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The New Poly is
installed and the car is back on the road! |
On the
Engine Stand
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It took a long
time, a lot of custom parts, and more patience than most can
handle (mostly because all of my friends kept asking, "when
are you going to put that thing in the car?". Well,
mortgage and bills came first, but after a few years of
collecting parts and spending portions of my tax refunds, it's
all come together.
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Mating the
Poly and
the 727
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This wasn't as simple as I thought it would be. It just
goes to prove the old saying, "It's always something".
First, the driveshaft wouldn't fit, then I found out that the
flex plate was the wrong one. There's a saying, "measure
twice, cut once"... well, in this case it would be,
"Pre-install parts twice, go to the parts store once".
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Installing the
Engine/Trans
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Once everything
was together, this went a lot smoother than I thought it
would. Not that there weren't any snags along the way,
but still... it was in the car in an afternoon and we started
it up before dark. But there was one strange noise that
I had and it took a while to figure out what it was. Was
I in for trouble... or was it something simple? Stay
tuned...
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Installed!
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I
have spent more time making final adjustments than we did
installing the engine, but that's to be expected. Some
hose clamps could have been tighter, some parts needed to be
tightened, and the carbs were adjusted and tuned. The
result? It runs GREAT! It's just too bad now that
I have my hot rod, dual-quad Poly together that gas is over
four bucks a gallon!
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Adding an
Electric Fan
Coming |
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I picked up this Flex-a-Lite fan for a great price and decided
it would be better than the fan blade I had. Once I got
the engine running, I wasn't at all comfortable with the
stainless steel fan blades (sans shroud) and knew I had to
either install a shield or an electric fan. I lucked out
and a friend had one he wasn't using.
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A Custom
Air Cleaner
Coming |
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With all the
custom work I had done, it seemed silly to just put a simple
air cleaner on the car. So I had started fabricating a
custom air cleaner and this is what I came up with. The
outlets will eventually be routed with tubes running beside
the radiator and taking fresh air from behind the grille.
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