Street Freak Rambler build

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Thank you. I’m very thankful a friend recommended Billy(the guy doing the chassis work). Not only is he doing a great job but he’s super helpful and has become a friend. I’m going up there Monday to help weld the cage so I’ll take some more pictures then.

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Took a ride out to the chassis shop today. Spent half a day up there(it’s 3.5hours each way so I left at 3:30. Got there at 7, went to breakfast then we worked on the car until 1 and I headed home to be back at 4:30). Had a great time and we got quite a bit done.
Yesterday Bill had a friend stop by and help welding the cage in. The two of us got more of the welding done. Then we got the dash cut and into place and then got the dash bar fit into place to be tacked.
Once the dash was in we rechecked my seating position so he could make the seat brackets and do the steering column. It’s basically going to come right through the factory hole but be 5-6 inches longer for my seating position in the car.
He has a bunch of cro-moly tubing being delivered tomorrow to make the ladder bars after he finishes the cage. He thinks that’ll be done sometime next week. The subframe connectors are complete. After that we have to do the engine plates and mount the pedals and it’s done.
The engine block is honed, and is being decked tonight. Pistons will end up .030” down in the bore, and with an .027 head gasket it’ll put compression about 9:1 with the blower. With any luck I’ll be picking up the engine tomorrow, but it’ll more than likely be later in the week.

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Pretty big day today.
Finally was able to pick everything up from the machine shop. Scott got everything finished up late last night so myself, my dad, and my son took a ride to go pick everything up.
Block had all the standard work done, as well as a bunch of AMC specific stuff drilling holes and cleaning up casting flaws.
Crank is .030 under and balanced for the new rotating assembly
Heads are port matched, ported and cleaned/polished. Chambers were softened for the boost plans. Ended up with a 62cc chamber. Intake flowed 260 at 500 and the exhaust flowed 210(?) I think. Those were from memory. Scott wrote everything down I forgot the sheet.
Got everything home and unloaded and the engine is on the stand. I have most of the major parts except the head gaskets. I could probably have the engine together in about a weekend.
All the clearances are set at .003. Mains and rods were all kept the same.

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Also, a picture of the blower. Though I really want to switch to mechanical injection. It complicates things quite a bit. But I have time. No reason to rush.

Indy Modman 671 blower intake
Adapter plate
8V71 blower rebuilt
Dual carb adapter
Twin Holley 750 tunnel ram double pumpers. For now.

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Lookin good Marty!

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Thanks very much.
Here’s a teaser picture of a recent purchase. Opens up a whole new world of problems to deal with. And I should have some pictures from the chassis shop soon. The cage is 95% done. The motor plates are in, and the rear suspension is last. After that it’ll be some small mounting tabs for different things and I’ll be bringing the car home to start on bodywork and the tilt front end. I’m guessing I’ll have the car home sometime in March. Im taking the ride out there next week to help work on the car and fit a few more things like pedals and seatbelt tabs.

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Chassis shop pictures

Cage is basically done minus some brackets and finished welds. Drivers seat is mounted. He’s leaving the passenger seat to me. Motor midplate is installed. Waiting on the front elephant ears from the local metal shop. They should be done this week. Then it’s onto the last major job, the rear suspension and ladder bars. I’m going up there this week or next week to help.

Hope you guys enjoy the photos.

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Chassis shop update

Took a ride out to PA today and spent the day helping to mock parts up so all the interior parts can be mounted and installed. We test mounted the steering column and found it sucks so we’re using basically no parts out of it. We also figured out how to hang the wilwood brake and clutch pedals so the mounts can be figured out.

The cage is 100% done minus brackets and mounts for stuff like the seat, belts, and other things.

The ladder bars are started and once the bars are done the housing sliders can be installed.

Hope you all enjoy the photos. This should be my last ride out there before I go pick the car up. He wants to get it done by the middle of March.

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Small update for today

Billy sent me a couple photos building the bracket for the pedals. And after both of us hated the Jegs steering column kit he ended up building his own kit using some bronze bushings from a local hardware store and some spare cro moly tubing.

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That mounting bracket is a work of art, but I'm wondering why 3 reservoirs for 2 functions ??