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ai caramba!!! what's he thinking...and the others cheering him on???? How can it be steady at all without the diagonal support front to back?...
Looks neat, anybody else?
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I've seen a few nice setups where guys have installed different gauge clusters from 40's and 50's cars in there early flat dashes. To me that's...
AC/DC works for me too but not on my playlist at the moment. Currently it's stuff like: Godsmack Korn System of a Down Limp Bizkit Metallica...
Soon to be on my '34: [IMG]
Why not share the pointers online for the rest of us to follow too?
Thanks guys. I'll do my best to keep it up.
Thanks and you're welcome. There will be many more pics where these are coming from. The two "major" components I still need is a radiator...
Oh I forgot....I'll be installing a larger acorn nut or something on the bolt holding the kingpin to reduce the turning radius. Just a little goes...
Here is what I referred to with my earlier drawing with the front cross-member sticking out passed the frame. As you can see it's sitting between...
Pic 1: I proceeded by drilling pilot holes in each of the holes to be cut in the brackets to allow the plasma cutter to get a little easier start....
Next on the list was to make perches on the wishbones for the spring. I started off by printing my design on self-adhesive paper which I cut out...
My next mission was to get the perch pins, holding the wishbones to the axle, out so that I could remove the wishbones from the axle. When doing...
I finally managed to start on the front suspension. The whole theme of the build called for an I-beam axle with transverse leaf spring. Some...
I didn't take too many detailed photo's of how I put the 4-link brackets onto the diff as I got a bit too busy to remember that. I basically set...
Here are just a few small items I collected for this project. The first is a pewter belt buckle. I'm going to cut off the buckle attachments on...
"Home made" ignition coil cover pt4: Here is the assembled coil cover with the coil now inside it. The first pic shows the cover in the upright...
"Home made" ignition coil cover pt3: In the first pic the next plate was installed and you can see how it cover the lip of the coil. In the...
"Home made" ignition coil cover pt2: The first pic shows it being assembled. There you can see the use of the spacers between the pieces. The...
"Home made" ignition coil cover: The first pic shows the 12 rings and top plate I had laser cut from 3mm aluminium. 2 of the 12 have extra tabs...
My feelings exactly!!! BUT, in the end it's your choice.
Who's spring are you referring to as there are quite a number of pics? No problem dude. That's what we're here for...to share
I'm using eMachineShop.
Ahh I see.... Oh yeah...my second reason, and maybe also very important one, is that it will be so easy to get the BMW disc brakes going. I want...
Richard D replied with: "May be tough to find parts in oyur location(hence i won't give you shit for discs, esp. BMW!) but Model A axles have more...
I'm using a stock '38 axle with "straight" bones (not the ones with the kick-up toward the front). Due to the height I want the frame I can't put...
I'll have to go through all the Chevy rims I've got with the hope there are different ones. I don't even know if Chevy did make stock rims with...
Last night while attaching the split wishbone ends to the outside of the frame I discovered something that's now worrying me. I'm going to have...
Here's a 38 Terraplane coupe of a fellow club member (please look past the wheels): [IMG] [IMG]
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