Howdy I've searched and searched and looked at every thread I can dig up and turned up very little. Im looking for any photos or threads of nailheads in 33-34 fords. Especially interested in the steering box location. Im recreating an old hot rod sedan that had an f100 steering box, 264 nailhead and a ford trans with closed drive. The exhaust needs to stay under the hood and to make things worse, I'm trying to use a side shift box from a 48 ford sedan. If anyone has experience with this setup I would love to see or hear how you did your steering. 99% of the photos I've seen have a double-d u-joint and cross steer box arrangement for obvious reasons but id like to avoid that if I can. Im not sure this can be done but if anyone has id love to see how you solved this. Thanks! Here is a photo of how we found the car. Stuck in between 2 shipping containers on the side of a mountain. Been here since the 80's. Had to drag it about 30 yards with comealongs with a seized front drum. Big adventures!
I can't answer your steering box question but might help with room with the motor. Do you already have the 264 and are you planning on running the stock manifolds? I ask because the 264's driver side exhaust manifold exists the front and crosses over into the p***enger side exhaust by the oil canister which should give you some room. The 322 manifolds that ran duals are much bigger, hard to find and the driver side takes up a lot of space which in that small engine compartment is valuable. Keep us posted on your progress. Sent from my SM-N986U using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
In the early 1950s, my brother and I put a 322 in a '34. Original steering box in stock location. We (at 14 and 17 years old) flattened the Honest Charlie header to clear the steering box. Probably 1/8" interference otherwise.
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