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I've been rebuilding my flattie. It was a good runner, but in the process of adapting an F150 trans to it, I thought I'd give it a bit of a...
I think your head is a great idea. That's what hot-rodding is about! I remember in Australia back in the 70s a guy made an entire hemi dragster...
Sharp!
I built my frame with a stick, but my exhaust and all bodywork was done with flux-wire. The trick is to use short stabs and build a "row of...
Those are absolutely stunning. Thanks for posting.
JB Weld makes a specific high temp goop that would probably be the stuff to use, although it sounds like the regular one works too.
Damn kiwis.... they're everywhere..... :D
Not all of us are 19.....
Here in NZ we have six-monthly inspections. The Harley guys put baffles in their pipes for inspection, then remove them until the next one. It's a...
Thankyou for correcting my wrong assumption.
I'll bet they're not as pricey as separating a set of wheels, chroming them, then reassembling them. :D
Looking fantastic. Must one of the most traditional builds here!
The question is though, do modern aluminium engines have any built in anodes, or do they rely on coolant. Another point is..... we may have our...
I've just installed one in each of my Weiand heads. Mine had a brass threaded plug attached to one end of the 1/2" zinc rod. I drilled and tapped...
I've just gone through this with a Mustang m/c. Turns out that because the m/c is under floor now, where it was originally firewall mounted, that...
I have them on 5 1/2" rims, not much bulge.
VW Kombi has been used a lot (I have one in my AV8) but they're getting hard to find and silly money now. BTW: I've renamed our slice of paradise...
In my part of the world we were about 10 to 15 years behind the US. In 1963 I had a fenderless 27 T tourer body mounted on an A frame with the A...
Most all visors mounted in the stock manner start vibrating and getting noisy over 200mph, well 50-60mph anyway. They need a bracket made to...
I made a spacer like that by taking a few leaves off a spare spring (the top ones) and shortening them with a cut-off wheel so that they're a bit...
I'd pay some serious attention to the lubrication system. I'm not familiar with Hudsons, but engines from that era typically need some help if...
Aah.... always good to see another real hot rod being built in NZ. Where I live it's 99.9% street rods, so I get quite excited when a traditional...
Your skill level is where all of us had our skill level at some point in time. Make your frame .... measure three times, cut once, tack it...
So it needs welds redone, and some dodgy engineering rectified. This will need to be done regardless of which engine you run. The SBC and 4 speed...
It's gotta be a conspiracy!
This one I sold about three years or so back, I had 2" blocks in back and a spring guy reset the front coils by 2". [IMG]
Zddp additive is unnecessary if your engine is stock. Flatheads never had zinc in their years of manufacture, why should they now? The valve...
I have done several like this.... no problem.
JWL's book has all the info you need about this. Dozens (literally) of dyno pulls on a flathead. Indispensable for anyone with a flattie V8.
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