Our 67 Fury3 build

[Furyos George]

Hi FCBO members. We have been had our 67 fury for a few years now, me and my partner brought it around 6 years ago, and have been chipping away at her each winter, and driving in the summer. We are getting towards the end of our build, and ive learnt quite a few things. When we got this car i had next to nill panel work and welding experience, i took a break from my regular job and worked as a labourer at a local panel shop for just under 2 years to gain some basic skills before doing this panel work on fury. If i had known how rusty this car really was, i would have got a donor shell and put our running gear, suspension, and right-hand drive stuff into it, but you live and learn. And at the end of the day you can say "i fixed that"

Here she is when we got her, she lloked good, we had no idea what was lurking under all that bondo

first thing was a matt black bomb job and some chrome 18inch wheels and a twin exhaust system

Anyway we foud that the front floors had been bondod all over, and that was because the water chanels had rusted thru the inside of the bulkhead, so alot of work was done to these areas

 

[Furyos George]

then moved onto the rear of the trunk, unstiched rear panel and cut out rear lip of trunk

 

[Furyos George]

did some work on the firewall, and when we put it back together we replaced the smokey 318 with a 360, bored +.060, KB 10.9 pistons, shot peened rods and crank and balanced with a b&m flexplate. Sig erson "hot et" cam, 340 "j" heads with ss valves and ported on ex side, standard lifters, rockers and springs. hi vol oil pump, moly dist drive, double row timing chain, edelbrock performer rpm intake and eddy 650AVS carb, msd 6al with 8680 adjustable timing. Gbox is a shiftkitted 727 and 3.23 lsd diff.

then we modified th rear suspension to 4 link with panhard and slam bags, viair compressor and parker 1/2inch valves

 

[Furyos George]

uprated the front susp with custom offset firm feel 1.12 tbars, 1.25 ff sway bar, jus suspension hd strut rods, and b ilstein shocks all round, steering box is a FF stage2 put into a right drive s/box, firm feel rebuild kit for bjoints and bushes. 72 cbody disks and stubs on front aswell

did work on left doors and front fender

 

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then i chopped out the c pillars and fixed them

 

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then repaired the rear of sills (i think you us guys call them rocker panels?) the rear wheel archs and rear quaters

 

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then did some work on right door and front guard

 

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also did work on radiator support panel and valence, and bottoms of a-pillars

 

[Furyos George]

And thats about all the metal work, i have a good deck lid coming from murray park c-bodies and im around 1/3 of the way thru the bondo work. when its done it will be painted a lexus colour, smokey granite mica, and a custom leather seats and new carpet installed, we are wanting to be finished by march this year

 

[detmatt]

Very impressive, nice work and kool car, can't wait to see the project progress.

 

[monaco69]

Man that's a lot of work. Looks good, be sure to post all done pics. Laurence

 

[HEMI-ITIS]

Very nice,I likey!!

 

[Fury440]

Outstanding!

The rear suspension conversion is very neat, haven't seen that before on a C body. Off the shelf components or custom made?

 

[Furyos George]

Hi fury440, the 4 link is a custom item, it was made by a friend who has a minitruck and rod shop,he also recently bagged a 63 belvidere, it can be unbolted and changed back to leaf springs if wanted. the lower arms bolt to the front spring hangers, the upper arms have a mount that goes through the chassis, the panhard mount is welded to the chassis, and bag mounts welded to axle tubes, then the assembly bolts to the spring perchs, it can also be modified to have coilovers instead of the bags. I do have more detailed images of the 4 link if you are really interested

 

[Fury440]

I'm an engineer, so when I look at your 4-point setup, I automatically visualize stress patterns and see force vectors hanging in the air! :happy7:

What I see is interesting, but it does take a little bit of faith to look at the photo of the rear brake drum and still feel good about the big empty space behind the axle. The lower mount using the spring hanger brace makes sense, but the upper mount looks a little scary to me. I wonder if the unibody structure in that location was designed for that type of loading. When a tuned up 440 is unloaded into tires with good traction, the stresses put on the rear axle are huge. Huge meaning, if you don't add lots of heavy duty reinforcing, the whole body of the car will ripple and buckle.

I also wonder about the upper pan for the bag, how is the unibody structure beefed up to handle that load? Without significant bracing, I think the floor panel will buckle if the rear takes a good hit on the bags.

I was initially interested because I need to replace my rear springs and shocks, but after pondering the physics I think I'll stay with springs.:happy7:

 

[Furyos George]

the floor above the bags is 3mm thick steel added by us, the upper arm mount goes thu the chassis right to the other side and panard mount has 3mm steel re-inforcing it. the certification process for modified cars in our country is very strict, plans must be okd by a specialist in that field, and inspected twice by that same engineer during the build before cert plates are issued. we have raced this setup down the 1/4 and shredded many tyres. Thank you for you concern, but im quite comfortable with our modificatins, we have over 10000 miles on the 4 link

 

[Fury440]

Well so am I now that I know you've got lots of reinforcement and had your plan blessed by a nerdy guy with a calculator. :laughing1:

How do you stabilize the rear end laterally?

 

[Furyos George]

Lateral force is takn care of with the adjustable panhard link. All the rod ends are opposite threaded so they can be adjusted, here is a pic on the 3mm floor on its way in, the setup out of the car, and the car sitting on the ground. In all fairness, you do feel the road through the car a bit more, and it also makes more road noise

 

[rapidtransitrick]

looking good