Projects 1962 Ford Falcon gasser build

Fender wall headers are 800 brand new! One day will get a set on here for the family cruising hot rod!

 

I like your build alot Jeremy, much respect , and glad to see Lumpy helping. He is a good man. Carry on .

 

Ain't it stupid what they want for small block fenderwell headers man? Big block is half price, makes no sense

 

Seems like everything is expensive now a days ha.

 

^^^^Say's the guy who tries to get a free T shirt every time he orders a part

 

^^^ @Jeremy Liedl good idea ^^^

 

This is on death week

 

Yeah so they should give a free t shirt when you buy parts

 

The worst they can do is say no!

 

What's under that tunnel ram Jim?

 

Back to the top

 

How's the accident recovery?

Any progress on the build, even collecting parts?

 

Jeremy will probably chime in shortly, He is back to work and came over yesterday and made patterns to fill in rear inner wells

 

Like lumpy63 said we are back at it knee is still a little messed up but we are pushing forward! After work yesterday we got more of the rear inner fender cut out and templates made for new sheet metal to close it up got to dark to take pics will update if photos tomorrow!

 

Hopefully that knee comes around! Take care of your body, but I'm glad we'll get to see some progress on the car too!

 

Be careful about doing much outside if you have an open lawsuit. I was followed all over the place by lackeys that worked for the other insurance company.

 

Ha no open lawsuits so it’s all good!

 

That is very good. I had a Progressive lackey on my front stoop waving a $1000 check in my face to let it go. I noted that I was followed to the gym (I only did my PT recommended exercises), I saw cars parked down my dead end, I was followed to work. Finally I did my deposition at my lawyer's office, the examiner crawled up my *** and out my left eyelid, but I got paid.

 

Got started on traction bars for 9in went with a 2.5x1.5 rectangular tubing and some 3/8s thick plate to fab them up Went to the s**** pile and cut off the old bottom shock mounts to finish it off! Bump stops ordered should be here next week

 

I love this build!

 

Nicely done. I have a set of eBay knock-offs on my car. I have had a couple of old-timers tell me that they would extend them so that the snubber hits under the front eye mounting of the spring.

I think yours will work fine. The plates on mine are a 1/4" thick. My caltrac design, I'll be using 5/16" plate.

 

Switched it up a little bit and did some table top welding. Was gifted a B&M Quicksilver shifter for the build from a family friend
We took it apart and put it where lumpy63 thought it should belong The trash! Don’t want to hate on it but it really wouldn’t look good with the way we are going with this build but we did like the ratcheting mechanism of it and for this budget build we use what we got. So I took some 16ga stainless steel sheared and bent up a couple pieces for a new housing Coming together pretty quickly I got everything tacked up and then was ready to weld. I think it came out pretty good and will add some old school B&M stickers to age it just a little now just need to find a old shift knob to finished it off but I’m sure lumpy63 has something laying around

 

I showed the boy some pics of old B&M series 60 shifters .... I think he pulled it off pretty well

 

Looks almost fact-tree.....

 

What was the other slot for on the B&M case ?

 

There is a window with the gear indicator in it.

 

Jeremy, I am sure you know how lucky you are to have Lumpy helping you out. He is one of the most resourceful, driven, guys on this board, along with being a good guy. So, smoke those tires !

 

Yes! Very lucky!!

 

Thanks for the kind words Marty, but I cant even hold a candle to you my friend

 

Update on grommet Check