Larry's 49 Chevy gets a 500 hp LS3

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PIx fo trunk closer-- kick panel speaker box :D
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A few pix of the progress on a/c and heater hoses.
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A few more pix of the process. :D
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Cover for a/c, heater hoses finished.
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A few pix of the progress.
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Engine and trany casting markes polished out -- engine taped off -- ready to spray with eastwood ceramic alum paint n primer, if it ever stops raining.
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Larry -
Gotta say - apart from the unbelievable talent you keep exhibiting - looking at the photo of the engine/tranny hanging there - they simply dwarf the equivalent of our Tercs! I wonder the Chevy's separate and together weights?
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Tom, not quite sure exactly --- but the 6.2 l that I have is 110 pounds lighter than a big block Chevy. :D
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Engine got painted in spite of the rain-- flowed out nice :D
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larry mcgrath wrote: Mon Jul 02, 2018 10:26 pm Engine got painted in spite of the rain-- flowed out nice :D
Yes - it - did !
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Next project is to mod new door panels on to old doors, has been rather interesting.
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interesting adaption of door panels. what were they from originally?

I have seen on youtube how to make custom door panels, which are built from scratch from raw ABS plastic sheet and foam panels. way too much work. what you are doing appears a much more practical approach: find something new that you like and cut and mod it so it fits to your door.

I keep looking at our very dated looking Tercel4wd door panels and consider if covering them would improve their appearance or not. but what it really needs are a new design door panel, but I am disenclined to build up new ones from scratch...I do not have that much patients and for the amount of time that would take I just as soon live with the old ones. This approach actually appears it could be done without as much effort to fabricate them from scratch.
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Pix of my A/C vents fabed in under dash.
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Body sealed with epoxy sealer.
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Pix of rear end with disc brakes. :D
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