Another view

Yet another

Way to go Larry!! Looking very good. I can imagine how anxious you are to turn the key on it for the 1st time. Keep up the great work. I'm so glad the car went to such a good home!

Larry

Hello Larry; hopefully I will have the transmission, torque converter and headers in by the end of the week. Then it will be the little things to take care of before it comes to life. It was such a solid car to begin with and the dents on the right side will probably be there for a while as I plan on enjoying it for a while......

Well, I pulled the engine back out and assembled the torque converter, engine and tranny. Installed as a unit; next was the headers so I dropped the pitman arm.idler arm and drag link and raised the engine up a few inches as the Doug's instructions stated. Passenger side went it easy but on the driver's side you have to partially install the headers, then install the starter before proceeding. The mini stater batt post hit the block so I had to shorten the post and install an adapter upside down so the battery cable/post would clear the block. I have a World/MP block so the water jackets protrude more than the standard mopar block. Anyway after inventing a few new swear words and a bunch of bruises the d/s header was installed. I had to make a .200" square shim to raise the d/s motor mount in order to have a little clearance between the header and the power steering unit. Surprising the column shift linkage and kickdown linkage from the 318 fit perfectly with the 512. Here are a few pix.

Driver's side

Linkage

Why did you pull the motor to install the trans?
Also if you had the motor out,header install would
have been easy, just lay them in place as you are lowering the engine in.
Very nice looking car and motor.

It was a lot easier to install everything as unit as I was doing it alone. If I had my 2 grandkids helping like in the past it would've been a lot easier.

Everything except exhaust pipes and driveshaft hooked up. Sounds good with 2" Doug's open headers. Should have the driveshaft by next week and possibly take it out on a maiden run. Here are a few pix

Had to use a top breather low profile air cleaner so the hood would close. I might put a SS type hood scoop on it down the road.

I went with an MSD pro billet dist in order to clear the INDY EZ heads and an MSD Streetfire box and wires.

Another pix of the engine bay

Last pix for now; will post more of the underneath once the driveshat is hooked up.

Beautiful car and awesome project.

Well I am almost finished with the Coronet; just have to get the exhaust welded, install the rear bumper and get an alignment check. I will fix the dents on the passenger side after I enjoy the ride for a while first.

Another pix

Front view

And the engine bay

The car looks fantastic. I hope you really enjoy it.