More body work

Some more body stitching work, had to un-weld some of the previous work on the passenger side but once we got past that hurdle it flowed out nicely.

Cleaned & painted starter

plus a few more engine pics. I finished some odds & ends on here as well and did some touch up.

Come together, right now

partially...

John spent most of last night measuring and cutting while I filled in odd time welding and finishing up some misc things on the chassis. We pretty much have 1/4 of the re-joining complete, just need to move to the other side and do the lowers, there was quite a bit learned with the first parts that will help quite a bit moving onto the next.

Converting to mechanical fuel pump

When this project rolled into the garage it had an electric fuel pump and no way to put a mechanical one on due to the engine mounts, engine height, frame distance, etc. Well, a couple posts back I created new mounts and changed the way the engine sat and now I can fit in a mechanical pump, all to do now is get it and put it in.

Except I forgot that SBC mechanical fuel pumps are not my forte so it took a little more legwork than it should. I ordered the pump from Summit and of course it was here next day, but I didn't realize I needed a fuel pump pushrod - not a big deal so I ran out to the local auto parts and grabbed one, which they were stunned to see leave the store apparently it had been there for years. When I got home i realized that since I had a block off plate before and the new pump was a different shape that I needed a fuel pump mounting plate - back to the parts store, which was fine since I wanted new hardware too.

A little painting

I painted a few accessories and the trans last night and finished up a few minor things.

Engine on new mounts

Crossmember still needs to be fabbed up, but I took a few minutes to make sure that the engin is setting on the mounts as it should.

New engine mounts

A lot of pics, very little story. Basically as I stated earlier the engine mounts had to go, they were cobbled together and weak - not to mention a complete eyesore. I had thought about buying a weld in mount/crossmember but in the end I decided to just make exactly what I wanted from scratch. I still have to fab up a crossmember but the old mounts are off, new ones are made and in place. This took me a bit longer than I had planned but in the end I am more than satisfied.