I have to ask.... Why not share the name? Seems that might help others.

The guy was let go and about the time I was suppose to be sending my motor back his father passed away. In the end I took care of it locally and now I know everything has been corrected. If you look in my build thread you will be able to find out who built the motor way back in 2012.

I haven't been doing much on the '33 but finally got back on it and got the rear end all buttoned up. Had Ridetech make me some upper and lower arms with "R" joints, BMR housing swivel bushings, cleaned and painted the calipers, new rotors and pads and all that's left is to bleed the system.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...246f75c9_b.jpg20230611_182957 by F G, on Flickr

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Of course I had to see what the new rims looked like on there

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Looking good and I understand trying to make time to work on these projects is sometimes very difficult.

Great wheel choice. :thumbsup:

Got the kids out of detention yesterday so now to get them reattached and back in the chassis. Both were new rebuilt E-bay purchases by the previous owner and came with the car. Both needed rebuilt. Trans guy found a bad bearing, bad bushing, bad pump housing. Had him install a TCI constant pressure valve body while he was in there and I got a Boss Hog 3200-3500 converter for it. Engine had bad valve guides and bent valves, sloppy main caps and a lot of crud in the oil galleries. Almost $4500 later, it's all done and done right this time.

Nothing’s ever easy with you Frank, is it? :lmao:

Don

:lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao:

I always try to test fit things before getting in too deep, just like i'm sure a lot of you do. I previously mentioned "When cranking it sounds like the starter and flywheel and torque converter don't like each other." Well, it seems the flex plate and converter bolts don't exactly line up just right and he must have forced the bolts to go in creating a somewhat slight off center flex plate/torque converter alignment and it seems the flex plate is a little warped. I was really hoping to have all this back together and in the chassis this weekend but looks like i'll be waiting on a new flex plate.

I received the ATI flex plate and had the same issue. Called the Torque converter company and their answer was to drill the flex plate holes slightly larger... called ATI and their answer was drill the flex plate holes a little larger.. Sooooooooo, 1/32" was all it took. Drilled each hole equally on a drill press in 1/64th increments keeping everything in alignment. The holes were exactly 29/64" and ended up 31/64"
Made a little progress, hopefully back in the chassis this weekend.

Found some ambition last night and got it back in

Looks awesome and now I am going out in the garage because of your post.

Slowly chipping away at it..
Got the Derale trans cooler in and lines made

Got enough hooked up to hit the key and make it come alive again

It's been a little while and just messing with it little at a time. Pulled the engine and trans again to get better access to the firewall and trans tunnel.
used a lot of elbow grease and mothers aluminum polish and tried for a mirror finish then coated with Sharkhide.

Swapped out the junk Koni's for some QA1 double adjustables

Finished the front wiring harness and added Second Skin Megablock insulation to the trans tunnel

Put the engine and trans back in, cut and welded flanges on the new Borlas then wrapped them with DEI Form-a-shield to hopefully reduce the amount of heat coming up through the floors.

Added a small panel to hold a bus bar, vintage air relays and circuit breaker. Bus bar gave me a great place to connect the vintage air and the Micro steering. Plus a stud for common ground.

Had to cut that top center section of the trans tunnel to fit the recess, Settled on a shifter location, riv nuts through the fiberglass seemed ok but added some reinforcement to the backside just to be safe.

Started working on my idea for a center console with armrest and middle storage

Sucks about the sideways pics, not sure how to correct that

Sideways pics happen to the best of us.

https://lateral-g.net/forums/showthread.php?t=59944

I had so many questions about the random taxidermy that I didn't notice the photo was sideways. 😆

With Apple products if you take the pic in portrait mode they will post sideways. If you take pics in landscape the issue is gone.

A friend stopped by today so I took full advantage of him and put the body back on. Playing with different looks, with & without hardtop, fenders etc..
(these are not the wheels and tires i'll be running, these are just for rollers)

nice looking rollers. look really nice on the car

Made a battery hold down and moved it to a corner of the trunk area.

It's coming together nicely and looking good!

Looking forward to seeing how the center console turns out.

First time under it's own power. Ended up putting 10 miles on it around the neighborhood and we didn't die.

That's a GREAT first drive, if it comes back under it's own power and no major issues. :thumbsup:

I am so envious and I can't wait to drive mine.

God willing it will be this spring.

The center console is coming along.. we are now out of cardboard stage and using 1/4" plywood to see how it all comes together as a rigid assembly

It was time to put the real wheels and tires on it to start setting ride height and clearances.
Schott Accelerators
18x9 275/40-18
20x11 315/35-20

Doors and trunk lid.. we're getting there

Just me being a little different

Man I want one of these but I don't think I have it in me to build another car.

Is there something else out there besides building cars??? :headscratch:

Made fuel lines and new plug wires