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I next decided to focus my attention to the head that would make or break the engine choice. To me I love the idea of the nostalgic inline 6 and am not too into the swap idea for my project. Dis assembled the head and brought it to a engine teacher I had in high school who helped me remove the broken sparkplugs. I then brought it to a local machine shop and was able to have the head baked and flattened perfectly! they also put in a helicoil to fix a damaged sparkplug hole. After that proceeded to re assemble the head. Attached are pictures of the head complete with new valve seals and freshly ground valves for a tight seal:

Decided to seal up the floors. I wasn't too interested in the sound deadening removal at the time but ended up later going back and redoing this whole process over to where I felt I should have done it. It lingered in the back of my mind that I half did it and needed to properly go back. Proceeded to wire wheel the whole interior floors front to back and treat it with the pour15 spray products to stop the rust then seal it with silver chassis saver. (Looking back what a waste when you redo it all )

Next I decided to remove the fenders and cowl panel. Found a little cancer cut it out prepped it and welded it up and seam sealed it. (At the time I had a small not great welder but it did the job) I then proceeded to pull the block. (No pictures of that process as it was me a tractor and not a fun time ) Started to wire wheel everything on the outside of the front clip. and stripped off the front suspension. Then proceeded to treat the surface rust with pour15 spray on product then coated it with silver chassis saver. To clean it up and protect the metal. I also then worked on the front suspension getting that sanded down cleaned up and painted. and after ordering new bushings etc ended up with this.