Projects Front engine dragster-Chassis Research 1958 -"Moon Rocket"

I made a steering wheel...Pretty deep, now, polish and chrome.
Then if I use it or not- we will see

 

Here is my rails, and Im going to use a Hurst mount on this. I have anotherone, old chromed.
A bunch of magnets is really nice to have and hold pipes and plates when you are going to weld.

 

Then we have the engine...
Maybe you havent seen it before
Here we go:

IIts a 010 block, prepared for som camshaft and pistons! STD bore



Casting #

Then new freeze plugs, how nice the old might be , they rust from inside, and tadaa, your rebuild painted engine leaks !



And the camshaft is installed, now time for crankie!



Crank



Yeah, um, not really date correct, but later on the mickey mouse cylinderheads, I have made adapters for the staggered pattern, keep the good look.

 

Paint job

 

Cylinder heads just bolted with 2 bolts, for the painting.

 

Intake manifold;

 

What do you think, looking good?
I like the white, with raw and polished aluminum.

 

Old staggered cal custom, with holes for breathers.
Need a little polish, not too much , just get them shiny and keep the age




Taking some Autosol , and making the good shiny work



And the results;

 

Check out King Chassis! He does it the best!

 

I have, really cool!!

 

Comming more pics tommorow!

 

Very cool build, but I have to ask what did this setup come off of?

 

HI, thanks!
This turbo is from 6.6 duramax engine. We have ALOT of these on the company I work on. I think that one is a STD turbo, but we have upgrade turbos as well

 

And here we got the front axle, its a shortened I belive a ford 32?
I tried to figure that out, but who knows

I have installed a couple of chromed spindles on it.



Needed to check with spring and purches,
and got rid of two blades;




Hope you like it!

 

Looks like you are making great proggress man keep it coming.

 

Thanks man!!

 

Some little work before any paint job;




Clean from rust n dirt

 

Little white color on this piece

 

hi guys! starting my vaccation today!!! yeaahh!
And I have some nice stuff to share today
What about a old steering box with butterfly steering wheel !

 

maybe it helps to upload a pic too

 

old used chrome, nice

 

weights really little, awsome

 

do you know the steeringbox, the manufacture?

 

For the brakes, I found this piece;

 

An Old nice piece of Eelco fuel tank.
now I have made brackets to weld on the rails.
I love Eelco!

 

The front axle is painted now, and tested again to just see some results
BTW, is this build thread okay?

 

Moon Rocket

 

Okey, I did try these rocket racing wheels , pretty cool looking;

 

The mastercylinder is mounted on the pipe now!
Just adjust the pipe endings to the rails later on.

 

Some shiftknobs, the one to the left, the dark planet, is going on my brake handle!