything around. Tom's Coupe is now in the little garage at home, and my pickup is over at Bill's getting ready to get the box installed and adjusted as soon as the '57 Wagon is done and gone!!!! Sure is fun when you have about 5 more projects going then you have room for!!!! Here's one of my '71 on the trailer behind the Super Dodge. The Dodge is a Turbo Diesel with a Banks Intercooler and chipped, along with a brand new 6 speed tranny....What a towing monster!!! Went out on the highway for a bit with the old Ford on the trailer behind it, the Dodge acted like their was nothing behind it!!!!

That is a very sweet ride Dave, a car towing dream machine huh? So we will be seeing the 71 ford getting finished soon eh? Very cool.
That is my '72 El Camino which will be for sale too. Sorry about the all black engine compartment but it sure helped clean up 30 years of wear. I am not going to do a restore on it, it is going down the road.

Yup, it's a towing monster!!!!! I'd like to find one of those two car Ultra-light ramp trailers just to make the thing have to work a bit!!!! Hopefully the pickup will get finished soon...about to get caught up....

Progress report on my coupe.
Well after Pheasant hunting and on the way home I stopped today at a certain small town in eastern SD to see the progress of the bodywork on my coupe and low and behold there it sat hanging from the ceiling as the attached picture shows
Well the handsome guy standing on his head next to it had it flipped it upside down. I had a bewieldered stare on my face and he says something like "ya mean you bend over to work on the bottom?"
It's too bad I didn't have someone like Dave around when I was welding on the coupe, could have saved myself a lot pain, blisters and scarring. Ya he's a pretty cool guy.

Whoa! That picture kind of freaked me out for a minute! Nice coupe, Tom, I really like that body style. Dave, that truck is huge! It makes your full size 71 look like a Ford Ranger.

I'm just way too old to bend over and do body work!!!!! With no steel top on the coupe, it's a great way to do work on the bottom...


As for the Dodge, we really wanted the Mega Cab, but this is a used '05 and we had to settle for the "smaller" version.... Which is still huge!!!! For a one tone, it has a surprisingly smooth ride, just need to hook something up to it to make that turbo work a bit!!!!

Well Tom, that picture helps me understand why Dave refers to himself as batty!

It is interesting to me to see the bottom edge of the new firewall of the coupe is straight across!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

[QUOTE=Don Shillady]It is interesting to me to see the bottom edge of the new firewall of the coupe is straight across!



The bottom has a bend in it pretty close to the stock floor board angle. It clears the bellhousing nicely. I wanted to get as much done as I could before Dave took over with the bodywork. When I get it back next week well when I get it back and bolted down on the chassis, I'll be working on the steering column and the swing peddles - that nice straight bottom might have to be changed a little. I'll just have to waite and see.
First picture shows my mockup with body in place and engine/bellhousing/trans hopefully hanging in the right place. Second picture shows actual setting.

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Well Tom, that picture helps me understand why Dave refers to himself as batty!

Ya mean the coupe is right side up and I'm upside down???? Geez, no wonder walking is getting so difficult!!!!!

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Well Tom, that picture helps me understand why Dave refers to himself as batty!

Well I sure hope he doesn't hang my doors up-side-down

The engine is a 1980 Buick V6 which came out of my Dad's stock 1980 Chev Monza. I also got a Turbo Buick V6 from "Hemi T coupe" that I will be putting in when I blow up the first one.

Dave- a better picture of the Vega Box.

What are you planning for steering on this one Tom?