Clint, that engine compartment will clean up so good with some simple green and a pressure washer!! Tuned for progress! Let me know if you need any cuda parts, my dad has quite a bit from 67-69 cars.
Yes I think it will clean up decently as well. I won’t use a pressure washer under a hood anymore. Just a personal preference from bad experiences with electronics. But I can go to town with some simple green and some brushes and rags!
I really want to start moving forward on the project but my wife recently lost her job so I can’t throw any money into this thing at the moment. Not at least until we get another income going. Sooooo what do I do? I’d like to get the engine swap started, but I really want a different trans before that happens. It would be better in my mind to have the engine and trans to work with all at the same time. But maybe that wouldn’t matter. And we know that 7-1/4 isn’t going to hold so that’s another part that I will need to address.
Knowing that the car ran and drove not long ago, I almost want to just tinker with it and see if I can figure out what went bad on the 318 to see if I can get her to breathe life again. To be honest, I am a little torn about removing the original drivetrain that could possibly run and drive with not much work or money. But at the same time, I just don’t know how much I’ll enjoy the 318 even if it were going. So then I have to ask myself, why put the time in to fix it if I won’t enjoy it? Why not put that effort into something I WILL enjoy? So then I’m back to the 6.1 swap. And the never ending self argument of what the heck I’m going to do continues.
You see, this is the turmoil that goes on and on in my head and I can about drive myself crazy with “if I did this instead” scenarios.