51 dodge pilothouse

Hello from Canada . I am starting my first build ever with my 13 year old son. I have had the 51 since high school and just dragged it out of the bush. Along with that I had a desoto next to it in the bush so it is getting a 276 hemi in it on a dakota frame. The motor is at the machine shop and should be ready to assemble in about a week. Here are some pics of the donor car and the truck in the bush and then the cab and front end on the new frame.

Sorry for multi posts can only get 1 pic at a time to load

The interior

Oppps this is interior

This is the cab and front clip on the dakota frame

Darn thing not working

pics are good

father/son build on a pilothouse touch's my heart. enjoy it, the time doing this with him is precious.

please keep the pics and info coming.

pilothouse's are cool[cl

l love mine more than any rod l have ever owned.

Later

And the motor before I took it out of the desoto

Thanks and I well but hope this works having trouble putting pics on trying the motor again

Welcome from New Mexico, USA.
Good starting point and I like the hemi idea.
Be careful when handling the growth on the dash, it may contain something contagious.

Ya I put that on there in the 70s when I was in high school but its now gone lol

One of my first Hot Rods was a 55 Dodge P/U with a 276 Hemi I pulled out of a 55 Royal Lancer............

Well latest update still waiting for my heads and crank to come back from the machine shop so till then not much happening.

We are waiting too Welcome to the the board.

Ok I am back and a little progress . I now have my short block put together on my desoto hemi.

Hey progress is slow as we insulated garage this weekend so it should be warmer to work in now. I have a question , does anyone know what a decent carb would be that I can salvage off of something that we'll fit my desoto hemi and work well ?

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nothing bigger than a 5OO CFM or you may over carb it.

Later

Well I have now done a little again . I heard that a water pump for a 383 mopar was a close fit for the desoto hemi so I bought one and yes it is close . I took my timing chain cover water pump housing to a buddy with a milling machine and just had him open up the water pump opening by about .100" and just clean up the housing as the impeller scrubbed a bit. Then I just had to slot the holes in the pump slightly to match the housing bolt pattern. Pics to follow later.

Slowly but surely. Don't be afraid to post more pics....[P

Here r the pics the pick shows were we cleaned up because of scrubbing by the impeller