Quick up on the Mustang as im trying to keep things moving along.
I posted a picture of the motor mostly complete in the car spotting thread, but here are a few more pics
Very happy with how it came out. Still need to put new plugs in it, but ill get to that.... I think the ceramic primer really made a huge difference. Gave the blue a much smoother finish. I love how the coil and distributor came out. Thats a bright red MSD coil that I sanded and painted black, then put the original decal on....The mallory unilite dist. looks like this normally
I sanded the billet aluminum, and the red cap...sprayed the body with a aluminum blast paint to make it look like the original cast piece, painted the cap black. Sanded the clips and painted them with a zinc phosphate. Not going to fool anyone if i entered it in some mustang show, but I just wanted it to look as stock as possible. Headers wont looks stock of course, but this motor is so wide in the 67, you cant see them anyway.
Next step will be removing the engine from the stand its on and putting it on the cradle that you see below it. I got this so I can put the flywheel/clutch, starter on....but mainly so I can set up the new hydraulic throwout bearing on the ground without having to lay under the car. Waiting for my new billet flywheel and clutch disc to arrive.
I was thinking about it...This is actually the first car engine I ever worked on...My first ever memory of working on a car engine is taking the air cleaner off, I think when I was like 7 or so. Back then the engine was a mess, leaking oil from everywhere, most of the paint gone. When my dad bought this car, he had the cheap ass paint job done, made it look presentable, got it running...that was about it. As I get little pieces of this project done, I like to think about how he would have never gone to this much trouble....Sometimes I get sad thinking about how he will never get to see this car finished...Its funny...when you lose someone like your parent you try and remember the reactions they had to things that you did...Like I try to remember things I did that made my father happy and his reaction....although in my case, when I was a teenager...if I was working on a car, I was usually not doing it to my fathers satisfaction...so I cant remember too many times where he looked at my finished work and said: "wow, thats awesome" ....usually it was more of him shaking his head and saying "why must you ruin everything?" ....Kinda like how I talk to Dillion Van Wart about cars now. Anyway...
So the next thing im working on in the meantime is the transmission. Few things I need to clean up. This is the original transmission for this car, I know this bc the VIN is actually stamped on the bottom of it...I dont know for sure, but I dont think it has ever been modified...I once chanced the gear oil in it in 2001, but other than that, im pretty sure its internals are 49 years old. I scrubbed the case down and got the original assembly line markings to show up, im going to leave it like this as I think it looks the best. Cast iron case, something you dont see anymore. But made them super durable
shifts perfectly still, so im just going to put fresh oil in it, replace the leaky tailshaft gasket and thats all.