MS wrote:

What?  No go-kart racing slicks for wheels?

Only because I didn't have any on hand  So far 99% of everything that I am planning on using for this project is stuff I had laying around.
 

Making good progress.  I started by cutting all the pieces for the base and then drilling them for the wheels and the holes for adjustability that way they could be drilled using my drill press.  From there it was time to fire up the welder.  I bolted the wheel plates I had cut and drilled to the frame pieces and and then used fencing wire crisscrosses from corner to the other to help make it square.



The technique is simple but efective, you twist the wire and tighten it up on its self.  Once all the slack is out of both of them you measure from corer to corner.  You then tighten the wire between the longer corners, then repeat the measuring and tightening until its square.  As it gets tight it will hold it square and ready for welding.


I go the above done earlier this week.  Todays project was getting the uprights They pivot where it attaches to the bottom and it pivots at the engine mounts so it is adjustable depending on what engine/mount combo I might want to run.


The lock nuts are tight enough that the uprights are freestanding but still totally adjustable.


On the other end I made a bar that bolts to the bellhousing and than had a piece of all-thread on either end.  This will allow me adjust the height of the bellhousing and also level it up from side to side.

Daze,
 It's early in the build .
Let me suggest running outside at night with open headers.
Sound and light show is crazy good.

Cman

Good Work!

Very nicely done.

Daze wrote:

cman66 wrote:

Daze,
Let me suggest running outside at night with open headers.

I bet that would be sweet, but I dont think my neighbors would approve 
 

You just gotta wait 'till really late at night when they're all asleep... Then they'll never know, right?

Michael H. wrote:

You've put a lot of thought into it and it's coming together nicely.

Thanks!!  You are correct there is a lot of thought involved in this project.  I spend way more time building things in my head than I do in the real world.  It takes a lot of my time but when it comes time to actually build something it goes fairly smoothly and most of the bugs are worked out.


I got a lot done today

Most of the work today was on the adjustable bellhousing mount.  


The mounts for block are bolted directly to the frame and are only adjustable in 1.5" increments so I needed the other end to be completely adjustable so I came up with a "clamping" method to attach it





Putting the engine on was really easy with the mounts pivoting at two spots.  Once the engine was on I could easily move it from side to side to level it up but not so easily that it felt unstable.  Once I hooked up the bellhousing mount it was rock solid and I could only move the engine by adjusting my leveling screws.


In the above picture I have a new ever used set of shorty headers.  I really don't want to use them being that they have never been run.  I also have a set of headers I got from a 72 F-100.  I will probably use them but unfortunately they don't clear the bellhousing mount so if I run them I will have to reverse them and go "gangster style"



I also installed the starter this afternoon and I am hoping that tomorrow I can hook up a battery and do a compression test on the 351w

Kudos Daze. I look at how simple that works and think, why didn't I think of that?

Looking good!

Made some more progress today.  

Every day I am getting closer.  Starting to deal with a lot of the smaller details.  This was my progress at the end of Yesterday


From left to right:
Battery kill switch
manual choke cable
electric fan switch
high/low fan switch
idiot light for oil if the engine I am running is set up that way
oil pressure gauge
amp gauge
temp gauge
vacuum gauge
O2 gauge
ignition switch


The expanded metal is a tray for tools and parts when tuning an engine


The electric fan is from a Mark VII and has two speeds


In the spirit  of reusing parts I used a Hurst shifter as my throttle

Today I got the radiator firmly mounted, mounted the starter solenoid, and solved a few little issues.  Tomorrow I will figure out how to mount the fan to the radiator and weld in the gage cluster as well as weld up solid all the joints on the core support/handle.  From there its basically done.  I will leave it alone until the 351 is ready to be fired up and then finish wiring in the electrical and such.  Once I have used it and like the way it functions I will tale it all apart and have it powder coated.  I have so little in to it that I can spring for a little powder to finish it off.

Steve69 wrote:

Are you running EFI or Carb?

On the 351??