Help!!!!!! in Chopping my 1948 Chevy Stlyemaster!!!

My brother bought this 1948 Chevy Stylemaster from San Fransisco for 3k, and now that he has it he wants to do alot of stuff to it including chopping it, hes a welder but he has no experiance in chopping a car... he thinks from reading this book he bought online "Chopping Tops" he says he has knowledge to do it, but I think thats bull****. Would anyone here have any measurements or ways of how to go about chopping a 1948 2 door chevy Stylemaster? Also, I want to know if what he said is infact true, he said that "he cant put our Novas 350 V8 engine where the Current straight 6 is because he said he would have to replace the rear axle and if he did do it, it would ripture the gears inside the rear axels housing"... now what I want to know if this is true or if this is one of his stupid false idiot opinions...? are there any experts here to tell me that this is true?

P.S.
I would greatly appreciate it if someone could help us out in chopping the chevy, Thanks (I'll Post some images of the vehicle)

1948 Chevy Stlyemaster (2 door)

 

Can anyone help me???

 

Uh oh.....

 

Dont bother. those chevys basicly look choped as is.

 

Check out eyeball's chevy for a chop picture. He'd be the guy to talk to or maybe cleatus. Cleatus has posted pictures of his car during the chop on here before. As for the engine, you'll need to change the rear since it is a closed driveline and you'll need an open. Why not swap in the nova rear? Here's a link that has a picture of eyeball's car on it:
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB1&Number=205523&fpart=&PHPSESSID=

 

Chopping one of those is no job for a beginner. If you want to do it right, go see someone doing a similar chop in person. There's NO WAY to describe that chop in a few paragraphs.

If you don't care too much about the car, then go ahead and cut away. It's only money ($3,000).

On the engine, sure the 350 will fit, but use the trans and rearend out of the same Nova. Couldn't be simpler, not a lot of cutting involved. Not a "bolt-in", but any decent fabricator can figure out simple mounts.


alchemy

 

Oh ****!!! That **** looks ****ing bad ***!! just like the one I got!!!!!

I wonder how he did it!!!

 

he had a MANWHICH for LUNCH, peeled his FORESKIN back, shook out the LIT from his ****, and PILED forward,,,,

Are you a MEXICAN?
or a MEXICANT?
germ

 

Well the thing is we sold the 1969 Nova in order to buy this car.. so now we have no Nova... but theyre selling a 1973 Nova accross the street, do you guys think that that Novas rear axel will work ?

 

grab a measuring tape and find out.

 

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Chopping one of those is no job for a beginner. If you want to do it right, go see someone doing a similar chop in person. There's NO WAY to describe that chop in a few paragraphs.

If you don't care too much about the car, then go ahead and cut away. It's only money ($3,000).

On the engine, sure the 350 will fit, but use the trans and rearend out of the same Nova. Couldn't be simpler, not a lot of cutting involved. Not a "bolt-in", but any decent fabricator can figure out simple mounts.


alchemy


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Yeah im going to let him now about that

Thanks

 

just bolt some CHROME DOODADS on it, and I'll see you at HOOTENANNY next year..

germ

 

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just bolt some CHROME DOODADS on it, and I'll see you at HOOTENANNY next year..

germ

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Im planning to go to Viva Las Vegas!

 

GermO said DOODAD!!!! I like it Aloot!!!

arent they called Chingadero's

 

I like chrome hoo-ha's myself...

 

I'll give you my best outline for chopping that thing.

At least how I'd do it, which is just like the good-looking High-School Confidential car. Look at the Barris Techniques book that covers top chops for more clarity.

First, starting at the panel over the deck lid, cut up and over the rear window, leaving it connected at the bottom but free from the top, leaving about a 2" border around it. Cut the pannel at the bottom of the rear window enough to let it lay forward to meet the lower roof.

Next mark off a 6" cut at the front pillars (next to the windshield). Mark the rest of the pilars the same and cut the top completely off.

Remove the necessary 6" from the front pillars and set the roof back on so that it is aligned at the front pilars and tack it together. This will make the roof move forward quite a bit.

Adjust the hieght of the back of the roof to get the profile you want, and tack it at a few places along the side so that it wont move around on you.

Lay the rear window forward to meet the new profile of the roof.

Cut and shape (templates, templates, templates) filler pieces around the rear window so that the profile is maintained and tack them in. Make sure the roof is solid at the back.

Cut out and align the pieces that form the door opening. The back of the opening on the roof will be a few inches forward of the pillar on the body. You will have to cut out the back half of the opening, slide it back to meet the pilars on the body and tack it all in place. Fill the gap with some formed pieces.

Cut out the rear quarter windows so that you leave a clean hole where they used to be.

Cut and shape filler pieces for those holes and tack them in.

Cut off the tops of the door-window openings and shape them to the shape dictated by the roof.

There that sounds easy enough don't it? Well it's not...

There's a lot more too it but it's about as good a discription as can be written in real time on the internet. You really need someone there who knows what there doing to at least play foreman.

 

KILROY, startin the guy with 6 inches eh! I'll have to keep an eye on this, LOL.............OLDBEET

 

The more the merrier... Right?

This looks like 6"...

 

Let's see...

 

6 inches out of the front, eh?

 

To be honest, I don't know if 6" is right or not. I was kinda ****in' around. But that's what Mr. Barris says in his book. His cars looked like 4.5 or 5 to me but it's hard to tell from a picture. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

How much did you cut your Chev, Cleatus?

The ...Confidential cars look like they're cut a little more but I like how yours flows on that body style.

 

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Hhahahah Cool!! looks pretty bad ***!

 

Mine is 4" in the front and 5" in the back.

The stock front gl*** is 13" high, so a 6" cut would net a 7" inch opening.

Mine is a 10" opening due to the fact that I sectioned 1" out of the roof above the windshield. Even then, I have no need for sunvisors

I like the red car in the sample photo. If I had to guess, I'd say it is a 5" cut.

Just playin....

 

This smells alot like a convert in the making to me. Take the advice you already have. Find someone who knows what they're doing and get some first hand help. Hard to do right but real easy to screw up.

 

Here is some scans from the Barris and Smith books.
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A few pix no order just pix

 

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