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Wow it's been awhile since I've been on this website. Well I got a new daily driver. This is awesome because now i can REALLY do what I want to my car :glasses7: The 360 runs fantastic. No leaks, no ticks, no nothing... My buddy wants to buy the 360 and 727 and the radiator. So I'm gonna sell it...

This car is going to put up a fight till the end I just know it. I got so stumped with the wiring, I had my Uncle come over who does electrical for a living. Everything was wired right. We pulled down the ignition switch in the car, and IRONICALLY that had lost a good connection.... :banghead...

Im sure there is. But I want an electrical fan. Future plans for the car will have a switch panel where the heater and ac controls are. The water pump, fan, ignition, and stereo will be all on a switch. Obviously that's not why I'm putting an electric fan

Well I just realized that I forgot to hook up my front and back engine to body ground straps :/ I hope that's why my starter wouldn't turn over.... I went out and got 2 new Taylor braided ground straps to keep the motor compartment looking nice. I won't have any time until Wednesday to put them...

Today went very smooth surprisingly. I got everything done except for bending the new transmission lines. Unfortunately... for some reason the starter will not engage when the key turns. You can manually turn the starter over by touching the two posts on the relay, but all that happens when you...

PM replied :cheese: Thanks for the compliments and encouragement guys. I'm doing this car up all on my own and I'm trying to do it right I got the motor in and everything bolted up. I still need to wire it, bend new tranny line, and install the extra little things. I'll grab some pics later

Let me get everyone up to speed. I got the crank and rods back and assembled it a few nights ago. I started to install the motor this evening and everything fought me today. I had to pull the motor back out because I forgot to install the flexplate. Then it started getting dark, I think I broke...

Thanks for the input man I appreciate it! As for right now, the plan is to have the engine compartment the color of the car, which I haven't decided on yet lol. But flat black works just for a quick fix to make it look a little cleaner. I still have a plan to put a 440 in, so once I'm at that...

Turns out I'm not going to be able to borrow my Uncle's welder since he's working so much :tongue2: So I did some metal work of my own for the time being. I widened the radiator support area to house my larger aluminum radiator. This will pus the radiator back slightly so I'm hoping now my fan...

You know I was thinking of heat shrinking everything, but it's only temporary. In a short while I'll have a painless wiring harness in and everything will be done and brand new I got a call from my machinist. Crank and rods will be done Wednesday. So the motor will be built wednesday evening...

It's officially official I think. I'm literally waiting on the crankshaft and connecting rods now. I got my last box of parts from Summit Racing in the mail. In the smaller boxes, I have a complete set of hydraulic lifters, the correct size main bearings and rod bearings, and the driver side and...

I got the wiring finished the other day. Looking at a wiring diagram earlier and making sure I was careful, I was able to remove a TON of wiring. Horn relay and wiring is gone, so is the ballast resistor wires and all but one coil wire. The one coil wire I left will be the 12V for the HEI...

I went out and bought all the tubing to do it this way. I'm hoping this sunday I get to build it. If I'm going to customize something, I'm just going to go all the way lol. This one actually wan't bad. I put everything together just as a mock up. The dizzy dropped nicely into the oiling rod...

I found this picture online today doing some research. This is going be very similar to what I'm thinking of doing. I went and got all the material today.

I found our today from my machinist my crank is definitely going to need to be ground down. All 8 rod bearings were bronze lol. More money :/

What I did was I drew it up then just took a picture and posted it on here lol.

It's ok I can't draw either to save my life lol. But I definitely think I have it visualized so I'll give it a shot drawing it out tomorrow

Good advice! I definitely like that idea a lot. Maybe I can make a removable top beam in that goes over the radiator in case I need to pull it out. The bottom radiator support will have to be removed and remade but I think a long square tubing will work. I'll beautify it up too

Nope! I love the fact that it's one ignition wire to make it work. The less wiring the better

:burnout: I never give up! I was looking at my radiator last night. I think my uncle and I are going to build a custome front radiator support with the same material we used to build the fuel cell cradle. My problem is my radiator is too thick for the stock position, therefore I can't put a...

Today is going to consist of a lot of running around. This morning I went out to Pick and Pull and grabbed a timing cover out of a 70 D series truck. It couldn't have been easier, since everything was already removed around the engine lol. While I was there, I found a 72 dart swinger that was...

My little sister and I started tearing the rest of the motor apart today and cleaned everything. The moron previous owner already stamped the rods with cylinder numbers but.... NONE of them were in the right cylinder??? :violent1: I don't understand! So I didn't stamp them. Instead I put them...

I was definitely considering it as I was pulling these caps. I honestly was only planning on putting bearings in and driving but the way things are looking, I'm most likely going to do a cylinder home, new rings, bearings, rod resizing, and crank polish.

Here are the rod bearing caps. The #8 cylinder is the one closest to the camera.

I got an itch this evening so I decided to remove the crankshaft and see just how bad all the bearings are. Take a look for yourself. The rod bearings are totally toast as toast can be lol. Especially the rear cylinders. The main bearings don't look too terrible I think, but they're all being...

Well I was wrong. The distributor came today. It looks pretty good for what I paid for it. Now I'm having second thoughts because of fitment between the firewall and intake manifold runner...

I got a bunch of new toys for the barracuda today from Summit. Still waiting on my HEI dizzy from Ebay. It's saying it won't be here until Monday :tongue2: But that's ok i guess. It cant go in until the 360 is sitting in the engine bay because of clearance issues.

:wav: I'd be cool with that but I want the distributor and cap in one. Less wiring and it looks neater

So my barracuda was broken in to last night. Luckily the only things they took were the stereo and the speakers so not too big of a deal. Still makes me absolutely angry because my luck is just terrible. I'm looking to go hei for my car. The only thing I'm concerned with is will it fit? The hei...