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    Got the firewall welded in today. Still have some work at the toe boards and the tranny hump. Steve wants me to rebuild the floor of the car that the other shop hacked.

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    Here's what I did on the left end of the brake shaft. In order to disassemble this without removing the whole brake brace, pedal, and shaft as a unit, I put a removable bushing on the left end. This way the bushing can be removed allowing the bracket to be removed, then the shaft can be pulled out. Otherwise the whole assembly would have to be installed and removed as a unit.

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    Next I have to do some filling and priming of the firewall and cowl, then install the brake assembly and booster/MC for the final time. Then I have to locate the Lokar gas pedal and mount it and finish the floor and tunnel. I guess I'll need to mount the brake pump too.
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    After building the firewall and replacing the entire floor, trunk, and outer rear wheelhouses, the Hemi55 finally went out of my shop in mid 2020.

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    Last edited by chevynut; 12-23-2022 at 11:45 AM.
    56 Nomad, Ramjet 502, Viper 6-speed T56, C4 Corvette front and rear suspension


    Other vehicles:

    56 Chevy 2-door BelAir sedan
    56 Chevy 210 4-door sedan
    57 Chevy 210 4-door sedan
    1962 327/340HP Corvette
    1961 Willys CJ3B Jeep
    2001 Porsche Boxster S
    2003 Chevy Silverado 2500 HD Duramax
    2019 GMC Sierra Denali Duramax

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    Chevynut,
    Wow, lots of major work - that hemi is a beast. Do you have any pics from when the car was completed by the owner? As I recall, the owner lives in Castle Rock, CO, down in my neck of the woods, so if I saw a recent pic, I will know that was the car you labored over when I see it.
    Regards, Doug

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    Quote Originally Posted by Belair-o View Post
    Do you have any pics from when the car was completed by the owner? As I recall, the owner lives in Castle Rock, CO, down in my neck of the woods, so if I saw a recent pic, I will know that was the car you labored over when I see it.
    Doug, as far as I know Steve hasn't finished it. Last I knew he didn't have a shop that he felt comfortable taking the car to. I did a lot more on it than I originally agreed to do, which essentially was to build a chassis. We originally set it up for a 426 Hemi when it left my shop the first time. He took it to another shop in Ft. Lupton to finish, and they jacked up the frame and engine mounts to change it to a 440 since a Hemi was so expensive. He didn't like the way the engine sat, and they made some garbage engine mounts for it. They also screwed up the pinion angle and a bunch of other stuff. So I agreed to re-position the engine and do some other work on things they screwed up and he ended up changing the engine again to a 392.

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    These are the engine mounts I built for the 426:

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    And this is how it came back for the 440:

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    These are what I built for the 392 using pieces of the 426 mounts we salvaged:

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    56 Nomad, Ramjet 502, Viper 6-speed T56, C4 Corvette front and rear suspension


    Other vehicles:

    56 Chevy 2-door BelAir sedan
    56 Chevy 210 4-door sedan
    57 Chevy 210 4-door sedan
    1962 327/340HP Corvette
    1961 Willys CJ3B Jeep
    2001 Porsche Boxster S
    2003 Chevy Silverado 2500 HD Duramax
    2019 GMC Sierra Denali Duramax

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    Ha! The engine mount change by the other shop made me laugh.
    Butchers comes to mind.

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