[XectriK]

Some of you may remember that I posted some pictures a few months back of my dad's 71 mach 1. The pictures showed a lot of rust in places we didn't even know about. My uncle has worked hard on the car these past few weeks and has got most of the body back into a presentable condition body wise.

That has led him to the first obsticle in the long road to restoration. He pulled the engine out and dismantled it to see if there were any serious problems. Oh boy were there, most of the expansion plugs were rusted out and leaking, so the motor had to be pulled. My uncle proceeded to tear the engine down and low and behold... more problems. Four... count 'em four cracked pistons. The local machine shop said the block is still in excellent condition but it'll have to be bored .30 over. Yay! new pistons, which should arrive next week, will be going in.

We're throwing around the idea of putting a T-5 Transmission in there so it can have overdrive anyone got any experience with this. I know it's a pretty strong transmission and we aren't going to be racing the car or anything so thats not important. Just an overdrive gear will be nice.

I'll be keeping this thread updated as the rebuild goes on.

[XectriK]

Anyway enough rambling... pictures.

Hiding in unrestored, unmodified condition!


OMGZZZZ RUST

Whew!!! Rust gone.


What the devil!!! More Rust!!!

Rust is outta here!

[XectriK]

Most of the body has been cleaned up and painted in some places to better withstand the elements and wear and rust.

The Cowl part I was looking for a while back

Before with rust

After without rust

More Clean Floorpan pictures

Engine Bay all purrdy

[460brevill]

i have a t-5 conversion setup for sale if you are interested.

[Sirl]

Nice work there. Good luck with the build.
Not my favorite body style, but I'm sure it will be gorgeous when its done.

[NorCalWhtHrse]

im in the same boat with mine bud... I'll haev to keep you on my list of people to pm

[jfritts]

looks like your doin a great job on yours. keep the updates coming

[XectriK]

Update!

Today I went out to my Uncles house and we started to piece the engine back together. I've never done one so I'm really excited. I got there at about 11:30 a.m. and didn't leave until about 6. This afternoon we got a pretty good ways into the rebuild of the engine. We installed the crankshaft, the camshaft, and 6 of the 8 pistons. Anyway, it was a lot of fun and yada yada yada blah blah blah and top it off with a nice tall glass of Ohhhh Jayyyyy.

Pictures:




No! It's not a Boss 351! My dad couldn't afford one back in the day and the Boss stripes and decals were cheaper.




Okay so they're not the best of quality but I can dig it. Taken with my Blackberry so its eh.

I'll update some more as time goes on. My uncle wants to have the engine running before the 1st of the year.