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Set of rebuilds laying around that unfortunately they painted. But once everything is on it’s not like you’ll see them

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Again no updates but I am moved into my house, and now have all my tools and the car here. Soon I’ll get to work

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You probably already know, but check out a movie called "Hit and Run" with Dax Shepherd. Great movie, with his big bad Lincoln in it.

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Finally getting back to the car, so much with the new old house but now it’s time. I know the car turned into a catch all but I have four days off to get this place cleaned up and hopefully get the LS mocked up

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So Josh and Josh both came by today, Josh bought the old drivetrain from the Lincoln and then Josh helped me put the motor in twice for mocking up the mounts. S10 LS swap mounts and cushions. One upper hole has a gap on half the hole but that’s an easy fix. GTO front sump pan with a little crossmember notch. When I pull the motor out for the next/last time I’ll finish boxing it in and then it’ll be time to start finishing it. So a truck passenger side manifold fits perfect once the heat shield is removed. Driver side TBSS fits but the flange hits the gearbox so I’ll have to cut it off and rotate it or I’m going to look into an F-body manifold first just to see. Anyways it’s technically in and trans is up for this week.

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Trans pan height with zero floor hammering, I’m going to dimple it around the tail housing bolts to see if I can get it flush and then let the trans crossmember hang 1/8” below the pan. Oh and the oil pan height is perfect, just enough room for the engine mounts to sag as they get some weight on them.

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And here's the Madd genius contemplating "to turbo or not to turbo?"

- Josh

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Leaning towards non turbo crazy enough because of the ac compressor. If the manifold that I ordered last night fits then no turbo. Please don’t fit ;)

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So 98-99 fbody on the drivers side and truck on the passenger side, going to do some slight Clearance Work and I’ll be happy, down the road maybe I can find a scratch and dent set of 99-06 truck headers to match the factory stainless fbody manifold.

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And now we have a trans crossmember. Funny though because it wasn’t really too much to it. Took the stock crossmember and added a flat plate To the valley. Stock parking brake works and the crossmember is now stronger than original. A bonus is the retention of the factory isolators so its double cushioned just like stock.

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And here's the madd fabricator hard are work. Hahaha

-Josh

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And the motor is back in for the last time, had to clearance the rear brace of the oil pan to clear the steering linkage. I’ll get the transmission in tomorrow and then I can start adding everything to make it actually go. On a positive note, which was my goal with doing the motor mounts the way I did it looks like a stock low mount ac compressor will have more room than in a TBSS and possibly more than a truck.

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Look what stopped by to visit the Lincoln.

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And the TBSS ac bracket and compressor that josh gave me as a spare for my daily, well it’ll work great for the Lincoln. Gotta love stock parts in stock locations. Bonus I can run the stock GTO oil dipstick as it just clears the rear of the ac

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So the alternator has been a bit of an issue since the setup is designed for a 105 and I’m going to run a 145 amp. Passenger exhaust is in with the drivetrain in its final position, ac compressor is fully bolted now, dipstick situation taken care of. She’s coming along.

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You and the Jeep/Trailblazer guy are both mad scientists! Cool builds....both of you! I've been helping my son with his '66 Lincoln. At this point I'm going to say.....be glad you didn't stick with the old MEL engine. My son's is the 462 and we've been a few months now trying to get pistons in a .030" over. Finally having a custom set made by Ross Racing. These are just really cool old cars.

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Be careful with having them make pistons. If they are just flat with the angle cut on top you will loose power, the pistons are shaped like they are to help the combustion. Try a company named “egg”

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Egge was several months out on 'correct' pistons and as of the past few years I've run across several bad reviews of the piston quality.....like pistons breaking! Decided not to take a chance. The new custom pistons will be the correct shape but in a new 9.75:1 compression.

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ive always wanted one of these old Lincolns...nice ride

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Better grab one up, the prices are climbing quickly.

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Sedans are still in “decent” price territory. The real problem is the price going up because of the few crazy sells that have happened. People will buy them with no research, and then any parts are 2-5 times the cost of any other classic and then people can’t afford to fix them. Real tricky cars if they aren’t complete or you want a proper restoration.

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Not much has been going on, another family vehicle was given to me so the Lincoln didn’t get much done. That and I was waiting until I started at my new job before I bought any more parts. But here is how it sits now. Still have ac lines to deal with, fuel system, driveshaft, ecu/harness. I’ve never been one to make my engine bay “look good” so as you can tell it’s purely function.

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Looks good..!!...almost like it was meant to be..

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Thank you. That’s what I always shoot for, not fancy but when you look at it you say did it come that way?

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Well, it'd been 4 months and a lot of back and forth for 2 months before that but here's the new Ross 462 pistons for my son's '66.


