Another Mopar Off My Bucket List

Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback

I realize that some of the stuff I do is pretty rinky-dink. The motor that we'd borrowed to be our test mule for assembling accessories is pretty sad. Most of the oil was gone because the pan was rusted out. Even though we tried to get as much of the rust and scum off it still looks rough. The silver paint that we rattle canned over it was just an experiment to see if we'd like to paint our 512 that color. The silver should make it easier to see if we have any clearance issues with K-member and our accessories. It was a can of cheap household enamel.

I used my $2 swap meet puller to remove the harmonic balancer. As rusty as that motor was I'd expected it to put up a fight but it didn't. I don't have another stand use so I disassembled the 512 block and put the 400 core engine on it's stand.

Our 512 block is pretty clean.

The core block is full of tarry oil.

We won't be able to run a mechanical fuel pump. One of the brackets for the compressor acts as a block of plate for the fuel pump.

It doesn't look as bad after I started hanging our parts on it. The Edelbrock heads had to be bolted on so that we would be certain that ALL of our parts were going to work together. I don't want to chance a mis-alignment during this process. The Milodon oil pan went on too. I'll have to be certain that it clears the new K-member.

That's a lot of stuff to hang on the front yet.

As I added the components I could see that I'm going to have a nightmare getting all the pulleys to align.