Street Freak Rambler build

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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.