datsunfreak Posted September 5, 2023 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2023 (edited) Well, after crawling around under the dash looking for the best spot for a fusebox, I went back to square one and looked at fitting it inside the glove box. Fortunately the stock glove box liner is plastic, so it was still in pretty good condition, save for a few holes in the roof. One of the holes got opened up a little larger (left) to allow room for the flashers since the fusebox was about 1/4" too tall to sit all the way back where I wanted it to be. Overall, I think it'll be okay here. This way I can retain some functionality of the glove box, also... Used a 2.5" hole saw to cut a hole in the back of the glove box to feed all this spaghetti out through... Now it's on to routing all this where it needs to go. I have each sub-section loomed separately because they all go somewhere different... Edited September 6, 2023 by datsunfreak 2 Quote Link to comment
datsunfreak Posted September 6, 2023 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2023 FWIW, these two holes seem to be letting in a lot of light, making it look a little janky... But that's because there is a big speaker hole on the dash right above this. Once the dash pad goes back in, that should not be a problem. 👍 Quote Link to comment
EDM620 Posted September 7, 2023 Report Share Posted September 7, 2023 and I was thinking that was ventilation for the Lucas smoke... 😄 2 Quote Link to comment
Netshark993 Posted September 8, 2023 Report Share Posted September 8, 2023 On 8/14/2023 at 7:05 AM, datsunfreak said: A friend who frequents a lot of old car junkyards found some bumpers on a '67 Galaxie last week. Not perfect, but straight and they still match the patina... Old rear: New rear: Woah, I need the story on those tail lights! I's sad to see her go into hands that are more traditional. This build has been a great inspiration on my on 67 Galaxie, and the reason I joined these forums. There's not a whole lot of people building these cars and the few that do are very... old school. and to be honest I find the lack of vision to be really boring. You don't see many 67 galaxies, but so few have been made into truly unique and cool setups. 2 Quote Link to comment
datsunfreak Posted September 11, 2023 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2023 On 9/8/2023 at 12:08 AM, Netshark993 said: Woah, I need the story on those tail lights! What do you want to know? It's all in this thread, but would be happy to go over whatever specific questions you had. On 9/8/2023 at 12:08 AM, Netshark993 said: I's sad to see her go into hands that are more traditional. This build has been a great inspiration on my on 67 Galaxie, and the reason I joined these forums. There's not a whole lot of people building these cars and the few that do are very... old school. and to be honest I find the lack of vision to be really boring. You don't see many 67 galaxies, but so few have been made into truly unique and cool setups. This was obviously my thinking as well, and why I am slightly annoyed at some of the stuff he wants to change. But I will do my best to keep pushing him out of his comfort zone as much as possible. 😋 1 Quote Link to comment
EDM620 Posted September 11, 2023 Report Share Posted September 11, 2023 On 9/7/2023 at 11:08 PM, Netshark993 said: and to be honest I find the lack of vision to be really boring. I couldn't agree more, hence whenever I'm at a rod run or any kind of show I'm always drawn to the unique stuff. Seeing another "everybody's got one" _________ (fill in the blank) has zero appeal. Inversely I find much of the Rat Rod builds while very creative, many things I've seen are just plain unsafe. I was taught there are 2 things you simply don't screw with - steering and brakes - errors in either can kill. 1 Quote Link to comment
datsunfreak Posted September 11, 2023 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2023 I was trying to sort out where all the wires needed to go, and was getting a little annoyed/frustated. Thankfully Tim stepped up and helped me out with sorting the loom correctly. Now it is back in and being ran where it needs to go. No more spaghetti! That loom you see on the right is for the rear section (tail lights and fuel pump/sender). It will be covered by the kick panel eventually. Here you can see the neat little channel Ford made for all the wires to go to the back end... There are even dimple-died holes in all the quarter panel supports for it to pass through without chafing. 👍 Bundle on the right goes to my switch panel, bundle on the left goes to the gauges... And you can see the engine bay loom sneak through the back side of the dash... And that will go out the stock harness hole in the firewall... Need to get a grommet, or wrap the loom, at that pass through before I push it all the way through. I still need to add a battery cable from the dash to the trunk, and maybe extend a few wires on the tail harness. A lot of these wires came up just a wee bit short. I think this was due to mounting the fuse box on the right side of the dash instead of the left (where it "belongs"), and possibly because this is a 17 foot long car. 😁 I may also need to extend the wires for the switch panel and/or gauges, but I am not sure yet. Tim suggested adding in some connector plugs to the loom, which should make it easier to "lengthen". If I attach the connector to where the wires currently end, I would just need to lengthen the wires on the switch panel end, which really haven't been made yet anyway. And the gauges come with 12" of wiring on them already, so that may be the fix there as well. 1 Quote Link to comment
Netshark993 Posted September 17, 2023 Report Share Posted September 17, 2023 On 9/11/2023 at 7:55 AM, datsunfreak said: What do you want to know? It's all in this thread, but would be happy to go over whatever specific questions you had. Well I found it, honestly I just wanna ditch the chrome, I was looking at this, where they used jeep JK tail lights Quote Link to comment
datsunfreak Posted September 17, 2023 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2023 21 hours ago, Netshark993 said: Well I found it, honestly I just wanna ditch the chrome, I was looking at this, where they used jeep JK tail lights I like that. I just wanted dual rounds to mimic the headlights. Quote Link to comment
