Okay...I was given a '38 Pontiac and haven't picked it up yet...Does it have the knee action set up? or a straight axle? If it's knee action, any ideas on a good straight axle to put underneath it? I need to get my cars home so I don't have to ask stupid questions about them....
Independent front end, they used more or less the same design up to 1957. Not hard to adapt a disc brake setup to. Can't imagine why you'd put a straight axle under a big Pontiac, but anything that would fit under the bigger GM cars would work.
Chevrolet used the Dubonnet spring / shock units as their initial stab at IFS from 1934-1938. Pontiac also used the Dubonnet units from 1934-1937 or '38.
Can't imagine why I'd use a straight axle under my 2dr C-dan? Think nose high...blown 303...ladder bars...fenderwell headers...custom cross ram intake....a cam so lumpy it will barely idle....and a set of radirs topped off with Hurst Pie Crusts....and some skinny fronts...
Any more on disk brake adaptation? I acquired a nice "survivor" 4 dr. 1937 Pontiac with a "rod" through the crankcase. Not anxious to street rod it. Trying to make a "survivor driver" from it but without major front end, rear end, crossmember mods. Have a 1967 Chev 250 and a OD BW T5 in inventory that looks like it could be subs***uted for the defunct flathead 6. . Do not have it home yet so unsure what issues or other engine, drivetrain options might exist that would provide more HP and overcome the tall geared rear end. Bill Gardnerville, NV
A couple people make kits for the '50s Pontiacs... they use the same wheel bearing back to '37, so the rotor should adapt easy... a caliper mount, may be another story. I can't picture a Pontiac as a g***er, but to each their own.
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