well it looks like the only way I’ll be steering this car is with a couple of pieces of rope out of the windows, now steering rack still- grrr, grrr fucking grrr…
They tell me to call back in a few weeks, problem is this is the same story I’ve been hearing for ever.
anyone want to buy a half finished project???
I thank you, now all I need to do is be able to steer it and I’d be happy, I want a video of it screaming away on the chassis dyno, it’ll look good on Youtube!
well as soon as Flaming River send me a custom made right hand drive mustang 2 billet rack I’ll be a bit closer to finish date…
Well despite my pessimistic view of things earlier I mangaged to get the new 16 gallon fuel cell sitting inside the trunk on it’s new brackets, the little 5 gallon cell - which is the reservoir for the water/alcohol injection for the blower is in there too. I told the guy who built the rear leaf springs the only weight back there was an 8 gallon fuel cell- eek I think I’d better tell him that we now have an Optima battery and up to 21 gallons of liquid in the trunk. The old heap should wheelie with the motor idling- LOL.
I just emailed a bunch of pictures to Tom to post for me, the old dual 3 1/2 race exhaust is going back under the car and I’ll send the new headers out to be ceramic coated as soon as I have them bolted to the motor and the whole lot inside the engine bay, that way if we do have to cut anything- well you know the story. It’s great having a bunch of surplus parts laying around, I keep finding parts I’d forgotten I had!
And I just got off the phone with K+N, man they do JUST the filter I need , 6" diameter tube mounting and the filter is 7 1/2 " diameter x 18" long.
Now all I need is about 3 feet of 6" diameter ally tube and a 90 degree bend, some bits of sheet ally to fold up into a nice mounting box for the filter and we’re good to go.
I was going to be sneaky and try and fit this lot inside the old heater unit that was under the dash- but it won’t go …
Got to bay sit the kids tonight, but as soon as I’m able I’ll be down in the barn working away on the car. The stock trunk floor has a big lump stamped into it where the spare tire’s supposed to go, the brackets I have for the new fuel cell move the cell up to the top of that , so there is a nice 8" deep x about 28" diameter space to mount the fuel pumps and filters in. The fuel line can then exit forward to the motor through the front of this, all very neat and tidy.
Now all I need is a steering rack, I should ask Newman to whittle one up out of some billet, I’ll bet he could do it too !
I have the fuel system figured out now I just need a bunch of fittings and another A1000 pump and filters- I even started cleaning the old heap- for the first time in almost four years you can see out of the windows!!
And I’ve managed to find the ally pipe- progress at last… Now where’s Tom with the pics, he’s probably off fixing a Ford somewhere- tee hee.
Another miracle has occured I’ve tracked down the intake gasket and two pairs of W2/5 header gaskets, I’m picking them up next week so now the engine can go in. Over the weekend I should finish the mods to the inner fender. I’m now on the third set of rear rims - this time 6 1/2" backspacing which will tuck them inside the stock wheel opening quite nicely, the problem there was becasue we’ve subtly altered the wheelbase of the car and I’m dealing with leaf spring which bend when the weight of the car is placed on them - well it’s all a bit of a juggling act. It didn’t help that we had no stock spring hangers to give us a reference point, OR the fact I’m using a B body spring in an A body car- a sucker for punishment I am…
I’m going to have the Dana set-up by my friendly Dodge dealership next week, so we’re a few stages closer to getting the old heap rolling, I just wiash I had more time to work on it
Thanks I just hope I live long enough to see it- a lot of water has passed under the bridge of life since the last time I drove the thing and I’m truely getting far too old for all this stuff-
http://www.calvertracing.com/gallery/Full%20Pics/page1pic4b.htm
this was the old heap on a very cold October day at the track- good fun, although logic would suggest that I should settle down and buy a nice Altima Hybrid- nah.
There’s a song somewhere that says “if you never slow down, then you’ll never grow old!”
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perhaps we should have a competition to see who has the biggest intake pipe- now there’s probably a joke there somewhere, but mine’s 5" diameter!!
Any progress made or just working on getting your parts collected?
some I sent Tom some pics but he’s disappeared…
Should be collecting the header gaskets and the intake gasket tomorrow night then the motor can go in and we can weld up the new tube in the engine bay to replace the one I had to cut to clear the blower. Once that’s all done I can remount the radiator etc.
Thanks Brent.
Andy, I ran out of webspace! I haven’t been able to put up my own pictures. Sorry about that!
Anyway - it’s looking downright sinister. You appear to have a form of black mud on your fenders, might want to get that cleaned off. 
Thanks for that Brett, as you can see we’ve been busy, the 16 gallon fuel cell is now mounted in the trunk on some tall brackets that allow the pumps and filters to fit under it. I’m using -12AN 180 degree fittings from the cell so we shouldn’t get any restriction problems eh! The second cell is the water reservoir for the injection system, should keep the intake charge cool, as we’re not running an intercooler on this deal, Prochargers and Blow through carbs run pretty cold, but at 20 pounds of boost it might all get a bit ‘interesting’ to say the least, still that’s why they make C16 fuel !!
The rest of it will all make sense once the engine is bolted in the car, it just looks like a mountain of parts at the moment but it all does fit together…
These old NASCAR motors had small adapater flanges that go between the heads and the headers , which means you need two sets of gaskets, plus the intakes are unique to these W7 heads and nothing else will fit and you can hardly buy them at the local Autozone! I reckon those 3 1/2 race mufflers should be fairly quite, after all this is only a little 358 cubic inch small block and it has low compression as well. I honestly doubt you’ll hear the exhuast over the supercharger whine, but I’m deaf as a post so none of this will bother me:headbang:
I’m just working away when I can, my little boys love it in the car, espcially going up and down on the lift- lucky kids I got a cardboard box and a wooden spoon to play with…
No worries Tom and the fact is that damned black goo keeps coming back, no matter how many times you clean it off, I figured I’d leave it on there as a reminder NOT too liquify the tires too much:D