1971 Speedipus Rex

[Brads70]

Looking great!

[dangina]

so I built my own hydraulic clutch bracket from 1/8" plate for my wilwood compact 7/8" MC:

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added spacers and welded on the nuts and drilled out the stock holes:

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drilled out the angle for the MC, didn't like the angle of first try which is why you see unused holes:

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cut off any extra unsed weight

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paint!

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the firewall wasn't perfectly straight so I had to cut somemore off, final look:

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installed!

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found a graet place to mount my wilwood bottle for the MC:

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little guy dropped in to see what I was doing:

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installed dash and for the insert It wasn't as bad as the instrument cluster for wear, so I tried the method of clear paint and painted the edges with the silver paint pen. Its too shiny and about two shades darker than my cluster now so I may change one or the other down the road but for now its going in:

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rear seat mockup:

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installed the front and rear windshield yesterday:

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now time to pull out that rear!!!!!

[dangina]

installed front and rear speakers

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[dangina]

Here is something that hasn't gone so smooth - I bought the same seals as autox cuda (from: http://www.sealsit.com/axlehub.asp) and I drilled out the inside weld in the rear diff, I had also shaved the edge off the seal that was meant for fords, but I was only able to press it in as far as past the first oil ring on the seal (the seal has 3) looking at the chart on the website I should have went with one size smaller (either the blue or gold one)

I taped them off so I can grind off the edge without getting any fillings in the seal



I tried taking a pic as best as I could with the little room in the housing you can see the gap on the sides:





Thats it for now, I hope to have the rear axle and suspension done next week on my next days off!!!

[dangina]

I ended drilling out the center of these washers to make it work





went to install the hewig sway bar, they give you this piece that you have to weld on one side and it has this huge spacer on the other side - I thought that was stupid why didn't they just give you the length you need and weld it on both sides with washers to make it stronger? so thats what I did:

front leaf spring hanger, welded them up for extra strength:







helwig way top:
my way bottom:





When it was time to mount the sway bar to the rear axle, the Helwig bar utilizes Ubolts to mount the lower brakets. I forgot that I welded the backbrace on so I couldn't utilize them, so out came the welder again:

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installed Dr.Diff 11.7" rear brake kit and hotchkis rear shocks

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now onto the front!!!