Dad's Mach 1

Totalled · Jul 13, 2014

Spent today replacing the brake/fuel/vapor line clips and fasteners.. And sweating my ass off in a 90 degree shop...

Totalled · Jul 13, 2014

Spent most of today fighting with transmission cooler lines. I think these kinda poke out further and down more than stock. Guess we'll see how they clear the headers... or don't...

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Also got the modulator line in.

And... weighing my options for a cooling fan. Pretty sure I'm going electric. Just haven't decided on an aftermarket unit, or an adapted OEM one. These Volvo fans are starting to take the place of the "Taurus" fan. Tried a Mark8/T-bird fan, but there's not enough room without cutting its shroud.

Totalled · Jul 20, 2014

Had an uncle come into town that I hadn't seen in 14 years... So, I got 6 hours today on the car.

Put the headers back in,spent most of the day re-bending trans lines.

My favorite view:

And the collector flange just clears... by a c-hair.

lethe · Jul 20, 2014

Not much room down there.

Harvester of Sorrow · Jul 21, 2014

Are you planning on wrapping the header or the tranny line? You would be surprised how much heat will be passed onto that tranny line.

Totalled · Jul 21, 2014

I wasn't as they are ceramic coated headers, but I have some DEI heat sleeve if needed. I also have room to tweak them away some more.

jprcrpr94 · Jul 22, 2014

Harvester of Sorrow said:
Are you planning on wrapping the header or the tranny line? You would be surprised how much heat will be passed onto that tranny line.

Exactly what I was thinking.

Totalled · Jul 27, 2014

Picked away at it again today. Not making as quick of progress as I would like. It seems the more I do to it, the more I find to correct, clean up, or replace. Oh well, the finished product will be nicer without a bunch of compromises.

Tweaked the trans cooler lines again. Now the closest spot is 1" away from the header.

The body shop didn't replace the welded on nutsert in the inner fender for the battery L bracket, so I found this snap in caged nut at the hardware store today.

Installed the tail pipe hangers.

Swapped the front tires to 15x7 wheels today. I like the look allot more. Has a tucked look that matches the rear, and the original wheels with the old tires. It also gained clearance at the upper control arm. I'll see how it clears once the car is on the suspension again.

Totalled · Aug 2, 2014

First time installing fittings on AN hose. Easy enough after watching a couple video's on it. Ended up having to mostly install the power steering pump so I could mock up the line and then route it. Got that done, lots more to go.

Totalled · Aug 3, 2014

It ain't much, but it did take 5 hours... Pulled the brackets off the core engine, stripped them bare, and got some paint on them. Ended up stripping them because someone painted them (badly) with hammerite or another epoxy paint. Replacing my original brackets because they were chromed at some point and are rusting.

monstaru · Aug 4, 2014

Progress is progress. This thing is already cool. It'll be really sweet when your done!
Good looking out for those little problems and fixes.
cheers

Totalled · Aug 9, 2014

Got started late today.

Cleaned up some bolts.

Some pulleys.

And a 65A alternator.

Totalled · Aug 10, 2014

It's hot. I'm done for today. Here's what I got done:

Totalled · Aug 13, 2014

I painted the inside of the battery tray with plasti dip, in an attempt to protect from corrosion. Installed it tonight.

I had to use allen head cap screws to clear the intake for the water neck.

Totalled · Aug 16, 2014

Took yesterday off. Went to a junkyard and harvested a clutch fan from a grand marquis. I'll go electric later. Today, I got the front accessories installed. Just need to press the power steering pump pulley on.

Totalled · Aug 17, 2014

I had to drill the front side holes for the shock tower braces, because the body shop did not.

I got one side done and the coil cover/tower brace installed.

Unfortunately, the passenger side brace was bent and does not line up with all the holes. The bump stop is also bent in towards the spring. Probably from the prior collision damage.

I'll be ordering a repro brace unless someone has a good used one around.

So I turned my attention to the wiring harness...

How not to add an ammeter.

I knew that previous owner(s) added factory tach and gauges to my car. I never noticed the ammeter do much. (which isn't out of the ordinary for this vintage) I knew that wiring it wrong can burn your car down, so I had always planned on going through and checking out the wiring.

Yeah, they did it wrong, and looks like they were on their way to burning the car down.

So, the alternator harness, voltage reg harness, and the fusible links were always kinda in a bundle that was intertwined... So I started buy unwrapping this lump. What. The. F!ck.

The small grey wire was taped at it's end, hanging amongst the cluster. Following it up the harness revealed it was broke, and burnt, and spliced.

It followed along with the double heavy yellow wires that were bolted to the fusible link, up to the next lump in the harness.

Where a second grey wire was spliced in, and joined the first in a twin lead, up the harness, and through the firewall grommet.

And over to the cluster where it was "plugged into the center gauge harness... (with half the plug missing)

This made the harness unhappy.

So I set about removing their attempt at ammeter wiring. This was the large lump under the tape.

I was able to melt the solder out and was left with the original main wire.

Now.. to continue and unfuxor this harness.