A Question For The Guys Who Build Gassers...

After seeing the 54 Ford on E-bay i am thinking about how my gold 56 Dodge would look with the nose up in the air..I have always liked the gasser stance but i dont know where to start to get the car rolling..I know i need the straight axle first but do you cut off the original frame and fab one up out of tubing? or use the old frame? How do you go about making a steering set up for it?

 

Do a search for gasser post and you'll see how quite a few have been done.

This post will show how the boys at Radshit Methane Industeries did my Stude wagon
HAMB GAS

 

Thanks Zeke i'm going to have to find Radshit..see where he has hidden all of his gasser knowledge

 

I went the cheap and really easy route (and did I say cheap?). After bolting on fiberglass fenders, hood, losing the front bumper, inner fender panels and anything else that isn't needed, a set of brand new stock coil springs is all it took to get the nose high on my '57 Chevy wagon. 14-inch wheels in front help the effect by giving more daylight between wheel opening and tire.

A set of heavy duty front coil springs might also do the job on your car.

The Chevy is easy to find stuff for. You might try calling Moog, Eaton Detroit Spring, etc. and see what the stock dimensions for your springs are, then get a set with the same spring rate and diameter but taller, and install them in yours.

I've never driven one, but I've heard that straight axle, nose-high cars can be a handfull on the road.
-Brad

 

Thats what i'm hoping for a ride that puts you on edge and tells you go ahead see what i'll do if ya nail the throttle a little more. Hey Zeke i couldnt see all of the pictures you had posted most of them came out red x's do you have a picture of your stude done?

 

I may have a pic or two.......

 

Another 'un.....

 

Radshit where have you been?? i called but i missed you by a few minutes.. so what do you think of my new idea?

 

????????? I'm a little partial to the gasser idea......What about the Packard lights???

That Dodge would look trick with a straight axle...I just stumbled across a early Dodge van axle this week at the junk yard...get a hold of me.....

 

<font color="green">HAMBgas II? </font>

 

Blue Dodge Packard Lights....Gold Dodge GASSER

 

Along the same lines.... My 55 is destined to be a straight axle gasser, But I'm wondering about altering the wheelbase as well. Anyone on here done it??? How do those*****ers go down the road?!?!?

 

Ah....the Gold Dodge......HAMB GAS II.......hhmmmm.....sounds like we have a party....

 

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<font color="green">I'm ready for another trip to Casa de Radshit! </font>

 

Hey Radshit when are you going to be around so i can call ya?

 

Good question.....Sunday night....maybe

 

If you want give me a call on my cell when you get a chance...but not in the wee hours of the morning

 

I built a front clip for mine because some douchebag had already hacked off the stock front frame.

 

Anybody got an answer to my altered wheelbase question???

 

i moved the rear axle forward 6in. and moved the springs inboard then cut out the tubs and installed new tubs with the inner edge right at the frame edge to allow wider tires without altering the frame.i did have to add a crossmember to hang the rear shackles from.at the front i cut off the frame rails and replaced them with 2x4 tubing,used 55 f-100 front axle and springs .

 

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Nice work Skull63......love them Mercury valve covers on that FE motor on the rod in the foreground.......

 

yeah put up some shots of your other car, I'm putting some of those merc covers on my truck, I tried to find some of the chrome ones off a 410 but they all rust. not too many rods out there yet with FE motors.

 

<font color="green">That is some cool***** SKULL.

Keep us updated.

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I love it. Never enough gasser wagons out there. Definately keep us posted.

 

Thats it!! Skulls pictures sealed the Dodges fate Hey Radshit you dont have a Ford front end do ya?

 

I might be able to scrounge up 'nuther.......hehe

 

heres a couple of pics ive posted beforeof the '37 and a before shot of the wagon.