Heyyyy - for you and your Brother - a piece of cake! No worries - ya got this! Seriously, good, bad or indifferent enjoy every moment - it's always a great feeling no matter what happens!
Can we get a live feed camera from Joey’s garage to witness this event? Sorta like “The Truman Show”? kidding (maybe) best of luck this weekend, Jouy! I’ll be rooting you on from here in Japan!
Hello, I can see the anticipation and fun as a result of the steps to get the motor to turn over. My brother and I had put together the 283 SBC motor with carbs on top as our first motor in the 40 willys coupe. It was a good running motor, so we must not have done anything wrong. My brother was a stickler for organization and specific steps to ***emble one thing at a time. All parts for a section were spread out on a white towel on top of the workbench counter. The ***embly area was right in front of the workbench, so, it was pick up a piece and ***emble it where it should go. The first 283 motor was partially ***embled and the big items were necessary. Cam, heads, manifold, carbs and front accessories, etc. Firing up was good thing for us. We were both all smiles when we heard the sounds coming from the headers. Jnaki The second time we had an engine ready to ***emble, it was in a bare block stage, with all new blower spec parts sitting on the same white towel area on the workbench. This time, it took longer, since we had many more parts to put in the bare block. After school hours went into the late evening on many days. although we took a break on Saturday mornings to go to the dragstrip for our weekend adventure. Then, it started all over again with each part carefully handled to get it put in place. If the ***embly of the rods was the job for the afternoon, my brother was at work and I was given strict instructions on how to finish that portion of the work. I was happy he had the feeling that I could do the work correctly, even though I was two years younger than he was. To me, he was always the smarter/older brother. YRMV Note: When the day came that the 671 supercharged SBC motor was ready to fire up for the first time, our little neighbor was visiting and wandered out to the backyard to see what the “older guys” were doing. Backyard garage play area, perfect to run around and for us, a great spot to build our hot rod/drag race coupe. She was very interested in what we were doing. So, she stuck around until we fired the new motor up one afternoon. When my brother fired up the 671 SBC motor for the first time, we both moved back a bit. The sound was abnormally loud and powerful. It hummed to a perfectly smooth running motor. But, at the same time, our little toddler neighbor screamed and ran back to the kitchen door, yelling to our mom for help. She was scared at the loud sound of the powerful motor. Now, it was idling and my brother made the sound less hectic. But, when he “rapped” the motor once or twice, the sound was louder still. Now, our mom came outside to tell us to quiet down. We started to backup out of the yard toward the street and gave the motor a little tap just before we took off down the street. It was pure music to our ears and a lot more power to boot!
He posted a pic in his build thread. More to come. Link here. https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...-san-francisco.1204990/page-178#post-15828124
I keep thinking the radiator shell and the rest of the body will never be painted. I know he will never do it, but blue and white splatter pattern easy to apply ZOLATONE industrial paint would be something totally unique, Everyone’s results may vary greatly!
I'm pretty sure that car WILL be painted at some point. But for now he should enjoy the fruits of his labor
Cool hot rod! Looks like the headlight bar needs to be turned around the other direction to allow his headlights to angle downward a bit.
optical illusion. Between the rake of the car and the rake of San Francisco’s ground, toss in a camera angle and it looks off. If you look at that photo you can see the cup on the bar will allow them to be angled down more but pursuing his build thread I found the majority of the photos it looks like the lights are pretty perpendicular to the ground. don’t know why but hot rod head lights really have a knack for looking tweaked in photos easily. Though to be fair the hills are so steep maybe that’s the style in town so you can see where your going lol
@Tim , could be that a vast majority of us tend to pay a lot of attention to round yet conical shapes and their orientation?
lol could be. I think on a fenderless hot rod they are hanging in the breeze and easy to catch your eye. I recall a AMBR car being called out for a similar thing this year from a single photo of it driving into the hall. looked perfect in literally every other photo. I think being in an indoor show, with every feasible piece of the car being high polished would really play some tricks.
The Jalopy Journal
