Hey all, been forever since i posted anything on here so i thought i would toss on some neat pics from summer. Did a bunch of drivin to events and such and took some neat shots while drivin of my buddys cars too... also some pics from the day at the street legal drags up here... not often you get to see a****st the musclecars and street machines a couple of whitewalled rides tearin it up too... Cruisin the Dub one saturday night in summer... thats a friends blown dodge and my 53 pontiac and my bros 51 monarch. Roadtrippin!! Showin and shinin... well maybe not too shiny haha.. my buddys truck is an attention grabber with a 455 in the bed...
Drivin to the drags... Old cars are great, can carry everything... such as the slicks for his wifes mustang. Lined up in staging lanes...a****st the muscle.. On the return road... no drag shots in stills as i was tapin it while they raced... the chevy truck ran a 14.7 and the 51 Monarch ran a 14.9 good times!! Our club took a batch of cars up...this was our pits area, lil old and new, but all good fun...
Excellent pics, thanks for sharing! That Chevy p/u looks bad***...will it pull the tires when it launches?
awesome pics!, i love when ppl drag race their rods. doesnt happen too much around my area. i wanna see more on the setup of that truck!!
Heres another shot of the truck. Have to get my buddy to post more pics of it as he naturally has more and he is a member on here.... Its a 455 Toronado set up in the rear. So it has 4 wheel independent suspension, complete tube ch***is, 4 wheel disc brakes...etc. Works sweet, as he put a bunch of miles on it this year too. Its set up like a trike... as thats where the entire rear section came from... a custom trike that had been built and tore down, then swapped into this truck set up. Aligned great now, and sits so slammed and rides great. Has no provisions yet up front for a trunk set up yet, but will eventually. This winter will lead to more rust repair and bodywork on it now that the engineering side of it is all done.... hey it p***ed a NHRA tech inspection with 8 inspectors crawling all over it so he must be doin good. Doesnt pull the wheels. Getting a dual quad offy set up tho this winter so should be pretty sweet. oh yeah, heres a couple other pics just cuz its fun... me and him tryin to warm up a fall evening....
How did you compensate for the lack of weight on the front suspension to get the correct driving control? Ride height is easy to set, but springs need weight to work properly.
I found the thread. Yep, the black truck is mine. It's a hard beast to explain, but it works well, even in it's crude, unfinished form. It's a 455 Olds and a TH425 out of a 1969 Toronado. It has the stupid-low intake that requires a 2" carb spacer to run an Edelbrock carb, and a cam that is best suited for a stump puller. It makes 510lbs of torque at 3400 rpm I believe, and 375 hp at 4500rpm. The bottom end is smooth, but the midrange pull is pretty crazy. This winter the iron intake and single Edelbrock 600 will be coming off in favour of a hi-rise dual plane offy 360 dual quad with a pair of Carter 500cfm AFB's. It will be plumbed tank to carb with Russel braided stainless line and will have a progressive linkage. Up front there is no storage....Yet.... The rad, brake booster and master, and steering shaft occupy the space at the moment. The front springs are belltech drop springs or something. The front crossmember is a 73-87 fullsize blazer setup. It rides smooth as it should, I think because it has a complete Pro Street frame on the truck. The 6 cylinder was heavier, but a full 2x5 box heavy wall tubing frame isn't light either. The truck actually weighs 3600lbs if I recall correctly (I weighed it at a rig weigh scale before heading to the track). The front tires are about 1" from the front inner fenders, and rub with a screech on low spots in the road, so I'll be modifying the inner fenders this winter as well. One thing that tells me though, is there is enough weight there for spring compression to occur. The steering is Ford Aerostar power rack and pinion. Yes, it is light, and very unresponsive. Roll a beer can on it's side across your work bench, that's my steering. Steering a boat compares as well. That said, I've driven it on smooth highway, rutted highway, gravel and in a crosswind. Around 2000 miles this year, and no negative effects. At first it was something that I had to get used to, but I'm good with it now. That being said, it will be getting a Non-power mustang II rack this winter I think. It has the LOUD Ford power steering pump, long hydraulic hoses, and the rack leaks. The truck WILL NOT pull a wheelie. It will pull a 2.0 60' with 235/75 all seasons and 35lbs of air in them, but it will not wheelie. With a higher stall speed, it might try harder, but at the moment it will not. The hairy hurst Olds used to launch pretty violent and toss the front around, even with another transaxle up there, but mine seems pretty tame so far. I have about 500 pics so far from my build, so anything you need I can supply it. Thanks for the positive feedback, and I might just have to start a build thread.
Real cool pics, Brent. It looks like you guys had a hell-of-a great summer. The drag pics are cool, did you get yours out there...or whimp out??? Your buddies truck is cool too, real nice work he's done! Since you haven't posted anything up here in a real long while, I think you need to put some more pics up for us from your summer of cruzin!!
Nope i didnt have mine out there, the sedan is not at that stage yet...tho after seeing what the guys had to do to get their rides nhra safety p***able i will build in a few things so mine can run next time. I drove dads A roadster that weekend and in one pic you can see it in the background... it was one that was not p***able as it has a trunk mounted battery and no exterior kill switch unfortunately so i was camera man...
Ohhhh well the weather was nice and the roadster had hardly been driven so i was goin pipes open in a roadster that day!!
Man that is one cool truck. Would be interested in seeing more pics. How about a build process thread on this one?
Finally have a build thread for everyone who asked! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=3474580&posted=1#post3474580
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