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Nice!! Wish I were closer to actually ride in it when completed.

Really excited for your build as it's going together! I am hoping to be done with my motorcycle soon so that I can start on my 57' T-Bird.. It's a bloodline car.. Been in the family since 1962 and I'm 35 and I've never driven it.. ;\ Hoping that my 36th B-Day present to myself can be driving my car for the first time. haha..

Well Christmas came early for me.



Howards roller lifters (solid)

Howards billet roller cam .600/.600 245/255 @ .050 lift 106LSA 102ICL

Lunati roller rockers 1.5 7/16, ARP studs to match

Howards 10 degree locks and retainers

Kmotion 1.550 double roller springs

Manley severe duty 2.08" intake valves .080" longer

Front 4" rims

Painless 8 switch panel and harness

clevite bearings rod/main

Eagle forged I beam 5.7" rods

Eagle forged crank 3.48" stroke

Edelbrock Super victor 4500 flange

QFX 12 hole skirted annular boosters

Speed pro moly ring set

Tubular upper/lower control arms

Holley quick change bowl kit

QFX 3 circuit billet metering blocks

manual disc conversion kit for front





Oh and a roomba 770 for the wife lol.

Now I can make some forward progress! Fig about $850 in machine work, then gotta get a pan gasket, head gaskets, timing gear drive, and a few other tid bits.

Will have to fly cut the pistons but they have plenty of meat in them.

Yay more sheet metal work for me......







In other news...carb is almost finished.





DIY tank sump....just need the fitings and hose now




Tubular A arms installed. Will paint the springs later once its all sorted out.

glad gas came down since you've been working on it It is really a huge piece of work.

It's really coming along. Again, I enjoy seeing the steps of restoring a car. Hopefully you won't find anymore Bondo filled dents that need cut out and repaired. I really like the sump on the gas tank too.

Andddddddddddddddddddddddddddd we have a roller!!!

Always install calipers with bleeders up btw....well unless you want to loose your mind trying to get a firm pedal when bleeding them...

Key Keeper wrote:Always install calipers with bleeders up btw....well unless you want to loose your mind trying to get a firm pedal when bleeding them...

Been there, done that.. Boy it's no fun! My brother-in-law and I spent like 2 hours bleeding/testing trying to get the pedal right before we figured out that the calipers were reversed. lol

Loving the progress!!

Well after much debate....Im going to stick a rear end out of a 94 ford explorer in my car.....8.8" with 4.10 gear, 31 spline and a posi. $200 at the pick n pull. Nearly as strong as a GM 12 BOLT.

Little more progress. Got my switch box fabbed up and mounted. All of its hooked up and works. Relayed/fused ect.

Dash coming along...

Changed cams....Howards was dragging their feet.

I've missed the last few posts. Wow, what a surprise on the bondo roof! Looking good though.

come a long long way. this is why I turned down the 1958 Chevy pickup offer to me . also not having 20 grand to spare to build it the way I like it. thats was not going to crazy .

Well have the bulk of the front clip painted and back on. I have the PS fender on and valance panel on but forgot to take a few pics...














So far to go....sigh.