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Sorry, I meant to say it's a 283/220.

Re: '66 Malibu N/SA
 

Nice. Back in the 70s I ran a 66 Malibu SS 283/220 4 speed car. I had a lot of fun with it. :)

Re: '66 Malibu N/SA
 

This weekend I got (possibly) all of the welding on the sheet metal done. Just a bunch of small jobs; welding up a patch on the hood, patching the antenna hole in the fender, replacing a missing mounting tab on a fender and welding up some cracks I hadn't even noticed before in the front of one fender.

Here's the front of the hood after cutting out the worst of it.

http://i.imgur.com/WBoCeB3.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/kCeOtH4.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/fhl06hN.jpg

There's still a ways to go with this. In fact I'm still not certain that I can get this good enough, I may yet just buy another hood. We'll see how it comes out in the end.

Here's the mounting tab and crack that I welded up:
http://i.imgur.com/qaB1aLN.jpg

The anti-roll bar is also partially mounted, but I have to work out the details of mounting to the frame cross-member before completing it.

http://i.imgur.com/aGTt0k0.jpg

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It looks like I have a complete engine!

http://i.imgur.com/Wh2YJmq.jpg

This weekend I hope to complete the anti-roll bar install and do a substantial amount of body work.

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For a while I thought I might have to do some real fabrication to mount the brackets on the cross-member, since it's not a straight, even surface I'm mounting to. But I was able to persuade the brackets to fit in.

http://i.imgur.com/uPI3H9f.jpg

Now back to "Fun with body filler".

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There's not really a lot to show for this weekend, I was mostly doing the drudgery of body work. That is coming along pretty well though.

I did get the axles and drum brakes in. And I now remember why I never liked dealing with drum brakes!

http://i.imgur.com/yFHhVl6.jpg

I should be making the templates and then the panels to block off the rear seat area very soon.

Re: '66 Malibu N/SA
 

Years ago, I bought a Camaro from a guy that was a pretty clever, home builder.
I asked him why he hadn't removed the self adjusters from his drum brakes.
His reply was "Why ?..They never work anyway"
My reply was something to the effect of..It would just be my luck that they would start working all of a sudden, the week I had a heads up run with a guy I only had covered by a few hun.
Just sayin'

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Hey Mark, I learned something new from that last post. Yea I have those self adjusters still on brakes and i will remove them. Something that seems so obvious needs to be pointed out to a "newbie" like me. Thanks!

Will Lamprecht I/SA 65 Impala in progress.

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Actually, one wouldn't need the equalizer for the e-brake either, seeing the lever is not there.

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I thought about leaving the self-adjuster off, but the way everything ties together it wan't clear to me that doing so wouldn't cause a problem.

It makes sense to not have it, but I've never had an issue either.