how about some heavy oval-tapered tubing for bones to replace all the bent, broken, and badly welded ones.
So your saying you'd kill for less than $700? I'll send cash and a photo of my ex-wife! Jim A I hid my Double D joint in a $3.00 piece of exhaust tubing with a Coil mount welded to it and doubles as a floor mount. totally disappears and no one has noticed it yet.
By the time I wrote up what I'd like to see, I realized I had already built it myself or plan to in the future and really don't want everyone copying it. I'm glad some things aren't easy to find or build. I'm not looking to be a trend setter. Here's one though. Spoke rims where the back "drum" doesn't stick out so far where it would mount closer to the brake drum without the need for a 1.25" thick spacer. Maybe I'm looking at it wrong though since its been a while since I tried to see how this fits together. Or drums that would fit a standard 9" truck rear axle and backing plates. That way the shoes wouldn't have to be so narrow. I forget why I haven't seen this done.
how about some of those cast headlight mounts like all the old time cars had.....but about 3 or 4" shorter.....so they aren't hanging way out or up there..... brandon
Better looking friction shocks. Stainless, with holes, sandwitched with multiple arms and friction material. The cadmium plated economy ones Speedway sells look like cheap chi-com junk. The cast ones to me look like something made for some other application but found their way into a Speedway catalog. Or honestly, I'd really just like to find the star springs. I have ideas I want to try, but this spring by itself has been about impossible to find. Valve springs won't work for what I want to do.
These guys have them... http://www.concoursparts.com/ alittle pricey at $119 each front or back, but they have them.
seems like that was the reason swapped mine to a setup off of a 8" ....cheaper to buy a whole rearend with good drums than just 2 drums..... brandon
Somebody probably already mentioned this. but some decent-looking traditional sparkplug wire looms for a SBC would be great. i'm thinking something like the old staggered stainless tubes, with brackets to bolt to valve cover bolts. All I see new is shitty Pep Boys stuff.
Has anyone tried this "experiment?" I'm interested in this for my '78 Mustang. the drawing of the shifter disk in #58 was hard to see, so is there a better drawing? That was my original idea, but I must have a sliding-plate blockage. A drawing would be greatly appreciated thx
I've got a Mustang II, restored, and a 72 Escort to finish, but I've had people ask me to look into the shifter for other cars, like a 34 roadster. I don't think I'll want to do an "intro" whatever that is. I'm here to do research and gather facts. thx
So Jim are you really banned or is that just a title I haven't reached yet? Someone needs to make a fabbed rocker cover tall enough to cover my valve train. I'm thinking of making some one off pieces from tin that look like the ones I saw on an old hilborn injection motor. They were rounded instead of squared off. Sort of in your face don't screw with me lookin' things.
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