Stripping the underhood.

To the bare minimum.
I want all the unneeded crap GONE.
I want plug wires and battery cables, heater hoses and thats it.
My car has A/C that is way past fixing so I want the underhood clean and sanitary, uncluttered and simple.

Difficulty level?

 

on a 1-10...a 12 there is a lot going on under there...been there done that.

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I figured with the new intake, exhaust and carb I could nix the vacuum hose nightmare and without the A/C there goes all the extra hoses and wires. I want the bay to be all engine and no frilly girlyman BS.

 

what does it look like now? how far do you want to go?
you can delete...A/C, p/s, P/B, heater and change to 1 wire ALT.and elec.fan. do away with the ...shock towers... with rack and pinion steering.

...:Handshake...

 

Do you want a heater? if so, find a non AC car and get the controls and heater box out of it.

 

I just want it clean and uncluttered. In typical 70s fashion, there is a tangle of wires and vacuum hoses and crapola all over the engine.

 

I hear ya... the engine compartmet of my '73 was a mess of unneeded crap that hadn't worked in years (including the engine) when I got it.

I ripped it all out with the old engine and just threw a simple little '71 200 in it for now so it will move under it's own power. I could simplify it even more then that... The car literally only needs two vaccum lines to function properly, power to the coil/ignition, wire to the starter, and you can put on a one wire alternator. Be prepared for your front end to raise up... mine raised several inches takingn all the old crap out. I'm sure the new engine is a little lighter also, though.

Before .... after

 

See? Thats what I'm talking about. The first picture looked like a box of wires and the second one looks like a nice engine.

 

Huh,,,in second pic,,,I only see that Famous Radiator!!

 

My radiator is pathetically thin.