Charger
The rearend is now repositioned under the car complete with the new rear discs. Our old 15x10 Keystone Klassics didn't clear the calipers and it looked like we were going to have to run 1&1/4" wheel spacers. The new 15x10s have plenty of clearance though, so we should be OK without.
We ordered a new transmission floor 'hump' for the 4-speed. Here it is after the floor was cut and the new piece welded in place.
The engine is back out of the car again. I did a trial fit on the headers and felt it might be easier to figure out pulley alignment with it on the stand.
From this shot you can see that the bottom blower pulley needs to be spaced a few inches further out. That's fine because we still need to add a couple of v-groove pulleys behind it.
This is our main problem right now. We don't have enough clearance around the distributor. Here you can see that the cap is right up against the bottom front corner of the supercharger, the intake manifold, and the valve cover. In this photo the distributor cap is not actually centered on the distributor because of the insufficient clearance.
Another pic of the distributor's lack of clearance with the blower.
The original heads are still on the engine, but I painted them silver to imitate the aluminum heads that we'll be installing. We installed a billet electric water pump in a new aluminum water pump housing.
We still need to re-polish the areas we ground out.
This is another pic of the areas ground for distributor clearance.
As you can see from this shot, the new MSD distributor barely clears after grinding the other parts.
The rearend is now repositioned under the car complete with the new rear discs. Our old 15x10 Keystone Klassics didn't clear the calipers and it looked like we were going to have to run 1&1/4" wheel spacers. The new 15x10s have plenty of clearance though, so we should be OK without.
We ordered a new transmission floor 'hump' for the 4-speed. Here it is after the floor was cut and the new piece welded in place.
The engine is back out of the car again. I did a trial fit on the headers and felt it might be easier to figure out pulley alignment with it on the stand.
From this shot you can see that the bottom blower pulley needs to be spaced a few inches further out. That's fine because we still need to add a couple of v-groove pulleys behind it.
This is our main problem right now. We don't have enough clearance around the distributor. Here you can see that the cap is right up against the bottom front corner of the supercharger, the intake manifold, and the valve cover. In this photo the distributor cap is not actually centered on the distributor because of the insufficient clearance.
Another pic of the distributor's lack of clearance with the blower.
The original heads are still on the engine, but I painted them silver to imitate the aluminum heads that we'll be installing. We installed a billet electric water pump in a new aluminum water pump housing.
We still need to re-polish the areas we ground out.
This is another pic of the areas ground for distributor clearance.
As you can see from this shot, the new MSD distributor barely clears after grinding the other parts.
