1962 Upgrades

[Don Jacks]

 

[yellow wagon]

I was always told energy suspension urethane engine mounts and a rubber trans mount. Let that sucker wiggle a little to save the drivetrain. Mine has been pounded on hard and works great

 

[fourspeed409]

Well it was a semi productive week.
The new brakes are on and ready to go. I went with the Wilwood vented brakes front and rear. New Wilwood 7/8 bore master. The pedal has a great feel to it.
I built a custom low mount alternator bracket. I wasnt a fan of how far away the alternator was from the crank with the factory style brackets.
The engine now runs. Sounds good through the exhaust, it has a nice racy idle at 1200rpm.
It took a week of nights to get the paint back into presentable shape. Lots of time spent with the buffer.

 

[Ronnie Russell]

Looks great..

 

[Kevin Green]

Sweet car and great work !!

 

[DonSSDD]

It looked better in person Shawn, nice 62.

Don

 

[fourspeed409]

Thanks for the compliments guys. It is pretty cool how many builds are happening on the forum right now.
Shane

 

[fourspeed409]

Hi Guys. It as been a while since my last update. The Biscayne got some new interior in the spring. The only thing left to do is the front part of the rubber floor mat. I am having a hard time with how to make some kind of floor extension to cover the big shifter

We had the car ready for my son to take it to his high school prom.

 

[DonSSDD]

Looks like a fun time.

Don

 

[tripower]

I have a Richmond ROD with long shifter in my Bel Air. I modified the extension panel to fit 3" aft then sanded the mounting plate down pretty severely on my table sander and bull nosed the edges to get it to fit through the hole. Then used a Nova shift boot.

 

[skipxt4]

KOOL stuff.

 

[Mr harold knight]

Looks great

 

[nomad59NZ]

Geezzz, what a lucky bugger with being able to take Dads 62 to the prom.

Gav

 

[61BUBBLE348]

He didn't run out of gas anywhere did he.

 

[fourspeed409]

I am very proud of my son for graduating high school, it was the least i could do for him.
We did manage to get the car to the racetrack on the weekend. I was somewhat disappointed with the results. 12.23@113mph was my best time. The car made no attempt to hook at all, 2.4s 60' times where the norm. It would blow the tires off in 1st and 2nd gear. Looks like there is a bunch of work to do with the suspension. Maybe add some counterweight to the clutch so I can make it softer on the launch and not slip it in the higher gears.

 

[Quickshift409]

The 113 mph indicates a high 11 second pass is there. Just keep working on it,

 

[fourspeed409]

 

[DonSSDD]

Sounds pretty serious, was this after the prom?

Don