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Red vintage two-door sedan parked in profile on a street in front of a house

“Dan's driver”1957 Ford Custom Sedan

documented by Rick Toombs 25 photos documented since 2 years documented ♡ Follow this build

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1957 Ford Custom Sedan: Bare silver-painted Ford V8 engine block upside-down on an engine stand, main caps installed, during a rebuild 1957 Ford Custom Sedan: Installed Pro-Gram Engineering caps on # 2/3/4 positions using ARP main bolts and align bored block. Engine block with three taps inserted into bolt holes 1957 Ford Custom Sedan: Installed screw-in freeze plugs and oil galley plugs. Engine block with crankshaft and connecting rods visible. It's on an engine stand 1957 Ford Custom Sedan: Bare V8 engine block on an orange engine stand showing cylinder bores 1957 Ford Custom Sedan: Eagle 3.98" crank, Eagle 6.49" H-beam rods with ARP 8740 bolts, KB pistons, Total Seal rings, Clevite bearing… 1957 Ford Custom Sedan: V8 engine block with pistons visible, mounted on an orange engine stand. 1957 Ford Custom Sedan: Black-painted engine block on an orange engine stand with a drip tray below 1957 Ford Custom Sedan: V8 engine block deck with pistons in the bores and a '75' casting mark 1957 Ford Custom Sedan: V8 engine on orange stand, black block with bare aluminum head deck and valve springs 1957 Ford Custom Sedan: Black-painted V8 engine on an engine stand with exposed valve springs and timing-marked balancer 1957 Ford Custom Sedan: Rebuilt gloss-black V8 engine on a stand showing timing cover and harmonic balancer 1957 Ford Custom Sedan: Comp Cams roller rocker arms, HD shafts and billet stands and ARP studs from "Pumpbuilder" aka; Precision Oil… Close-up of an engine's blue aluminum valve covers and springs Engine on stand with blue valve covers, chrome intake, and carburetor. A white car is visible in the backgrou… 1957 Ford Custom Sedan: V8 cylinder head with blue aluminum shaft roller rockers and valve springs exposed, valve cover off 1957 Ford Custom Sedan: Ford Y-block V8 on a red engine stand with blue rockers exposed and four-barrel carburetor 1957 Ford Custom Sedan: Oil pressure hand-pumped up to 70# before engine is ever fired and everything checked for flow and leaks. So… 1957 Ford Custom Sedan: Running a 4 hour break-in. 1957 Ford Custom Sedan: Blue V8 on red engine stand with chrome valve covers, 4-barrel carb and black headers 1957 Ford Custom Sedan: Built V8 on a red run stand with chrome valve covers, four-barrel carb and long-tube headers 1957 Ford Custom Sedan: V8 engine with chrome valve covers, black headers and radiator mounted on a red run stand outdoors 1957 Ford Custom Sedan: Ready to go in the shipping crate. 1957 Ford Custom Sedan: Red vintage two-door sedan parked in profile on a street in front of a house

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