I’ll be sure and keep you all posted!
And too late about waiting till all the time and dollars are invested XD
Got the body set on the new donor frame earlier! Which is awesome!! Fits pretty great, there’s a gap between the hood and firewall. About 7 inches. Wheel wells line up great tho! Seems the new motor is quite a bit longer..hmmm who would have thought. The idea of cutting into the firewall seemed drastic. So plan on just extending it a little too meet where the hood ends.
Borrowed some forklifts from around town to lift the body up. Had one on each side about two thirds the way back and then a third on the rear. Once we got it in the air put some stands on the back part, used that forklift to drag the frame out and push the new one under. The last picture here shows the body on the new frame. Sorry everything’s dark. Only have time too work on it after work... maybe I’ll get some pics over the weekend.
Was quite an effort making the new mounts for the hood. My brother Daniel fabbed all those up for me. The old hood fits great around the new motor, no clearance issues at all.
Working on making some brackets to bolt the body on. Instead of using traditional u-bolts (found a cheaper way) I’m bolting 1/2 inch thick angle iron that I got from work, onto the frame near the top. Drilled holes to line up with the pre existing cross member holes. So the idea is to bolt these up so that I’ll end up with a two inch lip sticking out from the frame. Then I’ll use a 1/2X3 bolts thru that to the floor ribs.
I tried uploading some videos. Didn’t appear to work :/ if anyone knows how to do it be sure and let me know
Also if anyone’s interested in going into more detail on anything that’s done so far say so I’d happily spill all the info I’ve learned thus far. Have quite a few vids of things happening, talking explaining little pieces of what’s going on.