Saturday, December 8, 2018

Update on the project

It's been 9 months or so since I posted an update.  And honestly, this summer the progress has been slow and intermittent.  My "little" brother Troy just bought a 1970 Camaro today, so that will help my motivation!

So, here's what things look like now:

Installed the P/S pump, it was weird, I know I removed the thing in a operational state, but I couldn't get it back in!  So I bought a new bracket from Allen Grove that makes it all work better than before.


An oddity of my install, is the distributor:  a Crane Cams distributor with several built in advance curves that are selected by a switch on the housing.  They don't make these anymore, so hopefully it works and I don't have to drop 200-300 on another one.


Another recent addition is the Champion radiator I purchased from Jegs.  Hopefully things will run cool.  Later on, I probably will add an electric fan system.  Gotta get the thing on the road for now, so work on that later.


This is the leading edge (by front fender mount) of the driver side rocker panel area.  This is one of the few rusty parts on the car.  I already gouged most of it out, but I will be revisiting this later to make sure there aren't any future rust issues.


Another view.