67 GTS 4-Speed: Daily Summer Driver

The last thing I wanted to do was to start putting parts back on the car! over the summer I got the firewall insulation kit out at Chryslers at Carlisle. So I installed that

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It was dark so it was hard to get a good picture

I then installed the brake/pedal assembly and heater box. I rebuilt the heater box out here in Pittsburgh using a seal kit and a new heater core. I disassembled the pedal assembly, painted, greased the needle bearings and reassembled. So I brought them home to put them into the car.

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Then I also installed the dash! Starting to look more like a car (on the inside anyway lol) Had to drill out and tap a broke bolt, but it is in and secured

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Since the front K-frame didnt need anything done to it, I painted it and reinstalled it. It was amazing how much dirt I cleaned out of the inside of that thing. I can only imagine what types of roads/tracks this thing was used on

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you can even see the blower motor and studs for the master cylinder on the firewall. Adding a little more color here and there.

But with progress comes set backs. My father had a lead on a 400 sitting in a friends garage that had 20,000 miles on it and ideally be a direct drop in so I wouldnt have to spend a couple grand rebuilding the 383 sitting in our garage (initially anyway). Basically a way to get the car on the road quicker. So we went to pick it up thinking it should have the bosses for the left motor mount. We get there and of course the engine is sitting in the back corner of a garage on the bottom shelf. I was about to start climbing around the engine to see how we would get it out of there, and that is when my foot went through the floor. The engine was sitting on wooden planks that were over top of a mechanics pitt. It looks like the wood had water/oil damage and couldnt support me. So we figured it wouldnt be able to support a crane moving an engine. Thankfully I didnt hurt myself and the engine didnt fall through. The only way we could think of safely move the engine is with a wrecker. However in the end, the engine didnt have the bosses for the left motor mount so it wouldnt of worked anyway. It just means I will have to rebuild the 383 sooner than I had planned. Oh well.

The second set back was found while we were moving the car back into the corner of the garage. The metal on the bottom third of the passenger torsion bar mount was rusted through. It looks like a small piece can be made and welded in. The kicker is that we dont think our welder would have enough juice to weld a plate to the cylindrical torsion bar mount. So we will have to do a little research on our possibilities.