A lot of modifications to the original suspension were made, but the main custom touches were the valve covers and overflow tank.
For the valve covers, I machined up my own patterns and had aluminum castings made, then machined the raw castings for final fit and finish; two piece units w/no mounting flange - socket head cap screws bolt down through the side wall and then the top plate bolts down to seal everything up.
Ended up using the valve cover patterns one more time to cast up a set of covers for my 66 Mustang, so I recouped a little bit of effort, but I don't think I'll ever try something like this again. The Ford logo was probably the most difficult part to make; drew out the logo on a sheet of rubber that was glued to a block of wood and cut it out with a razor knife, then sandblasted the wood and bandsawed out the logo... little cleanup work to the piece then had it cast in aluminum and worked the heck out of that to get the final pattern.
Too much like work, and if I wanted to work I would get a real job
For the tank, I bought a standard big block overflow tank from Dove and cut the bottom off, then machined up a new small block thermostat cover and welded it all back together.
All I really wanted to do was kinda replicate the look of the air cleaner cover, but stupidity takes real committment!
- Dan
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