Blown 56 chevy gasser build for 2017 meltdown or bust

Not running yet - waiting on my dual fans and throttle cable ***embly. How close are you?

 

Absolutely correct, NEVER run an aluminum flywheel on a heavy car on the street! Experience is our best teacher...

 

It's COOL dude!!

 

Hey Fast30Coupe awesome build lots of get ideas car is coming together great. I'll be following your build. I am doing my Willys right now by have a 56 Sedan that is going to get the same treatment later. Hope to be putting a build of the Willys together soon on here so all can enjoy, working on the pic's right now. Keep up the great work looks to by a nice ride when done.

 

Thanks looking forward to that willys build


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Far far away..... Needs to be running by July though.


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Got a little time In the garage this morning.

So I finished the upper shock mount on the drivers side

And bolted the radiator back in

Talked to the guy that's going to be building my roll cage he said bring the car in two weeks so hopefully that all works out.


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Coming together nicely...
Jealous as hell about you guys working out of your garage. I am determined to insulate / heat mine so I can get stuff done over the winter rather than travelling all the way across town to get to the shop. The Scout is currently sitting patiently waiting for it's turn to get my attention.

Cheers

 

There's no heat....haha. But, there's insulation. I just wear layers long underwear to keep warm. It ****s but what keeps me moving is knowing that if I waste weekends I'll never make the meltdown. I'll look up those articles that I was talking about later.


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Looking good, keep it going!

 

Thanks I got a lot of inspiration from your build. I was going to run the stock control arms until I saw your thread.

 

Got a little time In today. I was hoping to bring my car in to the roll cage shop yesterday but that didn't happen. So, I rebuilt the rear trans mount for the jerico.
Made a plate for the bottom of the transmission


Then mad some plates to mount to the exiting transmission cross member.


Then used a bent paper clip for a scribe.

I littler grinding and welding

Then finished off the back


Here's a picture of it in the car I'm happy with how it came out.

Also rolled her outside for some fresh air.




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That's one bad *** looking 56 good to see it in the fresh air. It's been a long winter!!

 

Thanks are you going to be racing yours at the meltdown this year?

 

I will be there on sat with it. Will drive it up like last year. Want to run it one time to see what it will do. But got to get a different trans first that old weak sag will be the weak link. As for a street driver it's fine. So for now it's a street driver and a blast to drive. Going to racers expo next sat to see what's up there in the swap meet looking for one

 

What kind of trans are you looking for?


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M 22 Muncie or something along that line

 

I have an m-21 close ratio with a hurst shifter. If your intrested I had it for this car then I came across the jerico. It's rebuilt.


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Started on the drive shaft loop today. It's only half way finished there will be 5 pieces of 1" tube that will be added for support.




It looks far away from the trans mount but once the other supports are added it won't be that bad.


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Thanks I appreciate it. That was my though exactly it would've made for a short weekend at the meltdown.

 

Awesome

 

Racer X looks like he has that ****** under control.

 

Finished the drive shaft loop. Might be a little overkill but another thing off the list.





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Looks great!

 

Really some very, very nice work! Looking forward to seeing your car run in July.

 

Again very very nice workman ship can t wait to see it in July

 

Waiting for the fed ex man for a speedway delivery so I decided to make the exhaust turnouts

I bought my headers a year ago and I recently called they guy and he said he found the original caps in his moms garage so I went and got them a few weeks ago

These haven't touched the headers in over 50 years.

The turn downs are schoenfeld but they were hacked by some worker with the grinder and because nuts and wanted them to look the same I tacked then together before taking them to the belt sander.


I did the openings and the collector side

Much better

Then cut a hole in the cap. My 3-5/8 hole saw was stripped out so I welded it the shank


Here's the two welded together


And on the car




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Looking good I like the idea of tacking the tubes together to make them even such a simple solution.
Just curious on your ****** mount will be mounted solid and do you see a problem with that?

 

Thanks I didn't know it was such a problem until I ordered two different sets. I don't think the ****** being mounted solid will be a problem but we will see.


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You have to watch out with a solid ****** mount if you have any ch***is flex it can take out the tail housing.