Hey guys, I'm still working on the roll cage (well working is a relative term since we haven't touched it in a month) but meanwhile I assembled the motor. Then I got bored and put the tranny and shifter on...well just look at the picture. I can't install it this way but it looks neat on the garage floor!
I was out there tonight wiring up the engine harness. Good fun and the temperatures are finally dropping enough to actually make some headway.
Looks chaching Side note. I have read a few bad reads about Fram oil filters being restrictive. I hope it works for you.
I've used Fram oil filters since 1980 in my drag cars. I've never had a problem yet. Thanks for the heads up though. The valve covers are off e-bay. If memory serves me, they were only about $100.
the fram hp oil filters have realy big holes in them. there regular ones dont. i have no idea if the hp ones have beter filter media that the regular ones but that and the thin wall for the canister are the big complaints about fram.
Is that a Milodon pan? I've been searching for a new pan for my car. I have a Milodon pan but want something with a scraper and windage tray in it. Don't know if I can make a windage tray work with my main girdle though. I talked with canton and moroso. I might try Billet fabrication if I can afford it.
On my 331 I have a Milodon pan with a Probe girdle and Probe windage tray. They fit with no modifications. On my windsor I have a Canton Pan and windage tray, but they fit horribly.
Yes this is the Milodon pan. I had this one on my last motor as well with a girdle and it fit just fine (this motor is 4 bolt and doesn't have the girdle). This doesn't have any windage stuff in it, but I made my own crank scraper. I also don't run all 7 quarts in it. I run 6 and that keeps the oil further away from the crank.
That's badass. That Hurst shifter looks like it means business with the heim joints and everything. I'll bet it will shift awesome.
Thanks Jamie, I just built those shifter rods last week. V-gates are fun too, not too many of them around. Just us old school 4 speed racers use em these days.
That looks like the shifter I use. Is it a Long vertigate shifter? Using that shifter along with the Jerrico it is just about impossible to miss a shift. Eric
It's the original Hurst version of the vertical gate (also called the Ramrod shifter). There was this one, then came the Hurst V-gate 2 and the Long shifter. They all basically worked the same way, some taking up more room than others. This one wasn't one of the later revisions, but I chose it because I wanted to keep the hole in the floor as small as possible, and I'm trying to use the stock bench seat. Also I've raced with this style for many years in my old Mustang, so when I finally got another one it was like an old friend. There are the new ratchet shifters as well (you see the pro-stock guys use these today) but I could not even get those folks to give me a price on one (maybe a case of, if you have to ask you can't afford it?!? LOL). The transmission is a Liberty shifted (pro shifted) big spline toploader 4 speed. Not quite a Jerico...but I'm on a budget. And the clutch is a McLeod dual disk, long/borg beck style.
