CLEARCROW

THanks man. I tried to post a photo but I keep getting an error. I have his fedora sitting in the passenger seat a picture of him standing beside the car under the sun visor. As nd recently got a tattoo of the car on my forearm with "DAD" for the license plate, was a tribute piece to him

Good day everyone. Sorry I vanished for way to long. Life hit hard the last 2 years and the sad truth is the LeMans never saw the road after the engine re build. shortly after my last post I had some trouble with the EFI system, I had the car towed to a local mechanic who had installed a.frw Holley snipers previously but he said it was a dud and I needed a new system, I got on the phone with Holley and they helped me get it running but I had so much RFI. With the sale of my dad's house I also had to move everything from his house to my house and that packed my shop full of tools but with no where to actually work on the car anymore. The car went into storage that winter. The following spring I took off to Scotland for a month to walk across the entire country. That was an epic challenge. When I returned from Scotland the plan was to get working on the car but unfortunately my father's health took a turn for the worse and I spend the next 2 months visiting him as much as I could in the hospital. Unfortunately he passed away shotly after. Every time I went to work on the car after that it was just to much. Way to hard seeing the car and not being able to work on it anymore won't my old man. It truly hurt not being able to have the car at his funeral. All I wanted was.for one last ride with him in the car. A few weeks ago I found a team of mechanics who said they could get the holley EFI system working for me. So I loaded it onto a flat deck and hauled the car to Winnipeg. A few short weeks later and they said it was running flawless. With a new exhaust system all welded up and some new wiring for the efi and a new I take fuel pump and today I drove her 200km home. Such a good feeling to finally be able to drive it again.

I have a shop that I would like to turn into a garage. It was my old wood working shap but I don't do wood working to much these days. Would like to convert it into a garage next summer and possibly get a lift to put in there.

this isnt my house its my old mans house and the for sale sign just went up today, time to get the car out of here

I was terrified. Even lifting it that high with my jsck was sketchy. I ended up buying 2 24" axel stands. For the rear. It almost rolled off at one point before I had gotten the Jack's. I hope to never have to fo that again.

Thanks Fitzy

Hey guys. Sorry inshvent kept you updated. Life happened. So some updates. The canton oil pan didn't fit my frame. It was the oen not for gtos. Shop mistake not mine. That was a 2week set back. Then the milodon pan we went with didn't make it easy to get in the car and I had to put the engine and transmission in separate. This meant lifting the car 18" on bricks and wood I had laying around and lift the Trans in with a friend of mine. Made it safe as a could and got it done without to much grief. Now that that's all done I've been doing efi wiring and hoping everything up. I have a few things left to do before I fire it up but she should be running this week.

So I got the engine out of the Ford yesterday and into the garage. Installed the starter and exhaust manifolds. I know some people said to do this after wards but I hate doing stuff from under the car. And this just seems easier to me. Slapped the holley on to see how it looks and damn I'm happy Also painted and installed thr grill.

Today was engine pick up day😁 Ever seen a 2015 Ford escape with a rear mounted v8?

It's $2.03 CDN a litre here in Manitoba Canada. I'm right in the boarder with North Dakota USA, so I drive over for gas once a week and pay $4.49 USD a gallon. Saves me a bit of money.

Can't afford beer

Haha so I'm not the only one who's diet suffered so the engine build could thrive

Was at the engine shop today. Push rods came in so we got push rods I'm and rockers on. Then installed the new intake. Edelbrock performer rpm. Went to toss on the valve covers and the baffle hits the rocker. Always finding issues it seems. Should have that sorted out Monday when I pick it up. But damn it looks good and I'm getting excited

Removed my grill off my 71 lemans sport today and repainted it. Products used Krylon metallic aluminum Dupli color Low gloss black engine enamel Dupli color acrylic enamel matte clear Coat. The metallic aluminum matches the stock color so good. I was I'm shock how good it looked. I then masked it off and hit the center with a few Coates of black. I won't lie it looked ok like this bit still has a spray paint look to it. I went a picked up dome clear to add protection and found this matte clear coat. I didn't want that wet tacky spray paint look so tried this and damn does it ever make it look like real black plastic. Over all I'm completely satisfied hoe this turned out. Slapped the chrome trim and emblem back on and got my self a new grill.

Stopped by the shop yesterday before work. Oil pan is on and sealed up. Just waiting on the new intake to show up. I ordered paint from butler . I went with the Restoration Colors 71-81 pontiac blue. How correct does it look? I'm happy with it but someone told me this color was wrong and this is actually pre 66 blue. Any thoughts??