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[314joey]

Wicked looking paint

[steves86ta]

heres the finished product, also did some valve covers

[HB Vic]

Looks like candy apple red to me. Nice!

[steves86ta]

Got the engine block painted went the same color as the carb and valve cover





Then started putting the headers together

Started with this


Ended up with this




Still have one more to do

[Jason Aschle]

Very cool !

[steves86ta]

I've made some progress since i last updated this thread

Got all of the pistons dropped in, mains torqued. and the cam in. Measured the pushrods and need different ones



But i couldnt help and throw everything on to see how its gonna look






Also did some polishing while i was cleaning up yesterday

[steves86ta]

not much movement during the week. I spend most nights at the GF's house....

I was home to run some errands, pay some bills etc. Got one of the heads assembled. These springs have a lot of pressure. They literally turned my (autozone style) claw compressor thing into a pretzel had to order the tool seen in the picture

[steves86ta]

Finally got the right size pushrods and got around to polishing the rest of the ends of the heads, the front cover painted, and torqued.

Harmonic balancer installed and torqued fyi (240 ftlbs, then 37 ft lbs, then 140 degrees) that was fun