Thread: brookville 32 build ....gonna be a monster

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Well far as a hood im gonna run a 3 piece hood that will be removable , when funds are saved up again...

i think im gonna name this car tight fit !! got alot of obstickles to tackle , but anything that gets in my way ill warn you ""ill cut"" ..lol. anyway made some good progress last night till the neighbor walked up the driveway and said im makin too much noise late at night.....needless to say i wasnt done fitting stuff so i packed it in for the night , but stay tuned im off this week from work so ill hopefully have the frame mocked up complete , and off to powder coat the following monday .....

That's what I enjoy about country living, never really liked closeness. nearest neighbor is 50 yards away and he works nights at HD so he is never home. The other neighbor built a new house and moved leaving the old house as a for sale by owner, which so far hasn't. All other neighbors are too far away to be concerned with anything short of an explosion.

You did the right thing, me on the other hand, after kindly explaining the problems I had been having with the build, might have suggested to your neighbor that having a wrenched shoved up the old wahoo was not an impossibility.

yeah well my neighbor looked a little nervous comming into my garage after he looked at me with my angry look on my face .....but hey it was late and i was wrong so ill keep the noise down after 9:30 at night .

Fortunately, at my last house we had super neighbors. They tolerated my garage noisemaking at night, and I tolerated their pool parties and loud friends who stayed late into the night. It was just understood that we all offended each other from time to time and that was part of living with neighbors.

But I have had homes where they were not so understanding. Had some who called the cops on us at any little code we broke, and Cape Coral has more codes than Morse. However, that is a double edged sword, because as soon as they would screw up, the cops were at their door too. I never liked to be that way, but usually a few of those visits and they got the message that I was not going to screw around.

Don

got alot of good stuff done today ill post pics soon ... im so glad i moved the motor back dispite the fact of all the extra work but now it is all correct .

my goal is to get the frame compltely mocked upthis week, because saturday next week the frame is off to powdercoat . hopefully i dont forget anything once you powdercoat that is it...

Originally Posted by godspeed32

... im so glad i moved the motor back dispite the fact of all the extra work but now it is all correct .

Glad you did too.............you'll be happier in the long run too.

As for the powder coat and having to do mods later, hopefully you're going with a color that you can touch up later with a small amount of paint..........there's bound to be something...............it's the rodders way.

car is going black with red leather interior and chrome....

Yup, that's the worst part about powdercoated frames, something always gets forgotten or has to be modified.... Hurrying to get it off to the powdercoat shop just increases the odds of it happening....Good luck.

Yep, there is always something ! My suggestion is to completely finish the car start it, drive it for a couple hundred miles, then blow it apart and chrome and paint it. Then be real careful when you put it back together. Just a suggestion from someone who has forgotten something or changed something on a build.

Power coating your frame might be a bad idea on a hiboy. I hear the body and frame come out a little bit different and there are lots of different blacks. I have no experience on this just from what I read. Im sure some people can enlighten you on this.

I'd just paint the frame with the same black you're using for the body. The color will match dead-on, and unless you're planning on driving down a gravel road 80 mph daily, there's no real need for powdercoating IMO. Plus if it ever DOES get a few little chips, you can touch 'em up easily with color that is a perfect match. I've been driving the wheels off of my car and the painted frame has yet to get a single chip, and wipes off as easy as the body. That shifter looks cool as heck btw... I wish my car had 3 pedals!

The little one is doing a great job sanding. It's good to get kids into cars at a young age. (or maybe not, financially). Both of my sons are gear heads and they've already got their kids into cars at a young age. I can blame my gearheadness on my dad. First car I remember of Dad's was a fairly new 49 Ford Club Coupe with a full house flathead.

Powder coating the frame, IMO, is the only way to go. BUT, for sure do a full blown assembly before you strip it to go out for coating. Luckily I only had a couple of holes to drill and tap after mine was done.

Your little cutie helper is nice - enjoy your time with her because before too long she will "too busy" to help dad. Mine helped, then she was gone on to more interesting things for her - now married, living 200 miles away in NJ and raising her own 3 kids with a husband (good guy) that doesn't know which end of a hammer to hit with.

Here is my PC frame

i have a real good paint supply house near me , and my powdercoater as well , his high gloss black powdercoat will be matched with the color gun used by good paint stores . i was thinking that but then i reassured the paint and powdercoat will match very well,