Updating the Super Street Mopar

[Black_Sheep]

Backing off the rockers is probably a good idea during long term storage…

 

[ckessel]

Glad I FINALLY did that.

 

[ckessel]

Today I put the belt plates in place. Got them secured with some MIG tack welds. After that I bent up some pieces so I could get the floor attached to the SFC's.

 

[ckessel]

My pedal unit showed up today, got it swapped out and now good to go. I'm doing a detour for my honey in the meantime. We found a 20's/30's vintage Kenmore wringer washer at an antique store where she was shopping for a Christmas present for her boss. She was thinking about the washer for the boss, put it outdoors with flowers in it etc. I squashed that thought since the tub is in awesome shape and said let's get it for us. Going to use it on the deck, filled up with ice and drinks for when we have company. The non enamel'd stand and wringer I'll spray with some DTM satin clear from KBS Coatings to protect the patina from the salt air. I checked into this stuff for use on my engine and will use it for this now too, but the washer first. I got most of the transmission apart, the motor off and need to figure out how to separate the tub from the stand. The upper part of the trans case is bolted to the stand from between the stand and tub.

 

[ckessel]

I was successful at getting the tub separated from the stand. Next on the list will be cleaning, start off with some Easy Off oven cleaner followed by spray downs with purple cleaner. Initially I wanted to take the trans case off entirely but the shaft housing for the ringer is supported by it, the case is riveted not bolted to the stand plus I figured it would be wise to have some weight low to prevent it from being top heavy. This thing was made 2-7-36! And the motor was made by a division of GM.

 

[ckessel]

After the appliance fun, it's back on the car. Got the belt plates secured.

 

[ckessel]

Today I was able to get some of the old floor attached to the SFC's with the pieces I made. Took the flop right out.

 

[ckessel]

Back to the old grind, lol, for the first part of the work today. Knocked down the welds from the latest sessions. After that, whipped out the suck o lux and did some clean up inside the car/lift/floor. I try to keep on top of that, especially since I sometimes kneel down and don't want to imbed shavings in my skin. From there I made patterns for the floor behind the seat, on the inside of the SFC. Transferred that to some 20ga after I hit it with Acetone. Cut the two pieces out, hammered the edges to take the curl out from the cutting with my Makita shear. The left overs got re-marked with a Sharpie denoting material size and put back into stock. Tomorrow I'll make some cuts and bend flanges after I do some bead rolls.
On all of my sheet stock, either steel or aluminum, I mark with a Sharpie what the gauge/thickness is so it's readily seen when needed. Cuts down on guessing.

 

[ckessel]

Today I'm forming up the panels and fitting them to the car.

 

[icetech]

Really wish i had thought of belt mounts before i started putting mine back together

 

[ckessel]

It had them, but with the changes I made to the floor I couldn't re-use the ones I took out. Plus now it's 3"X9" as opposed to 3"X4". Much larger contact area. Want the old ones?

 

[70chall440]

Nice work!

 

[icetech]

It had them, but with the changes I made to the floor I couldn't re-use the ones I took out. Plus now it's 3"X9" as opposed to 3"X4". Much larger contact area. Want the old ones?

Naw, will make some up.. just annoyed i didn't even think of it before putting carpet in. Luckily nothing else put back in yet so only wasted a few minutes I'm bad at planning ahead

 

[ckessel]

My neighbor took the RR iron piece to a bandsaw and now I have a small anvil which can be clamped in the vise. I got the lh piece for the floor cut, trimmed, bent, holes for welds drilled, de-burred. They are both basting in Ospho. Will get them in and welded next week.

 

[ckessel]

Today I was able to get most of the welding done on the two new pieces. Continue tomorrow.

 

[ckessel]

All welded in. Time for some grinding.

 

[ckessel]

Today I got my bandsaw going after swapping the blade out, had a wood one, now metal cutting. I had to read up about the adjustments, so good to go now. I made up a couple of templates for the old HVAC plenum intake on the rh side cowl, transferred those to a piece of 12ga and cut it out on the saw. Finished it off with the flap wheel. This piece will cap off the big hole on the plenum, since the new systems run on recirc and don't use outside air, plus I'll put 4 holes in it for the HVAC plumbing lines. I made another template for the bulkhead unit up high by the stiffener tube and popped 4 holes in there. After that I started working on the next floor piece. I cut out the section over the t-bar x-member. With that piece out of the way I can finish some welding that I couldn't access before.

 

[ckessel]

Back at it today. I have a new set of step/uni bits so I enlarged three of the holes in the cowl for the bulkhead unit. Good to go there for now. On the plenum block off/hose pass through plate, I marked on the templates where the existing holes are in the side cowl then transferred those to the plate and drilled the six mount holes. On the cowl holes, they got opened up for 1/4" nutserts. I put some chassis rust blocker on each insert then set them in place. Scuffed up the plate after acetone wipe down then hit it with Ospho. Done for the day.

 

[ckessel]

Before I covered up the exposed inner area of the t-bar x, I added a couple more pieces in to give the new hoop a stronger connection to the unit and give the other end a better connection to the SFC. After that I made a template and cut out a piece of 20ga for the next section to fill.

 

[ckessel]

Today I trimmed the fill piece some for better fit and bent some 90's up to connect the old floor to the SFC. I did some hammer and dolly to flatten out the original contours, you can compare to the other side, then got paint etc off the soon to be welded areas. Punched in some spot weld holes, de-burred the pieces so they are ready for welding in tomorrow.