"stock" 70 duster
i rebuilt it slowly. did dynamat and my wife added foil backed jute to the entire interior. we reused the carpet from when i drove it in high school, and had medlin's upholstery put in the headliner. the dash grew up from the red painted stocker (what was i thinking) to a 69 cuda bezel loaded with autometer gauges. i used a dash cap on the pad due to financial constraints. after the dashwas wired and installed, as well as most of the firewall components hung, north state auto glass put in the front and back glass for me. after that, i wired up the whole back of the car with an EZ wiring kit i picked up at the swap meet. stopped at the firewall bulkhead. then i slid under the car for a while. refinished the gas tank, refinished all the rear suspension components that i had done poorly before the paint and body. i reused the 3.91 sure grip. put new bearings on the moser axles, and swapped on 11X3 finned drums from a cop car. hung an addco 7/8 rear bar. 6 leaf 340 springs, and KYB shocks on it. used stainless hard and flex lines throughout. hung the back bumper and taillights that came with my rear clip after making them look as good as possible, and wired up the trunk mounted battery and external kill switch.
we then moved into the interior, finishing that by putting in the seats, door glass and regulators, weatherstripping, stereo, heater, etc. most of the parts are either cleaned up and recycled from the origonal interior, or gotten for cheap off something else. the door panels are actually 72 pieces that were blue, and re-dyed. kick panels are cut for blaupunkt component speakers, front bech was covered in JC whitney upholstery in high school, and a grant steering wheel that i liked on the shelf at autozone. the interior was intentionally left to look mostly stock. thats why the shift light mechanism is hid in the glove compartment, etc. didint want to deviate much on how it looked as my first car.
as all this was going on, we decided to "freshen" the motor. my dad and i tore it down. knew we were in trouble when we found large pieces of ring and piston in the oil pan. wound up with 3 flat lobed, 1 cracked piston, 6 broken rings, and two sucked valves. i beat that motor to death. the only salvageble things in it were the block, crank, and timing chain cover. even the distributor was worn. so we dropped it off at the machine shop and ordered eagle i beam rods, forged probe pistons, a comp solid roller, edelbrock victor jr, and a set of indy modified edelbrock heads. i had Kevco make me an oil pan with a crank scraper, windage tray, and all sorts of trap doors and bafffles. spent a while cleaning up casting flash and modifying a set of stock valve covers to clear the vlavetrain.
i rebuilt it slowly. did dynamat and my wife added foil backed jute to the entire interior. we reused the carpet from when i drove it in high school, and had medlin's upholstery put in the headliner. the dash grew up from the red painted stocker (what was i thinking) to a 69 cuda bezel loaded with autometer gauges. i used a dash cap on the pad due to financial constraints. after the dashwas wired and installed, as well as most of the firewall components hung, north state auto glass put in the front and back glass for me. after that, i wired up the whole back of the car with an EZ wiring kit i picked up at the swap meet. stopped at the firewall bulkhead. then i slid under the car for a while. refinished the gas tank, refinished all the rear suspension components that i had done poorly before the paint and body. i reused the 3.91 sure grip. put new bearings on the moser axles, and swapped on 11X3 finned drums from a cop car. hung an addco 7/8 rear bar. 6 leaf 340 springs, and KYB shocks on it. used stainless hard and flex lines throughout. hung the back bumper and taillights that came with my rear clip after making them look as good as possible, and wired up the trunk mounted battery and external kill switch.
we then moved into the interior, finishing that by putting in the seats, door glass and regulators, weatherstripping, stereo, heater, etc. most of the parts are either cleaned up and recycled from the origonal interior, or gotten for cheap off something else. the door panels are actually 72 pieces that were blue, and re-dyed. kick panels are cut for blaupunkt component speakers, front bech was covered in JC whitney upholstery in high school, and a grant steering wheel that i liked on the shelf at autozone. the interior was intentionally left to look mostly stock. thats why the shift light mechanism is hid in the glove compartment, etc. didint want to deviate much on how it looked as my first car.
as all this was going on, we decided to "freshen" the motor. my dad and i tore it down. knew we were in trouble when we found large pieces of ring and piston in the oil pan. wound up with 3 flat lobed, 1 cracked piston, 6 broken rings, and two sucked valves. i beat that motor to death. the only salvageble things in it were the block, crank, and timing chain cover. even the distributor was worn. so we dropped it off at the machine shop and ordered eagle i beam rods, forged probe pistons, a comp solid roller, edelbrock victor jr, and a set of indy modified edelbrock heads. i had Kevco make me an oil pan with a crank scraper, windage tray, and all sorts of trap doors and bafffles. spent a while cleaning up casting flash and modifying a set of stock valve covers to clear the vlavetrain.