efirth 7th-June-2008, 12:43 PM My 72 is beginning to receive its new paint and motor. Here are a few pics of the process thus far. First pic is the car as it was this spring.
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69SSAcadian 7th-June-2008, 12:52 PM Who is painting it for you Eric? What 'new' motor?
efirth 7th-June-2008, 01:05 PM The car is at Redline here in St-Albert, and the motor with Dan at Fasttcars.
69SSAcadian 7th-June-2008, 01:06 PM The car is at Redline here in St-Albert, and the motor with Dan at Fasttcars.
Is that their shop...it looks empty???
efirth 7th-June-2008, 01:13 PM No, thats my new neighbours shop. He lets me use to work on the car, It's a F**d shop.
69SSAcadian 7th-June-2008, 01:15 PM No, thats my new neighbours shop. He lets me use to work on the car, It's a F**d shop.
That can't be a Ford shop.....if it was it would be full of broken cars :D. I've sent you a PM.
efirth 9th-June-2008, 01:43 AM Painted all the misc brackets along with the inner fenders. All parts were sand blasted first and then painted semi-gloss black by dupli-color. The last pic is of one the new heads to be installed, there Patriot.
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kagibbs 11th-June-2008, 12:19 AM vey nice car
aron69nova 11th-June-2008, 02:05 PM i didn't know novas had a vinyl top that looked like that
efirth 12th-June-2008, 02:03 AM They didn't, it was added by the original owner who lived in Oxnard California. I have removed it and the car will be painted the factory Flame Orange.
Racinfan83 12th-June-2008, 02:30 AM Yeah - that top like that was cool in my opinion...
Looks like you are doing a nice job on the resto. Glad you figured out how to post up the pics! :devil::D:D
efirth 5th-July-2008, 11:49 AM Five weeks and counting, this was supposed to take three weeks. The car is finally in primer in prep for block sanding, so hopefully it wil be finished this comming week. There's a lot of work yet to be finished by myself ie: reinstall fresh motor & all the new weatherstripping/trim thats been patiently waiting in my garage. I've entered the car in a local car show that takes place over the course of a week from the 5-9 Aug. So I will be very busy trying to put it back together.
These are photos from the body shop of the car being stripped to bare metal. So far no surprizes and no rust in the car.
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Mark Keenum 5th-July-2008, 11:56 AM What did the roof look like under that vinyl top?
Gen3Honk 5th-July-2008, 01:26 PM car looks good so far!!! :D
efirth 5th-July-2008, 09:02 PM There were no issues with the roof after the top was removed, we did find however, a crack in the lead they used to fill where the qtrs attach to the roof on the C pillar.
Otherwise the car is very clean & will require very little prep for paint.
efirth 13th-July-2008, 02:16 PM Stoppped in this past Thurs morning to check on progress. This is what I found.
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Looks like the car will be painted Tue/Wed and I will have it back for next weekend. I will post pics.
Here are a couple of other cars they are working on.
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efirth 30th-May-2009, 03:27 AM Finally got the motor back with dyno results 383 With Patriot heads, 268H cam & RPM air gap, it makes 418 HP @5600 RPM & 479 ft lbs of tourque @ 4100 RPM.
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Novabeam 30th-May-2009, 03:50 AM Nice Car!
The old vinyl top looks like a 73 or 74 hatchback "Touring Top". I'm sure there's somebody here that would be interested in the moulding - if you saved it!
pat123 31st-May-2009, 01:51 AM sweet car, i would like to work at a place like that.
69SSAcadian 31st-May-2009, 03:01 AM Glad to see you got it in there Eric...you must be getting close eh!
efirth 31st-May-2009, 10:26 AM The old vinyl top looks like a 73 or 74 hatchback "Touring Top". I'm sure there's somebody here that would be interested in the moulding - if you saved it!
The vinyl roof was an aftermarket add on by the original owner and the trim was an aftermarket item also. It went in the trash.
Craig,
I am very close, hope to fire it up tomorrow if all goes well. Electrical is not my strong point and I switched over to a Mallory HEI system, I have to figure out how to wire it up. May need help with the wiring of the starter also as I can't remember how the solenoid gets wired. If anyone has a picture of their starter wired up that would help.
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