So as I have been saying over these past few days, I am now going to get this thread up to current date. So to explain where I am at and why, I pulled my car apart again mainly to do my steering and fix my rear end. My third member and housing set up, which I have a lot of $$$$ into, spun the bearing races while I was just cruising down the road. I had never abused this piece or anything of the sort. I have about 300 miles on the axle and third member. I yanked the third member, the rack and pinion I had under the front, the front brakes/suspension and power booster for the brakes.
I figured that since I am going to have to install an entire steering system and run some new custom brake lines, that it would just be easier to pull the motor out, considering that it only takes about an hour to pull with another set of hands. Besides I was planning on messing with the motor a little so this just made it that much more appealing to pull it......which I am glad I did!!
Motor came out and I found that the front and rear main seals were leaking, along with the pan gasket, cam freeze plug and the head gaskets!!! Mind you that I did NOT build this motor! I bought this motor completed from a guy who I guess didn't do the best job lol. So I swapped the cam for a new one from comp, along with new springs, retainers, keepers, and pushrods, pulled the heads off and ported and polished the intake and exhaust runners and I also removed the smog injection lumps that are located in the exhaust ports. I will never port a set of iron heads again!!! Aluminum heads from here on out. After doing the cam and head work, I finished it off with an edelbrock RPM performer intake manifold.
Here's the motor waiting to be dropped back in. Hopefully in the next few days she'll be put back!
Brakes are all ready to go. Just need to bleed the system
Entire gear box set up back in the car, along with all of the linkage to go with it. Box is 4 turns lock to lock and with the Shelby quick steer arms, it's at about 3-1/4 to 3-1/2 turns now
Need to get some interior back in it as well! Tired of being rattled to death in there.
