As you can see from the pictures pages, we setup the engine hoist and stand, and started doing some engine cleanup.  Work actually began last weekend, and continued this weekend.

First stage of grinding/smoothing completed on the intake for the LT1 motor, which is destined for the car.  Pictures updated in the pictures area as well.  Next is fine sanding/further grinding, and then after that … the Wenol.

Put the Wenol polished fuel tank in today, along with the fuel filter and pump, and back half of the fuel line.  Also polished the master cylinder items, painted the rear brake calipers and brackets, and connected them all up.  Pictures updated in the pictures area as well.

Put “some” wheels and tires on today, so now we have a rolling chassis again. Also painted the master cylinder and the brake booster.   Pictures updated in the pictures area as well.

Worked on the 34 Chevy frame today. We assembled the rear suspension.  The rack was cleaned and painted, as were the tie rod ends - all silver to match the frame.  We dissembled the front rotors and knuckle assembly, cleaned and painted them silver too.  All we have to do now, is put the tires on and we have a rolling chassis again.  Pictures available in the pictures area.

Today we picked up the frame and rear end from the powder coaters. Pictures are available on the site.

Tonite we picked up the frame and rear end from the sand blasters and dropped it off at the paint shop to be powder coated.

Further prep on the frame … ground all the rough welds and other holes and cleaned off the glue from the shipping tape.

At this point, the frame is ready for sand blasting.

We removed the engine and transmission, the front and rear ends, the fuel tank and fuel lines, the brake lines, and any other brackets today. This was all in order to get the frame ready for the sand blasters.

After getting the frame all prepped, we took the frame and the rear to get sand blasted.

Further work on brake lines performed. Now have line coming out of both ports of brake master cylinder out to first point.

In rear, it goes thru new holes cut in frame to allow straight run and mounting brackets, and goes to in-line brake pressure based brake light switch, and follows up the rear frame to the residual valve. Follows that further up the frame, bends the corner and goes to frame cross bar in back by the tank. We have to then go to a tee which will use braided flex line down to each caliper.

In front, it goes thru new holes cut in frame to allow straight run up left frame rail, thru the residual valve, up to front crossmember, where it hits a tee. It goes straight thru that tee to a thru-the-frame fitting and feeds the left caliper. We also cut the thru-the-frame fitting for the passenger side in, and connected to caliper, but ran out of line before connecting passenger side to the front tee fitting.

Removed body today. This is in prep for getting all the plumbing done on the chassis - brakes, fuel, etc. So the body now sits in the garden …..

Test fitted all Aerospace Components for the Ford on the Chevy since the Chevy doesnt have any bracketry or other stuff in the way. It all looks pretty good. Since both cars have the same Mustang II ifs setup, whatever works on one will work on the other as well.

The only issue really was that the lugs required are now 1/2-20 instead of the 7/16 that were there to start with. We didnt have any lugs for those studs so we have to go get them.

Looks like next Saturday is the day we will upgrade the brakes on the Ford.

Measured up the driveshaft to rearend end-caps for the universal. There was a problem with the universal that was originally shipped with the Denny’s shaft - they were 1-1/8th but we need 1-1/16th instead. Denny’s agreed to send new endcaps so we could mount it up.

Mounted Cadillac tilt/telescoping steering column today.

We decided to run under the frame instead of over.  We had to use the plasma cutter to knotch the frame portion of the drivers side motor mount.  Then we mounted the sphericla eyelet under the underside of that motor mount and installed all the steering shaft components.

Detailed pictures can be seen in the Chevy pictures area.