[mahunt]

Looks great!

Hope you waited to tighten the lower a-arm frame attachment bolts until the engine was installed (70 ft lbs).

Nice looking Hotchkiss 2 inch lowering springs.

I suppose everything aligned out back (tranny x-member and the frame holes).

Do you have interference with your harmonic balancer and 1 inch sway bar?

Also, I forgot to mention that it looks like the backing plate for the urethane engine mounts weren't installed. I could just be a bad angle for that picture.

Bravo.

 

[ronald66]

Looks great!

Hope you waited to tighten the lower a-arm frame attachment bolts until the engine was installed (70 ft lbs).

Nice looking Hotchkiss 2 inch lowering springs.

I suppose everything aligned out back (tranny x-member and the frame holes).

Do you have interference with your harmonic balancer and 1 inch sway bar?

Also, I forgot to mention that it looks like the backing plate for the urethane engine mounts weren't installed. I could just be a bad angle for that picture.

Bravo.

Thanks!!
No we didn't wait to tighten the lower a-arm , will it be ok to loosen them up and move the car up and down to get them right and tighten them up???

Yes those are Hotchkiss 2 inch lowering springs.

Yes everything aligned perfectly out back but i do still have just a little more than 1/2 inch space between the firewall and distributor, is that ok??

The sway bar got in there perfect..

Hers a pic of the engine mounts..

 

[mahunt]

You should make a final loosening of the 4 lower a-arm bolts when you have the whole front end together and resting on the ground under it's own weight, but it would be a good idea now to loosen the bolts and relieve the twisting pressure on the bushings then retighten.

The 1/2 inch seems a little short.

Did you verify your subframe install using the two guage holes near the middle two frame-to-body mounts (the ones where you can see the caged nut through the rectangular holes in the firewall)? Stick a tire iron through both holes and verify that the tire iron is mostly perpendicular to the frame (close enough for government work). If not, loosen the mid-frame mount, lever the two holes into perpendicular alignment via the tire iron and retighten. Do one side at a time.

Glad to hear you didn't have to shim your sway bar down and away from your harmonic balancer.

 

[TJS69]

1/2" space for your distributor, is more than enough. With '69 302/350 mounts my HEI would not fit without clearancing the firewall !

 

[ronald66]

Alright guys i'm ready to order a new aluminum radiator,this is what i want to get ..
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/bci-22168/overview/

Any thoughts??

 

[mahunt]

Just make sure you get the shroud mounts if you are keeping your fan shroud.

 

[ronald66]

I have no fan shroud, will i have problems without one ?

 

[ronald66]

 

[ronald66]

heres a few more pics,got the sway bar on

Got the tranny hooked up

closed it all up

 

[ronald66]

HI guys,I'm pretty slow but i'm getting there..
Heres a few more pics,got the engine harness all hooked up and the rdiator in..

 

[Chevy_Man_1967]

Looks Very nice.... I am doing the same to mine... going from a 6 to v8 just finished painting my frame and all the parts and just not putting back together... What headers are you running?

 

[ronald66]

I really don't know, all i can say is that they are shorties and we did have some issues with getting by the steering box ,the owner bought them on ebay..