Netshark993 Posted September 18, 2023 Report Share Posted September 18, 2023 22 hours ago, datsunfreak said: I like that. I just wanted dual rounds to mimic the headlights. That makes sense, I didn't realize that from the pic I saw, I just noticed the lack of chrome. Quote Link to comment
datsunfreak Posted September 18, 2023 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2023 49 minutes ago, Netshark993 said: That makes sense, I didn't realize that from the pic I saw, I just noticed the lack of chrome. This is what they look like when lit up... 4 Quote Link to comment
Duncan Posted September 21, 2023 Report Share Posted September 21, 2023 I like those lights. I need to see if you have a pic in this thread of the stock ones. I forgot what they looked like, and a '67 anything is very rarely seen these days. With that said, I was sitting at a stop light the other day, and right in front of me is a guy in a clean black '67 Galaxy that looked original and very clean. Hubcaps were shiny, and it looked like an unmolested original. He went flying by, and I didn't even try to get to my phone for a pic, unfortunately.. 2 Quote Link to comment
EDM620 Posted September 22, 2023 Report Share Posted September 22, 2023 I also like those lights. What did you do? I thought about maybe scavenging the LED's from a later Journey Quote Link to comment
datsunfreak Posted September 22, 2023 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2023 15 hours ago, EDM620 said: What did you do? You mean aside from this? 😁 15 hours ago, EDM620 said: scavenging the LED's from a later Journey You can scavenge from either a Journey or a Caravan, same design but slightly different sizes. I used Journey rings in the Galaxie, but I have scrounged up 5 Caravan tails to use in the 510 I am building right now. The Caravan rings are a wee bit smaller. Journey uses one bigger ring: Caravan uses two smaller rings... 2 Quote Link to comment
EDM620 Posted September 22, 2023 Report Share Posted September 22, 2023 6 hours ago, datsunfreak said: Caravan uses two smaller rings... makes sense - and no need to invent the lights, just adapt! Quote Link to comment
datsunfreak Posted September 25, 2023 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2023 On 9/22/2023 at 5:59 PM, EDM620 said: makes sense - and no need to invent the lights, just adapt! I haven't cracked one open yet to see if there are two separate light panels/rings in there, or if it's all one piece. Hoping it's two... Quote Link to comment
Netshark993 Posted September 27, 2023 Report Share Posted September 27, 2023 On 9/18/2023 at 4:55 PM, datsunfreak said: This is what they look like when lit up... I wonder how hard it would be to make lenses from red plexi. Ive got some interesting ideas now. 1 Quote Link to comment
datsunfreak Posted September 27, 2023 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2023 8 hours ago, Netshark993 said: I wonder how hard it would be to make lenses from red plexi. Ive got some interesting ideas now. I thought about that, but the shape of the lenses made it a little too difficult at the time. I think you could cut up the stock lens and add a new face to it, though? Just remove the red part and leave the black? 1 Quote Link to comment
EDM620 Posted October 15, 2023 Report Share Posted October 15, 2023 I have seen on YT some custom taillights, doing all kinds of fancy light shows & "infinity" look and as best I recall they've just used simple plain red sheet for the lens. The diffuser benefits by adding angle to the appearance for traffic - no need to be directly in line with the light in order to see it. I have doubts that you might find sheet stock with any kind of diffuser in red - maybe the plastic diffuser sheet from the local Home Depot would work with a red film overlay? That would add strength to the plastic at minimum. Quote Link to comment
datsunfreak Posted October 16, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2023 20 hours ago, EDM620 said: maybe the plastic diffuser sheet from the local Home Depot would work with a red film overlay? That would add strength to the plastic at minimum. I thought about using that, epoxied to clear red sheet. Seemed like it would work, in my head at least... 😁 There's also something called "light diffusing acrylic" you can buy... https://www.curbellplastics.com/product-category/material/acrylic/light-diffusing-acrylic/ 1 Quote Link to comment
Netshark993 Posted November 9, 2023 Report Share Posted November 9, 2023 On 9/27/2023 at 7:44 AM, datsunfreak said: I thought about that, but the shape of the lenses made it a little too difficult at the time. I think you could cut up the stock lens and add a new face to it, though? Just remove the red part and leave the black? I finally found the old post I was looking for with custom lenses! 1 Quote Link to comment
EDM620 Posted November 10, 2023 Report Share Posted November 10, 2023 I like! I want to do something like that on my 620 build, for both front & rear lights, possibly even altering the shape or at least the lighted appearance. 1 Quote Link to comment
EDM620 Posted November 11, 2023 Report Share Posted November 11, 2023 On 8/18/2023 at 9:26 PM, EDM620 said: My fav is similar to this Sorry to drag this back up, but I just came across the pic of the Track T I had been thinking about I don't remember a damn thing about it though 1 Quote Link to comment
datsunfreak Posted November 13, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2023 On 11/11/2023 at 7:30 AM, EDM620 said: Sorry to drag this back up, but I just came across the pic of the Track T I had been thinking about I don't remember a damn thing about it though That honestly looks like it has no room for an engine... 😄 Quote Link to comment
datsunfreak Posted March 9 Author Report Share Posted March 9 (edited) Got some work done on this to today, finally... Edelbrock carb on... Began dividing the lights wires from the engine wires... Got all the lights wires bundled up and routed forward via the inside of the fender lip... Wires for left divided from right, and routed through top of radiator support... Power steering pump test fit, and hooked up the trigger wire... Engine wiring all done and routed... Edited March 9 by datsunfreak 3 Quote Link to comment
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