Guess that I have to post some pics of what my Father did put together during the winter 2005/06... Some info: Body - Chrysler Phaeton 1925, shortened to a two door two-seater. Frame - Own fabrication Engine - Ford Y-block, 292" truck. Rear axle - 9" from a 1966 Galaxie, but it is too wide, so probably we'll replace it with one from a 1954 Ford if that one is narrower. Steering gear - Volvo 544 Radiator - Ford Model A, but we are going to replace it for a T, because as you can see the A radiator is higher than the body, looks very silly. Other temporary things are the wheels, but it has to roll on something... Hmm, maybe the picture became too big? Should I change that? I couldn't find any rules about picture size, but I don't know if I looked enough at that. Do you wonder anything about the car, just ask...
I like it. That 292 is a good choice, and it's longer than the typical T bucket, so it should have more than enough room. The only thing that looked odd to me was the angle of the drag link. I would think it would work better if it was not angled so much. But I'm a newcomer to this stuff.
Now that's a very cool ride. I suspect with the talent that's been displayed so far he intends to give it the finishing touches and do a finish paint and interior? Frank
Sector shaft of the steering box appears to be the same distance from the axle centerline as the radius rod's (split bone) length to it's pivot point (rod end?). Also, the end of the drag link appears to be directly in line with the same point. With only the one picture to work with, I'd say the geometry is right on the money for a split wishbone setup.
David: The reason we chose the Y-block was actually that we got an old Ford F600 firetruck for free, that had been in a small village where there certainly wasn't a lot of fires, so it haven't run many miles at all... Fab32: Yeah, it will get a paintjob and an interior in the future, we have driven it like this just for testing though. We probably will dis***emble it this winter, to register a homebuilt car in Sweden, you first have to show the ch***is (before painting) to an organization called SFRO that will check if it is correctly built, so maybe we'll show it this winter. Twofosho: I'm actually not very much into that geometry yet, but I think that my father may know what he does, because as far as I know, he does know quite much about such things and have built some front suspensions etc. But I don't know much about such things yet.
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