Getting the underside clean. Used an engine hoist to lift the car up in many different ways.





Got the rear end out... blasting time.







Eastwood rust encapsulator and extreme chassis black







Disassembled the rear end in order to swap out to 3.55 gears





Since I'm not using the 318... Got a 440+727 for $850. It came as a whole assembly, has all pullys, brackets, kickdown, entire ignition system, voltage regulator, started all still hooked up.



Took the 727 off. Rebuilt it at tech school when we were doing automatic transmissions. Gonna add a stall converter when the engine has been built.



Removed the heads on the 440 to inspect, overall it appears to be a good rebuild canidate.









This was apart of an 8 straight hour blasting job to have it all finished up. For working so hard I was rewarded with the air compressor giving out, ended up getting a new one a couple months later.













Painted the floor pans, trunk pan, everwhere inside with rust encapsulator, to then do bodywork over it.





Using all metal to fill holes, and smooth out some rough spots.







Finished. Came out better than what I thought