Looks like your making some real progress Brian. I know your excited. Keep the pics coming and keep at it.

Joe

Wow, I thought I updated this more often. I got the engine fired up, and drove around the block a couple times on open headers. Engine runs like a top.

I installed the Summit 2.5" exhaust kit, and the mufflers from the kit actually make it sound really good. Maybe I'll make a sound byte this week.

I had some trouble with my RPMs. Got a whole bunch of ideas from Moparts members - kickdown, torque converter slipping, bad third gear, etc. It turned out that the tach was on the wrong tach setting (for four cylinders), and was showing about double RPM

Because I didn't figure this out until AFTER I got home from Baconfest and Mopar Alley, I left the Demon at home this weekend and took the Mini to the shows. I missed my deadline of having it ready for Baconfest 09, but at least it turned out the transmission is alright

Anyway, I hope to get some pictures and video this week for y'all.

I guess it's getting a little closer to what I'd imagined. Now I need a set of BBP steelies and a B-body 8.75 to throw under the back.

So bro, have you been able to work on the car this month?

A little work



No mo' wagon wheels!

Good to see you're still plugging away on it. Glad to see you didn't sell it. Keep up the good work.

Hmmph, I should have updated this earlier...

I did end up getting nice BBP steelies for the front, thanks to a FABO moderator, GTXperience.





Later, I found a '74 dual-snorkel air cleaner at a swap meet, and decided it'd be the perfect candidate for a feaux-'71 340 air cleaner:



I also purchased a BBP 8.75" rear from a 68 Coronet. It's a 2.94:1 742 open case. Should hold me plenty, for now. I kept the 10x2.5" drums in the rear, but rebuilt them. nothing much else was wrong on the axle except for the brake lines, so I just threw it back together with a coat of brushed-on Rustoleum satin black





Upcoming, I will be pulling the entire drivetrain, installing a Firm Feel or Steer and Gear power box, rebuilding the torqueflite (leaky seals), and painting the motor orange. This should all happen before April or May.

A tiny update - I started bending the brake lines for the rear end last night. I was going to be nice to the current brake lines under the car, but they didn't cooperate well, so in order to get the junction block off of the axle, I had to cut one of the lines. Looks like I'm now getting the rear axle done before anything else Good timing though, as I just have to bend the brake lines, get some correct u-bolts, and it'll be ready to roll under the car.

Every little bit of work gets you closer to a complete car. Have fun with the rear end.

The rear end is ready to go in. I had some fun scrambling when I realized the left-hand side of the rear end had left-handed threaded studs. got some from the parts store and filled in the rest with my donor 8.25's axle studs. Wagon wheels have to go on for a while with some out-of-place 255/60/15 Firestone Firehawks from my friend's Nova.

Nice work Brian. My cars are still in Vacaville awaiting better weather to ship them to Florida. On that note...Man is this shop I have now going to be great. 24 foot tall ceilings so a lift is in my future. It is even plumbed for air as well. I will get some pics here shortly. Just getting settled is a job in itself...cr8crshr/Bill

The axle's in!





Better pictures tonight.

Just a few pictures here and there

All 3137 lbs of it!



Goin' on the dyno:









Not too shabby, I'd say.

So I've been in the process of making the car for sale the past month or so. Debt to pay, so it's the first on the block.

But in the process of making the car presentable, it's actually starting to grow on me more and more. I replaced the leaking PS box last week. Got the new one in, and it's still not perfect, but miles ahead of the other one!

Then yesterday I wired up an audio amp to my 6x9s and wired my iPod's 1/8" audio jack to the amp, so now even though I have no radio, I have tunes!

It's also going back on the dyno May 1st. I'm hoping to squeeze 300hp and 375tq to the wheels.

That's cool about the iPod. I haven't messed with Stereo stuff in a while and I thought about doing something similar in my Challenger. Thought about hiding an amp and rigging an iPod to it but when I talked to some of the stereo guys at Best Buy they said it wasn't possible. Didn't seem that big of a deal to me. What amp did you use and how did you connect it?

Joe

I used a Toxik Audio amp, but any one should do. Here's a diagram of how I connected it: