Drilling jig and a good helper.




New holes swiss cheeses the frame a bit.

 

Sorry for all the 2 picture posts, adding photos from a phone is a real PITA.




Holes all line up!




Got jack stuck under the truck when I went to lower it a bit and it got away from me. Needed the engine hoist to lift the frame up and rescue my jack.

 

Looking great! I may have missed it, what are you doing for the brakes? Hydroboost?!

 

Great progress. Can't wait to see more.

 

Looks great, Chad. When you have it back up and running we will have to get together.

 

Right now planning on CV booster and master cylinder.

 

how is your progress going , have you figured out the whole PB MC thing yet?

 

Truck is on pause while I deal with some house reno stuff, I just laid 200 sq ft of hardwood that I need to stain and varnish, then I have to get my dad's truck ready for the trip to Arthur in August.

 

Had some time to work on the truck yesterday, I put the engine in place just to make some space in the garage for staining trim for the house. I pulled out the crossmember between the cab mounts to see if the stock cats from the Marauder would fit within the frame rails but they do not. So I will need to have complete custom exhaust made. Maybe I'll look for some headers too... Still have to design and build the rear mounts for the lower control arms.
Got a bunch of work done on my dad's 51 yesterday too.

 

Pictures would be greatly appreciated.

 

Nothing picture worthy yet unless you want to see the cats up against the frame

 

I DO!! lol....I am doing a 66 and was wondering what CV factory exhaust would be like

 

Some pictures of cats not fitting.

 

Saved up enough to buy some Pacesetter headers intended for Mustang Cobra/Mach 1. Got them fit up on the engine today. These things actually fit really well. Just had to grind a little bit off each engine mount plus the upper brace on the passenger side.




Ground some off the driver side mount to clear the pipe right behind the mount.



Passenger side mount hit at the top.


Pipe was rubbing edge of the aluminum brace at the top.


I will grind a bit of the frame for more clearance to make sure the pipe won't touch the frame when the engine torques on the mounts.




Hangs fairly low for the truck but will have enough ground clearance. Next step is to make a new tranny crossmember with exhaust clearance, rework the crossmember between the cab mounts since it currently goes through the bellhousing, and make mounts for the rear of the lower control arms.

 

well done Chad, I know it takes a lot of time to get them in there