Engine paint removal
I bought the car from an 81 year old man . It was an 11 sec drag car. it sat inside most of its life since new. I brought it home to use the car to put everything in the car from my orange Duster which got wrecked. But I found a very clean new bare shell since. The brown Duster had a 408 in it , That picture above is after I pulled and traded the 408 . That motor above is a 318 I put in with all the proper parts a 340 motor would have on. I put the motor in it and no one wanted the car the way it was with the BB disc brakes roll cage and 488 with a spool. It had so many holes drilled under the hood for race parts it looked like swiss cheese. So I decided to fix her up a tad and re pulled the 318 and painted it. One thing led to another and I thought I'll just clean and paint everything.
The car was almost totally rust free. Right front fender had Damage to be repaired but I did it right
A little elbow grease and they all look good. Total investment in the whole car so far is around 4K. That will include paint and Decals
This is the 408 in the car below when I bought it. And the low mile 318 I put in from 68 barracuda that we took a front clip from for a customers Fast back. Here is the thread for the brown Duster. I will sell the car when it is done. It would probably not bring what its worth because of the 318 904 in a 340 car. So it is far from numbers matching. But I found the Data plate.
Finally paint
I was going to take offers when it done. Still working on it. The elbow grease is getting low at my age. I Have a guy coming Sunday to make an offer as it sits.
You'll find out once you paint your motor you'll want to clean and paint everything.
I bought the car from an 81 year old man . It was an 11 sec drag car. it sat inside most of its life since new. I brought it home to use the car to put everything in the car from my orange Duster which got wrecked. But I found a very clean new bare shell since. The brown Duster had a 408 in it , That picture above is after I pulled and traded the 408 . That motor above is a 318 I put in with all the proper parts a 340 motor would have on. I put the motor in it and no one wanted the car the way it was with the BB disc brakes roll cage and 488 with a spool. It had so many holes drilled under the hood for race parts it looked like swiss cheese. So I decided to fix her up a tad and re pulled the 318 and painted it. One thing led to another and I thought I'll just clean and paint everything.
The car was almost totally rust free. Right front fender had Damage to be repaired but I did it right
A little elbow grease and they all look good. Total investment in the whole car so far is around 4K. That will include paint and Decals
This is the 408 in the car below when I bought it. And the low mile 318 I put in from 68 barracuda that we took a front clip from for a customers Fast back. Here is the thread for the brown Duster. I will sell the car when it is done. It would probably not bring what its worth because of the 318 904 in a 340 car. So it is far from numbers matching. But I found the Data plate.
Finally paint
I was going to take offers when it done. Still working on it. The elbow grease is getting low at my age. I Have a guy coming Sunday to make an offer as it sits.
You'll find out once you paint your motor you'll want to clean and paint everything.
