Page 210 = The New Project!! -The Speedfoos' 383 Stroker thread!!

[lordhelmet]

Originally Posted by speedfoos I will be running the 6-spd manual Corvette ZF tranny that is coming with the matching engine some time next week. My JDM clutch master cylinder failed me today and I'm TDY to Georgia, good times and cab rides all around. I had never seen one of these cars before either man. My buddy saw it a month ago on Ebay and pointed it out. It was just fate that it was back up for sale when I was parting out the Civic. It's small 4-door sedan that weighs 2400 pounds - which is less than an EM2. She should scoot with 464 ponies going to the rear wheels! Psh... 464 whp is nothing. I hear those D17s put out 500 whp...

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[speedfoos]

Originally Posted by def01tones

^^^From one post the thread went from an awsome source of info, to just total shit.

That's mildly amusing. You fight with a car for two years and sink buckets of money into it only to have problem after problem and then see how long it takes you to throw in the towel and move on to a new project.

Originally Posted by lordhelmet

Psh... 464 whp is nothing. I hear those D17s put out 500 whp...

LOL - but this is NA baby on a stock (mostly) bottom end!

[Apollyon02ex]

ugh can we hear an update?

[lordhelmet]

I think the US Military sent him to Georgia for the week just so he can't give you an update.

[speedfoos]

Yeah, I've been doing nothing but ordering parts while I'm in Georgia. Nothing has arrived yet, but I'm home for the weekend and plan on doing some teardown on the car. Pics will follow as usual.

[Apollyon02ex]

good to hear the thread hasn't died I'm very excited to see this car in the making

[speedfoos]

OK did a little work on Lucille this weekend and a little on Piggy.

Took her shoes off and put her up on jackstands.



And decided to peek under her skirt a little. Freaking chassis is in really good shape. This is just a sample of the passenger fender well. Hardly any rust.






I then proceeded to drop the driveshaft, exhaust, pulled the exhaust/intake mani assembly off, raddy out, alternator and fuel pump off and also pulled the starter. I was going to drop the tranny, but it's an absolute mess of 80W90 down there that I really didn't feel like playing in. No additional pics because I had a fair amount of work to do around the house and still some more Piggy so I was moving kind of fast.

I picked up a center console from Wally World to make Piggy a little more functional. I love the seats in it now, so much more comfy. I still need to steam clean them (I think Josh has a second job as a mud wrestler), but I did clean up the headrests here in the hotel last week.

I also swapped my slave cylinder out, adjusted the wiper assembly (it got a little fuckered up when my hood spontaneously opened) and changed out to newer (not rusty) hood pin studs. Then it was time to get back on the road. I think the slave is OK now. I checked it once on the way and the level was fine, but it's pouring rain right now so I'll check it again in the morning.

[Wolfgang5884]

Did you put Civic seats in Piggy? Lol, move on! j/k

[speedfoos]

Yep, those are EM2 seats! Very comfy. Much better than the old bench seat.

[speedfoos]

OK, did some more work today.

Back in black!
I hit the sack
I've been too long I'm glad to be back.
Yes, I'm let loose
From the noose
That's kept me hanging about.




For those of you that didn't know, that was AC/DC. The greatest rock and roll band ever. Leave the thread now if you did not recognize that song. Seriously. GTFO.

I like black IMs. With a silver carb, silver heads, black accented VCs, and a black block, this motor is going to be sick. No SS lines. Just black, and chrome/silver. I have wood.


Moving right along. I think it's a rule that any car manufactured before 1970 attracts wasps. These were in both headlight housings.




Nothing a shop vac couldn't fix. I decided to keep going to see if there is any terminal cancer. So far so good. There is one spot on the driver's fender mounting portion of the tub, but it's contained to about a 1" x 3" spot that can easily be cutout and rewelded.

Front end..........off!




Time to keep monkeying around. Pulled the dash out, prepping the bay to pull the motor, and I got to thinking.

I am just going to trash (or sell) the existing wiring in the car. It's old, it's been hacked up and I'm better off just starting over. I mean, look at this:




Yeah, fuck a bunch of that. I'll get online tonight and look at some wiring harnesses by Painless. Much easier I'm going to bet.

[OpTiCaL]

i see page 213, but i cant click it!!!! i wonder if this thread reached max size?!

oh yeah, nice ride man!

[speedfoos]

Dunno. It's been doing that since page 100 or so.

Here's some updates to catch up the thread.


I still need to shave the paint off the lettering on the IM later this week once the paint cures, but seriously look at this setup. What's not to like about a nice medium-rise intake manifold and a 4-barrel?







Cleaned off the paint on the lettering of the IM. I still have a little bit of touch up on the "brock" of the Edelbrock, but I want to let the paint cure a little more.





It's not like I shouldn't have expected it, but it still sucks to find it. Pulled the rest of the interior and it looks like I will be doing some sheet metal work.

Passenger rear floor pan.




Driver rear floor pan. I hate it when people half-ass things.




Right rear trunk. Left rear looks about the same.




Passenger floor board.




Anothe angle.




OK, I mean at the end of the day it is a 1966 car, so it could be a lot worse. Plus the rear floor boards were going to have to cut out anyway to make room for the frame X-brace that will connect the front and rear subframes. Then in the trunk, it's going be tubbed, fuel tank removed and a fuel cell installed, so all that would be gone anyway. Then up front is going to require a bit of work to get the ZF 6-spd box to fit. So it's not a total loss. Even if the sheet metal was pristine, I'd be cutting it up anyway.

Here's that bit I was talking about up on the tub.



Again, nothing major and a lot of healthy metal around it.

The passenger side may or may not be salvageable. We'll see. I'd rather cut it off and start fresh than take a chance at it rusting out later on down the road.




Welcome to transmission boulevard. Sawzalls required.

[dopes6070]

looks like your making some good progress. At least the frame and all that is in good shape the floor is pretty easy to take care of.

[speedfoos]

Yeah, it should be fairly easy. Gotta pick up some conduit tomorrow to brace the chassis before I take the frame out.


Donovan and I did a little work tonight and I'm really tired.

Got her hooked up.




Apply a little leeeverage. Big D did all the work, I just fanned him so he wouldn't overheat and held the flashlight.




When you use a big rod, you catch big fish.




And we started mocking up the 350 block with the stock front end. Made a few adjustments...



and I guess it's to late to turn back now.




But then we ran into a problem. Without encroaching on the passenger compartment at least 6-8 inches - which would have pushed everything back and I probably would have lost the back seat - the 350 won't clear the upper A-arms. Booger. We entertained opening up the subframe, running a custom sway bar and linkage, custom u-joints on the steering column, moving bits of the frame, and doing a widebody to avoid this.

That's an awful lot of work to keep a stock 1966 suspension setup.

I'm smarter than this. Donovan is smarter than I am at this stuff, so collectively, our brainwaves can burn toast at a distance of up to 50 meters away.

We reached a decision.

Stock front end is out.




And it's time to start looking for a Mustang II front end. Much easier to make that work than re-engineering the volvo front end or losing the back seat.

Done for the night. Tired. Here's my fake motor.

[bomerman19]

mmmmmm! toast!

I like your decision

that sawzall looks like it's coming in pretty handy

and is that a hoist I see

If you didn't run to a problem like having to lose the front end then it would not be a Foos worthy project