What do you think?


The 82


The 86



Soon, both of these will have LT1's in them.

 

I love the way when you look inside the engine bay the concrete just accentuates the paint so much, lol jk. Good luck with the swap. Should be one sweet combo.

 

Thanks.
We're trying to get the 82 done before the end of the month and go to SLP Customer Appreciation Day on March 29th in Florida.
It's getting pretty close and the engine isn't here yet.

 

:lala:

 

Those are going to be some very sweet cars. I love your friend's 82 Zepher!

 

Not as empty but still missing something important.

 

looking good.
I have a hard task. I need to change the color of my engine bay to black. I did some the other night, but it was dark outside so I probably did a crappy job.

Today we are going to put his fuel tank back in and run the braided line for the fuel system. Tomorrow the rear end should be here and we are going to POR-15 that and then install it.
Then the new guages are going in.
After that, we will wait for the engine and work on my car.
I need to get to bed, have to get up in a few hours and start working on the cars.

 

Check mine out! It's not mounted yet.

 

I wonder if it would be good to por15 the engine bay..

hmm *ponders*

 

What's this mean?

 

I am POR'ing my engine bay. did the radiator support before it started to drizzle. Weather here sucks.

 

Not a 3rd gen but a chicks mustang that we had to do a few weeks ago. That thing was a pain.

 

i just hope i remember how to put everything back in :lala:

 

it looks like theirs a lot of work to be done.I'm glad i'm not doing an engine swap .

 

Oh man Zepher,
we have the same engine bay....cool

wanna race the quarter fred flintstone style? I am down to 11 minutes and 12 seconds

 

Only if you give me a 1 minute head start.

 

so would that be like 20 car lengths in the quarter?

 

I am cringing on the thought about how much you guys have to put back together. Looks like homework to me.


Zepher,

How come everytime you do something to your car it always seems like you are doing it at night and that time you were working on something at 3 a.m. and woke up the neighbors.

What do you do all day? You must have lots of things to do.

 

good luck guys with your swaps...I just got done not to long ago doing the same thing you are, it was a pita but totally worth it in the end..

 

Shouldn't be too hard to put back together, I hope.

I have hyper-sensitive eyes and bright sunlight makes my eyes irritated and start to water so I do a lot of stuff when the sky is overcast or when it's darker.
Also, when we began this project on my friends car, he had most of the parts delivered to his apartment so he'd have to wait till UPS came at around 3pm each day. He eventually started to have the parts shipped to my house which made more sense since the car is here and I am always home during the day.

 

heres my engine bay, freshly cleaned up all waxed not bad for a 2,000 dollar car

 

...in the shop when the 406 was getting put in ..

 

are u guys trying to copy me or what??

 

I'd say everybody is...................

 

Not including the time it takes to rebuild the engine, how long does it take you guys to disconnect the accessories, pull the engine, and put it all back together.

 

Hehe, my friend and I are restoring his 65 mustang GT, we've got ya all beat...

Heres right after we pulled the motor/trans out...

 

Heres after a month of sandblasting, scraping, sanding, and cutting out the radiator support. Note that the inner fenderwells are just as clean and smooth as the engine bay. We've probably gone through 15 cans of flat black engine enamel already...

 

man this post is scaring the bejesus outta me. i haven't pulled the 305 outta my car yet, but i have the 350 that's going in. seeing all those hoses and wires all over the place, i'm thinking wtf am i getting into. (never swapped a motor btw) i'm going to paint the bay black when i get in there. should i take everything out, or try to paint around it?

 

Hmmmmm.......all these engine bays seem to be missing something, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

Are they missing washer solvent resevoirs?

 

LOOKIE! No wires! actually, if you look closely, they are hidden behind the fenders....hehe.....