We have been battling high humidty and some hot weather here in CT, along with overtime for both my father and I. We swapped fenders out with my future father in law, stripped them, welded a few patches and started to spread some filler. We also managed to put some filler on the hood, and spray our first coat of primer. We are using Rage Gold body filler, Transtar primer/sealer, and we are going to finish up with a high build primer to fill our little imperfections.
After a long wait and back orders, my camshaft has finally arrived. Went with a Comp XR280HR, new rocker arms shafts, a cloyes 9 key way billet timing chain, bronze distributor gear, springs, locks, retainers etc. We are just waiting on a mopar performance windage tray, which is back ordered. This all goes along with the Diamond forged pistons. Specs are at 480 horse, 485 ft/lb torque. SO it will finally be nice to bring these parts up to the engine shop and hopefully get the block back in about 2 weeks.
Heres a few pictures of our progress with the bodywork, pictures were at the early stages. One of the toughest jobs here was sanding the underside of the hood. I really wanted this to look great so we used the DA sander a long with a lot of work by hand, and the final product looks great. I also managed to pull a mouse nest about the size of a large football out of the underside of the hood where the latch goes. A media blaster would have come in reaaaal handy at this point, but we dont have one so screw it.
After a long wait and back orders, my camshaft has finally arrived. Went with a Comp XR280HR, new rocker arms shafts, a cloyes 9 key way billet timing chain, bronze distributor gear, springs, locks, retainers etc. We are just waiting on a mopar performance windage tray, which is back ordered. This all goes along with the Diamond forged pistons. Specs are at 480 horse, 485 ft/lb torque. SO it will finally be nice to bring these parts up to the engine shop and hopefully get the block back in about 2 weeks.
Heres a few pictures of our progress with the bodywork, pictures were at the early stages. One of the toughest jobs here was sanding the underside of the hood. I really wanted this to look great so we used the DA sander a long with a lot of work by hand, and the final product looks great. I also managed to pull a mouse nest about the size of a large football out of the underside of the hood where the latch goes. A media blaster would have come in reaaaal handy at this point, but we dont have one so screw it.
