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Finally jumped in and used my welder for the first time. Ugly but functional.

Very nice Bruce. I really like the time difference in the same location pictures, pretty cool being able to do that.

Actually, on Monday..

Sorry, can't help with an answer, but from what year Acura did you pick your seats?

Nothing like this, no. The access holes for the body mounts at the bottom of the firewall above the frame were fairly full of the same stuff, only in a drier condition.

I have no idea how it got this bad, the motor is pretty much the same, plenty of it on top of the intake. I only scraped the front part of the transmission and had several pounds of the - whatever it is.

I pulled a nasty motor and transmission out of my '71 yesterday.

I've found several threads on auto to 4 speed swaps, but not much on a WC T-5 swap. I found a WC T-5 out of a Camaro but no idea on how well that would fit into a Monte, so a couple questions. - First, how good are WC T-5 trannys? It won't see anytime on the track and HP would most likely be in the 350 range. - Anyone put one of these in your car? I'd go with a Muncie and not plow new ground but they are a good bit more pricey and not real easy to find... Thanks.

That looks good too Glen. I can go either direction, I like both looks, just depends on how much more work I want to put into the dash - there's a ton of other things that need done.

I think I'll keep it all black, at least for now. That might change once I get the gauge cluster back in and see how it looks. No kidding. I'm going to know exactly where something is a little off.

First top coat, it looks decent enough to use but I'm going to add another coat.

I rattle can'd a coat of primer on it and saw several flaws that weren't there before. I sanded it down and added some bondo in a tube, first time doing any type of filler work for me and this stuff worked out pretty good. Covered whatever was left of the texture and smoothed out the corners. Hit it with some more high grit paper (wet).

I couldn't figure out a good way to get the texture look to the Steelstick material so I smoothed out the whole dash, but just on the gauge side. It looked pretty decent so far but I wasn't able to get things smoothed out in the corners or at the top.

Well, did some work on the dash and went with some JB Weld stuff called Steelstick. It hardens pretty quick and can be cut or sanded, although the longer it sets, the harder it gets. I used a dremel to remove the raised lettering for the wipers and lighter, then filled it in.

Thanks Dennis. I'm not so sure this particular 383 would be in the daily driver category either. I think the price is really pretty good and I'm sure it has a heck of rumble to it but the high compression/pump gas issue scares me a bit.