Thread: 41 Willys Gasser project

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Originally Posted by 1923tbucket

Yea I hear that, 635 for the whole light assembly. That's somewhat concerning with the chrome for the price. I haven't found anyone else with the whole assembly yet with the h4 reflectors like I want.

Thanks for the response! Looks like your motor is going to be lots of fun!

Just to let you know the chrome on the headlights looks much better quality and is holding up fine.

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Good deal, thanks again! Ill be keeping tabs here.

Hi Steve what you make till so far it is f......king beautiful ;almost 2 years ago I bought an new hood from you for mine Willys 41 áfter many changes like rebuild the motor Ford 460 and the the C-6 trans an roll gage inside (not like gasser style) I finally changed also the color of my Willys from red to matt Blue and on the doors pin-up style nose art and small pin stripes it was ready for me I thought but after 2 race weekends in Holland I decided that I should changes the front and after seeing all the pictures of yours Willys I also decide to go for the Gasser style it will give me more "problems"but it will be solved
I hope to hear and see from your engine some roaring noises
have to find out how I can send some pictures or smaal picture next to title

Originally Posted by Willys41

Hi Steve what you make till so far it is f......king beautiful ;almost 2 years ago I bought an new hood from you for mine Willys 41 áfter many changes like rebuild the motor Ford 460 and the the C-6 trans an roll gage inside (not like gasser style) I finally changed also the color of my Willys from red to matt Blue and on the doors pin-up style nose art and small pin stripes it was ready for me I thought but after 2 race weekends in Holland I decided that I should changes the front and after seeing all the pictures of yours Willys I also decide to go for the Gasser style it will give me more "problems"but it will be solved
I hope to hear and see from your engine some roaring noises
have to find out how I can send some pictures or smaal picture next to title

Yes I remember your friends picking it up, Changing to a Gasser style sounds good, look forward to seeing some pics.

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Not much of an update i'm afraid but the weather has been proper *poo*e recently, I had been planning to cut some wooden bows out of 12mm ply to hang a headliner from, also wanted to put some 12mm ply around door openings, Will wait for it to get better weather me thinks :yes:

However i've been busy modifying my block ready for boring for the +30 probe blower pistons, the block has now gone to the machine shop and next bit of progress will be assembling it.
A job i don't want to do for a good while is the polishing of the crank, It took forever but was worth doing.








I've been waiting for Santa to bring the various engine bits and he didn't let me down , luckily he had a large sack as he bought me Roller rockers, stainless timing cover, K1 H beam conrods and custom made Probe blower pistons, Roller cam and roller lifters.














Happy new year to you all


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Boy your Santa "Had" deep pockets Looks like your on the way

Well the weather has been a little kinder today so carried on knocking jobs off the list
I needed to sort out something for Steve Hudson to tack the headliner too so before I did anything I stuck a piece of ply to the inside of the roof to mount the dome light on, to keep the wiring tidy and out of the way some small pieces of stainless tubing was stuck to the roof and around the door rame for the wiring to pass through.










Next up I needed a finisher to go under my steering wheel hub, noting too fancy just something tapered, had a rummage through my aluminium stock and found a piece of aluminium round bar just big enough, a short while on the lathe and it was done, a quick polish and it was slid in place. I will polish the purple anodising off later.








Next up I started cutting the wood for around the inner door frame, I used 3/8" plywood and screwed it into place as some of the edges have curves, I will glass up the holes and repaint once its all hard & dry.
I bonded it in place with GRP bonding paste after keying the fibreglass














Got both sides done but then it got dark so the roof struts will have to wait till next week


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Nice work Steve, the little bits and pieces sure do eat up a lot of time in the course of a build, don't they?

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Nice work Steve, the little bits and pieces sure do eat up a lot of time in the course of a build, don't they?

Absolutely right Dave, you think your nearly done and along come the little pesky jobs !!!


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Any chance of an update, Steve? I'm suffering from withdrawal symptoms having not seen your fantastic fabrication skills lately.

I was about to post the same thing! Inquiring minds want to know!!

Originally Posted by rspears

Any chance of an update, Steve? I'm suffering from withdrawal symptoms having not seen your fantastic fabrication skills lately.

Hi Roger been busy prepping the motor but its still pretty cold here , you have to remember this has been built outside and i'm not gonna freeze my nuts off putting the motor in plus I now have a strained muscle in my back to cope with because i bought a nice 3/4 size mill, it was an absolute bitch to lift into the shop


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Originally Posted by roadster32

Hi Roger been busy prepping the motor but its still pretty cold here , you have to remember this has been built outside and i'm not gonna freeze my nuts off putting the motor in plus I now have a strained muscle in my back to cope with because i bought a nice 3/4 size mill, it was an absolute bitch to lift into the shop .

Steve,
Good to know you're alive & kicking, even if not the "high kick" due to a strain in the back! Those are a true pain to deal with, and unfortunately only time heals. We'll look forward to an update when you have something to share.
Cheers!

Sounds like a beast of a machine! I'd love to have a mill in my shop some day!

A few people asked for more recent pics so as the sun returned today i took a few.















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