I just read through this whole post, and am now embarrassed that I made thread on how hard it was to rotate my car on the rotisserie, because I'm an idiot and cant tell up from down. I get mad at myself because I cant put down a professional looking bad with my Lincoln mig welder. I whined because I had to scrape all the undercoating off by hand with a heat gun and a scraper then wheel my rotisserie out and power wash the residue off. What I'm saying is not bragging. You've put me in my place and I feel like a punk now. Good job OP
You're doing great things. The first few pages my mindset was, there is no way hes going to do this, with this budget, and was waiting for someone to start berating you for even trying with what you were working with. (Big kudos to the FABO members for not doing that and only being inspirational. Never been on a forum where that didnt happen)
Now after reading page 32......dude you got this.
I'm curious if you have any engine updates?
I have been fortunate. I have a 1972 dart swinger. It came with a 318 and a 904 trans. My brother from another mother has a 65 sport fury that had a 440 in it. He has a 6.1 hemi he is swapping into his car. Another friend has a 66 charger with an fairly angry 383 in it. As you can probably tell where I'm going with this we now have my original 318 and 904 not going to be used for anything that I can think of, because if I take on another project my wife will divorce me and I wont even be able to finish this project. I know for a fact that it ran before I took it out of my car. I know it ran because I worked on the wiring harness for 2 days to get it to start. Compression test was done and all cylinders were at 150 or better (wish I remembered exactly). The leak down test was done cold and the engine hadn't been started since the 80s. I fogged the cylinders lightly and the worst leakdown was 15%.
I put a brand new el cheapo jegs cam in it (my brother from another mother works at Jegs and said it was one step up from stock), comp springs, new valve seals, lifters, and timing set. There is a brand new weiand dual plane intake bolted on it, a rebuilt edelbrock carb on it and a set of hooker headers for power steering on it. I have a new gasket set that needs put on. Had a known I would be given a free big block I wouldn't have bought all this stuff. If you're interested PM me and I'll try to make you the deal of a life time. I also have a new water pump, alternator, and other little pieces here and there. All of the engine stuff is still new. I did not start the engine after putting this stuff on. We pulled the engine to put the headers on and found some frame rust and the engine didnt go back in.
I also noticed you said you would need a new set of torsion bars. I have my originals that I just literally took out yesterday. They seem fine to me, i didnt beat on them or use a pipe wrench to take them out. Just dropped the lower arm and they pulled out by hand.
I should probably be putting this stuff in for sale but I've been in your spot. Not having a lot of money to put into something your passionate about. So I'm giving you first dibs. I have a brand new passenger side front floor pan. I know your damage is in the rear but just letting you know. The original 4 piston KH small bolt pattern brakes I'm getting rid of but they're small bolt pattern and probably of no use to you. I have multiple fenders, multiple hoods, multiple trunk lids, doors, glass, duplicates of dash trim pieces and other stuff that I dont even know what they are. Unsure of any of that is interchangeable to a 1975. If you need something ask, I forget about most of the stuff I have.
Keep doing what you're doing. I like when someone posts saying "you cant do that" you come back with pictures showing that you just did that, and you're humble about it.
I apologize to the moderators if this is against the rules. Just needed to give you and the other members props.
