Dang, don't know how I missed this one...love the windshield treatment; heck, I like everything about it - nice work!
That starter modification on the solenoid location is pure genius. Simple looking, but it takes special brain cells to even come up with that idea, IMO. not bad for a grey beard
I've been wrestling with how I am going to do the starter on my Olds engine because I am using the same switchover housing and the solenoid hits the pan. I don't want to use a mini starter if I can avoid it, and this solution looks so simple and smart. Supposedly, a mid 50's Chevy starter is the one to use for this swap, but if I can use the original Olds starter I have and do this modification, it will be great. Thanks for posting so many detailed pictures of how you did it.......I saved them all. Don
thanks for the kind words guys, special brain cells? isn't there an olympic competition for that? I read somewhere that a one year? early Cadillac, '49? starter worked in these switch-overs.. I was not going to modify the pan unless I absolutely had to.
Paul, any plans for a top? I REALLY like that you retained the stanchion-to-top post...yields a very 'finished' look.
This is an awesome build. I love the stance and basically everything you have done with this project. Turning the fan blade on the other side will not reverse the pitch direction. How come the direction is reversed?
I don't know why its reversed, or what it came out of. It fits perfect except for the reversed blades, center hole and bolt holes match up perfect, so it must have been a domestic and I would guess from the '60s
Genius idea! I followed the advice suggested in the January 1956 Hot Rod Magazine for opening up the snout, but I wasn't really keen on dimpling the oil pan just to clear the solenoid. My luck, I'd crack it. Seeing your solution, it's such a simple way to make it all work. Sure glad you posted this. I'd also heard that an late 40s Cadillac flathead starter would work...I've heard that it was one year only, but nobody seems to have a firm answer on the year or a part number...
I wasn't going to go shiny on this one but figured might as well start out clean, it will lose its shine soon enough, might even polish the manifold so it all starts out the same
Cragar manifold back from the polisher, not crazing about how the linkage it looking it will come off and will get some other configuration.. this linkage may go on the Horne intake to be used on some future project
you know paul, if you lose a brake line going down the road with that master cylinder, your clutch won't work at all.
I just skimmed through the whole thread from the last page forward (pictures only, haha,) Very nice work my man. Perhaps I missed is, what type of steering box are you using?
effwon.. not sure what year.. it has tapered spline sector shaft and ball on pitman arm what does that make it? late '40s- early '50s?
Paul, That pic of the pilot bearing adapter Speedy Canuck posted in frame 463 is worth the whole thread to me! I know you posted on my inquiry about this. The intake is stunning polished up. Now you cost me more money! Stunning build. Keep 'em coming.
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