Recent content by JCBrindle

Do you still have this or did you sell it?

Also to go was the rear quarter. Cutting this out was much easier than the valance. I needed to tack it into place first because the rear corner fits under the valance.

Here is a picture of the rear valance and all the bad metal gone. I also set the new valance in place just to check fit. AMD really makes accurate stampings.

Now that the engine work was about done I got a little distracted and started doing some body work. I say distracted but I what I really mean is, I was tired of looking at these huge body panel boxes in my dinning room. The rear valance needed replaced and the passenger side rear quarter panel...

I bought the car in June but really didn't get started for until end of July. There was a lot of setup, I had to get a storage unit for the stuff that was already in my garage. My dad came down and helped me outfit my garage with a larger compressor, extra lights, and electrical outlets. So I'm...

Next what tackling the front of the engine. We started with boiling the harmonic balancer for install. Mmmmmmm I like mine well done. Once that was done, on to the accessories and pulleys. We went through a few alternators and PS pumps before we were happy. I started with just OEM Autozone type...

Once I got all the wires cut to length I quickly saw how ugly I just made my engine with all these wires hanging all over the place. Another phone call to dad to and lots of discussion about, " should we hang them over the valve covers? go around the back of them? etc. " We found these vertical...

Now on to ignition. We decided to go with a Pertronix set up. We need a distributor and this kit came with everything we need at a respectable price. The electronic billet distributor not only looks great but gets rid of the ugly ballast resistor. Again we want nothing but engine under the hood...

Of course now with everything painted there was no way I could keep myself from doing a little mock up to have a glimpse of what was to come!!! We decided to go with an Edelbrock duel plane air gap intake and then the matching 650 carb that Edelbrock helped us choose. We topped it off with...

Oil Pan

Water pump, Fuel pump, and painted block

Now the engine paint. In an effort to do this by time line I think I spoiled a few things, lol. OK so we decided to go with Eastwoods engine/header paint. I would like to hear from anyone who has used this stuff to see what I can expect for durability. So far I have a mixed review on the paint...

The new rocker arms. :oops:Ignore the painted engine. I'm getting to that.

Now that the bottom was done, time to move up to the top side of the engine. Our original plan was to reuse the OE rockers. Well we had two issues. The 340 rocker arms have left and right offset rocker arms. When I was organizing my rockers I noticed one cylinder had to left offset arms. I'm now...

Next was closing up the bottom end with the windage tray, oil pump and pan. I cleaned all the parts up and installed