Street Freak Rambler build

[big gear head]

I'm very sorry for your misfortune, but I thought that it was pretty well known that you can not sand blast body parts without warping them. I've seen several cars years ago that were scrapped because of this. When I was doing my car I had some areas blasted, such as the door jambs and trunk seal area, but told the blaster not to touch the large areas.

[Mr70]

Bought a '70 chevelle deck lid a few years from a seller whose price included media blasting.I told him it wasn't necessary and agreed to meet him at an upcoming swapmeet.Well he went ahead and blasted it anyway and it pretty much ended up looking like your roof.
Needless to say the deal fell through and he agreed to a refund & how I felt about it.

[GMC_Typhoon]

Any updates on this? I hope it can be saved.

[LetsFNgo]

Thank you for asking. It means quite a bit.

It’s savable. I’m not happy about it, but really the roof is far and away the worst part. I’ll have to spend time shrinking all the sheetmetal into shape and it’ll need a skim coat of filler. But honestly the quarters had a little more hiding than I thought. And while I’m annoyed about the doors I think my dad and I can fix them too.

Otherwise I’ve been having an issue getting head studs for the engine and I can’t put the heads on the engine without them lol. Milodon makes studs. But all the lengths are wrong. They sent me the right length, but the wrong size. It’s been about a month now and I’m still waiting to hear about them sending me the right size and length studs.

Also, it’s been brutally hot and sticky this summer. The car is sitting in a wood garage which wicks the moisture away so the car hasn’t rusted at all. I figure in the fall I’ll be able to get the car in primer and jump into the bodywork. Hopefully I can have an update with engine and blower stuff soon.

[GMC_Typhoon]

Originally Posted by LetsFNgo

Thank you for asking. It means quite a bit.

It’s savable. I’m not happy about it, but really the roof is far and away the worst part. I’ll have to spend time shrinking all the sheetmetal into shape and it’ll need a skim coat of filler. But honestly the quarters had a little more hiding than I thought. And while I’m annoyed about the doors I think my dad and I can fix them too.

Otherwise I’ve been having an issue getting head studs for the engine and I can’t put the heads on the engine without them lol. Milodon makes studs. But all the lengths are wrong. They sent me the right length, but the wrong size. It’s been about a month now and I’m still waiting to hear about them sending me the right size and length studs.

Also, it’s been brutally hot and sticky this summer. The car is sitting in a wood garage which wicks the moisture away so the car hasn’t rusted at all. I figure in the fall I’ll be able to get the car in primer and jump into the bodywork. Hopefully I can have an update with engine and blower stuff soon.

Glad to hear. It's a very interesting build not something you see everyday. Good luck.

[LetsFNgo]

Well. Things only change if you work on them. So today I was able to spend some time on things.
The Milodon head studs finally showed up. It took forever to get these sorted out because first their height was wrong, then they sent the wrong width studs, then I finally got everything right. After cleaning the decks I got the heads dropped on their dowels and slathered in arp lube. Then tightened everything to 80ft/pounds. Except the lower corner studs. They went to 65 as they’re known to crack on the 1970 specific heads. AMC actually recommended a different torque sequence on these heads(which I followed).
I needed a little motivation after the heads were down so I got the intake down to see how much it needed to be cut. After that I dropped the blower plate and blower into place and marveled at it for awhile. Then I sent pictures of the intake to the machine shop and took a ride there to drop it off. He’s going to get it back to me Monday after an initial cut to see how much more it needs.

Then my dad and I got the front axle back on the car. I need to modify the front spring shackles a little for proper clearance. So I’ll bring them to work next week to trim them down. I was going to be done for the day but my dad and I started looking at all the holes in the firewall. And then I started the generator to run the welder, and welded most of the holes shut on the firewall.

I also ordered a rear floor pan for a Nova, and a front floor pan for a javelin. Hopefully that’ll give me enough sheet metal to weld the floors back together. Pictures of that will start once the car’s in primer next month. I’m waiting for the humidity to go down some into the fall.

Thanks for reading. I personally think I’m going to leave the car in primer for awhile and just get it built. And I can do the bodywork at a later time. I always wanted to live the Two Lane Blacktop life anyways.