Right! So...sorry for the lack of updates, there has just been a lot of other stuff going on. I do have pictures for you though. I was living in Gainesville, FL and moved back down to south FL with my parents for a few months and couldn't make any progress. Then I moved into a house and taking care of that has been taking a lot of my time.
I have been making some progress though, and now it is the summer and I have a part time job just for the car. HA! You will have to bear with me, a couple of pictures are missing because my camera is missing and might be in the laundry.
This is her as she sat in my apt complex for a few months
My dad came and helped me get the engine down and we took his van and a borrowed trailer for the ride down south
I got her to my new house using a U haul dolly like I had at first. Once she was in the garage (yes a garage!!!) I started separating things from the engine in order to get it out. Separating body and mechanical electrical, disconnecting vacuum lines, heater hoses, and fuel lines.
You can see the engine under the blue tarp above. Also, two pictures up, you can see some wood covering the wall. I was modifying the garage to make it easier to work in and make it strong enough to lift the engine out (no engine hoist) I took a shelf off of the wall and found a big structural hole, so my dad helped me fix that.
While all the moving was happening, VH heads were in the car and developed some corrosion on the cams. and there were metal shavings from where I had to drill out one of the head bolts after it stripped.
I took the heads to a great machine shop (Specialties Machine down in Pompano) and they cleaned them up and polished the cams.
They look gorgeous, but those are some of the missing pictures. The pics didn't pick up on the magnificence though, so you aren't missing out on much.
I also picked up a transmission (VG 5 speed) from a local salvage yard. It came with a shifter and the price was okay so I went there. The customer
service was terrible though, so they threw in a starter to make up for it.
the starter
That's it for now. I'm trying to get the driveshaft and transmission out so I can lift the engine. The driveshaft is giving me trouble though. I'm almost at the SawsAll point of frustration, but not quite. I'm also going back and forth on the Mazworx plate and machining or the elwesso plate. I need your advice.