Technical What are you working on?

Is this an all out top performance and need equal length?
Can you siamese the center tubes to buy some room?

 

iron oxide for fertilizer!

 

No just a fun car for now I’ll be lucky to get 300 hp if I add a cam, maybe 250 now. Down the road I’ll go 360 maybe stroked with roller cam, then I’ll for sure need a good exhaust to get 400- 450 hp. I plan on making Tri y s
I think the 4 into1 on passenger side will fit no problem. Can a guy run a slightly restricted exhaust on one side or will this cause me problems?
Dan

 

Papaw has a log manifold on the drivers side from a 76 C-10, and a Rams Horn on the passenger side from a 72 C-10. Both with 2” outlets.

 

Man, that car looks perfect as-is. I would have to just get it going and drive it. I can't imagine a frame off making it any more fun.

 

Got the trunk in primer, think this will be good enough for me. I will be spraying with some zolatone at a later date.

 

Back from Deuce Days and decided to tackle my nit list on the Tudor.
First up was the front floor.
Was lazy when I did it, so didn’t put a surround in place around the shifter hole.
Now it’s done.
Also had some water sneak in from the front where floor meets firewall.
Probably easier ways to solve, but I decided to weld some bigger splash guards on and do a better fit (for sealing) on the front corners.
Now it’s off to get a layer of rhino liner like I did on the roadster floor.





On to the next nit….

 

Spatter paint, like the cars came with from the factory

 

Thanks

 

I'm working on a Mickey's Big Mouth "Fine Malt Liquor". I'm thinking about working on my 49 Chevy, we'll see how well that thinking progresses.... been thinking I'm gonna have to sell it. I've owned it for 49 years.

 

@Sharpone - Anything you do with your header experiment has got to be better than manifolds. Just my opinion, thinking about how manifolds were mostly designed to fit a space. The ones in your pics have the exhaust pulse at it's highest velocity hitting a hard wall right out of the port. Then totally unequal distances to the converging point. Your headers have a gradual sweeping turn, then a long tube. Hell, you can even start some bench racing folklore about tri Y / 4 into 1 header mixing..

 

Or the walls of a latrine in an Army barracks.

 

I certainly hope you don’t have to sell your ‘49, especially after having owned it for that long.

 

X2 on you keeping it, @49ratfink

 

Getting closer to a new color for the little Willys



And today I picked up another set of fenderwell headers to try on the 57 pickup, if they do fit I'll have to figure out a collector for them.

 

Scraped much grease and oil off of the 390 for Wifeys ‘62 T Bird.

Then started unhooking stuffs to pull the motor out of the car.

 

Mid summer tune up and oil change.

 

On to victim number 2, new race harness for the coupe.

 

Back in N D for a month.Chasing dents in the 59 gmc , the Detroit diesel bolted in .Waiting on back ordered parts on the 61.

 

Might spray in the morning. Been in the 100s.

 

Headers don't fit, this time around the passenger side doesn't clear !
I'm going to have to pick the lesser of the evils and start modifying one of the 3 sets.

 

posted this elsewhere

 

As promised I managed to get the trim painted and on this week.

It has a slight overlap on the front edge which I kinda like, it is an attempt at custom modifications after all. It’s also a little short at the back but doesn’t bother me.

Please excuse my average job of fixing where an ornament had been mangled onto it and the ‘patina matching’ attempt with the paint.

It’ll stay until I can get a better one and when I paint the car properly one day.

For a zero buck modification I’m happy!

 

Looks good
Dan

 

Deciding what direction to go with these. Couple ideas marinating.

 

Polish the aluminum.

 

Borgeson quick ratio box...Real hotrods don't have power steering.....

 

sprayed this morning. Came out just ok. You would never know i did this for a living in my miss spent youth.
Cut and buff !