Technical ***August 2023 Banger Meet Thread - Sleepy Days of Summer***

Link to previous month: July 2023 Banger Meet

Coming Events: (PM Jiminy with additions/corrections)
Stay safe.

For the HAMB banger newbies, here are some links to a lot of banger info:

Jim Brierley's book 4-bangers! And me! is a must read book for all banger enthusiasts. US customers send $34.00 all color except for the oldest pictures (includes S/H in the U.S.A.), PayPal welcome, to:
Jim Brierley, 39480 Colleen Way, Temecula, CA 92592.
email: jimb4e4@gmail.com
phone: 951-695-7313.

A few links to speed equipment companies there may be more
https://specialtymotorcams.com/index.php#header
http://www.millerhi-speedheads.com/index.html
http://www.modelatrader.com/brumfield/brumfield.html
https://www.hotforhotfours.com/advertisers.htm
https://www.secretsofspeed.com/speed-parts

Bert's, Synder's, Mikes affordable also list some speed performance parts.

Here is a list of most of the prior monthly banger meet links:
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...d.php?t=161498

Banger basics. another info link list:
http://www.fordgarage.com/

http://www.plucks329s.org/index.htm

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...d.php?t=251717

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=42480

The link below shows flywheel lightening dimensions
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/may-bang-er-thread.470853/page-4#post-5212157
and this link shows the missing image from the above post
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/...-work-on-bangers.1010716/page-3#post-11427055

The 4 Banger hot rod picture thread.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/the-4-banger-hot-rod-picture-thread.997051/

Model B rod bearing insert numbers
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6992484#post6992484

Engine tuning with a Vacuum gauge
http://web.archive.org/web/20120415...e.com/tuning-with-a-vacuum-gauge-spg-148.html

Adjusting dual Strombergs:
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6638461#post6638461

Helpful Model A tools and tips:
http://www.maurer-markus.ch/ford_a/tipps.index.en.html

Gary in MN's late model Malory distributor conversion for A/B engine:
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=9147025&postcount=109

Elrod's stuck head tech:
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=218487

Model A generator to alternator conversion:
http://ejwhitneyco.com/automotive.html

Gear ratio / speed and RPM calculator:
http://www.accuautoparts.com/calculator.php

Model A master cylinder mounting bracket ideas:
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...73#post4953173

Go here to read the 1931 edition of Harry Ricardo's book "The High Speed Internal Combustion Engine"
http://www.scribd.com/full/40610101?access_key=key-w2bcjicdancrnxypd05

Chevy Banger Stuff
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...d.php?t=463465

Post 198 starts a great discussion of the shape of a flat head combustion chamber
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=470853&page=10

T-5 5 speed in a Torque Tube:
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=256226

Model A & B Style Cast Iron Cylinder Head Compression Ratios.
http://www.fordgarage.com/pages/headcompressionratio.htm

 

OMG ITS AUGUST ALL READY

 

Yep
Heading out to the great white salty dyno

 

Checking In!!!!

 

John- good luck- there's a half inch of water in the pits- it rained last night!! Pray for sun and wind.............

 

Good luck John.

.

 

Checking in

 

GOOD LUCK JOHN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Thanks Dan
After last year I am looking for a new boat

if there’s water in the pits the courses must be under water
Typically the pits are higher elevation

J

 

Getting the Burtz ready to put back in.

 

Now you’re talking!!

 

Had a great time this past weekend at Round Top NY dirt dragging and a reliability run.
Warren

 

I'm here; but heading for the shop! A couple of weeks until we 'Load In" up at Laguna Seca!

 

Checking in
Slowly working on things.
Off to the machine shop for some new bearings, being told it’s a couple months wait. Oh well.
Anyone know if these are stock pistons?

 

Checking in, though I don't have a Banger anymore but I'm kind of itching to get another one

 

Feed the need...go slow and live forever....

 

That is such a fantastic looking piece of machinery. Every time I see it I'm amazed. I finally had to say something LOL.

 

No banger progress, but I'm here.

 

ME TOO (Every time I look at it)! LOL

 

Big progress last weekend, new motor is bolted in.

 

Exactly how I got back into a banger. Sold a 600hp car, haven’t looked back. Get another, I’m sure you won’t regret it.

 

August check in. Recently got a juice brake conversion. Looking for a roadster top to get some shade during this heat.

 

Looks great. Is that water pump set up with a real pressure seal, or just a little lip seal like the "leakless" A pumps? I don't see a packing nut.

Always baffles me how so many guys call that thing a motor. I guess, haha, most guys didn't have an old man that would chew their ass every time they called an engine a motor.
LOL, same thing with the difference between a hat and a cap. BTW, there ain't no such thing as a baseball hat.

 

No motor heads ...engine heads in my family except for me...
In the 6th grade I did a project that consisted of a written component and an oral presentation, Cross referenced, researched, footnoted....illustrated and submitted on the 4-cycle, internal combustion engine. I made the distinction between the term 'Motor' as being a device that was powered externally and a Internal Combustion "Engine". For the oral presentation I also brought in the next door neighbor who was a supervisor in the National Laboratory over the motor pool. He was always mechanicing on something and his dad had a local automotive repair garage....
My Teacher ask him, first off, what the difference was " between a motor and an engine"
His reply; "they are the same thing" " interchangeable descriptors of the thing under the hood"
The mark up on my paper said "get your facts straight" and a grade of a D.....

 

I`m still here ! lost a shock link the other day hitting a pothole so new set ordered( I have a feeling i will loose another!)Picture of my car on Pendine Sands by Yellow Hound Photography ,why?-well just because I like it!!! any idea what era it looks like it was built in?

 

Haha, hard to say exactly what my dad would have said to your teacher about that grade, but I'm pretty sure she wouldn't have liked it. With all the random lingo that is deemed acceptable in modern "American English" this is pretty small potatoes, but I still have a good time teasing folks about meaningless bullshit. lol

 

I went thru this when I dropped the front end with reverse eye springs and a lesser spring leaf count. With the Houidalle the shock rotation maxes out and hammers on the link. I shortened the tubular links to put the shock rotation back in the center of the travel. I cut the outer housing. Gas welded it back together and then removed the same amount from the inner sleeve. Reassembled and you have to make sure you have lots of preload on the link...I bottomed out the threaded end plug. Had to use a large pair of water pump plyers to get the ball to seat inside the link. The ride improved substantially too because the shock action wasn't 'bottoming out' and limiting the spring travel.

Good luck

 

Thats exactly what I had done too , It was a huge pothole to be fair ,the wheel is fine and like you said I maybe did not have the preload ramped up as much as it needed-done the other three some more now!

 

I beat you.. I did this hitting a pothole

 

12 dollar auction buy