It may be time for an intervention. No progress to mention on vibrations but....
We have been on road trips the past 2 weekends. Two weeks ago it was for the Red Mach I from my other thread. This weekend was in pursuit of "parts out the ass" as the message claimed. I didn't spend what the new t5 will cost between the two weekends. I also hooked another person to the ways of the II's.
The Mach I was abandoned 22 years ago over motor mounts. It jumped railroad tracks or drove into a ditch in it's previous life. The chassis is bent up a little. The pillars are cracked. Yet it is almost a complete car. Only items missing are block plate, fluids, radiator and hoses as well as functioning motor mounts. It also needed a carb and headers so we made another road trip for a good deal on some used parts.
We ended up with brand new headers, MSD dizzy, a couple cams, 3 engines, one a roller block disassembled, Rebuildable D2OE Police Interceptor heads and running '68 351 heads. All kinds of little
. Ps pumps, ac compressors. Two supposedly working carbs, a used Holly 600 and a freshly rebuilt Eddy 600, 2 performer 289 intakes. 4 C4 transmissions including one that supposedly is good and the one that originally came in the car. A truck bed, trailer, trunk and floorboards full of stuff. I think everything but some bolts to reassemble the car.
Oh yeah I said car. We got one of them too. It's a dark blue '76 coupe. Repainted years ago. She is a nice 20 footer. Has a couple rusty spots but was a texas car and the bottom looks like it was rhino lined. Someone had the interior redone probably 20 years ago. It's so so today but may clean up. It has a 3/4 vinyl top I am not super fond of in pics but it does work ok in person.
The story as I understand is the transmission went bad on the then owner. Car was left at a friends house which is the gentleman I bought it from. After a few years of sitting they pulled the engine to drop in a roller 351 and drag race it. Time elapsed between the removal of the old and the new engine being ready. The old running engine was sold to help fund the project. See where I am going here.
He didn't realize the oil pan problems these cars have. They sold the running engine oil pan and all. I saw 7 F150 or F250's's from the 50's to 90's at his place. Some gorgeous and some with patina. He knew them in and out. These cars not so much. None of his trucks have windsors so he gave me everything he collected in pursuit of turning the coupe into a drag car. As well as the running 302 engines he had taken out of his trucks for bigger engines. My trailer was so heavy I had to turn down E7 heads he claimed were low mileage. He just kept pulling out stuff. Anything windsor related. My trailer was so low I had to stop him.
The absolute best part of the trip was my sons wife fell in love with the coupe and was not happy when I said even if we had to part it out we made out like bandits. I have since been informed that parting out is not an option. Turns out it appears to be in really good shape so she is safe. Besides when the wives encourage the insanity what are we to do?
Today we started prepping to install the engine and trans into the Mach I to see how she runs. We turned an older block plate into a II block plate. Had the flywheel turned and mostly cleaned stuff. Hopefully the Mach is running in a few days depending on weather.
Here is the Mach I next to Christine with a couple pics of the coupe following. I will get more once my kid finally sends them to me. He took some after she had a bath with his phone since it does better pics.