Rusty 66 Coupe

[Rayatswan]

Cut and fitted patch panel for fresh air inlet on top cowl panel, I used a piece cut from one of the old rear quarters.
This will be welded in using Tig.









Tacked in place

[Rayatswan]

Finished welding for the day, 90% done but still have to move wiper holes.
Lots of hammering to go yet, have to bring the welds up a bit.

[Rayatswan]

I compared the holes for the wipers, original Ford and aftermarket, will try and use the Ford ones.

[Rayatswan]

Mostly finished except for some shrinking (ran out of Gas) and I need to find some suitable washer nozzles to fit into the cowl

[Rayatswan]

Moved onto the shock towers, I am using 69 Mustang towers due to the better inner locating point for the lower control arm, also the 69 strut rod braces allow for caster adjustment.
When fitting RRS struts the instructions say to drill 3 holes in the original spring locating plates and to fit spacers under the plates to prevent them being crushed.
This has worked on many installations and is perfectly adequate but I decided to make some plates to weld in to replace the spring locators, this eliminates the need for the crush washers and helps spread the load over a larger area. The plates were made on my Milling machine and welded in place.

[Dwayne]

Loving this build, great work

[Rayatswan]

Thanks Dwayne

[Rayatswan]

A bit of epoxy today

[Rayatswan]

Needed some motivation so temp installed some bling

[Rayatswan]

Preparation underway for transmission tunnel and firewall modifications and install.













Also noticed the transmission is tilted a few degrees towards the drivers position if it was left hand drive, that was a surprise, checked block and it is level and the bell housing and transmission can only go on 1 way

[hybrid]

If you need motivation, just think about us poor guys sitting here at our computers waiting for the next update

[Rayatswan]

Haha Hybrid, I better get my act together then.

[Rayatswan]

Checked the transmission drive line angle today and found it was almost down 6 degrees which is too much,
decided to make some adjustable motor mounts to lower the engine by half an inch which still wont be enough but I will raise the gearbox up until I get 2 and a half to 3 degrees.

[hybrid]

Not sure if you knew, but we have some adjustable engine mount drawings in the downloads section.

[Rayatswan]

Hey Hybrid, Checked out the downloads and I got the same drawings from the original site where Bruening posted them, I will use the cross member drawings though, thanks again.