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.