[JeffreyCharles]

Great work so far. Love the engine color choice. My wife's folks live right up 97 from you in Abington! Every time we are out there we drive through Scotland on the way into Norwich (more family there). I'll have to give you a shout next time I'm out there and see the progress in person.

[jkilmer83]

My dad always told me about a 2dr american he bought from the amc test track in Kenosh (Wi) it had a gold amc 290 if you wanted somthing different.

[chooster5000]

ok well i got more then i thought i would get done today. pulled the engine out of my jeep and robbed the oil pump and engine mounts. got my engine all together and just needs a couple other things to do. i painted my hood and fenders, next is to power wash the frame, do up the hedder, and paint the firewall and ill be ready to assemble.

[chooster5000]

ok well heres todays progress, im so close to reassembly i can taste it . hopefully it will be soon, i primed the oil pump today and got all the air out of the engine, put my grill back together,painted the hedder with VHT and heated it to 400 to cure it as best i could, painted the firewall and undercoated the frame firewall forward

[chooster5000]

Painted my radiator today and cleaned up a couple other items. Waiting for my pilot bearing for thr clutch and maybe by this weekend ill have the engine in,

[jayzcj5]

U'll have to let us know if that header paint holds up, don't be upset if it doesn't. Good work so far, been following this thread...

[chooster5000]

Yeah i know about the paint, ive done it once already but didnt heat cure it, this time i heated it for 20 minutes at 200 degrees and 20 minutes at like 350 to 400. Will see what happens, now what about the hedder wrap would that be anything to think of, i like the look of it and it does get pretty hot under the hood when in the summer.

[jayzcj5]

It will rot the header out. I was going to do it to mine also but decided against it because mud water and dirt would get soaked into the wrap and it would probably look like crap in no time. Unfortunately there are no real good options...

[JeffreyCharles]

Take pictures of your pilot bearing install process!

[chooster5000]

well i forgot to take pics of when i got it off the stand for doing the flywheel and clutch, why do you ask for the pilot bearing pictures. i did get the engine in today and started hooking up everything else, maybe by tomorrow ill be able to get it going and break in the cam or at least by this weekend

[chooster5000]

well i got the front clip on today looks pretty good next is to fire it up and break in the cam

[chooster5000]

ok yesterday we fired it up and it ran ok i fouled a plug right off the bat, of course we put oil in the cylinders just to keep them lubbed up a little. we set the timing and i was off a little ways but we got it to fire and ran it for 22 minutes to break in the new cam. the cam and lifters took good but now im dealing with loud rockers, i used the ones that were on the engine in it but they had the aluminum bridges on them and when i switched them to the steel ones they were pretty lose and were clattering quite loud. other then that and a vaccum leak at the intake everything else seemed fine. looks like ill put a set of rockers in it and some spark plugs and will see what happens.

[JAG811]

Looks great !!

[chooster5000]

alright i think its all set for now. its nice and quiet no noises got 70 pounds oil when started and settles around 22 psi hot, carb is tuned and it sounds good

[swatson454]

You've been a busy and productive man. Nice work, she (he?) looks great

What did you end up doing for a cam?


Shawn