Featured Technical ***July 2025 Banger Meet Thread - Get Your Banger On The Road***

Link to previous month: June 2025 Banger Meet

Coming Events: (PM Jiminy with additions/corrections)
22nd Annual North Central Iowa
Wayne Atkinson Memorial Speed Meet
Saturday, September 6, 2025
Worth County Fairgrounds, Northwood, Iowa
4 miles south of the Minnesota Border, 7 miles east of I - 35

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
https://eraspeed.com/

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

 

Checking in for the seventh time this year...
A friend of mine had copies of these pics when her grandad was home in '43.. not much info on the car or people unfortunately...

 

What for head is that. Carbs are on one side then the other. At first I thought one photo was reversed but then you can see the steering on one but not the other. Also for that time period three carbs is rare. Cool find.

 

Looks like 2 frames/one car. crazy rig!

 

I think it is two different cars. Different tires, rear fender, different wind shield, different upholstery, front small hubcaps.
Happy July
Warren

 

how about that wiper motor? seems like same car.. some funny biz happening here.

 

Same crazy chassis, maybe they did a head swap when he was home?

 

turned it around 180°

 

Either way that is one cool T-RPU.

 

"Get Your Banger On The Road."
Roger that. First check in. Finally had time to play. Cooling and Carb issues sorted.

Meanwhile... What exactly IS going on with the intake/head on that Rad RPU posted by jet996?

 

I reckon Miller/Cragar head in the first picture and maybe Morton & Brett in the second looking at the rocker cover wingnuts?

 

Get your banger on the road....Just did a 1900 mile round trip in the Vicky to attend @BigJoeArt open house. Zuzax, NM to Maryville, Missouri.
Lost a shock link on a launch off a railroad crossing in Auburn, Nebraska, on the trip there. The rotor on the dizzy fell apart in Fairbury, Nebraska. I had been running in the rain, just as it was letting up I got passed by an oncoming 18 wheeler that splashed rainwater all over the car...it sputtered and I feathered the throttle thinking the distributor had been drowned. I pulled into an empty parking lot of a vacant building and the engine died.
The rain stopped...
Pulling the cap...that was full of moisture I saw where the twist pin that holds the center spring tab and 'pointer' had come up from being seated. The 'pointer' rotated and the spring tab was broken... Mallory YS distributor
Spare dizzy installed and on the road 15 minutes later....
How considerate for the Vicky to take me all the way thru the hard rain to an empty parking lot!!!
With the new dizzy timed the car pulls fantastic in 5th (the speedo is 6 mph slow) next trip, dirt drags, Box Elder South Dakota

 

I repaired the rotor as to get a spare back in the car...
I soldered the twist pin to affix it so it wouldn't turn and back out.
The back side of the tab had broken off so there was no way it would have stayed secured...
anyone got a lead on a spare rotor?
internet search hasn't turned anything up yet...

 

The M & B heads appear to have inlet porting on both sides. Single carb feeding around the distributor drive must have been torturous?

 

22nd Annual North Central Iowa Wayne Atkinson Memorial Speed Meet Saturday, September 6, 2025 Worth County Fairgrounds, Northwood, Iowa 4 miles south of the Minnesota Border, 7 miles east of I - 35 Please see attachment

 

I may have some of those rotors.. Lemme look this weekend

 

That would be awesome, thank you!

 

Chrome Model "A" parts add in the thrifties lead Jon, Pat, and I to take a short trip across town to Bloomington Mn. Sitting on the ground next to the driveway was a 28 - 29 roadster body, not for sale he was keeping it for his son. I did buy the "B" motor and I still have the chrome side cover, oil pan, Thomas intake. The block went Dean Robertson. I also go to antique shows and shops, I always look at the old photographs. That is where I found the picture below. Now a little bending of the truth one could say it's the same car we may never know. Gary

 

Checking in, Ive got a growing oil leak coming out of the stock engine in the sedan, so it’s time to get this one ready to swap!

 

I'm looking for a Winfield 4 bolt to 3 bolt Stromberg Carb adapter to use on a Kong intake manifold. Were there any manufacturers that made them?

 

As I understand, Donovan made some years ago that were for D size Winfield carbs. Not sure if any other manufacturers or carb sizes. The only Winfield produced option that I know of was the side by side A’s and AA’s

 

Pulled the head for the first time on my Roadster. Had two studs that required heat, but other than that no real issues getting it off. Gonna try one of the Burtz 6.5 heads out.

 

Change in direction, picked up a mid 60’s Gemsa flathead for a T. “cc’d” the combustion chamber, came out pretty consistent, ie no surprises. Have a T cam over at Dema’s to be ground. Since this is going to have a bit of compression and a poor combustion chamber, sending along all the information.

 

Just a fun bit of SoCal kit

 

Retson I have a Donovan adapter for sale

 

Just checking in!

 

On the Gemsa, fill the chamber with a piston dome with the valve side of the dome slanted so that you can develop some squish and they run pretty good. These heads are a precusor to the Sherman heads. Mid 140 CC's is pretty tyupical for at least one version of the Sherman heads.

 

Retson, I made a Winfield to Stromberg adapter out of a chunk of aluminum. Fairly easy project, sold it after I found a correct Winfield carb that matched my intake. You can do this! This is a styrofoam one I made so I would know it would work.

 

Checking in. Finally to a point I can consistently work on it after a few setbacks. Currently we’re waiting for pistons from Ross and the engine can be completed. In the meantime I’ve started making some stance adjustments.