Re: [AMC-list] For the person with a friend dropping a 4.0 into a '64 American, ...

[russ hathaway <russh97309@xxxxxxxxx>]

I never did follow up on his install, but I dropped a late model 258/TF into a 64 and ran into few probs. It took me a year as I detailed the engine bay black with red pinstripe. The Ford blue and chrome on the engine looked bitchin' and I always paint all moving parts fire red to stand out. Feally nice. Top it off with a PBR beer can for a coil cover and Bobs-your-uncle.
-I had to install a 66 radiator suoort in the 64. Simple matter.
-The fan comes very close to the radiator. I ran no fan on the engine, but installed a slim pusher fan in front of the rad.
-Battery was installed in the rear.
-The tranny needed the floor cut to clear the shifter and all. I hacked away as needed, installed a floor shifter from an Eagle, used sheet metal and fiberglass to make a new floor, and finished with a console from a Spirit.
-The engine is real tight in there at the rear. I made a rear valve cover stud set up to access the bolt if I ever had to remove the valve cover.
Everything else is easy. The wiring will be 83 specs, the brakes were from an 83 so I used the MC and prop valve. The brajke lines even lined up real close. I used the rear brakes from the 83 adapted to the 64 rear.
Good project, had a blast......Russ
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