Tilt Frontend

Has anyone built a tilt frontend for your trifive or seen one fabricated?

I know that kits can be purchased for the fibergl*** one-piece front but I intend to use an all metal and not sure if these are heavy enough.

Really need some pictures or diagrams for the best/least complicated set up. Mostly need attaching points, brackets, stops, etc.

Any help and ideas would be appreciated. Will have no front bumper to deal with but plan to include grill/bumper pan with one-piece tilt.

Thanks.

 

I would suggest you might consider keeping the hood functional.

I have both - 1 piece gl*** and an all steel tilt with still functional hood.

After having both I'm sold on keeping the functional hood - besides it ain't much more work.

Good luck with whichever you decide.

 

ShakyPuddin has a tilt setup on his Chev, and he posted some great pics in a thread a while ago about his straight axle install. Check the Tech archive, I think it won tech week once, so it should be in there.

 

I am build one now, though not for a chevy, if it works well I will put it up here.

 

PM Duckus****us - he's in the middle of doing one as I type.

 

Kiwi Kev's 55 build thread is very informative. The slickest tilt set up I've seen in a long time.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=142015&highlight=kiwi+kev+g***er

 

Thanks for the replies. Lot's of good info. and ideas...kinda hard to decide which is the best

 

IMHO keeping the hood functional is the best of both worlds. In my garage it's kinda tight - flipping the gl*** front end requires more room than I have sometimes - doing routine stuff like checking the oil makes flipping the front end a bit of a pain.

Whatever you decide I would also encourage you to make it latch from one side only - it's also a pain having to walk back and forth pulling pins just to check the oil.

Here's some in process pics I posted before (sorry for replay), but you can see it in action so to speak. BTW if you look you might notice that there's NO external fasteners. There are two hood latches mounted on the firewall - to tilt the front you open the hood - reach in and click the latches - using the hood for leverage (it is a steel front) it flips easily. You can close the hood or leave it open when the front it flipped. To close you just reverse the process - except all you do is let it drop down on the firewall latches - it goes "click click" and you're all set. Drop the hood as usual and you're set.

On my one piece - on my '56 - it's more traditional - pins on both sides - it's a 1 man operation, but you walk back and forth making sure to pull pins and whatnot - frankly it's a pain.

I helped my buddy do one on his '55 (Ford - 1 piece gl*** )and he went with a single hood type latch at the rear center - with a remote cable mounted near the inside of the drivers side wheel well - you reach up under - grab the lever and it's unlatched - flip away. It's pretty slick - I wish I had a pic of it. In any event - again no external fasteners - real easy to latch/unlatch. It's nice.