Projects "Fly'nBrian" '34 Roadsterproject.

No thanks I’ll pass on that. I was never a fan even though I grew up in that time.
My tastes ran in a slightly different direction.
But it’s all good

 

Fortunately for us, this is a hot rod joint and not a music appreciation site. Both sides of the (concert) isle can be in agreement in our little HAMB community when it comes to the important matters. Party on Garth.

 

Garth hardly.
More like Elton John and the Rolling Stones, Supertramp and on and on
The Tragically Hip is another one.
I actually have a pretty wide scope of music tastes but the doors weren’t part of it.

Anyway we certainly do love our hot rods

 

Yes Chicks = Birds = Suet...Got it Mikey...

 

I sneak in here have a peek and you guys are having a chucklefest...just thought I would add fifty cents worth and thanks for the humor. Good Job on the Roadster @flynbrian48...masking tape never looked so good and your right the color does work well. Oh and I'll like the Doors for ya...

 

The car is setting on the ground, first time since paint. I'd almost forgotten how it looks! I like the stance. I like the wheels (all three sets, wires and blackwalls, chrome slots and WW's, and painted steelies with WW's and big rubber rake), so it is on. Today is my birthday, I can't think of a better present than having this car this close to being done. On now to wiring, bleeding the brakes and upholstery. By spring, we ride.

 

Congrats on the lowering and making it to one more Birthday.

 

Happy birthday!

 

Great job, Brian, and Happy Birthday!
I really like the look with those chrome slots and WW's.

 

Smooth as silk flynbrian!! Happy Birthday & many many more.
Keep on rockin & stay warm.

 

Yes another commonality Brian, mine is in 5 days. Happy Birthday HAMB brother!

 

The car is a all around STUNNER . Happy Bithday and keep doing what you do. Congrats! Mike.

 

Happy Birthday. Car is looking cool


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Thanks for all the positive comments and well wishes! It's great getting your input, even if I ignore it!

 

The wires do look good!
PS: Here's to you're BD!

 

Brian your car turned out great......your a better painter than you lead on to be!

 

Thanks! I love painting. When I was a kid, I was always painting my bikes, wagons, whatever, with whatever left over Rust-O-Leum my dad had under the bench in the shop. ;-) It's still the same thrill, seeing the dramatic change a coat of paint can bring about. I don't have the chops I used to, but this is good enough that color sanding and polish will make it perfect. Got some dust in one of the doors. Why just one and nothing else is odd...

 

I got started on wiring today. A couple years ago I stripped an old motorhome, about the only thing I could salvage (aside from the 14,000 mile 454 and Turbo 400 I traded for the Dayton wire wheels) was miles of 14 ga. wire in various colors and black plastic wire loom. Yeah, I know, it's modern, but it's going to be all hidden, aside from the short run to the starter, and it's FREE. Everything in the cabin will be behind carpet, or up under the dash, out of sight. It's not as messy as it looks, everything will be bundled up together, wire tied or inside black loom. I'm off to Livonia tomorrow to pick up the 5 8.00x15 Coker whitewalls a friend is giving me, so I'll have a lifetime supply of wide whites.

 

The tires... I'll use the best two, have a pair of 7.20's for the front and 5 '49 Chevy 15" wheels with Bow-tie hubcaps. What could be more traditional with a 283?

 

Getting the wiring run. Almost got it finished up today, but Christmas decorating took precedence!

 

After the shop warmed up this morning I trimmed and tacked the old tan canvas on the top bows, and realized it was a good thing I tore the old fabric getting it off the wood bows. The chop makes the side window opening wrong, and the lowered 2nd bow makes it not fit. It WILL make a good pattern, now I just need to decide what color canvas I'm gonna use!

I also made some rumble lid bumpers from an old tire (old tires make GREAT rubber insulators!) with a hole saw, and am busy tidying up and finishing the wiring. A ground cable and some ground straps and I'll be ready to fire it up this afternoon.

 

looks better than masking tape

 

Brian, I see that you ran your wiring down the top of the frame rail. I made a small provision prior to painting my inner fenders, I used panel adhesive to attach loops in-side the body line so that I could run a slightly larger than one inch wiring harness down both sides. Practically invisible and will be cloth covered.

 

I saw how you did that, and was going to do the same thing, but my block hugger headers would be 1/2" from the wiring loom tucked in that recess. The wiring, where I ran the loom on top of the frame, is equally invisible, and stands less chance of being melted there. ;-)

 

Well, crap. I got a new ground cable, battery, and finished up enough of the harness this afternoon to crank it over, fully expecting it to fire right up. It cranks over, but no ignition. I have a new, small cap HEI dizzy, which came with no wiring instructions, so of course, I didn't research anything, I wired the red to the coil and the black to ground. Which is wrong. A minute of research informed me that red is switched, black is the coil - side, so, I may have fried the module. We'll see tomorrow. The worst that could happen is that I have to buy another module for the distributor, or another distributor, as I have no idea where I'd get a replacement for that damn thing. I know better.

 

If at first you don't ignite, fry, fry again.

 

Fired up! Only took all day, I'd wired the HEI dizzy wrong, then found I had the firing order wrong, then found I'd missed tightening a fuel line fitting, but once I waded through all those mistakes, it fired right up and sounds really, REALLY good! I'm happy!

 

SWEET!!!! If they don't start they are just a lot of nice parts. Today it is a car! Mazel Tov!

 

I can't post a video here, but it sounds GREAT right out of the box! I have a lot of dialing in to do, I know, but sounds VERY healthy, idles, all good!