Had a shop take a digital pix of my gas filler door and they matched the paint exactly. I cleaned, prepped and sprayed the engine compartment. Got a few runs but I think the engine should hide them. Starting to put back the basic items in the bay.

Other side

Side view

It is looking really really nice.

Removed springs, shocks and complete differential. Cleaned and undercoated back half of the undercarraige. Wound up replacing the stock springs with XHD springs as I didn't want the car to sit weird with the SS springs. New spring hangers and hanger reinforcement plates from Mancini. Cleaned, painted and reinstalled differential housing with new U-bolts and shocks. Bought a refurbished 742 3.55:1 posi unit from a fellow MOPARTS member. Installed all new brake shoes and hardware along with new lines and emergency brake cables. Removed the trunk trim panel and polished it and re-shot the black. Located 2 NOS tail light lens and reinstalled. Next I will continue on underneath to clean and undercoat the rest and work on some frame connectors. I still am going to put it all back together and drive it before I address the 3 or 4 dings on the body. Car was completely repainted in 2007 and still shines nicely. I'll try and post some pix today.

Underside

Another

Trunk finish panel and new lens

Another picture

Larry, that is one sweet looking ride.... I'm green w/envy. Congrats to you......

Bryan

Beautiful car!! Can you post the color code if you know it? I want my 67 belvedere II to look like that..

It's TT-1 medium copper poly I'll try and shoot a pix of the fender tag and post too

Pix of fender tag with paint/trim codes

Looks like it's comming along nicely, can't wait to see pics with the engine installed. It's hard for me to imagine a 43 year old car could be so rust free. I have a 2000 Jeep with more rust issues that your car, I guess that's one of the down sides to living down under.

Well with the help of QUICKD100 we were able to get the 512 on the dyno. With problems of bad gas, timing and a lean Demon carb it finally came to life with a Holley carb. After breaking in the cam and making 6 dyno runs with various carbs and timing settings we went back to the Demon carb, after Dave massaged it. We bumped the total timing up to 36 degrees total. Final numbers were 621 ft lbs of torque at 3666 rpm and 562 hp at 5551 rpm. It will be a torque monster. Here's a link to the complte story.

https://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/show...e=3#Post6486900

Coan racing is building me a special street converter; Doug's D452 ceramic headers, frame connectors and transmission en route. Should have the motor/transmission in place within 2 weeks. I will post some pix.

Doug's headers showed up today; nicely polished ceramic coated. Had to reposition the dipstick and will have to do a little spark plug wire rerouting to the back 2 cylinders.

Other side of motor

Rear plug area

Test fit the motor today; headers will be interesting to install on drivers side.