TJ puts a B in his X, k? - '78 B-Series Swap/Build

[Dr.Jeff]

Interesting color. I was also wondering how it would look in matte. I wouldn't mind it being a slight shade darker, but like you I'd hate to lose any of the metallic effect. At least one aspect of the car will have superior German influences. (disclaimer, I am Italian so that is not a racist comment).

 

[visualistics]

Interesting color. I was also wondering how it would look in matte. I wouldn't mind it being a slight shade darker, but like you I'd hate to lose any of the metallic effect. At least one aspect of the car will have superior German influences. (disclaimer, I am Italian so that is not a racist comment).

Yeah I want it to be subtle but also still have that custom look. It changes a lot in different lighting so we will see how it bounces off the X’s sheet metal.

 

[Mark_Toro]

In my youth, I'd call that "Burple". Black and Purple. Mopars always looked good in that shade (darker than Plum Crazy)

With the X's lines a lot of "flop" from the metallics will be pretty cool

 

[visualistics]

Progress is still slow but there is some progress. I painted my valve cover on my Honda engine but I decided I didn’t like it so I redid it yesterday using Cerakote in the recommendation of a friend. He’s restoring an aircooled 911 and used Cerakote on many engine components and loved the results.

I also had the pleasure of meeting fellow member @Mark_Toro as he swung by to take my old Fiat engine off my hands!

 

[Mark_Toro]

TJ - we made it home through the snow with no problems. It was great to meet you. I know the engine assembly will take at least six months off the build time of my project.
Thank you!

 

[visualistics]

Still moving at a snail’s pace but now that the nice weather is here I am very anxious to get things moving. I bought an engine hoist to make my life easier but it took forever to be delivered which was annoying. But got it assembled today and started positioning the engine for mount mock-up.

Then I built a little platform out of pallets to rest the engine on and now I’m working on measuring everything and will be chopping up and cutting mounts to get the engine mounted in the car.

even though it isn’t truly mounted in the car, it does look cool sitting there close to where it’ll go!

 

[Serhiy Luchkey]

This is what I used to position the engine for my swap, easily goes up and down and moves around on the wheels, helped me a lot.

 

[visualistics]

This is what I used to position the engine for my swap, easily goes up and down and moves around on the wheels, helped me a lot.View attachment 83566

I have considered buying one of those too. They look very convenient for a job like this. Some of my favorite YouTubers use those carts for lifting transmissions and stuff.

 

[Dr.Jeff]

Another possibility is a "motorcycle jack":

 

[Serhiy Luchkey]

I was considering this jack, the reason I went with the cart is that it’s got big and flat surfaces that makes easier to slide engine on it to position it precisely