John R 68 Barracuda

mopar_mark · Post by **mopar_mark** » Tue Nov 22, 11 11:55 pm

Nice work all - your getting there John

Silver always looks good on Fastbacks to me

sinny · Post by **sinny** » Wed Nov 23, 11 11:05 am

Looking good guys.

Ivor · Post by **Ivor** » Wed Nov 23, 11 11:42 am

Blimey, someone's got Del working!

Some serious progress being made here, it'll be great to see the old girl back on the road.

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Wed Nov 23, 11 11:46 am

Ivor wrote:Blimey, someone's got Del working!

Not for long though.

R.RUNNER · Post by **R.RUNNER** » Sun Jan 08, 12 11:42 am

How`s it going, John ?

JohnR · Post by **JohnR** » Sun Jan 08, 12 5:59 pm

The only thing I have done is to move it from Scott's place down to next door to were I live as Scott is going to put his place up for sale and it was a bit far to go , not only that but the plastic roof we had on the shelter thing sort of got shredded in the wind the other day, I will be putting up a marque type thing for when I fit the engine , I still need it under cover as it is in primer but I have to get it up in the air so I can work on the trans tunnel from under the car, I have to put engine and box in , see were I have to cut it and take the whole lot out again probably several times !!!

The gearbox cross member has to be altered and trans tunnel made bigger as the O/D gearbox is fatter than a normal 904 it is also longer I will do pics when I do it that's all for now folks !!!!

DaveBishop · Post by **DaveBishop** » Sun Jan 08, 12 10:06 pm

John have a look on the forabodiesonly sit alot of people have done the swap in the sates and have posted how to do it and added photo's

JohnR · Post by **JohnR** » Sun Jan 08, 12 10:38 pm

Yes Dave I have been following some of them, very good swaps, I will be doing it my own way , at least I have sorted the wires for the ECU on the engine !!!

JohnR · Post by **JohnR** » Sun Feb 26, 12 6:41 pm

Have not done much due to the weather as the car is outside but have made some progress with the gearbox mounting , had to cut off the bit under the tunnel and make a new one for the inside of the tunnel , made a gizmo to line up the propshaft with the rear end had to go to pets at home to get it but it works !!, also had to bend a bit of 6mm checker plate to go round the tunnel this was done with two bits of wood four scaffold tubes some clips and a 10 ton hydraulic press oh yes and a 14 pound sledge with some heat from the hot spanner more news soon enjoy the pics !!!for some reason I am not able to post pics but I will sort it out

JohnR · Post by **JohnR** » Sun Feb 26, 12 6:54 pm

hope this works

JohnR · Post by **JohnR** » Sun Feb 26, 12 7:18 pm

JohnR · Post by **JohnR** » Sun Feb 26, 12 7:23 pm

JohnR · Post by **JohnR** » Sun Feb 26, 12 7:26 pm

might have repeated myself

sinny · Post by **sinny** » Sun Feb 26, 12 10:11 pm

She's coming on well John. Lifting her up on scaffold is a great idea. Wish I'd have thought of that before doing the underneath of mine!

Cannonball · Post by **Cannonball** » Sun Feb 26, 12 11:31 pm

HEY JOHN GOOG GOING FELLA
i reckon i would of carried the crossmember frame through the floor but very slim maybe 1" diameter and brought it through to the inside of the car and rejoined to other side so it was basicaly back to stock,,,,,