7/25/10

Made some progress on the suspension today. Coated the coil springs and applied the brown paint stripes. I have pictures of the location of the original stripes, which I duplicated. One spring will end up with the stripe showing, the other won't. Based on what I found when cleaning the originals, there was no sign of black paint. I went with a dark heat-treated appearance, which I think turned out great. Used an NOS spindle on the LH side. Had to do some detailing and then replicate paint marks found on the originals. I thought they also turned out great, with all the proper natural machine finishes.






The original rear center section has been completely rebuilt. Acquired an NOS Ford 3.50:1 ring and pinion and all new bearings. Proper natural machine surfaces detailed properly. The original snubber plate was restored, need to clean/detail the rubber bumper. Paint/inspector marks were duplicated as found.

7/2/10

Got the engine back finally! Have already started to put parts on it, but here are some pictures when I got it back from the machine shop. This is the original matching numbers K engine from the convertible. When received with the car, the engine had been bored .060, which is probably a little more than typical. Decided to have the cylinders sleeved back to standard bore. Acquired an NOS set of hi-po pistons and had everything balanced. The block is balanced to 1.5g, which I thought was great. I'll be posting progress of the engine assembly as I go.