picked up a 1960 studebaker

[hd44blazer]

A bit more mockup last night, i pulled the driver side coil out and set the car down on the bumpstops with the tire, a cool thing about this suspension is where the A-arms meet the knuckle, it's a pin setup that runs parallel to the axis of the
frame side pivot rather than a balljoint so the camber doesn't change throughout the travel of the suspension.

 

[skunked]

love the stance and the hardwood floor will be a nice touch.

I still wanna bag a fintail one of these days.

 

[hd44blazer]

crudely sketched out a potential setup, it would have air dryers in-line behind the compressors and check valves before the solenoid boxes to prevent air from feeding back into the tanks
tanks are a spun aluminum 3 and 2 gallon and the curls are spiral bends
dual black viair 444c compressors

might do more line crossovers on the real thing like exiting the left side of the big tank and entering the right side of the small tank and same for the valves, just to add more dimension

 

[hd44blazer]

Doing a bit of trunk rehab tonight

The blue is an off the shelf rustoleum color called matte aqua and it's surprisingly close to the original paint, if I get ambitious enough I might pull the motor and spray the engine bay with it.

I regret not getting a before shot of the trunk, but it was pretty filthy, a lot of oil soaked rust which I "cleaned" with about 4 different methods

What I didn't paint looked great compared to the floor which is why I taped off the sides but it'll probably look as bad as the floor once I pull the masking off.

 

[hd44blazer]

Picked up a cool old roof rack monday and pulled the motor and began cleaning up the engine bay for paint.

Holy tailshaft batman!! It sure was fun tilting, lifting, and working two jacks to slide that motor and trans out of there in one piece I tell you what.

I'm going to start the new paint just under the cowl seam and just below the L-shaped section of fender with the hood bumpers.

 

[Greg Ducato]

That is one long ass tailpiece on that trans, must have a foot long driveshaft

 

[hd44blazer]

That is one long ass tailpiece on that trans, must have a foot long driveshaft

One would think but surprisingly it still has a fairly normal length driveshaft, kind of an optical illusion but the tailshaft ends probably about 3/4 or so of the way down the doors, from memory it seemed the shaft was at least 3ft long but less than 4ft.
Some of these also had an overdrive option which piggybacked onto the same 3 speed.

 

[hd44blazer]

made some more progress on the engine bay, also degreased the engine overnight then pressure washed it in the morning on saturday, going to replace most of the gaskets and give it a fresh coat of paint

 

[muddermilitia]

Looking real good so far!

 

[hd44blazer]

Spent a lot of the holiday weekend cleaning and installing new gaskets and hardware throughout the motor.
I went with a machine gray enamel because it looks good on just about anything and clear coated the bare valve covers and breather tube for some contrast.

 

[Smokinthehippies]

One of the things I like about a light color engine is it makes it a bit easier to track down leaks when they happen.

 

[hd44blazer]

Yup I'll be able to quickly see how good or bad of a gasket job I did.

Another notable modification I did was to this strange cast aluminum piece that creates a seal between the timing cover and oil pan and straddles the front main bearing.
All four threads were stripped and the four bolts were hand tight if that and basically pushed in there which explained the amount of oil and grime built up on the front crossmember.

I had an ARP chevy header stud kit sitting on my shelf and thought they would look pretty cool on this old motor. I drilled and tapped the holes to 3/8-16 and lock tighted the studs in there.

 

[GWeakland620]

That's a cool idea. Something new/different.

 

[hd44blazer]

Spent most of today detailing and assembling the motor.

New spark plugs are on the list.

 

[Smokinthehippies]

What is the 710 cap for?

 

[WyOSteve]

Twin turbo v6 import killer, just say'n. But keeping it rolling is cool too!!

 

[hd44blazer]

What is the 710 cap for?

haha that's what my buddy said too and at first I was like wait, what are you talking about?, but I just followed the raised lettering on the cap and just out of curiosity while typing this I googled 710 for maybe an area code and apparently it's a special code reserved by the government and as of 2006 has one working number which requires a special access code....

Twin turbo v6 import killer, just say'n. But keeping it rolling is cool too!!

When this motor dies a swap of sorts will likely result.

 

[Smokinthehippies]

There is a joke where lady tells her husband she lost the 710 cap from her car. He is obviously perplexed. She sends him a picture of the part she needs. It's the oil cap upside down.

 

[hd44blazer]

There is a joke where lady tells her husband she lost the 710 cap from her car. He is obviously perplexed. She sends him a picture of the part she needs. It's the oil cap upside down.

good stuff, hadn't heard that one

 

[hd44blazer]

I ran into a little problem with the water pump I bought, I didn't pay close attention to the year span and ordered one for an earlier model so the shaft is shorter which set the pulley almost an inch too far back.
Since I didn't want to try to return it I machined a little spacer to fix the issue. The four larger holes are just to reduce weight.