Street Freak Rambler build

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Had a little time over the last few days to play with the car here and there.

Got the fuel cell and battery box loosely installed in the trunk so I can eventually start planning out my shutoff, cables, and hoses.

Ordere 1” valve cover spacers and got them installed. Once glued to the block I found that 1 rocker arm on each side ended up lightly touching the spacer. So I had to clean it with a file to fit. I caught most of the shavings and after I ran the oil pump primer for about 15 minutes one day I’ll swap filters out hoping that caught most of whatever was left before I start it. I ran the primer for about 5 minutes today while turning the engine to get oil up all the pushrods and rocker arms.

Of course after that I found the valve covers also hit the rocker arms. But the valve covers require other machining too. So once I have all of the parts I need they’ll go to Scott so he can do everything at once.

At the end of the day I test fit the intake back on. Scott cut .025 off, adding back .015 for the steel shim gasket I’ll be using. So a true loss of .010. It’s going to be close but I should be able to get all the bolts in. And then I wanted to see if my Grant Flamethrower distributor would clear the blower/ drive. Which I believe it will.

My dad and I are hoping that next weekend we can get the engine painted, and within a few weeks get the car in primer. Before winter I want to drop the engine and trans back into the car so I can start figuring out all of my pulleys, drives, hoses, lines, and linkages. It’ll be a lot of work. But the engine really needs to be in the car to do it.

Thanks for reading.