Link to previous month: June 2022 Coming Events: (PM Jiminy with additions/corrections) September 18 Auburn, CA NorCal F.A.S.T. Fall Hill Climb Stay safe. For the HAMB banger newbies, here are some links to a lot of banger info: Jim Brierley's book 4-bangers! And me! is a must read book for all banger enthusiasts. US customers send $34.00 all color except for the oldest pictures (includes S/H in the U.S.A.), PayPal welcome, to: Jim Brierley, 39480 Colleen Way, Temecula, CA 92592. email: jimb4e4@gmail.com phone: 951-695-7313. A few links to speed equipment companies there maybe more https://specialtymotorcams.com/index.php#header http://www.millerhi-speedheads.com/index.html http://www.modelatrader.com/brumfield/brumfield.html https://www.hotforhotfours.com/advertisers.htm https://www.secretsofspeed.com/speed-parts Bert's, Synder's, Mikes affordable also list some speed performance parts. Here is a list of most of the prior monthly banger meet links: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...d.php?t=161498 Banger basics. another info link list: http://www.fordgarage.com/ http://www.plucks329s.org/index.htm http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...d.php?t=251717 http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=42480 The link below shows flywheel lightening dimensions http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/may-bang-er-thread.470853/page-4#post-5212157 and this link shows the missing image from the above post http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/...-work-on-bangers.1010716/page-3#post-11427055 The 4 Banger hot rod picture thread. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/the-4-banger-hot-rod-picture-thread.997051/ Model B rod bearing insert numbers http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6992484#post6992484 Engine tuning with a Vacuum gauge http://web.archive.org/web/20120415...e.com/tuning-with-a-vacuum-gauge-spg-148.html Adjusting dual Strombergs: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6638461#post6638461 Helpful Model A tools and tips: http://www.maurer-markus.ch/ford_a/tipps.index.en.html Gary in MN's late model Malory distributor conversion for A/B engine: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=9147025&postcount=109 Elrod's stuck head tech: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=218487 Model A generator to alternator conversion: http://ejwhitneyco.com/automotive.html Gear ratio / speed and RPM calculator: http://www.accuautoparts.com/calculator.php Model A master cylinder mounting bracket ideas: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...73#post4953173 Go here to read the 1931 edition of Harry Ricardo's book "The High Speed Internal Combustion Engine" http://www.scribd.com/full/40610101?access_key=key-w2bcjicdancrnxypd05 Chevy Banger Stuff http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...d.php?t=463465 Post 198 starts a great discussion of the shape of a flat head combustion chamber http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=470853&page=10 T-5 5 speed in a Torque Tube: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=256226 New Banger Block in the Works http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/new-banger-block-in-the-works.616056/ Model A & B Style Cast Iron Cylinder Head Compression Ratios. http://www.fordgarage.com/pages/headcompressionratio.htm
Checking in for the first time. Just got mine back on the road yesterday after redoing all the suspension, 40 brakes and sealing up the radiator and cleaning it up. First show tomorrow
Not a lot of progress in June... Decided to go with standard '35 wires instead of Kelsey's because they don't need to be ground down in order to fit over cast iron rear hubs - but I need to find two more decent '35s Found a T170 - being rebuilt at the moment Let's see how July goes... So far so good - I received an email that my Burtz block is in the next batch! Wishing everyone a great 4th.
I know that this is largely a Ford A, B, T with an occasional Chevy 4. However I have a 32 Plymouth engine I would like to convert to insert bearings. Can anyone help? Rich Fox said he used Allis Chalmers bearings didn't remember which ones.
Nothing flash or serious here, just knocked up a old style header using half a 35 drive shaft and modified a repo Riley updraft intake to a downdraft ,then made a baffle to calm it down a little, a couple of mods for September claypan racing out bush.
Coming home from Montana I stopped in Lincoln, NE and the Museum of American Speed, aka. Speedy Bills, aka Speedway Motors. Things had definitely gotten better! It had been at least 20 years since my first visit and it was over whelming. One entire section devoted strictly to 4 bangers with every piece of speed equipment you could conjure up on who knows how many engines. Here's one of the Alexander's like mine, just 100X nicer. Here are a couple of unrestored survivor scrappers! If you've never been.....GO!
I'll check in. Been doing a good bit of driving in the speedster. The only real improvement I have made is installing a set of Flathead Ted's self-energizing brake doohickeys. I've only done the front brakes so far, but I also put on some cast iron drums up there. My old drums must have been pretty fresh, because I hardly had to touch the shoes to make them fit the new drums. The improvement is drastic. I'll get the back ones done soon. Oh yeah, I stuck that driver's side mirror on, too. Saves me craning my neck so much in traffic. Happy (late) 4th.
Finally got mine running sweet! Another jet change, float level adjusted And lapped in my needle and seat took her out for a backroad blast and it cruises along super smooth now
My car has been running poorly. Everywhere I looked I found a little something wrong but finally when I was goosing the throttle without air filter, I saw fuel spraying out of the carburetor at 1500rpm. That told me a compression test is in order and found two dead cylinders thank God it’s a bad head gasket instead of a bad valve. Get everything all buttoned up and now the car never wants to idle down it’s always idling fast. I cannot find any vacuum leaks, The air fuel ratio gage says I’m not lean.
If any of you guys are in Wisconsin this Saturday, the showdown at Sanford Field in Hillsboro Wisconsin is worth going to last year the bangers outnumbered the V8‘s. Burl and I will be there with our cars. https://facebook.com/events/s/showdown-at-sanford-field/4456422071059688/
A chap with a genuine '29 Ford racer turned up one evening at a meeting I was at with my Chevy racer. It is a banger with OVH and Winfield carbs, and tons more good stuff that you just don't see over here at all. Amazingly he offered me a blast around the field in it, what a beast, a real goose bumps moment! It felt like it just wanted to be flat out and sideways, didn't trust my rusty skills so only did one tame lap. I intended to crawl all over it in daylight and get all the info and pics the next day, but for some unknown reason he and it were up and gone early, so I missed out there. But one crossed off the bucket list for sure! This is the only pic I got..
Been awhile since I posted, my coupe was totalled out last December due to a negligent driver who claimed they never saw me and t boned my car. Well, after 7 months and lots of blood sweat and tears it's all but done. I ended up building a new burtz block, stipe cam big intake valves dual stromberg 81's Rocket 428 head, 36 ford box. Modified ignition with a nurex kit. Car runs awesome, easily hit 60mph.
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