nobggrnchvy Goatbuilt Ibex

[thrillbilly85]

Imma keep hitting "page up" on my Lenovo

Haha. Honestly I'd be doing the same thing, if I knew what it was I'd be doing. I've got an Aces FI system on my 383, and when everything else is done, I'm gonna have to learn how to adjust stuff.

Cold start and idle before it's warmed up is just like you'd expect with an old Edelbrock 600 AutoZone special. I even have integrated ignition timing I can fuck with. You'd think a 39 year old could have a relatively decent grasp on what to do, but I don't know shit about shit, other than it seems like its rich AF at idle when it's cold. The fumes will choke you out.

 

[Bggrnchvy]

What's up with the finned valve covers that you can't use? It looks like the coils are inside the covers???

Super boomer covers.
Specially made to retain the heat and burn coils.


But looks cool

That

For the best they don't fit, but damn it, if they did I was going to run them! At least until I lost a coil pack and got mad

 

[Bggrnchvy]

Goal for the weekend was to get the drivetrain attached.



I drilled out and sleeved the mounting holes for the tranny crossmember.



Then the repurposed Goatbuilt bushing mount got chopped up and burned it. Thank you for easy bench fillet welds to make me look like the welder I am not.



Then it got bolted in place, and compressed with a floor jack and the tabs burned to the frame.



As you can see in the last picture I also cut down the NWF tail housing mount and made some tab edits to fit. Note to self, when you use a floor jack to set clearances, block them out as the jack may bleed down overnight and you might weld it all in just to find out you need to add 5/16"





Then there was the rinse/repeat of prepping some 1-1/2" .120w for the uppers and burning them together.




That let me get the front axle actually under the rig just before I had to call it quits. I ordered the lower links, they should be in a week or two and then I can get to work on the front suspension.

 

['84 Bronco II]

Looks great! I really dig the way you did the engine mounts and incorporated them with the engine skid. Are you running plain DOM for those uppers, or some fancy heat treated 4130/4140?

 

[Bggrnchvy]

Looks great! I really dig the way you did the engine mounts and incorporated them with the engine skid. Are you running plain DOM for those uppers, or some fancy heat treated 4130/4140?

All that is the Goatbuilt chassis, I am just the monkey welding it together.

Yes, plain DOM for the uppers. Here's to hoping they never contact a rock Lowers are treated 4130, or will be when they show up.

 

[Bggrnchvy]

Front bump cans mocked up using a drop of 2" .25w tube.



Goatbuilt winch fairlead mount in place with a Brennan's Garage fairlead.




Trying to do a better job of wiring on this rig than the last one. Old dirty cooler is just to show what they come from the factory like, that was the PS cooler out of the last rig. The clean one is the transmission cooler for this rig and I prepped the pigtail with a Deutsch connector used kapton underneath to strain relieve the wires a little and stuck the loom in place with some adhesive lined heat shrink. Then mounted the Deutsch connector to the fan shroud which hopefully keeps the wires from breaking off at the motor side. It's no Bonneville car, but hopefully I can keep the sparky gremlins at bay.



4130 treated lowers came in. I just finished boring the high misalignment spacers out to fit the 5/8" bolts (I got a pile of 9/16" HMS's from a friend) so I can get the rods ends to fit the tabs. Hopefully have them in shortly.