What is Everyone Working On? Volume 2

[jimmyb]

hey bob sounds soo good how abut some pics?

 

[birdboy]

you guys have alot of cool stuff going on. if anyone cares i have a caddy engine i'm building and just got my new 440 block from bill mitchell it's the 2nd one i have got from them very nice pieces. the caddy engine is for my beater 73 nova play car/test car. mocked up the engine made some headers for it last dec. i just finished porting the heads a few weeks ago and they ended up flowing pretty good. more then i though they would. the rods are ford 7" because the big ends are the same as caddy but i had to hone the small ends and bush for full floaters. the pistons are big block chevy 454's that were .070 over for the chevy but only .020 for the caddy. had to cut the pistons for valve clearance. the chevy compression height is 1.664 so to get it to 0 deck i had to take .020 off the deck of the block. compression came out to 11.84 to 1 with a flat top and the cam i had ground is .650 int and exh lift and 293 int and 308 exh duration. scored a bulldog intake for it a couple yrs ago dominater flange. 1050 dom. the last one made 601hp witout porting so hoping for 670hp or more with this setup. talk about torque mosters the last engine made over 600ftq from 2500 to 6000rpm's. i pulled the 605 apart to start the rebuild and make it ready for the twin turbo's but it will be a yr project.

[fasttcars]

Finally took some pics of last weeks piston cooking    Also snapped a couple of the painted and smoothed firewall.  It's the wrong color, but you get the idea.  It's going to be a shame to sand off two perfectly good coats of clear to get what I want, but dammit I paid for it! 

those look pretty good...is that a eastwood kit or?

[Tubbed440]

Still working on my Challenger.  Street car project, 500 incher, victor heads, ladder bars, coil overs, AlterKtion, narrowed D60 with auburn unit and moser axles.  Also doing 4L80E swap with manual valvebody conversion from Trans Go.  Tires on rear are 325-50-15 M/T Drag radials on a 15x10 Boyd Smoothie II wheel.  Fronts are 15x6 with BFG's.

Engine...




Throttle body for EFI, got a Victor EFI manifold on the way.




Custom made pan - ground clearance!!!!


Just a show off shot...



...and a real big mock-up thread that I have been adding to periodicly on another board....

http://horsepowerjunkies.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36751&highlight=mock-up

[Ciscodog]

Finally took some pics of last weeks piston cooking    Also snapped a couple of the painted and smoothed firewall.  It's the wrong color, but you get the idea.  It's going to be a shame to sand off two perfectly good coats of clear to get what I want, but dammit I paid for it! 

those look pretty good...is that a eastwood kit or?

Not Eastwood - it's from www.techlinecoatings.com  I think it's the CBC2 thermal coating.  About $35 for a small bottle (plenty for a few sets) and all you need to apply it is a $7 detail gun from Harbor Freight.  Cook 'em first at 400F, then blast the tops, then coat 'em and cook 'em! 

[bOb shingler]

today i got the belt guard bent a little more to suit myself and made one more bracket to hold it on. i also cleaned the zillion pieces of bearing and rod out of the oberg filter, what a mess. i mounted it to the engine plate and made two oil lines from the kb oil pump to it.

[bOb shingler]

today i was able to make a spacer and use one i purchased from rjs superchargers to get the bottom drive pulley to line up with the one on the blower and i cut more threads on the 6 bolts that holds the drive thingy on the lower pulley that drives the ederle 990 fuel pump.

[Ciscodog]

So I thought all the pistons were coated and fine.  Bakaruda comes up to visit and I'm showing him the fancy coated pistons and he finds a flake!  WTF!  Now I'm trying to recoat it and I'm getting bubbles GRRRR... Glad he found it though.  Better now than after the motor is built and I get a hot spot on the piston. 

[bOb shingler]

well lets see yesterday i found out that the set-back plate for the supercharger was machined wrong and i need to get one that acturally will fit or weld and machine this one to fit correctly. today i cut the oil pan about 3/4" below the pan rail and made some spacers 1 1/4" to gain more oil and abrasive welded it up, he's getting better at aluminum all the time. 

[FastmOp]

trying to get the shifter mounted and  finish welding the chassi together so I can move on to tin and the fun parts 

[JEDS67]

I' working on pulling my 440 out of my 67 Cuda after I blew it up first tme out to the track.A rocker arm nut backed off and destroyed the rocker,lifter,pushrod and some how took out my crank too.Ye Ha!

[DustBuster]

Putting this in

[bOb shingler]

trying to get the shifter mounted and  finish welding the chassi together so I can move on to tin and the fun parts 

  wussup, looks like a gm bellhousing.  i hope that some day my motor makes enough horsepower to need one of those bruno's.

[bOb shingler]

today i finished making the directional screen windage tray for my motor.

