It's a little bit of this and a little bit of that, I suppose like many other cruisers.
I'm in the middle of quite a few projects here but I've decided to work through this one and put the "gathering" aside for now. It's a '64 frame (trying to avoid emissions) with a modified '70 body.
The frame has been stripped of all the original motor mounts and tranny mounts. The mid crossmember was carefully disected out and will most likely be replaced with an extension of the transmission mount which has been customized. The rear crossmember has been removed and will be replaced with a later style 73-84 type with the larger lights. I'm also welding 1 inch thick blocks roughly 2"x2" on top of the existing body mount tabs for a body lift.
The body has been completely stripped and had a section of the firewall replaced to accomodate a brake booster and later style steering wheel bucket. It was then etch primed and Rhino lined. It will be getting a later style soft top/ ambi door combo('75-'84 style) with hard top front doors. The 4-plus family cage and seat craddle was substituted for a factory roll cage per owners wish.
It's got a 4-bolt main with slightly shaved heads, mild cam, forged crank and pistons, slightly larger intake and exhaust valves, blah blah nothing radical. I put a reverse water pump on it to go with the serpentine set-up. All ARP hardware and Milodon pan and pump (high volume). It'll be getting the Edelbrock pro-flo EFI intake. And I'm thinking about trying out a set of those Sanderson headers on this one.
I know next to nothing about automatic transmissions, so I turned to a friend for help who directed me to a great shop here in Tucson where they put together the tranny specific for it's application. The shop also mounted the AAconverter and installed my recently rebuilt split transfer case. I can't wait to drive a 40 series with an auto tranny. This rig won't be seeing a whole lot of trail use by it's future owner and I think this drivetrain is going to be a great set-up. Other than pushing the engine as far forward as possible and still only left with a 17" rear driveshaft, the install went very smooth. I've read a lot of guys going with the 700r4 opt to lengthen their wheel base, however i didn't.
The front end is a 60 series knuckle out converion with 3:70's. And the rear is a 70 series full float that's been completely gone through.
There is all sorts of tiny little pieces here and there that have all been done tons of times that I didn't document because of it's unoriginality, like 60 series knuckles, Ron Davis radiator install, Saginaw steering, etc.
I'll be adding to this over the next several months until it's complete.
I'm in the middle of quite a few projects here but I've decided to work through this one and put the "gathering" aside for now. It's a '64 frame (trying to avoid emissions) with a modified '70 body.
The frame has been stripped of all the original motor mounts and tranny mounts. The mid crossmember was carefully disected out and will most likely be replaced with an extension of the transmission mount which has been customized. The rear crossmember has been removed and will be replaced with a later style 73-84 type with the larger lights. I'm also welding 1 inch thick blocks roughly 2"x2" on top of the existing body mount tabs for a body lift.
The body has been completely stripped and had a section of the firewall replaced to accomodate a brake booster and later style steering wheel bucket. It was then etch primed and Rhino lined. It will be getting a later style soft top/ ambi door combo('75-'84 style) with hard top front doors. The 4-plus family cage and seat craddle was substituted for a factory roll cage per owners wish.
It's got a 4-bolt main with slightly shaved heads, mild cam, forged crank and pistons, slightly larger intake and exhaust valves, blah blah nothing radical. I put a reverse water pump on it to go with the serpentine set-up. All ARP hardware and Milodon pan and pump (high volume). It'll be getting the Edelbrock pro-flo EFI intake. And I'm thinking about trying out a set of those Sanderson headers on this one.
I know next to nothing about automatic transmissions, so I turned to a friend for help who directed me to a great shop here in Tucson where they put together the tranny specific for it's application. The shop also mounted the AAconverter and installed my recently rebuilt split transfer case. I can't wait to drive a 40 series with an auto tranny. This rig won't be seeing a whole lot of trail use by it's future owner and I think this drivetrain is going to be a great set-up. Other than pushing the engine as far forward as possible and still only left with a 17" rear driveshaft, the install went very smooth. I've read a lot of guys going with the 700r4 opt to lengthen their wheel base, however i didn't.
The front end is a 60 series knuckle out converion with 3:70's. And the rear is a 70 series full float that's been completely gone through.
There is all sorts of tiny little pieces here and there that have all been done tons of times that I didn't document because of it's unoriginality, like 60 series knuckles, Ron Davis radiator install, Saginaw steering, etc.
I'll be adding to this over the next several months until it's complete.
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