Every time I look at that candy-burgundy paint, it just looks better and better.
Thanks, DD! Best part about it, it’s not a “true” candy! HOK’s “Kandy Basecoats” only mimic a candy finish, while being “much easier to shoot”. Geez, I sound like a sales rep for them. :shrug:, maybe I should be! Tackled 1)metallic silver, 2) “Candy” red, 3)first time painter, 4)In my garage, 5)in JULY. Took it by my paint supplier a few weeks back, and she was pretty pleased. Says, “I remember you picking up your stuff, and I though, ‘man, that guy is running uphill, FAST!’…but you did good!”
So, that was nice to hear. Don’t get me wrong, it’s “flawed”, much as I am, but that just makes it more fun to DRIVE! Didn’t spend the 10k bids I was getting, and, it looks pretty good!
Driving to work tomorrow to run it by a shop for “striping”…been wanting a seperator stripe between the red and grey, so we’ll see what he says! Anyone up for color suggestions?? Black? Brighter silver? “Homage to origins” with polar white(or close to it…)??
Most 68 Cougars have that issue. Our maybe it’s the Cougar drivers 
What Dawg said. I like it a lot, even better that you did it 'yer own self.
So, long time no post.
The Heap has been in hospital most of the summer, but got her back on the road this past weekend.
Read here: http://www.classiccougargarage.net/showthread.php?tid=74&pid=1242#pid1242
Blew the home-brewed clutch master, geometry was never my best subject(didn’t have the correct linkage angles). So, did what I should have done from the start, and got the modern driveline LF series linkage. Holy guacamole…feels like a new car clutch! :y:
Also put in a Flaming River steering u-joint in place of the rag-joint.
AND, to get it all back on the road, I had to get a new carb. For some reason, the Eddy that was on it quit. Like, wouldn’t even fire when pouring gas directly in the carb. :shrug:, bolted on one of these, http://www.summitracing.com/parts/hly-0-80457s , fired on the first key turn. What gives, Eddy experts?
Oh, and while I was at it, also did the pedal hanger roller-bearing conversion. Clutch pedal is fantastic now, throttle response is snappy, and it seems to have woke the hidden animal within.
That is all!
Beautiful car. Excellent work.
Thanks, Rod, right back at you!
Jeebers, haven’t posted on this one in a while…Bring out your dead!!!
So The Heap needs help…see here: http://www.classiccougargarage.net/showthread.php?tid=74&pid=1707#pid1707
Time for “Project: RePower”!!!
Real bummer! I guess you can look at this as an opportunity to do something really unique in the engine compartment. Coyote?
Sorry to hear of this T3, but I know the Heap will ride again. Be sure to blog about every little detail as you go through this…because like the Kardashians…the world needs that.
That’d be nice…as soon as the budget master gets drunk, I’ll try and sneak a Coyote past her… 
I DID look at them a little while ago, and it would be a fun mill to throw in there. Even found one in OKC for about half of retail…but, it’s got all those electronics I’d rather not mess with. I’d probably also have to change my transmission…which I’d JUST put in a T5. So, probably not going the Coyote route. Dangit.
Will do…linked DI-RECTLY to your FB feed…wonder if I could get it set up to chime your phone every few minutes… 
Yup, The Heap will ride again. Just need to get started on finding out what all INSIDE is busted…
351W stroked to a 427. Gives you a great opportunity to see what the inside of the transmission looks like.
That’s the ticket! 
Ha ha…you ALREADY snuck a Cougar by her…how hard could a Coyote be? 
True.
Let’s see, I fooled her into marrying me, fooled her on the Cougar purchase, fooled her on a shop build…yeah, I think I’ve got one more left in me.
Wish me luck, I’m going in!!!.. http://oklahomacity.craigslist.org/pts/4938298655.html
LMAO
Hmmmmm, I spy with my little eye, the PERFECT donor car!!!
https://tulsa.craigslist.org/cto/4973378355.html
All in favor, say “Aye!”
AYE! That may take a lot of booze to sneak by the missus.
Seriously!
Considering she drinks maybe a glass of wine every couple of months, I’m really in trouble!
On the original engine, the one that broke, it’s one you got from your BIL or some such? Hate to say it but that looks to me like assembly error. Like the one nut did not get torqued at all, perhaps just snugged at assembly and then missed when the torquing was done. It’s a damn shame regardless. The carnage does not really look that bad from what you have shown thus far. If it were me, I would investigate further/all the way and fix what you have if it is fixable (even then, 302 engine parts/blocks are cheap). This by far is the cheapest way out IMO.
Sorry for your loss man!