Well I have just about all the motor parts.About 3/4 of the frame parts enough to keep me welding for a while.I had my son, "The Breeze" come over last week and help me line up the body on the frame,so I can get all the body mounting holes in line .Its about a 1/2 inch off. so I gotta work on that shortly before we get ready to cut for a transmission hump.Then I'll pull the body off and start with the frame mockup.Sprung a few buck to put a personel touch to the valve covers! I want to thank Angelucci Manufactoring for the valve cover work.They are great people to deal with. AAA+++ custom machining.

Until next post,Thanks for viewing, Paisano

Ford FE Block back from machine shop

Just got the block and rotating pieces back for the machine shop.Had the block cooked and fluxed to check for cracks.The block is now .030 over,with speed pro pistons and rings with reliefs.They are forged,not cast or hyper crap.The deck is .030,Have installed a girdle support

to hold the bottom end together.the block is a Ford FE block.I chose this block over the other cause this has super strong webbing and block supports cast on the outside.with a higher nickel content.The rods are 428 Cobra jet with a  GT crank,.The Mains have been aligned bored as the stock bolts have been replaced with ARP studs.To fit the girdle,the mains had to be machined to get everything in line before it gets bored.This is a must.This machine work was done by the one and only BILL COLMAN.Probably one of the most respected machine men around.The rotating assembly was sent out to House of Balance to have it balanced.

The block oil galleries have been taped and has restrictors installed as this will run a solid lifter cam.Believe it or not I bought the cam and complete valve train when I was about 17 years old.Its a real Shelby kit that was run on the 427 Lemans cars that ran in 66-68 that won.Has big lift and duration.Should be pretty good,I hope.
We were going to put in screw in freeze plugs,but the tap for this is big bucks.So We put in stainless
plugs instead. I have brass plugs,but chose the stainless instead.
Thanks for lookin'
Paisano

Spring 2010 Start of Buildup

Well its been a while but here goes.I been nickel and diming parts for this buying the best that I can afford and parts I can weld so I can save $.I have 2 fe motors one for a mock up which is seen with the trans installed getting ready to measure for the floor cut out.

THIS IS THE FLYIN WOP CIRCA 2008 IN ITS NEW HOME.  GETEN' EVERYTHING TOGETHER TO GET ER' DONE!

GETTIN ' THE MOTOR PARTS

SORRY THAT I HAVEN'T BEEN KEEPING UP WITH THIS BLOG AS OF LATE.BEEN HAVING A FEW MEDICAL ISSUES WITH THE FAMILY.ANYHOW I BEEN SELLING OLD PARTS THAT I HAD AS A KID ON E-BAY.  IN RETURN I BEEN BUYING PARTS TO FINISH OFF THE FORD FE MOTOR THAT I BEEN NICKEL AND DIMING TILL I GET ALL THE PARTS. JUST GOT ABOUT EVERYTHING I NEED.  I HAD SINCE I WAS ABOUT 18 A NEW SHELBY 2X4 MANIFOLD AND VALVE TRAIN SET UP.ITS THE SAME AS THE ONE THEY USED A LEMANS.  SAME CAM AND INTAKE.PROBABLY WORTH A MINT TODAY AND THE WHOLE ENGINE IS BEING BUILT AROUND THIS BASE.IT SHOULD BE A NICE SCREAMER WHEN I'M DONE.

Old School ?

Hey folks, its late Spring.  Going to Carlisle this weekend with old friends from the Ford Shop I retired from, and my son.  Having a real toughh choice on what motor to put in the "Fylin Wop".  Got an FE motor that I owned since I was a kid with real Shellby Valve Train and 2x4's setup.also have 2- 5.0's GT motors sitting.  Torn between old school and newer stuff.  I'm leaning toward the FE motor,but it has a lot of expense behind it to complete.

Paisano

Winter

Man its cold in the garage.  The ballasts in the lighting is so cold,that they won't fire up the tubes.  Guess I'm going to get some 21st century lighting in Spring.  All I do is go in the shop and look at the 33 and think what i'm going to when the weather breaks.  You would think that all the years I been working on autos inside and out I would get used to it.

Paisano

Thanks

Thanks Kaiser for you input.
Paisano

Ive owned this car since I was 16 years old. That means its been in my possession for 44 years.  Seems I could have finished this a long, long time ago, but USMC Viet-Nam, marrige, first house, first child, financial situation, E-I-E-I-O- you know the story.  There seemed to be always another priority.  This time for real, its going to get finished.I will post pictures and progress as soon as as can figure on how tho put pictures on this blog.  My son set this up for me and hopfully wel'l get more action going on here.

Paisano

Been searching for possible kits or making my own system for center crossmembers and trans mounting system for the frame.  I came across a kit from Speedway motors which seems reasonbly priced.  The people there were helpful.  They responded very quickly with my question weather a 32 frame kit could fit between 33-34 rails.  I figure if the rails have extra length on them,they can be cut and modified to fit, considering the inside demensions are almost the same.  I'm a pretty good welder and fabricator.  Hopfully I shouldn't encounter too might of a problem.

Paisano