[Red Goat]

Engine, AC box and brake booster are all installed. Brake booster is an awesome piece that I got from Steve Gregorio. It's date coded correct for the car and has the correct part number stamped for a 72 TA.

Steve's guys need to put my NOS fuel pump on the motor still.

Other comments about correctness are welcome! Bring em on:

[Red Goat]

Other side of motor...

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Originally Posted by Brewster

Looking good Tim and cant wait to see it. The paint work on those heads is a little different, Is that to replicate paint burn off?

Originally Posted by Red Goat

Thanks Brew. We redid the engine paint after getting the engine over to Steve's shop. The color just wasn't quite right. Ended up using Scott Tieman's paint for it. I think Greg had requested that the heads be painted that way to replicate burn-off, but I didn't choose to go that way when we repainted.

Tim is right. This is a pet peeve of mine. Instead of carrying a wire brush and touch up kit around re-coating the black enamel burns, I prefer to just have the hot spots not painted at all. That's Hirsch high heat Cast Iron primer under the color coating.The blue fades from color to just ghosted or none over the hot spots of the heard. This one could have used some more paint in the spark plug areas and the leading edge of the head where the casting date is, but since we knew the engine was going to be repainted, there was no need.

These pictures are taken after 4 hours on a dyno and no touch up kit applied This keeps your hands free to admire the dyno results of 466HP/535ft lbs torque in one hand and a cold one in the other. Way to go Jim Robertson!