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07-27-2014, 11:06 AM | #91 |
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Re: 1978 Mustang II
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Work (for the time being) is ongoing on my Mustang II. Hopefully get the front brakes done and long studs on the front wheels. Got the intake finished, cleaned up and painted. Also got my two barrel carburetor (it's a 1.08, even marked on the side, pretty easy to police) finished.
Also my Bluestreak converter was delivered Saturday morning. Had opened the garage earlier in the morning. Went back into the house for a cup of coffee. Came back out and stumbled over the box. Didn't expect a UPS delivery on Sat morning. May not be yet ready for prime time. Want to get it to a state that I can haul it to a track.
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Not glad you posted a picture, because now I have to tell this story LOL Robert's car is one of the few 302/ C4 combos that come with a smaller bellhousing and flex plate. The converter itself actually is made with the "third" Ford pattern, which is the same as the 4 cylinder converters, except for the larger V8 pilot. I suggested getting the larger bell and a new flex plate, and doing whatever it takes to make it fit the tunnel...obviously using a Ford tool to do so! This team had planned on bolting in components one at a time to see if they could build themselves a budget index runner. They elected to send me a stock 10" V8 converter to use for the cover and mounting studs. I bushed the cover down and extended it to fit, but that does add some weight to the converter. Normally, I would use an 8" stamping and minimal hardware for this small engine combo. Now you know the rest of the story..
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Just a little update.
Life has severely gotten in the way since my last posts on this thread. My old friend, Tod Lane and I have both been bitten by life. My mother whom was living with my wife and I had become more and more ill in the past few months. As cold as this sounds, mercifully she has finally left us. She passed away two weeks ago. Roughly at same time, Tod's wife of 36+ years has been stricken with cancer. Which for both of us has made working on these old cars just a little less important in the grand scheme of things. No real work of any consequence has gotten done in the past few months. Honestly, I haven't been in my garage much except to get tools for routine maintenance. So, I'm trying to get re-motivated to get a direction back in life. In that regard, went to visit a co-worker yesterday and help him remove an unneeded item from his garage. Brought back a "Mexican" re-manned long block. At least that is what the tags say it is? Which just happened to be numbers matching 78 FFFord 302. He said it came out of a 78 T-Bird that he and a buddy had stripped. It did measure out at 4 inches on the bore (std). It has the correct number 78 heads. Which gives me a few more pieces to work with once I get my head screwed back on straight.
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Bob Williams says hi.
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But we have in fact restarted the project, there is a LONG way to go yet but progress has been made.
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Pulling for you regardless of the time table.
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Todd, very sorry for your loss. Can't begin to imagine the pain. Hope to see you guys sometime this summer.
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