Awesome man! I know how that works. One thing at a time. I love shoebox g***ers. I'm sure you saw the lime green one that used to be on here?
G V Gordon I don't have any other pictures from the day I put the straight axle under my car. I used a 46" wide straight axle kit from Thompson's Garage. The front of the frame is stock how Henry made it. I just removed the original a-arm set up, used universal GM side motor mounts and modified the original transmission mount.
OK, that tells me what I wanted to know. The one pic looked like you may have cut part of the spring pocket to make the side rail straighter. Good looking Ford.
Jon, Thanks I looked into it that is my weeked to work at the hospital but I will try to trade it out. Since that is only about 4 1/2 hours from my house. Kevin
On the one video getting squirrely you can see daylight under both back tires, reminds me of a car I had, but it would jump up 3 times before settling down. Shake the beegeefeers out'a ya...
NutaJunka, It will jolt you in the seat pretty good. But a friend of mine in Ill. told me to try and put longer travel shocks on the back. Since I might be out of travel with the stock replacement shocks when the car launches and that could cause the car to pull of the ground. Kevin
G V Gordon, I used the stock steering box and heat and bent the pitman arm down to let the tierod have more clearance on the oil pan and the give a better angle to the tie rod end. The pitman arm side wanted to bind up a little when turning. Kevin
Nutajunka, I have new 2" wide wagon/woddie springs from Posies. I took the three small leafs out and plan on clamping the leafs. In the video I had all 8 leafs in the springs. Kevin
Hey Custom/3 , thought you might enjoy this vintage shot. Taken at the long gone Flemington Dragway, NJ - Oct 1964. .
LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT. Be still my heart. Awesome car. Building a 50 g***er myself. Been waiting 4 years for the guy to sell me the car. Not to many pics of those on line as g***ers. Nice to see another one. Definitely inspirational. Loved the video. Where did you get your headers, and how well did they fit? Drive the HELL out of it.
Carfanatic, I got my headers from Thompson's Garage 513-237-4428. They fit well clear body mounts off firewall by about 3/4 to 1 inch on p***enger side and about 1 1/2 on driverside. Made my own turn down bolt on tips to point towards the ground instead of into floor pan. Kevin
Those headers look like the ones I have on my truck in the pic. Speedway called them fat fendered ford headers. I thought they might work but wasn't sure.
My uncle and I are building a 49 coupe.65 327 .060 with 11:1 pistons .510 lift cam.2.02 heads backed by a 62 t10 to a 10 bolt with 3.73 gears.I love the look of your car,He wants to straight axle it and when I show him this it will be a done deal.What axle setup did you use?
1oldrat I used the 46" straight axle kit with disc brakes from Thompson's Garage. It was $1275 all I needed was wheels and drag link. Call Steve he will help you out 513-237-4428 Kevin
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