Going to UN-r*t the Rod,27 chrysler rebuild

Great transformation, you did well!

 

Great transformation! Welcome back from the "other" side...

 

I don't know if you've changed the steering arms out yet but I'd suspect the center link of flexing before the Ford arms.

 

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What a transformation! Is that steering column staying?

 

I didn't see anywhere that you found latches for the top yet, so let me suggest going to www.southco.com and looking around. I might look at "compression' latches first. Once you nose around there a bit, you'll learn what certain type latches are called and be able to do a more thorough search on the net to find other sources. I used Southco latches when I was building tonneau covers for Dodge Vipers, and they have a great selection of quality stuff.
If you know how to ask them right, they might even send you "samples" enough to do the job!

 

Kick Ass transformation!!!

 

Looking good!

 

Great results man. A little help if you can I'm building a lakes modified from a dodge cowl and I was wondering what length your doors are.

 

Looks great so far.
Question about the shroud, could you remove the bars to the cowl, then unscrew the shroud and slide it back over the fan...then remove the radiator and cover?
Keep at it. I like where it's headed.

 

Yeah, I like the new term "re-Rod" too. It must feel really cleansing to transform that thing. Much much better!

 

You have done a great job of de-ratting the car - nice work.
Can you take a couple of constructive comments?
1, is it too late to get it up a bit higher? I'm thinking it might be, but in my opinion, the deep z'ing of the frame and the deep body channel still shout rat to me.
2, assuming the above is impossible, would it be possible to fill in the body a bit just in front of the rear wheel - as seen in this pic..



That would add depth to the body and maybe alleviate the overly low / too thin look.

Don't get me wrong, it looks great, especially compared to how it was, I just wanted to say what was in my mind as I looked at the pictures.

Mart.

 

Very small triumph, I had found a chrysler horn on e-pay, and found it was near the right diameter, the picture looked good so I sprung for it



The photo looked a lot beter than it was, most of the color was just barely hanging on and would fall off if touched, so I media blasted the color off and brushed back in silver,black and body color. I had to cut off a couple of tabs and it just snapped into place!! looks right at home in the 56 chevy pickup wheel I think.

 

Just under 38"

 

Thanks for the link! these ones look interesting

 

Looks like a fun car. Like the dash.

 

The re-rod is coming out great! I agree with you that the first r@# rods I saw were basically low-budget unfinished hot rods. I looked at the first ones and thought they looked like a very affordable way to build. Over the years they quickly morphed into bizarre, unsafe looking shock-cars! I applaud you on your workmanship de-ratting the Chrysler. Also, would you mind posting some pics of the '39-'40 Chevy pick-up in your avatar? I have a buddy building a fenderless '40 Chevy p/u and I'd like him to see these pics for inspiration. Thanks...

 

I've sold that truck and I sure miss it
look here
http://s559.photobucket.com/albums/ss34/rottenleonard/46 chevy/

 

Just read the entire thread as well. AWESOME work man. What a great transformation.

 

What a transformation. If you are looking for stainless latches check these guys. http://www.marinepartdepot.com/dring.html I get quite a bit of stuff from them for my sailboat.

 

Wow great job, I cant believe I never saw this thread before ! Fantastic transformation !

 

small update, I got the steering arms cut off and replaced with the magnum arms, they seem pretty beafy, I don't think they will flex.


Also the steering was a little fast so I built a new upper steering arm that was 1.5" longer, This made it go from a little ofer a turn lock to lock to almost 3 turns lock to lock and eliviated the tire rubbing on the drag link.






I threw the car on the alignment rack but now the tie rod is too long, I could just cut it off and re tap, but it is one of the speedway specials that I've heard nothing but good things about on here, So I called up the folks at Welder Series and ordered one of their 7/8" seamless tubing units, cheap at 50 bucks if it stiffens it up.

 

You're getting there.

 

wow this has came a long way you did a great job

 

this is so awesome to see! good for you.. what a giant step in the right direction! Looks great!

 

I cut and pasted my quote from another thread just for the update on my chrysler.

"Not to beat a dead horse, But I needed a shorter tie rod after changing my steering arms, I had a speedway one on before and after reading this thread I figured I would order a welder series rod rather than shorten and rethread the speedway rod.

Despite the welder series rod being 1.5" shorter it weighed about a pound and a half more than the speedway rod, and the i.d. was substantialy smaller. The speedway one looked to be DOM tubing as was the welder series rod.

Now the question is will this be enough of an advantage to offset the extra 1.5 lbs of un sprung weight? But I guess when you run straight axles you have to have the additude of "whats unsprung weight?"

At any rate the folks at Welder Series are top notch and provided great service and a quality product. They sent a couple of free catalogs that look to have some cool stuff in them."

 

Time to blow the dust off this old thread. I've been faithfully ignoring the car for a while working on other projects, but have managed some work on the interior.

A few weekends ago the guys from the knuckle skrapers were giving me grief about my "ol skool rodz" spade shaped brake line brackets



I had built a portion of the aluminum seat and was triing to figure out a centerpiece, after a little mild ribbing I figured some retaliation was in order. This started my first real metalshaping episode(at least first somewhat succesfull peice") I think it adds something,




The seats are made from .060" aluminum, at this point they are just screwed together I still need to pull them apart dress the edges and fancy them up with some bead rolling. I'm hoping to make them look similar to radiator shroud. I'm prepping my wife for a few hours of bucking Rivets











I also fitted some door panels I had made a few years ago out of aluminum.



After triing to fugure out inside and outside door handles I settled on a low tech knob directly attatched to the bear claw release lever, It works well from inside or outside. The knob I hate to admit is straight off home depot's shelf.

 

Looking great, good to see some progress! Awesome!

 

Wow... looking good!!!

 

like it, looks great