The Surrogate Mother!

[davek]

The next step was to clean up the engine bay,so the car will be ready to put the engine in. The first picture is before cleaning it the other two are after.

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Looks good Pete.

 

[chargervert]

Making progress, slowly but surely Dave. About three years ago when I installed the lifts in my garage, I installed four eye bolts in the foundation walls lined up with the lifts,so I could use them to pull cars in and out of the garage with them. Today I used my come along and a couple of chains to move this 71 Charger off the lift,raise the lift up,and pulled the car back into the garage,so I can put the Hemi engine and transmission into the car. Once this is done, I will winch the car out and pull it back up onto the lift. I am almost ready to install the Hemi now. I am trying to take advantage of every decent weather day to try to make it happen!

 

[chargervert]

In the immortal words of MC Hammer.....Stop,Hemi time! I look just like his broke *** in that commercial where they were reprocessing all his schit! Yeah I am broke but I got a Hemi in my car!

 

[eldubb440]

Hell yeah!

 

[6PKRTSE]

Making progress, slowly but surely Dave. About three years ago when I installed the lifts in my garage, I installed four eye bolts in the foundation walls lined up with the lifts,so I could use them to pull cars in and out of the garage with them. Today I used my come along and a couple of chains to move this 71 Charger off the lift,raise the lift up,and pulled the car back into the garage,so I can put the Hemi engine and transmission into the car. Once this is done, I will winch the car out and pull it back up onto the lift. I am almost ready to install the Hemi now. I am trying to take advantage of every decent weather day to try to make it happen!

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I took it one step further and made brackets for my hoist and mounted a winch for pulling non-running vehicles up the driveway and up onto the hoist also.

 

[chargervert]

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I took it one step further and made brackets for my hoist and mounted a winch for pulling non-running vehicles up the driveway and up onto the hoist also.

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I have something similar in the works. I put a winch on a rolling dolly and the plan is to hook the dolly to the eye bolts as needed and winch them in and out of the garage. I never finished setting it up, but the day is coming when I will not be able to drag them in and out with a manual come along.

 

[chargervert]

Today I got my TTI headers in place. I had to pull the starter back out and fit it in as the header went in,but other than that and lifting the drivers side of the engine up they fit really well. There is a reason that they cost a grand it's because they fit. Once they are bolted up with the gaskets in place I will check the clearances. The only tube that looks kind of tight is the number one tube. I might have to put a pinch bar in between the tube and the power steering box and flatten the tube a bit. The car has Schumacher mounts that will bolt the Hemi block to a standard V8 K frame. I think the engine sits a little higher than it would with factory Hemi engine mounts and a factory Hemi K frame. This might just be enough room not to have to flatten the tube. The headers only have one bolt on each side holding them, this is why they are not even in the picture, once bolted up with gaskets they will be more evenly mounted.

 

[chargervert]

I spent five hours working on the car,got the headers all bolted up,starter too,tightened up the motor mounts and put in the bottom bellhousing bolts. I spent over an hour getting the dipstick tube in. I couldn't get the angle right so it would line up correctly. When I first started working on the car my hands were so cold they kept locking up! I couldn't hold,line up or turn the bolts! Not much fun,but I made progress!

 

[chargervert]

My parts that I bought from an Fbbo member arrived today. The door panels are nice driver quality pieces and are for this car,and the lower hood insert is for my 71 Charger R/T.

 

[chargervert]

Today I did some cosmetic work on the car. The first picture shows an original paint trunk lid with the Charger Dodge Division emblem in the factory location. Even though the car is covered in primer the emblems are in the factory locations. The second picture shows this Yellow car before putting the Charger Dodge Division emblem and reflective Super Bee sticker on and the next one is after. The Charger Dodge Division emblem came from my Arizona 71 Charger R/T in the post above, so it is pit free. I bought a new one for the R/T. The next picture shows the new Super Bee script emblem and reflective Super Bee decal on the drivers side front fender. The next picture shows the new Super Bee script emblem and reflective Super Bee decal on the passenger's side front fender. It's always fun putting the jewelry on!

 

[chargervert]

Too damn cold to go out there today,and getting buried with 12 to 18 inches of snow tomorrow! Probably not getting back out there anytime soon!

 

[chargervert]

The TTI ceramic coated Hemi headers look fantastic!

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

They look better then the flat tire

 

[chargervert]

That tire just doesn't want to hold air. They are getting replaced with the Aluminum slots soon

 

[chargervert]

I am contemplating shoveling a path to the garage today.

 

[chargervert]

Well I shoveled my way to the garage and actually saw the car for the first time in a week! It was about 250ish feet of shoveling in two foot deep snow with a three foot snow drift in front of the entrance door. Its Miller time!

 

[chargervert]

When it's time to relax one beer stands clear, beer after beer, if you got the time, we got the beer!

 

[71RRHI]

What you gave up

 

[chargervert]

No I just don't have any right now! I ran out of these too!

 

[T2R9]

Come on Pete put the beer down and get some work done!