franktf

Picked up a 351w for the car on Friday..... It's a all standard roller shortblock that is very good rebuildable condition.....





I managed to finish stripping the floor pan up to the rear seat area this morning..... I need to start making the floor repair panels now.....

franktf

Made and welded the repair panel in the driver side front floor, then I wire brushed the surface rusted areas on the part of the floor pan..... Also made the panel for the pass side front floor, just needs some minor trimming and it will be ready to weld in.....

Here is the driver side panel made and tacked in place.....




Here it is welded and cleaned up.....




This is after wire brushing the surface rust.....




and this is the pass side panel sitting in place.....

slow poke

franktf

Welded the patch in the front floor.....




Made a patch for the pass side rear between the connector and rocker, then welded it in.....




Made the same patch for the pass side and got it tacked in place.....

franktf

Welded the rear outer driver side patch in..... Then worked on fitting the pass side inner repair panel, what a pita..... It now fits almost like I want it and it only took 2 hours to get there..... Should only take about another 20-30 minutes to get it where I can weld it in.....

Here's the driver side outer welded in.....




and here's the pass side inner panel.....

franktf

Finished fitting and welded the inner rear pass side repair panel, it came out pretty good..... Then I started fitting the inner rear driver side repair panel.....

Here is the pass side fitted and tacked in place.....




after welding and clean up.....




and here is as far as I got on the driver side.....

slow poke

franktf

My new rear wheels and tires made it on tuesday, on thursday I found the time to go over and mount/balance them.....




Got the driver side inner rear panel fitted and welded in this morning.....




After that I tried the new wheels/tires on the rear to see how they fit..... They are too close to the outside but fit exactly like i was hoping they would..... They are 1" from hitting the leaf springs which will allow me to shorten the 9" housing I have enough that the axle someone cut too short will work out perfect..... Once I put the rear in that's 1.5" shorter they will fit perfectly.....

Stoopid Wendy

Looks good, what size tire?

john

purple87lx

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