Here is a link to my 455 install. I offset the engine one inch and did not have to angle it. I used a one piece custom driveline as well. Over all most people who look at it think it is original.

I install power disc brakes on all four corners at the same time and the engine conversion.

http://s372.beta.photobucket.com/user/citcapp/library/

 

The former "pink" boat has Disc Brakes on the front, new lines, a MC on the firewall and the rear drums all cleaned up and refurbished< man I hate working on old brakes!!!! I used the Scarebird plates on the front, that part went great. It was taking the old stuff apart that drove me more nuts!!!!

"citcapp's" write-up on his conversion was a great help!!! THANKS!!!!

 

Been doing all those piddly little things!!! Headliner, door rubbers, rad hoses & fan spacers, got the bumpers on and some chrome!!! It's warmed up and I have been cast outside at the body shop!!! Pulled the wheels, sanded and painted, got new tires, one wheel was warped, had to dig up another one (sand & paint it) 3 days!!!! It's coming along!!!
Waiting on the lake pipes!!!

 

Big Brown Truck just left!!! I got 70" SS Lake Pipes & Hangers!!! This thing is coming together!!!

 

Those were some if the most useless pictures in your last post. Try a pic when there actually on the car!

 

HaHa, naw, I got to go slow with new parts!!! Make sure it's the right time to install!! It was a sick feeling the other day when I got the "Airplanes" back from the chrome man and I realized they needed to go on before the headlight buckets & doors

 

Hi bronco. did you find rust in the lower rt/lft lower front hood? and lower r/L rear bottom portions of the front fenders? '57s are notorious for that. And if so, how did you treat it? Thanks, Charly9g/wfg4u@aol.com

 

Hey Charley, I got lucky on that, solid hood & fenders. The PPO had replaced the floor pans (crudly!!) so I didn't have body rust to contrend with!!

 

love it the way it is!!!!!!!!! nice job!!!!

 

Alright boys & grils!!! The big boat is in the basement!!! Brought it home from the tranny shop today, there's still a lot of freckles and warts that need to be taken care of.... but I can walk downstairs and do it!!!!

Full moon hubcaps, Dummy spotlights, dummy lake pipes and a dummy owner!!!!

"Ain't life grand"

 

Hey here's another 3, that Olds is sharing the basement with Stacey David's
1966 Bronco "Crazy Horse"!!!!

 

The Olds looks great with that interior, Lake's, and full Discs!

 

Hey thanks!!! I've been fighting all the lookers at the body shop and all their suggestions!!!! I tell them all I really need is for them to leave me alone!!!!

 

Put a coffee can out with a label that all suggestions are accepted that are fully funded. It's your car not theirs.

 

Good luck w/the rest of the project Bronco! I'm just about to send mine out to have a new TCI front susp. installed. Everythings @ the chrome/polishing shop and I'm cleaning nuts and bolts. Maybe a little progress here. Did you re-new the "Fuzzies" in the front (flapper)and rear weatherstrip retainers? Can't figure out how to get the old ones out! Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I would post pics if I knew how! Thanks, and good luck, Charly9g. WFG4U@aol.com.

 

I like the look of this car! It is exactly what you might have seen in a high school parking lot in '62 or '63.

 

They looked like that in the early to mid 70's at my HS.

 

I wouldn't change a thing with that 57. Its cool just the way it is. As said earlier reminds me of the cars from high school

 

Where did June, July & August go?????? Man it sure seems like I didn't get much done, but I was able to crank it and drive it outside yesterday. Finishing touches can be time consuming, especially coupled with 5 trees down in mid June from a small tornado!!!! Real lucky, trees only got my deck, some gutter, some siding, a piece of roof and made a mess in the back yard!!! Hope to be at a local car show the 21st!!!

 

A few more pics!!!

 

Looks great, now enjoy

 

Love those sedans ! Man you don't need a flame suit ! If people don't like what your doing to save a car then they can send you money and parts to do it the way they think it should be done! I personally should have my head examined to why I'm spending over 7000.00 to do a 4 speed conversion on a totally obsolete engine in a car where NOTHING is easy to remedy. But I won't cave into easy and will have to pay the price. Have fun with it! Did I say sedans rule ?!!!!

 

Awesome car Bronko ...

I wish I would of seen that in the parking lot when I went to school , but we still had a few greasers left ending that fad .

 

Hey thanks citcapp, I used your write up for the front discs!!!!

NAS, I've got thick skin!!! All those nay-sayers didn't slow me down a bit!!!

Thanks oldsguy, heck I can't hardly remember back in high school, it's been soooo long ago!!!