[Ed]

Almost got the swinger done, just have to finish the interior and find a couple bits.  Will have to spend a day reading this thread

[FastmOp]

The only thing GM about that is the bolt pattern. 
I hope to make enough power to need it to. I always wanted a lenco.    This is going to be an all out effort so why not start with parts that will last. wait till the motor starts going together

[bOb shingler]

well kiddies today was a day of "giterdone day". the demon is off the trailer for the first time in a year. jheeze was it she dirty. the green mold on the new puke tanks was a bit unusual to say the least and the hood sagged a bit on one side, damit jim. i got it all cleaned inside and out except vacuuming the carpet and trunk, still a bunch of parts in there anyway. what a huge difference, she looks great again but the wheels are a little corroded.  oh ya, i punched another hole in the oil pan for the swringing pick-up and painted it flat black, the one abrasive welded, looks ok, i hope it holds oil.

[bOb shingler]

yiper today was a day that i didn't have to anything just once. abrasive's oil pan welding leaked but only in 9 places so a little 4 minute jb weld and some more paint and she was a keeper.  we lowered the motor in the demon  and to have to remove it to drill the motor plate.  ok, we installed the last 2 oil lines from the pick-up to the pump. well for the life of me i couldn't fine the flex plate to crank bolts, look all over for an hour. then abrasive found them and didn't tell me.  he just was setting in front of the motor putting them in so i saw him and let him get 7 of the 8 in and then told him they needed to have loc-tite on them. so anyway we lower the motor in once more  and finished bolting it up to the tranny.  end of the day and story fellows.

[dartracer]

Hey BoB, Pics we need pics

[jet-taz]

well i can't go back now. cut the frame to move the springs inboard,  my friend mark replaced the rollers on the rear windows 

[bOb shingler]

today i clearanced the left inner fender for the 180 degree #12 an fitting to make the turn out of the oberg and into the oil pump. i mounted the accumulator on the same fender and fitted the #6 an lines to the "Y" block which feeds the accumulator, heads and oil pressure gauge. i don't know how to post pics or at least i can't remember how to do it, i'm kind of brain dead when it comes to computers. 

[MVRCorp]

Hey bOb, JB weld is cheating. It's suppose to be hard. Too bad I'm not in Fl. I'd bring you some more beer. 
I might need a consult w/you this winter on my hemi build. Sounds like a good excuse for a trip to Fl. Oh, by the way, what's the progress on your N.C. move? 
Jim

[bOb shingler]

jim, the housing market here is all buyers. we droped the price $30,000 and still no one is wanting to come inside and look.

[bOb shingler]

well kiddies i've been getting a flu bug since monday and haven't been to work tuesday and today. i recieved the correct blower set-back plate yesterday and today abrasive came over and installed it. so anyway he sits the 14-71 on it and guess what? the supercharger doesn't go all the way back, it hits the coweling, needs at least 1/2" more space. which brings us to " i don't have to do anything just once". so he removes it and cuts the coweling back 3/4". cool ah, it should fit the next time the blower goes on, gosh i sure hope so.  he welded it all up and when i get to feeling better i'll start the body work, burnt paint you know and paint the entire coweling. oh, great fun again. 

[MVRCorp]

Bummer....sorry your sick. What you need is some vitimin C. Switch to Corona w/lime for a week.   

[FastmOp]

I just changed out the 4.30's that were in the Valiant for 4.10's hope it don't kill to much ET
Also got a smokin deal on some new tires 10.5W's so both together prolly took way to much gear out of it but the years almost up

[MikeR]

Just got the Dart's Glass in (with my son's help) and wipers back on...  I've had the car torn apart since February.  The new A/C is all hooked up and I need to get it charged Monday, then I can get the dash in, there's a small local show up here next Saturday so the push is on to get as much done as possible...

[bOb shingler]

well kiddies today was another "githerdone"day. i got by a$$ out of bed this morning and sanded the mess me and abrasive made cutting and welding the hole for the supercharger to set in and i even managed to piant it with just a few runs. oh well ya can't see 'em with the fat blower in front of them anyway. so a quick call to abrasive's cell and he was on the way here. i had all the paper off the hotrod when he arrived and we sat the littlefield on the manifold, good grief is that thing large i mean LARGE. ok on goes the injector hat and i need to studs for it. off to lowe's bu;t no way, so off to true value, score. well all and all i got the pumping done and all the return lines made except one for the push button leanpout. the pump on, the belt guard's on and the trottle will need a bracket made for it since the riser makes it 4" taller. that's it for today. 

[NYrr496]

I'm concentrating all evil efforts into the nasty, Suffolk County circa 1956 split level house my wife had to have because it's "South of Montauk Highway".  Once this S box is done, I'll build my 24 x 30 heated, air conditioned garage and let the fun begin. In the meantime, I'm collecting parts and ideas.

[Ciscodog]

I FINALLY got the last piston coated with NO BUBBLES!  It only took me six tries (bOb would be proud).  Got two pistons into the short block last night too.  More to follow today!  Progress is fun!