Ben,

YOu need to update post#2 to say that the cage is complete. Way to go Ron!!!!!:drink::thumbs_up::D

Ben, I still meet you if you want to go. If you do want to go I'll meet you at your house and we can carpool down to Long Beach.

Let's do this thing. What time?

Done. Sorry Ron. I just updated the log.

How about I meet you at your house at 6am?

Oki doki. I'm not a morning person so you'll have to ignore my goofiness. :)

... and don't laugh at his hair either.

That really pisses me off. :)

Once I was at Home Depot and a nice young African American girl said ,"I like your hair". I was in full Jew-fro mode. No, I'm not making this up. When my wife (Japanese) gives me a hard time about my fro, I say, "black chicks dig it."

Picked up the blower from Joe on Friday. Uh, yeah, we'll be needing to find or buy a new bearing plate at least, being split in half and all. The snout *might* be able to be welded. :huh:

Joe forgot the pan on Friday, but dropped it off at my house today. Later this morning I went to pick up the crossmember and trans mount for SBC and TKO for reference or possibly using. My pal threw in a balanced drive shaft for that trans and a TII diff. Probably won't work, but who knows. Oh yeah, he also gave me an unopened Wilwood Clutch MC. I'll probably go with a hydraulic throwout instead of mechanical linkage for the Toploader.

Ben brought the crossmembers and the oil pan to me today. We installed the engine crossmember and it looks like it will be close for the SBF. It at least gives me a good starting point to fab from. Here are a couple pictures of it installed.




We also mounted one of my racing tires for my Cobra on Rx-Snake to see how they would fit. The rims are stock Mustang rims (I think from a 98) that are 17x8 and the tires are M/T ET Streets that are 26x11.5x17. The tires are about 27 inches tall and about 9.5 inches wide when mounted on an 8 inch rim and they fit Rx-Snake perfectly. I bounced the suspension and the tire just clears the wheel well without touching. So it looks like the stock backspacing for a Mustang will work well on Rx-Snake. If we install flares we should be able to run a 28x10.5 tire. Here's a picture.

Shopping List for Big Swap Meet
 

HIGHEST PRIORITY
- Repair parts for 174 $350 (snout and bearing plate)

MODERATE PRIORITY
- Scatter Shield for SBF - Top Loader <$200
- B&M Hurst Shifter for Top Loader <$125 (including installation kit, rods, etc.)
- Alternator Bracket $$?
- Main Pulley $$?

LOWER PRIORITY
If you can find parts for the 174 first, then LT Headers <$200 (I think we'll have plenty of space with most LT headers because we will have stripped so much, I think . . . )

If you can't find parts for the 174, don't get headers because there's a pretty good chance I'll get that Turbo kit if we run out of ways to make the 174 work.

Struck out on the blower parts and the shifter. I didn't look for alternator bracket or the main pulley because I think I have some in storage. I'll look next weekend.

I did, however, find a scattershield for less than your budget.

Great news on the scatter shield. Let me know about the bracket and pulley at your convenience. Those are easy bits to get so I'm not too worried

See transmission thread. I think we're going to have some sponsorhip that will allow us to use the Renagate sequential. :toocool:

We're down to the last couple attempts at getting the blower to work. . .

The truck boys want to look at the broken parts. Tom, the welder, is at his shop again. He's got 4 broken fingers, but he could look at the parts also.

I'm still waiting for the laser scanner. So let me know if we're going a different route so I don't waste my time. Just think though. Lasers dude, lasers. :drink:

That is just plan "F" with the welding. The laser thing is first by all means.:drink:

Yes. The making our own billet piece definitely has way more "baller" appeal. So Aaron, think that way. The welding is our backup if there is somehow a major delay with the Laser plan. I'll get the bits from Jeff and Joe together.

Roll Call for labor tomorrow, I expect at least enkeivette and later on, Death Cult

I'll be working from 1:00 - 6:00 at least. If you can come and work, great. be prepared to get dirty, there's lot of dirty jobs to do.

I may be able to come. Kind of hard to steal away the weekend from the girlfriend.

I can't go unfortunately. Alexis' dad is in town this week from Michigan so we're going to the Getty tomorrow. I should be able to help again next weekend though :drink:

That's our meet and cruise day pumpkin.

True, but we could always work on Easter :laugh:

That's Sunday, the boss's day. I'd cut out my own tongue with a rusty butter knife before screwing with that.

Now THERE's a fund raiser idea. I'll go $50.00 to watch that. Anyone else??

I'll match the $50.00.:judge:

Just an FYI, I'll be going to a wedding with the Boss this Saturday, so that's out for working. She also quit her gig recently, which puts a bit of a temporary strain on free cash flow and will take some of my time in helping with setting up a new gig. But no major changes, just a minor delay; effectively none if I can help it.

Roll call for Sunday 4/26?

Tons, of knuckle dragger work left to do.

Just so you ya'lls know, I'm keeping the hammer down as much as possible, but due to my wife ditching her gig and us starting a new business, both my free time and money have been rather impinged of late. The dough flow will pick up again, hopefully sooner rather than later. I was going to keep some bits from the donor car, but now I'll start selling them off for cash to put back into the project.

Some stuff we've managed to get done in the last month:

My bro (Death Cult) and I have put in some time on the front and rear bumper, stripping out and prepping the interior, dropping the gas tank and various supporting tasks. Joe dropped off the remaining bits of the blower. I'm chatting with McLeod to try and work out some support for the clutch and throwout bearing.

Role call for this Sunday from noon.

So far:
- Me
- Aaron (Death Cult)
- Adam (enekeivette)

Work that can be done:

- removing remaining bits and pieces from the engine compartment and undercarriage
- cleaning undercarriage
- continuing to clean interior
- maybe spray some primer to protect cleaned areas.
- Working on rear bumper (enkei if he shows up)
- working on front bumper (Death Cult if he feels like that kind of work)
- welding up the other headlight door on the hood
- welding up some smaller holes
- cleaning prepping and painting the block
- blasting, cleaning prepping and painting the scatter shield
- watch me scratch my head figuring out how to make a mold for the diffuser


There will be beer.

Today we managed to put in a decent day. Here's some pics:


Continuing to shape the rear bumper. Bit by bit.



Death Cult began welding up the other cover.



Blast prepping the Scatter Shield




Flames make everything better. My new solar powered auto darkening welding helmet.



Behold the power . . . washer.





Prepping the block for paint. Adam in his usual work mode.




Thinking about Vin Diesel and getting ready to spray.






Tag Team






About this time, when I asked about painting the oil pan, Adam got very excited, started talking funny and insisted on Gold. So that's what we did. I guess it's best we didn't paint the block pink, as I originally intended to just to see Joe's reaction.

Gold is SUPERRR!!!

Thanks for asking!

That's almost a Ford blue neckerchief.

Looking good.

Calling all knuckle-draggers. This Sunday, from about noon. A special guest might show up. I ain't tell'n.

A vid of us torching off the front wheel.

I think I can make it for once :judge:

Come ready to get filthy dirty. I've got just the job for you :)