Alright this has all been along time coming, i wasn't going to post any pictures until i broke in the motor but thats happening tomorrow so here we go...
I'll be taking allot more photos today, This has been a project car for the last three years. I would have been done with it awhile back but i kept getting side tracked and changing direction with the build. Eventually i ended up building up a 403/ Th350 combination and putting it in the car.
Everything from front to back is new, i got lucky with the car to begin with. There was no rust at all, and never has been, the car was a GA car.
Here's as of yesterday, motors in and 75% of the way hooked up. I still have to bolt up the TQ ( i dont know why i didn't do this while it was out of the car
) , Run the new fuel lines / trans lines/ trans cooler, the list goes on.
one MAJOR hangup yet is the fan shroud. I have a AFCO racing radiator and it doesn't fit exactly like a factory unit. So i'm going to have to use carbon to make a new upper potion of the fan shroud, i'll be taking allot of pictures during the process.
The radiator is a must though, its a 550$ radiator and i got it basically for "free", traded labor for it. I feel it will do a good job keeping this 403 nice and cool.
To anyone thinking of buying those "stainless steel hose sleeving kits" , i got mine for free because i had store credit with A/Z, and they are the biggest pain in the dick ever. If they didn't look nice i'd burn them in a pile, they suck to install and the hose clamps they come with won't tighten down to a respectable TQ. And you'll prick your fingers 10 million fing times sleeving them onto stuff.
Here was before the motor was in, new suspension setup. In this picture i had the ball joints in upside down, fixed that lol.
Here is some work that was done awhile back now, the tail lights/ housings where pretty badly beat up in an accident i had so i repaired them with carbon fiber/ aluminium
This one is a picture of the mounting ear that had been ripped off entirely, in fact the picture doesn't show but not only the ear, that entire side was torn off. I was able to remake it only because the other side was still in half decent shape, and i could get the specs of the original shapes.
Some of the mounting posts where coming unseated from the original matt glass so i had to reinforce them
Here's a snapshot of the 403 before heads on..
Heads on, these aren't my valve covers they are a friends i just set them on for the picture haha
They look great though....
Here was a snapshot the night i dropped the motor in
Allot more to come....
I'll be taking allot more photos today, This has been a project car for the last three years. I would have been done with it awhile back but i kept getting side tracked and changing direction with the build. Eventually i ended up building up a 403/ Th350 combination and putting it in the car.
Everything from front to back is new, i got lucky with the car to begin with. There was no rust at all, and never has been, the car was a GA car.
Here's as of yesterday, motors in and 75% of the way hooked up. I still have to bolt up the TQ ( i dont know why i didn't do this while it was out of the car
) , Run the new fuel lines / trans lines/ trans cooler, the list goes on.one MAJOR hangup yet is the fan shroud. I have a AFCO racing radiator and it doesn't fit exactly like a factory unit. So i'm going to have to use carbon to make a new upper potion of the fan shroud, i'll be taking allot of pictures during the process.
The radiator is a must though, its a 550$ radiator and i got it basically for "free", traded labor for it. I feel it will do a good job keeping this 403 nice and cool.
To anyone thinking of buying those "stainless steel hose sleeving kits" , i got mine for free because i had store credit with A/Z, and they are the biggest pain in the dick ever. If they didn't look nice i'd burn them in a pile, they suck to install and the hose clamps they come with won't tighten down to a respectable TQ. And you'll prick your fingers 10 million fing times sleeving them onto stuff.
Here was before the motor was in, new suspension setup. In this picture i had the ball joints in upside down, fixed that lol.
Here is some work that was done awhile back now, the tail lights/ housings where pretty badly beat up in an accident i had so i repaired them with carbon fiber/ aluminium
This one is a picture of the mounting ear that had been ripped off entirely, in fact the picture doesn't show but not only the ear, that entire side was torn off. I was able to remake it only because the other side was still in half decent shape, and i could get the specs of the original shapes.
Some of the mounting posts where coming unseated from the original matt glass so i had to reinforce them
Here's a snapshot of the 403 before heads on..
Heads on, these aren't my valve covers they are a friends i just set them on for the picture haha
They look great though....
Here was a snapshot the night i dropped the motor in
Allot more to come....
, are those the stock brake calipers? Who makes the rotors?
