Nicks fast back conversion

[AeroCoupe]

Looking good guys! That is going to be a nice power plant for the car for sure.

 

[horse sence]

If no more problems! That machine shop sure screwed things up!

 

[horse sence]

Painted it black and bolted it up .

A fuel pump ,thermostat and a carburator kit and soon as I run the valves it will be ready to put on the run stand and fire it up .
Primed it with an air drill and hit 50 pounds so we have oil pressure

 

[horse sence]

I set the motor in the start up stand ,after I bought a new lift plate because someone through my other one out! Now to get all the little stuff hooked up !

 

[horse sence]

I mounted the radiator in the stand ,sand blasted and painted the bell housing,backing plate and the pullies .
I had a new old stock thermostat housing ,its cast iron so it wont warp like the chrome aluminum ones do . Had a brand new set of genuine chrome accessory alternator brackets I bolted on . Got out the brand new 28 oz flywheel ,just need some new bolts and bolt it all up

 

[horse sence]

Thermostat is in ,spring into the block like it is supposed to be.
Fly wheel bolted on and so is the bell housing .
Alternator bolted on and the pullies all line up .
The new starter should be in so I will check on that in a bit.
With the plugs out I can turn the motor by hand from the front pullie so we have no binding anywhere.
A bunch of little loose ends and we can fire it up and piss off the neighbors ...ah ,good times!

 

[horse sence]

Starter cam in ,o o o oreilies auto parts !
Even got the right one! One more check on the list!
If you didnt know ,the manual transmission starter is different than the automatic ,snout is shorter!

 

[horse sence]

A friend of mine just gave me 4 hollies ,the first one is a 650 double pumper ,a rebuild kit and thats the one for us!

a couple of the vacuume secondari carbs are ford carbs ,i have to run the numbers and see what they were off of !

 

[horse sence]

We have a kit ordered ,should be here this evening ,went with the alcahol kit because the new gas eats up the excelerator pumps . Still need a bunch of smaller items before we can start it . Fuel pump ,several intake plugs ,adaptor for the temp gauge ,fan belt ,hoses and antifreeze ,spark plug wires . Still have to do some work on the header flange ,maybe by next weekend it will fire!

 

[Noobz347]

You're in Commiefornia... You probably don't have many non-fruit stations to choose from.

 

[horse sence]

I cut that ball and socket end off the headers and welded a new thick flange instead . One head bolt hole on each side did not line up so had to clean up the holes a bit and everything fits ,starter ,bell housing and block so no denting needed .

 

[horse sence]

 

[horse sence]

I had a set of bullet mufflers I bought just to start my 35 ford pick up years ago ,thats all they were used for ,I had to cut the flanges off and reweld they so they fit better ,they will be perfect to fire it up . Welds are kind of ugly because I couldn't get the ceramic coating of but they will be good enough to run . Hope to fire it up this weekend !