Glad to hear an update on yours......tell me about this master cylinder I see.

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It’s a master/hydroboost combination from a gmt800 series. Had to make a 2” spacer and drop it down 1” to line up with the factory pedal height and still has full travel, lucky me I have the setup in my c10 also so I could just compare my travel.

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Aahhh, big truck hydroboost. Got it.

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Big truck weight and horsepower. I have the intent of upgraded the front discs to late model grand Cherokee rotors and GMt900 calipers

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Slow progress as the factory tank was garbage. So I hammered an 04-06 gto tank to match the hour glass Lincoln’s tank. Then put an aftermarket Ford fuel sending unit on the original pump module for the gto tank. Now I don’t have to worry about sealing wires coming through a tank and if my pump ever dies I can do just a pump or another gto module and swap the upper half of mine to a new unit

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Forgot this picture. Haven’t messed with the car again. Been doing painting and tree cutting around the house.

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Clearly there hasn’t been any progress on the Lincoln. It’s still sitting in the same spot in the garage. I ended up with the family truck finally, so it has been taking precedence since it’s more sentimental. So here is what it’s going to be a Cammed and Carbed 5.3, T56, All wheel drive, and 3.73 gears. I also have a Sonoma GT body kit, and complete interior for it. Then maybe I’ll get back to the Lincoln after

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How about a family truck build thread? We can pick the Lincoln back up with you afterward.

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Not really gonna be a “build” just throwing some parts together that I’ve had stashed away.

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Alright so as typical with me I did some more jumping around. I had been buying up parts for all of my vehicles including the c10 that is now officially a k20 with trailing arms and a gmc front end. Once I had all the doors and fenders I decided to get those painted, put on the truck and get the suspension wrapped up. It works out better with the 37s for the cummins since it has 4.10 gears. Josh aka gottattooz is going to get me an auto leveling air valve for the rear, once I put that on I’ll be able to have the rear height I want and be able to dump it to get in and out of the garage. It sits dead bits level now and rubs the rubber going in the garage, but I want it higher in the rear as to not be confused with these stupid squatted trucks running around. I most likely won’t do any more paint work till spring so the lincoln is on priority again

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As for the Lincoln, I pulled the cover off of it and back at it. I figure it’ll take less time to get this thing drivable but not done than the s15. The goal is to sell my suburban while the market is still hot but as of now it’s my only backup if I break the c10, I figure a 2500 burb shouldn’t be too difficult to sell down here in the south. So I didn’t do the picture thing but I built and installed the new 9” with 3.50 gears and a truetrac, should be able to sell the original Lincoln 2.89 posi to offset some of it as you can’t buy any 9 3/8” diff parts.

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And this past week I started on the wiring for the drivetrain, I’ll go through the inside of the car later with all new American autowire stuff. I’ve always wanted when you see under the hood to go so what is custom because it looks like it fits perfect, well other than the sheetmetal intake that I’m going to replace I’ve done just that. Slightly modified painless ls3 harness that I got from work and for the most part laid out well. Long story short I took a factory pass through for all the wiring and made the new fuse block/relay center fit so everything for the drivetrain and car is in one spot inside the car. Still have to run the wires for the fuel pump, fans, key power, and starter but aside from that the wiring is done as I’ve already had the car running with jumper wires. Waiting on the driveshaft to get back which in itself will be a pretty slick setup. It probably took me more time to adjust everything in the tune than the actual wiring as it’s a mix and match of different generation ls parts, the trans tune was simple as it was just a copy and paste from the old Saab. Speaking of the Saab, the suburban I’ll be selling i got on a trade deal that some of you may have seen the new owner doing some work on. Check out this crazy fool if you haven’t already seen what he did to that thing. https://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/...d.php?t=823156[/URL]

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Well fellas this by no means was easy even though it’s a simple idea. The ecm is on the backside and tcm on the front thanks to a spare trailblazer bracket I had laying around. No computers or fuse blocks under the hood for me. And yes it clears the inner fender, but just barely. Oh yea this is the same area I did the past through on the wiring and mounted the fuse block, on the Lincoln’s it’s a bolt in rear splash shield that is countoured to fit so all should be well.

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Do you have any build threads on your C20 now a K20?

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No. It’s always been on a whim when I do stuff to it. Like doing studs a month ago. Or doing the suspension one weekend because I had the tires laying around and the old ones were bald on the back. Here are some “build pics” and one random one of my friends toy to make people go WTF

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Well I didn’t take any pictures but it wasn’t that cool anyways. Got the last connection to the fuel tank done, made the filler neck from the gto work in the stock location, but still need to route the filler vent hose. Anyways she runs under it’s on power now. Got it up to operating temp but have to do the exhaust, fans, brakes, and nut and bolt everything. But it lives