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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

The engine shop ended up having to take out the bore to +.030. I had the shop clean up our pistons acquired with the car purchase and inspect the rods etc. Fortunately they were good to reuse. Defiantly saved some cash here. We also had new hardened seats installed and all new exhaust valves and...

When we bought the car it came with two cranks, and an extra set of +.030 pistons. I took the block, heads, pistons etc up to the machine shop. We decided to go with a highly recommended shop up in Sanford Fl. for all the machine work as I would be doing all the build up. We called Comp Cams to...

Now on to my favorite part so far. The building of the engine.

Ok so here is an important lesson learned. Make sure you address both sides of your welds when needed. The passengers side inner fender was leaded smooth and then I decided to clean the wheel well of all the under coat. Once the under coat was gone I noticed all the weld slag/burn thru from...

Here is a few more pictures of the lead work with one of the final product. I'm going to do a little more work in here before painting but the hard work is done.

I had one other issue in the engine bay. The PO did quite a number on the passenger side inner fender. I don't know if it was when he removed the engine or some thing happened over the last 40 years of the cars life but the inner fender was all bashed in. This was the first time I got to use my...

Now that the car was primed I had to decide the next step. Because of my HOA and already having had Code Enforcement called on me once. I decided I wanted to tackle the engine. Per Orange county regulations a non functioning, non registered car can not be parked outside. My logic was, get the...

Ok so at this point we had a few realizations, I couldn't keep fighting the rust fight, every time I would get the car clean, parts would start to flash rust again. So now we I decided I was going to get everything clean one last time and spray a sacrificial layer of epoxy primer. I knew I still...

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Thanks guys for your comments. Gotta go help the wife cook and pack the car for the new years party tonight. I will continue with this tomorrow.

In the passenger side wheel well I found the PO had welded what looked like a piece of erector set to fix a cracked upper control arm mount. I forgot to take a picture of his repair but here are some pictures of my repair. I cut out his welds, found the crack he was fixing. Cut out the bad...

Once I got my lead kit in the mail I was kind of excited to give it a whirl. I watched countless videos on Youtube and watched the DVD that came with the kit. I decided to tackle something that wasn't so visible. I'm converting to a hydraulic clutch so I no longer needed the Z bar attachment...

Here is a pretty funny tidbit. While I was working in the wheel well one day I noticed this sticker on the shocks :sign7:. I know the picture is blurry but it says life time warranty. Soooooo of course we sent these pictures to Monroe and told them what we were doing and that these shocks where...

During the cleaning/de-rusting process I found out what lead was. Now of course I know what lead is but I totally forgot that they used it on older cars instead of Bondo. I was wire wheeling some rust and found out the windshield cowl seam is leaded. Notice the chuck of lead removed. :banghead...

This project was a great excuse to buy some new toys. BTW the new osculating cutters like the one in this picture. They work incredible for removing old sealant, undercoat, etc. Best $40 I spent.