When is Billet cool?

Some more pics of the linkage...

 

Linkage hooked up and working.

I still need to weld a bracket on the Center Bellcrank to hook up the Throttle Cable, but I'll wait with that untill I have it mounted in the Car.

Pics of the Carbs Closed and Wide Open.

And in the last pic you can see I ground down the sharp edges of the Adaptors....

 

I missed this thread untill now... I was working on a quattroporte(sp?) last week and was thinking how cool it would be to have 4 webers sitting on top of an american motor.... that and dropping that maserati v8 in a little modified or roadster

 

When is Billet cool?

when Alex does his magic on it

 

I think this billet quickchange center section is cool................

 

when it's in your fridge

 

I'll save the stupid comments and actually complement your workmanship -



That is an incredible job, and very nice work there. Thanks for sharing the pics!

 

Jub is correct, billet is cool when it is one off. Preferrably done by you. The problem lies in the m*** produced stuff that has questionable styling. Wait a few years and when everything in Good Guys is sand blasted to look cast, Billet for the m***es will return.

 

very nice........i dont see gold chainer, i see 1 of a kind.....out of the ord, very personal no one has one like it cant go buy one... like a gold chainer would do...keep up the good work

 

That's a very cool intake!

 

I think when you make it yourself , and your idea it makes it a non issue.

its the m*** produced stuff that just doesnt have the right feel, or look

 

it's cool when Lil John milled it out and hand finished it to give it seamless fit and soul. His parts did not have one ounce more of material than that needed to function.

 

Did that intake ever make it onto a running engine??

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Not yet...

I made that intake for a project that got a bit out of hand.


But I'm making good progress on it...

http://www.dogfightmag.com/forum/showthread.php?53-Mk1-Capri

 

Never...............

 

Oh Gawd...don't they all? That Capri should run like a ****d ape, keep us posted.
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Billet is also cool when its on a Miller or Bugatti. In other words, polish it up and engine turn it. Totally traditional, clearly one-off, and harkens back to twenties hand-built race cars. What could be cooler than that?

 

I think billet lost it the second the ball end mill came out! Cool intake Alex...

 

billet is only cool when you can't see it (hidden)

 

Excellent work!!!

Some of you guys are drinking the koolaid again. There's nothing wrong with the way Metalshapes, ****era (rip), or Hanna turn blocks of aluminum into metal chips and art.
Larry T

 

Thanks guys...

Yeah, its a lot of fun to make one-off parts out of aluminum.

I made a lower pulley for my supercharger drive, that also has a groove for the generator/waterpump belt.

( original McCullogh part on the right )



After hard anodising ( to make it more wear resistant )




I made a vent cover for my blower bonnet.








A bracket to hold the boost sensitive fuel pressure regulators.




And a steering wheel...

 

Ditto Larry! There should be a sign on the door that sez "No whining allowed"

 

At the end of the day, aluminum is just another usefull material.

As long as the finished piece doesn't look Street Rodder-ish, I'm fine with it being on my car.

And none of my stuff comes out of bubblewrap...

I get my material out of the recycle bins at the s****metal place.

 

I think this is a great thread, I like all of the stuff Metal shapes makes, I wouldn't care if he was making it out of Buffalo chips. If a guy can make his own parts and they happen to be made of a chunk of Billet so be it. I think the guys need to better define the billet hate rule. Any m*** produced, droid made billet should be frowned upon, any hand crafted traditional styled billet should be accepted, we should never disrespect art. Look at that stuff thats freakin art. Bravo Sir, I applaud you.

 

I need a piece to make A trans spacer for my hemi got any for sale?

 

when i went to convert my old push-pull rod throttle ***embly to a cable throttle, i bought a lokar billet pedal/throttle cable setup( just for the price) and i was going to get a custom pedal cover for it. because...it was billet...face it. the **** is just an eyesore.

but, with all the original aluminum trim that ford crammed their cars with in the early 60's, the pedal fit right in. so, i left it. it actually looks pretty cool.

don't get me wrong, i still hate ball-milled valve covers, 80's street rods, and anodized anything, but a simple aluminum gas pedal, in the right setting, is alright in my book.

 

Billet unfortunately.. 59-60 Elco/wagon tailgate hinges. Gazelle Machining, I can't take credit but he is teaching me.

 

Metalshapes,
Great work in mounting those webers on the SBC.

Have you had a chance to run it and ***ess the performance of those Webers ?

 

X2, and I'll bet there were more than a few cars running the lakes in the '30s-'40s with hand-machined (aka billet) pieces on them.The steering wheel he posted looks like it could have come off a indy or sprint car from the '30s. Theres a hell of a difference between hand-machined parts, which are as traditional as it gets, and m***-produced pseudo ****era CNC ****e from China...

 

Not yet.

At this point the intake just sits on a mockup engine.

The real engine ( a Dz302 SBC) and the car are not ready yet.

But we are making progress...


Thanks for the nice words, guys.