Hot Rods Top Banana Style Slingshot Dragster- Marty Strode-Chris Kopp.

Thank you for the tip Marty! I do have some silicone bronze rod, have to see if I have 1/16 tungsten, I think I do. I will show the results.

 

Marty, that 6 port merge collector looks like the pieces I get from Chris at S.P.D. Nice job!

 

Any tips on silicone bronze tig, Marty? I’ve got some small tungstens and a new gas lens. Argon or ???

What about flux on the mating surface? And machine settings? Just like steel, or something else? Enquiring minds want to know…

 

I have had good luck using silicon bronze MIG wire to weld on a pair of Deuce coupe quarter panels with minimum distortion.

Not sure that would p*** airframe muster, but the small diameter Mig wire made it easy to make welds with minimum heat and minimum filler wire.

 

OK, best I could do with bad eyes and the shakes. I did go with silicone bronze.



They do fit just have to work on the flats. I do have some ideas for that too.

 

Oh yeah 394 olds with a hilborn injector I dig that but I have a 6-71 blower and two port on my 394 sorry Marty now back to the show already in progress

 

Looks great, and the Silcone Bronze files easy.

 

Thank you Marty for your suggestions and I may take you up on that left over stainless when you are done. I am making 4.5 inch stacks so I am thinking I will need about 38 inches if you have that much left. But ideally I would like to make 7 inch ones.

 

Another great thread I missed. Cool project.

 

Wow, that picture of your 2 toys blew me away. Time to think about paint for the rail, but do love polished aluminum ( a job to keep you busy ). Better you start another fantastic build.

 

We are planning on just going with a grained Scotch Brite bare aluminum for the time being The ch***is will get paint and some plating.

 

I stopped in at Chris Kopp's shop to see how the body was coming. Since the plan is to Run/Show it in bare metal, he is carefully filing the tail, and the rest. I really like the way the tail goes from smooth radius at the top and develops into a peak, that carries to the bottom. After he runs the offset in the belly pans, they will be mounted, and it's on to the canopy.

 

That man is an artist in aluminum! Wow!

 

Does the pit bike stay with the rail? Guess with that beautiful body should not call it a rail.

 

Incredible

 

He can do ch***is as well, he worked for Gan***i and Patrick Racing, ran the fab shop and was a spotter.

 

That looks amazing!

 

Damn Marty chris is definitely a top notch metal man looks amazing

 

What a huge leap forward since I saw it last at Portland ****** Marty! It's just gorgeous!

 

OK, I'll be the first a**hole to respond, WHO YOU CALLIN' ******?

 

That’s why I always call it the Portland Transmission show.

 

You're obviously not from Portland, or this area. Even Portland Transmission puts "Portland ******" on their baseball caps. And for many decades we've always called it that.

 

Someone always seems to need to make something out of Nothing. It's the fricking Name of a business not an iden***y. It has been long before Those became a public issue. Stay on track here fellas. It's a Hot Rod sight, get over it.

 

Why quote me? I sure wasn't making the issue of it.

 

Boys, now Boys !

 

I have been busy renovating a wing on my shop to house my COE for the final steps on that project and will get it done this Winter. Meanwhile, I brought the dragster ch***is home to tie up all the loose ends, while Chris m***ages the body panels. One of the things needed was to make tie rod clearance at the wishbones, and a drag link. I ordered some pipes mandrel bent for the exhaust, so it's coming along. We will be displaying in bare metal at the GNRS in building 4, hope to see some of you there !

 

What a unit. Great job.

 

As always, top notch. Someday I would love to see this rig in person.

 

Cool! Can't wait to see in building 4!

 

I got my 6” stainless stacks formed and the fixture made to weld the mounting bosses.