[99 to Life]

3-22 Sat, I got to quite a bit of stuff today that I wanted to. First I tackled the double 90* piece, previous page last pic. It came out well I thought. Now if I had ordered a repro outter cowl piece I wouldn't have need to make this.

second order of biz was getting the engine situated. So I spend quite a while drilling through this 3/16 plate or whatever it is, and cutting it out with a cut off wheel. So just like I did on my 51' I can bolt the top two bolts in on the rubber motor mount, then get the engine in place, tack weld the metal plate down. Once the moch up engine is off, I can drill the bottom holes through the motor mount and into the frame. They get accessed through the factory slot in the frame, def annoying getting a wrench and nut inside there. I made sure the engine was zero degrees side to side, I then got it to about -1 deg for now by jacking the trans up. I also centered the trans up in the frame rails. I know I'm pretty centered in the engine bay since the crank centerline is lined up in the center of the xmember pretty good.

I spent quite a while tearing the front clip apart and started trial fitting my inner fenders. I go the pass side pretty good right now, still need some final trimming. I'm gonna be real close up front with the grille. On my 51' I had to clearance the grille a little. On this I'm gonna have to go a little more. I think I'm 3/4" farther back body wise on this build, which I don't mind cause I like the wheel alignment a tad better this build.

thought I'd toss in a moch up gas tank too. its out of a 52' chevy car. It would work well but they are like 200 bucks online, still not bad but I can squeeze a blazer tank in there, so I'm gonna go that route. I'm also going to run a 90 ohm sending unit and an aftermarket gas gauge on this build, I'll hide the gauge in my custom consol I'm doing and or in the speaker door on the dash.

can't wait to start stripping stuff down and getting it coated and get to the details, I'm so sick of looking at dirty, greasy everything. I'll hop back on cab floor once I pick up some 18g, hopefully wrap that up soon. Need a little more loot for my engine and I'll bring it up to my garage and get it fired up.
Hopefully stripping frame in April.