Only kidding. I'll be following your build. Looks like you have a great start and you certainly have a go to guy for expert advice and info. Keep up the good work. I can't wait to see how it turns out.
Thats a great looking motor, looks remarkably like mine did! I had to drag mine from some nice ladys storage shed after her son went to England and left all his car crap.
I like the motor plate, keep toying with putting one on mine, you going to run a mid plate too.
Don't know if I missed it but what year engine is it? Looks very clean too. Is it all original? Thankfully you have a dad that can and knows how to do all this stuff. I took a chance on mounting my own motors and transmissions. Worked out good though. And yes very nice toenails be careful not to drop anything on them lol
Nice! Atleast she's into it. My dad started me off tearing down engines and grinding welds when I was like 12 years old. Loved it ever since. It will be great when she pulls up somewhere and someone says "hey nice car" and she can say thanks yeah I built it myself.
Initial tech support, got my motor sitting on the OPG mounts now, what is entailed in putting this thing on. The motor is a mock, bare black, heads, valve covers and headers.
Does it come with all the brackets or whatever to mount it? I have no idea on this, but it seems like a good idea. Particularly for Alt mount optiones. So how much work are we talking? How much a PITA to keep my current geometry and any mods I need to make down the driveline.
Actually, the red color is due to copper coating. Ford does this for either resizing the big/small ends of the rods or for weight purposes. I am not exactly sure what the purpose is. I do see rods coated in this fashion regularly and, not just Ford specifically either.
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