Coronet1965SWE
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Hello from Sweden. I thought id share some pictures and text about my car wich i have owned since 1991 together with my brother.
It is a 1965 Coronet 440 four door sedan that originally had a 318 bigblock, when we bought it it had a 1978 400 with 727 automatic.
As you can see on the before pic. below it wasnt in good shape when we got it, it was chrashed in the right front area pretty bad but it was cheap and we were enthusiastic
Before.
Present day. (summer 2012)
Under the first years after we fixed it it was just some minor repairs just to keep it running and I had it as a daily driver for a couple years also.
Then 1996 or so i crashed it up a bit also by driving out from an intersection and not seeing a car that came from the left, luckily i managed to accelerate enough to get hit on the back tire/fender instead of the drivers door.
That resulted in a broken rear leafspring, bent rear axle, damaged slip yoke and a seriously flattened rear fender.
So after that it stood for a few years before fixing it again.
Then in 2005 i started converting it to electronic fuelinjection with Megasquirt wich was very interesting, especially the mapping part after all the fabrication was done, I had never mapped a car before and back then there was no autotune and such
Then in 2009 i was doing some high rpm mapping a connection rod bearing gave up (probably due to filling the whole engineblock with gasoline during startupattempts with a incorrectly soldered EFI box wich caused the injectors to stay open all the time doh..) So after that it stood for almost three years and then the fun began by ordering a 512cui strokerkit from 440source and a lot of other fun stuff
So i will put up some pics from old days up to present activities, to be continued
It is a 1965 Coronet 440 four door sedan that originally had a 318 bigblock, when we bought it it had a 1978 400 with 727 automatic.
As you can see on the before pic. below it wasnt in good shape when we got it, it was chrashed in the right front area pretty bad but it was cheap and we were enthusiastic
Before.
Present day. (summer 2012)
Under the first years after we fixed it it was just some minor repairs just to keep it running and I had it as a daily driver for a couple years also.
Then 1996 or so i crashed it up a bit also by driving out from an intersection and not seeing a car that came from the left, luckily i managed to accelerate enough to get hit on the back tire/fender instead of the drivers door.
That resulted in a broken rear leafspring, bent rear axle, damaged slip yoke and a seriously flattened rear fender.
So after that it stood for a few years before fixing it again.
Then in 2005 i started converting it to electronic fuelinjection with Megasquirt wich was very interesting, especially the mapping part after all the fabrication was done, I had never mapped a car before and back then there was no autotune and such
Then in 2009 i was doing some high rpm mapping a connection rod bearing gave up (probably due to filling the whole engineblock with gasoline during startupattempts with a incorrectly soldered EFI box wich caused the injectors to stay open all the time doh..) So after that it stood for almost three years and then the fun began by ordering a 512cui strokerkit from 440source and a lot of other fun stuff
So i will put up some pics from old days up to present activities, to be continued
