The Jalopy Journal
With the blower causing a air fuel ratio issue I pulled the blower and modified it to take seals and more modern sealed bearings. That was one...
A couple of years ago I did a trade with my old modified for a T bodied, A chissis’d car with a blown F head 4 banger. I loved the car but the...
Is Dan Collins on here, bet he’d like to see how it’s turned out.
yup, it’s one of the things we decided not to keep.
sadly there’s nothing of this car on my Instagram. As I’m building it for someone else I don’t post up anything. Only posted on here at his...
to answer your questions, the cutout in the body for the exhausts has been plated to join it to the inner panel, but that’s it. It was discussed...
Thank you for all the kind words. It’s been a long build that at times has been hard work.
We’re now up to date. There’s still a bit to do over the next few weeks before it goes back to its owner to have the motor built and finish the...
With the body back and the under fully welded, with captive nuts welded on where needed I could carry on and finish up the floors. the trans...
Thank you. It’s kind of how we felt it should be. I recently restored the chassis on a 1960's brabham for its original driver. There was a dent in...
Happy with the chassis we gathered some people and fitted the body back on. Not quite for the last time, but pretty close. Wheeled it outside to...
At some point yes. There isn’t one fitted yet because we need to decide on how best to fit one. we’d love to fit a really traditional style roll...
It got to the time where the body had to come off the chassis to allow all the underside parts to be welded. you can see how much the body is...
we've not been able to find anything else other than the photo for the car. The history of it being a Hotrod first is only guessing. It just...
With the body temporarily back on the chassis I could work on getting the floors completed as well as the trunk floor and some bodywork that was...
I perfectly understand your opinion, and it was discussed at the time whether we should have included the plate or remove it. In the end it was...
As the car had no floors I needed to make them. I couldn’t just use reproduction floors as they had to be lower than the chassis rails to get the...
With all the unnecessary steel removed from the chassis I stripped it down to straighten and repair the chassis rails. The chequer plate was...
A few years back a friend bought an old survivor’34 five window coupe, that looked like it was a bit of a “show” rod in the late ‘50’s then drag...
Cheers Gav.
Happy new year to all, let’s hope for a better year for everyone. I spent most of the first two days of the new year getting all the final bits...
yup, that’s it. I have an adjustable pressure switch on the external oil rail that feeds the cam bearings, rocker shafts and oil mist jets for the...
it’s an oil pressure warning light. When the tonneau cover is fitted I can’t see the dash lights, so added the extra one on the carb.
Finally getting my motor back together after several issues. Hopefully all issues now resolved. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Is that the new block or a girdle with the extra mains. I can’t run the new block as it takes me out of Vintage class, but I can run the crank...
Bottom end is pretty tough. I think the weak areas are the head gaskets at 12:1 cr and the lower section of the block. [ATTACH]
Thank you. It’s an oil tank as it’s dry sump. I’m not overly happy with it out front like that. Makes the car look a bit weird. Once the motor...
. Yes, that’s an oil warning light hanging off the carb scoop. Reason being is if I have the full tonneau cover on while driving I can’t see any...
the ones going to the head oil the rocker shafts and the ones in the rocker covers oil mist jets. This gives a mist of oil onto the valve stem and...
Finally got the motor back together after a long wait for the custom cam due to COVID. Still got a bit of work before fire up time but it’s...
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