Taking rusted rides and making them great again! Hi we are Cam and Tim, welcome to Rusted Rides! We make videos about fixing and rebuilding cars and trucks. We love cool cars, and cars in general. We hope you like the content and feel free to let us know what you want to see more of! Enjoy!
Great job, as always. I live in Nova Scotia and cars and you can literally hear cars and trucks rusting away. I've done rockers and fixed frames on multiple vehicles for myself, family and friends. So I bought a F150 new in 2015 , it now has 370,000 Kms on it. I have touched up rust on the frame but the body has remained clean and solid. No more rusty rockers.
Your easiest route is probably to use the Trans-Dapt mount kit. this attaches the front of the engine to the frame, and includes a transmission crossmember. they are still available from a number of sources. I know I saw them on Speedway's website.
Yeah my buddie back in the late 70's had a Vega with a 327 in it, and a 2 speed slushbox behind it, we would drive it to PIR, Portland Intnl Raceway in Oregon and have a blast takin it down the dragstrip on Prostock days. Man that thing was fast!!!
yo they did put 305' in monzas you need to get the parts for that the motor mounts exhaust manifolds a short water pump and pullies then it bolts right in and the trans mount as well. you have an awsome start i cant wait to hear it run and drive.
I worked at UPS back in the late 70's, a trucker i used to talk to had a 73 Vega he'd put a small block 350ci in, it was black on black, had to beef up suspension to deal with the extra weight, he raced it at HALSVILLE DRAG STIP on the weekends drove it to work during the week, sometimes, cause it was "Tubbed and Narrowed"! Man i wanted that car! Think it ran in the 10's cant remember for sure, ive slept since then lol.😎👍
Somebody probably has said monza parts .i owned a factory built monza town coupe 1975 with the 4.3 V8 262 same as a 350 so there shouldnt be issues if you use the monza stock parts ,my monza got the 262 yanked out for a 350 using the orig pan and mounts it was a beast with a saginaw 4speed but anytime you hammered throttle she was breaking traction even at 70 80 it would light them dunlop gts like hell fire best o luck man
IF you are a real good fabricator and have all the necessary equipment and materials then yes it is somewhat easier to do that engine/transmission swap
The V8 Monza motor mounts were on the front of the motor. Not like a anything else from the factory. The V8 Vegas I have seen used the big plate mounts.
Love your channel, grow but stay like not to big, I like to refer to your project, not like fixing Lamborghini, Ferrari, stuff that a lots of people's can't afford!
Boys, you have to do your homework better. I've been doing this a lot longer than you have I've seen a lot of these and i've done a lot of these things where you need shoe horns and vaseline
