Agreed. I've experience Bonneville at 120°F with ~10% humidity, Bonneville at 100°F with ~30% humidity, and 80's-90's in Houston with high humidity. The humidity kills me. I'll gladly take hot and dry.
Yeah when the corn was tall we’d see temps in the 90’s with over 100% humidity and no rain for weeks. Only other place you can find that is a rain forest. 120 with the heat index less than 6 months away from -60 with the wind chill. a strong selling point for moving south for me lol
On the note of back home , the entire area is experiencing flooding behind anything in recorded history. Really really wild stuff. on a better note I have finally vanquished the giant mulch pile! 80-90 wheel barrow loads, two SUV’s full with tarps laid down, and @BigJoeArt at trailer filled 3 feet deep. Phew! I’ve got a heck of a brush pile to burn after pulling the bigger twigs and roots out of the pile but I think I can get that done tonight after dinner. phew! Get the 46 sorted and I can be back on the A pretty soon. At this point I havnt even tried to start it in probably a month to six weeks but I’m pretty sorta sure two sets of new points will get it back barking….. I hope. stay tuned.
@Anderson posted this floor board set up from the chicken coupe build and thought I’d pop it in here for reference later never considered it all bolted together it could be stiff enough to work like this but if the tunnel is thick and ridged it seems like a good option. got some more parts today for the A. The “circling back to cars” is getting closer to round
Another @Anderson floor I dig. Noticed when he added the clearance for the distributor he changed the metal coming out towards the floor boards. Just clever little stuff you don’t notice unless your staring at a similar issue in your own build Also feeling good about the 46 running this week and another big puzzle piece for the A should show up Tuesday or Wednesday. Really getting antsy to start back in on it
The time to start feeling self conscious about project progress is when you see me show up at your shop with my wife in my 53 so you can do more ink on her lol
Actual sorta progress! I got the 46 driving again! I found a short inside the Mallory points! I’ve been driving it almost every day around the neighborhood just gaining trust back that it’ll actually start each time etc. I need to wire a new dedicated plug for the welder in the garage then make some New rear shock mounts for it and then I can dig into the A! I had a longer list of stuff I wanted to get done on the 46 but to be truthful as soon as it drives and bounces down the road like it’s more or less supposed to I’m switching to working on the A and driving the 46. Hopefully actual model A updates will start in the next 4 weeks
Honestly haven't seen a decent fat fender in awhile..... definitely not one where the owner actually knows about the actual car. Mainly run into check writers around here. There is a 46 merc beater that a one armed dude drives around town.
I like Mallory ignitions but........ I bought a Unilite for my '53 pickup. (GMC 6) My friend German Eddie told me some day you'll wish you had never heard of that M0@#$% F%*+#@. He told me the story of the one he had thrown in Prudhoe Bay when he was working on the pipeline. It concerned me enough that I kept a stock distributer under the seat and a spare module in the glove box. It took a couple of years but the Unilite crapped out at night in a lonely spot on Highway 50 on the way home from Bonneville. It is still out there.
Waiting til after Labor Day to really start into anything but stacking up boxes but I did end up with some plywood to spare after starting a couple new projects and after some measuring it’s just enough for a mockup floor from firewall through the front seats. It’s not the full 3/4” thick wood I will use for the final floor but I bet it’ll hold me up and make a good set of templates so when it’s time to cut the real ones I won’t have to hope my cardboard is correct. Because I need to cut some other wood up I think that will be my first project and then I believe it will be some order or cleaning, marking, bracing and then disassembly and cutting!
A layer on each side of glass n mat, will add thickness & waterproofing & make it 1-piece ... . Marcus...
No glass for me, makes me itchy even talking about it lol. it will get stained and treated like a boat basically. They will bolt in and out.
Check these floors out, saw this little RPU at the GG show in Puyallup this year. Matched the bed wood of course. Looks to be bird's eye maple with black powder coated bed strips?
Looks fantastic! Plan is for a cheaper version of the same idea. I’ll add some screw on snaps for carpet floor mats. I was kinda surprised at how much easier to it was to drive my 46 after I added floor matts on top of the carpet. Really let me land my heal in the same spot every time. I’ll make sure they are a nice soft surface on the back side so it doesn’t mar the wood finish and we can pop them off and out if we wanted to show it or to wash it etc.
I have a lot of almost new 5/16" oak flooring in several widths we salvaged when my wife's grandfather's house was demolished. Glued to some of the Baltic Birch plywood I'm using to rebuild the wood on my roadster it come out to almost exactly 3/4". I'll be using that for the floors & trunk deck in my roadster and probably anywhere else the 5/16" works to make the metric plywood standard dimensions. If you don't keep the carpet dirt/dust free it will act like sandpaper on the floor. What is the toughest most long lasting product to use on the wood floor?
I sort of did the same thing on my PU, I used rubber for the floors to keep a commercial/roadie feel but after driving it I added a carpeted floor mat my daughter whooped up for me. Like you said, fee don't slide about and the rubber showed dust and dirt that the carpet doesn't.
Got started on cutting all the wood projects out this morning. The 32 frame made for a good work bench lol
Well I got the floors cut today. Still need to remove some fasteners so the toe board lays all the way down, and probably need to cut a bevel on it as well. But it’s most of the way there. its good for templates and for finding out that I’ll need a table saw to make the real ones. One little wiggle and those things don’t want to fit at all. I’d like to make them pretty tight but I know when they are 3/4” thick I may have to leave some wiggle room for actually getting them to drop in. I’m sure some sort of welting could take up and space left if there is any. this will hold my feet but not my ass so I tossed a thicker board on top before I’m embarrassed and need help extracting myself from the car. not a lot but it’s “progress”
A circular saw guide would help you get straight cuts. That said I have a table saw and don't use it a ton but when I do need it, I'm sure glad it's there. They may just be temporary templates but it looks great!
^ What he said. For years I used a straight edge and a circular saw. But around here, on both craigslist and marketplace, you can find table saws all day long for ~$50. So if you've got the room, they do come in handy. I have a contractor one with a take-down stand. Makes it semi-portable and store-able on a shelf.
The Jalopy Journal
