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As some may remember from the dark side, at the 2008 HRD's we decided to build a HRD Special because Mark Bull had a £70 Morris Minor and I had a £200 SBC I bought years ago when living in Guernsey. Mark's neighbour Fireman Dave has been infected with the Hotrod bug by Mark and said he'd be in also.
The original idea sort of fell over when I opened the small block to have a look and it needed machining so I tapped up my mate in LA and we started looking on Craigslist until we turned up some goodies
Goodies list so far:
1. Engine, the ad said: 1969 Pro built LT1 350 Chevy small block by Joe Mondello: 4 bolt main, 12:5 to 1 compression, steal crank, 660 roller cam, 9 grand rev kit, Pete Jackson gear drive, titanium push rods, 2.05 valves, angle plugs, stainless steal valves, port and polished, blue printed and balanced, minus roller rockers, has intake manifold, water pump, Milodon oil pan, and flexplate. Radical motor built in 1978 that was not run very much. Needs going through like any motor that has been sitting. Reduced again for AS IS quick sale. First $1600 takes it.
Well the first $1,500 took it and we had a motor, got a deal on a set of Probe shaft rockers from Flow Tech Induction of Bangshift.com which took the total to $2,025.
2. Trans - a brake equipped Powerglide with a BM 4,500 stall converter, trans blanket and a Pro Ratchet shifter - Cost - $800
3. I then got a little carried anyway with my summit order and bought all the fuel system, ali rad, electric water pump, Proform carb main body to tune up our $50 double pumper and various other bits I can't remember.
Unfortunately these all sat on the docks in LA for 3 months as everyone stopped shipping cars so we had no chance of getting out for the 2009 HRD so I went shopping again, this time it was a Autofab race cars 4 link kit with QA1 ends, track locator and shock mount kit for $600
It's all in the country now and we're getting back into it so I thought it's time to get a thread going. We chopped and gutted the shell last year and we've just mocked up the front and rear axles on the chassis jig. The motor is on the stand and is apart but I'll bring some pics on those soon.
In the mean time here's a reminder of the chop.
The original idea sort of fell over when I opened the small block to have a look and it needed machining so I tapped up my mate in LA and we started looking on Craigslist until we turned up some goodies
Goodies list so far:
1. Engine, the ad said: 1969 Pro built LT1 350 Chevy small block by Joe Mondello: 4 bolt main, 12:5 to 1 compression, steal crank, 660 roller cam, 9 grand rev kit, Pete Jackson gear drive, titanium push rods, 2.05 valves, angle plugs, stainless steal valves, port and polished, blue printed and balanced, minus roller rockers, has intake manifold, water pump, Milodon oil pan, and flexplate. Radical motor built in 1978 that was not run very much. Needs going through like any motor that has been sitting. Reduced again for AS IS quick sale. First $1600 takes it.
Well the first $1,500 took it and we had a motor, got a deal on a set of Probe shaft rockers from Flow Tech Induction of Bangshift.com which took the total to $2,025.
2. Trans - a brake equipped Powerglide with a BM 4,500 stall converter, trans blanket and a Pro Ratchet shifter - Cost - $800
3. I then got a little carried anyway with my summit order and bought all the fuel system, ali rad, electric water pump, Proform carb main body to tune up our $50 double pumper and various other bits I can't remember.
Unfortunately these all sat on the docks in LA for 3 months as everyone stopped shipping cars so we had no chance of getting out for the 2009 HRD so I went shopping again, this time it was a Autofab race cars 4 link kit with QA1 ends, track locator and shock mount kit for $600
It's all in the country now and we're getting back into it so I thought it's time to get a thread going. We chopped and gutted the shell last year and we've just mocked up the front and rear axles on the chassis jig. The motor is on the stand and is apart but I'll bring some pics on those soon.
In the mean time here's a reminder of the chop.










