Once this car is finished and Randy comes to town to pick it up, I feel a backroads settlement is in order - Wally Parks and the NHRA be damned. Yes, I think a street race would settle the score. One bad ass flathead against the coolest model T in Austin. What ya say boy?
Great work Ryan, I`ll be drooling over those motor pics for days. Looking forward to seeing it all come together.
Once the motor is completely buttoned up, but before it goes into the chassis I am going to try to do a real photoshoot with it...
the photo is so clear i have to brace myself so i don't fall into it. skilled photographer with a good camera.
Hot damn that flathead looks sexy. I think all flatheads should be red....or black but mostly red. I'm normally picky about 8ba's being in cars with no hood but the heads help me settle those nerves. That and knowing this is a hot big inch motor really makes me appreciate him starting with the later blocks. Who am I though... Killer build!
Not a lot to report. Keith has been keeping me plenty bored... He's been blasting, priming, and painting all the little shit the past couple of days. It's not as much fun to report. Soon though, it will all be done, the booth will come down, and final assembly will begin. Can't wait. Oh... He also did a little wet sanding. This is really turning out to be the perfect hot rod paint job - not too perfect or plasticy, but far from shitty. It looks how a hot rod paint job should look in my opinion...
Should be a video of Keith doing shake down hot laps around World Headquarters any day now, just sayin'
If it was mine, i'd have a clear coat on that pristine metal body. Brookville put a lot of hours that one and its ashamed that their work is under the paint. Still should be killer when its done though. How much ponies you think that flathead is putting out?
Yes totally agree , almost gets a chubby happening for sure. Watching with anticipation , awesome build with attention to the "look" and the performance of a flathead. Perfection.
Still watching paint dry... But while doing so, how's about some silly tech? As mentioned earlier in this thread, we are running a '37 ford dash in the roadster. Along with that, we will be using all the stock knobs, gauges, etc... Anyway, here's your typical aftermarket headlight switch: Shitty little thing, right? And that knob? Won't work visually in a perfectly restored '37 dash and, of course, original '37 knobs are the wrong thread. So, remove the shitty knob and go for your Riv-Nut kit. Find one that threads on to your switch. Then, bore out the hole in your stock '37 dash knob to a slightly undersized bore. Put the switch in a vice and apply some heat to the rig-nut you screwed on earlier. Now, grab your knob (hehehe) and press it on to the riv-nut before it cools off. What your left with is a shitty little switch with the perfect knob. Anyway, silly... but pretty cool too... and excuse the bad images - I'm a bit hungover.
House of Fab. More on these during final assembly which should begin next week. The twin of this motor which ran in Randy's Bonneville car made over 300 horses... It was, however, injected... I have video of the dyno session somewhere. I'll look for it. Yes sir.
Here's one of the dyno runs... It's sketchy as all hell on a four wheeled dyno, but hot rodders... they do it anyway. And here's that same motor making a pass at Bonneville while chewing up the rear end: If I remember correctly, they were north of 130mph when the quick change ate the gears. But anyway... Yeah, the motor going into the '29 makes some power.
The other way to do that trick on the knob is to drill the hole slightly oversize and pot a threaded insert in with epoxy.
I just threw one of those switches in the trash! Lights wouldn't come on anymore. Solution: replaced it with a switch from the '40s! Immediately, lights were back in service! I will never buy another chinese switch again! By the way, knobs from a '50 Ford screw right on. No mods. Great build! I'm enthralled!
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