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Model T's are still a budget antique.. but are still a challenge to repair or rebuild because it's technology is so different. But good luck and enjoy the car that got the country started in affordable transportation. I will follow your progress as I am also a T owner.
Best to take your engine to a specialist in pouring and boring bearings. I did my own rod bearings once and that wasn’t too difficult, like casting lead soldiers, but the mains are a different thing altogether.
I wish to extend words of encouragement. Sharing knowledge is a wonderful thing. And as time goes on, we are losing SOOO much technology, as tech progresis. Things that were common items/tools become paper wieghts...door stops...without the knowledge of how to use or maintain them. ANY knowledge has value, and sharing said knowledge will reduce the population of paper wieghts and door stops. It will make potential scrap have noble use again. Please continue to share as much as you feel comfortable to. Even if it is just words of experience. Mistakes are sometimes the best teaching tools. The fact that you pour your own freedom seeds is an example. Once upon a time, if you owned a fire stick, you also poured your own ammo. Not so much, anymore.
People will watch videos about old iron. There are probably more folks that care about old iron of all sorts than shoving a modern V-8 into an S10. Now, shove a 4 cylinder "rice rocket" with 4 turbos into same S10 and , sad to say. you'd get a bunch of young people to watch. Keep posting as you work on the Model T.
Model Ts have been modified in every way imaginable over the years, but engine swaps usually also mean chassis swaps, since Model T frames are very light and have no provision for front brakes...or rear brakes, really...
It seems like someone was making shell bearings for the babit type replacement, doing the rods would be easy. However the mains ! 😮 That's no in frame op! To be honest I'd probably put a 20r Toyota engine in it. And try to adapt the rear diff, to the 5speed Toyota trans. If not swap in a possibly S10 / astro rear axle, maybe convert the front axel to about 39 Ford for better brakes, redrill the rear axles to the same pattern, maybe go to roughly 16" rims, maybe the model A rims can work, I'd try to keep it some what stock looking. To someone who doesn't know cars anyway. Make a shifter that would appear to be original, from 5/8" bar stock. Turn it down gradually to about 1/2" about 6" from the end, then further to 3/8" and thread the final 1/2" to allow a shifter knob to be screwed on. Made from a chunk of oak turned to a ball, then flatten the top slightly , drill a hole in the bottom. Chisel it out to fit a nut, grind the nut rough. Screw a bolt in the nut. With wax on the end of the bolt, being just out the nut, then coat with epoxy, and fill the hole with epoxy . Press the nut in the hole, possibly using the long nuts used with all thread, to join two pieces. Allowing about 1/4" -3/8" to be proud of the knob. Let set for 8-36 hours. Then place in a vacuum chamber in a vacuum to dry the wood thoroughly. And prepare a half pint of thinned epoxy resin, place the wood inside suspended by the nut in the vacuum chamber, pull a slight vacuum, to allow the resin to soak into the wood, the resin being pigmented black. It should look like a black wood shifter when done. Brush on additional epoxy to allow to cure. Bend the rod to fit the car, and screw on the sanded and polished knob. Using the more modern axels hydraulic brakes can be used, being it can easily do 80 mph, good brakes are a must.. I definitely would not modify the engine, without a modified frame. The frame should be boxed and braced as is , a 20r engine produces easily 5x the power the t made!
