New project (warning air-cooled content inside)

That's soooo cool, she deserves it. I'l bet she's been driving the wheels off of it. right?

 

Kustom41, have you tried The Samba.com, lots of good aircooled stuff? Go with the single port and a '67 carb. If you can't find one I probably have an extra. With the low gearing in a '62 that thing will run very well. Don't go nuts with wide tires.

 

that is a really good resource, I have been watching it for a couple of days now.... I will let you know on the carb. thanks.

 

I think Ryan and I would get along pretty well, NASCAR ****s...How can the silly *******s even call it stock car racing with not a single stock part?

Since it IS a pre 64 and it IS being traditionally hot rodded, I think this is a good thread. Lots of ******s coming out of the closets. I like anything with an internal combustion engine, and ANYTHING can (and will) be hot-rodded. I'd like to one day, pretty far down the list build bug with the split windows, 40 ford nose, steelies and wide whitewalls. Flat black of course.

But then I also want to build a track T with a turbo'd Mazda rotary. This too is way down the list, along with a crew cab 60 Ranchero.

Since you want to keep it reliable you could always jam a 914 motor in it...heehe

As far as staying traditional I tend to follow the bigger is usually better tradition. I think your approach is far more mature than mine...

 

I don't think anyone has called me mature before

 

I saw this in an open wheeled roadster, not exactly a track T but close.

 

Mike51 do you have any more shots of the rotary? Car and mill?

 

Just another shot of the car. It was really well done.

 

That's pretty cool. with a pair of small 2 barrels with little air cleaners, steelies and whitewallst it would be even cooler tho. I like the body.

The thing that got me thinking about rotaries was a drag car I saw at New England dragway a long time ago. It was a little englich Ford wagon and they had removed the reed valve, had a 600 vac sec Holley on the inlet and a supertrapp on the outlet-hell of an air pump. It idled about 5000, sounded like a prostock bike on the rev limiter, then wound to 17,000 I think he said. they used junkyard motors and replaced them once they were trashed. Ran like a 12.60 I think.
Randy