Technical Roadster shock mounts

I have used this shock mount design several times, it is cheap, works well on fender less cars, and is a DYI project. It's sturdy, and leaves people saying why didn't I think of that.
These are Speedway bolt on shock mounts. The back of the mount has a round tapered area designed to fit into the lower part of a wishbone.
1. I made a tear drop shaped piece of material, and used a hole saw, so the material would fit over the round tapered area on the back of the shock mount.
2. Figure out the shock mount position rotationally, and electric weld the material to the shock mount.
3. I used a piece of tubing to reduce the size of the mounting hole from 1/2 to 3/8, and drilled a corresponding hole in the frame in the proper location.
4. Drill a 5/16 hole in the teardrop material and bolt it to the frame. This keeps the shock mount from trying to turn based on the shock absorbers effort.
5. I made a little round insert to fit in the shock mount. I will probably JB Weld it in after everything is tight.
6. These are 50 Plymouth front shocks, available on Rock Auto for $16.00 each.
Here are some pictures.

 

Very simple and ingenious

 

Clean piece. Is there enough room to weld a nut on top of the 3/8" bolt and use matching button head bolt to retain the insert?

 

That's a good idea. I'm thinking drilling the head of the bolt a bit, and tapping it to 10-32

 

I like it! But about that pusher fan...

 

Clever idea.

I would not JB Weld the plug into the mount, though. When the day comes to remove the mount whomever has to do it will be cursing you. I'd suggest something such as a set screw drilled through the bottom non-visible side of the mount.

 

Very cool idea and very clean looking!
The ingenuity shared on here amazes me.

 

Nice. Clean and simple.

 

Neat idea, I like it a lot. Has a cool old school vibe as well. Nicely done.

 

I really like those mounts, and I also like and indeed have some very low mounts. I have a concern however and that's the shock length. On mine I have the P&J open short shocks. They've been in service for over 20 years now and are as far as I'm aware doing fine. A few years ago I got some short Bilsteins as I understood the ride to be transformed with them. The problem I encountered was there was no upward travel available, the short shocks weren't short enough. I have Bilsteins front and rear on another 32 and they ride beautifully. So the message is be prepared to find some short shocks with low mounts, sounds kinda obvious really, or perhaps it's that all 'short' shocks are not created equally!

Chris

 

I like hand made things. In think that's what draws real hot rodders in, and why we walk past the magazine cars. If you look at the first picture in this thread, you can see the reversed firewall in the photo. I gained about 10 inches of leg room in this roadster pick up by moving things around, and avoiding the main stream logic. Hell, I bolted a Studebaker body to a Chevy S10 frame, and with a used motor went 221 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Filter out the nay sayers, and follow mechanical logic and design.

 

Very cool.