Month: March 2014

Last month, we showed you an E-Body that had its torsion bar crossmember and front floors completely hacked. We couldn’t understand the reasoning for the extent of the hacking, but it was done nonetheless. So, we replaced the crossmember, and now it’s time to tackle the floor. We had thought about repairing the floors with some old road signs and beer cans that we have collected over the years, but decided that this car deserved better. So, proper metal it is. We all know about AMD, and the metal that they have been producing, so it was an easy choice where to get what we needed. The AMD metal has OE-style coverage like the original piece in the car—minus the big cut-outs made by someone. It mates to all surrounding OE panels and pieces with OE dimensions. It even comes with a proper flange on the side to correctly fit with ’70-style rocker panels. It also includes bucket seat, emergency brake cable and speedometer cable brackets. What more could you ask for?

If one thing truly leads to another, you can say the head and exhaust swap we performed on the Balls of Fury (Charlie and Chad Pirchio’s ’64 Sport Fury) in the August ’13 issue (Two Bolt-ons Bring 81 Horsepower) led us to this cam swap. We felt we were leaving a bunch of power on the table with the hydraulic flat tappet cam profile that was in the 440, ergo, we put in a call to Comp Cams thinking we could harness that power with one of their modern, solid roller designs.

Crankin’ Too Low

If there’s one thing the readers of this magazine want, it’s more power under the hood of their car. No matter how it’s achieved, the quest for more power has taken many daily drivers and relegated them to only making the occasional trip around the fair grounds. A worst case scenario sees the quest leading to the eventual sale of a person’s hot rod, because the “fun” inevitably goes away.