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retroboy:

I didn’t do my transmission at home.  I called out to a mate who did it at his. If you’re starting the think that I’m a bit resistant to professional help?  I’m not but good people are hard to find . Where I have them in my personal network I’m happy to pass the work on but otherwise I’ll have a crack at most things.
 Given I haven’t been near anything the least  bit racing orientated for 25 years I decided I didn’t need to re-invent the wheel I just followed the path to where Mopar went all those years ago -  Turbo Action Torque Converter.

retroboy:

Now time for the engine.  After serving an apprenticeship as a mechanic in the early 1970’s and a life time around cars this is truly my comfort zone. I’ve had Fords all my life so this Chrysler small block was something different for me. Have to say overall they look like a decent thing. Block has plenty of beef, the rods look really good, and I like the shaft mounted rockers.
I just hand honed the bores fitted a set of pop top pistons fitted a set of decent rod bolts, a set of rings and chucked her back together. Added an old 1970’s profile Racer Brown ST21 solid camshaft, converted a set of hydraulic lifters to solids and that takes care of the bottom end. Undecided on which way to go with the heads I just fitted a new set of guides and bigger valves and cut the seats and faced them. Figured they were what they were from the factory so I might save up for a set of aftermarket heads later and use the money I didn’t spend now somewhere else.

retroboy:
So now I have a roller, a trans and an engine. time to tackle an easy bit the body. It's aluminium so it'll be a snap right. Armed with a couple of round objects (a piece of pipe, an Oxy bottle and a short length of stainless tube) I commenced to make up my cowl. Spoke with Roo-man for a few tips 'coz he build a Corvette Funny car body out of aluminum with minimal tools years back when he still lived here and  presto- nearly got there. but then twisted the whole thing so ended up throwing a wobbly and chucked the whole lot out.

 

 Enter Chad Ackland. A few weeks later all's well in the world.

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