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Old 01-29-2015, 09:01 PM   #46
rickoner
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: pittsburgh, pa
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Re: My Drive-way Build - '65 short pants

Small update. Steering is all finished up although the notches aren't completely burned in. That's going to wait until I take it down to my buddy's shop to do the rest of the frame mods. Hopefully that happens in a couple weeks. I just ordered a bunch of parts today. So, I'm gonna play the wait game.

I picked up a complete 292 swap locally that I planned on flipping. After putting it on here and waiting only 2 days, nobody seemed interested (I probably priced it too high). I decided to just use it. I tore it down to a naked long block and cleaned the 40+ years of grime off of it.

Here's a pic of it when I picked it up.



After cleaning it up, it was in and out of the chassis a few times to figure out how high I had to raise the engine mounts. These are what I came up with. They're raised up 1.75".



Oh yeah, I had to do this too.



All and all, she's sitting in there pretty nice. Everything fits and the pan clears the drag link by probably a bit over 3/8". I'm happy with that.

Here's my artsy pic I did on my phone. Haha.



Until next time gentlemen...
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