Thread: 41 New Yorker Coupe

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Pugsy - How did I miss this build? Very cool mods to the original front. Your sheet metal skills are fantastic! The frame and the geometry for the front suspension is seriously some of the most detailed stuff I've seen here. Thank you for posting your build, I look forward to seeing it thru!

Originally Posted by stovens

Pugsy - How did I miss this build? Very cool mods to the original front. Your sheet metal skills are fantastic! The frame and the geometry for the front suspension is seriously some of the most detailed stuff I've seen here. Thank you for posting your build, I look forward to seeing it thru!

Thanks Steve.

All these details are taking forever.

I was out tapping on the front metal on the weekend and man am I having a hard time.
I tacked everything together before I should have and I'm paying the piper now.
The shape is way off and its gonna be pretty hard lifting the whole car onto the English wheel to smooth out all the knock dings I've put into it.

Well, there's always high build primer and bondo I guess.

After figuring out the pivot points I started on the sleeves for the ball joints.

I found some nice steel screw in style sleeves for the upper arms at the local speed shop.
As I wanted stainless finish, I welded some schedule 80 pipe around the sleeves to weld the arm to.








For the lowers, I got stock Cobra ball joints.
These were a little trickier as they are press in
I used two pieces of schedule 80 pipe for these. I had to cut a sliver out and reweld to the correct size to fit the balljoint. The weld seams ended up under the connection point of the arm to the sleeve to lock everything up for sure.





The pic below shows the fit of the ball joint after it was pressed out.

Here's a beauty move.

Nice looking lower control arm going together.....







It would be good if it was going on a train and the wheels didn't have to turn....DOH!

I cut the obtrusive pipe off and started on the upper arm to get the wheel turning and to figure out how to get out of the lower arm mess.






Jigged the upper arms up to weld the sleeves on.





Got the uppers done and the bushings and sleeves made up.
I screwed the ball joints in to check things out.

I got the lower control arm mess sorted out and finished the coilover mounts and Delrin bushings.













Of coarse a couple of grease fittings for good measure.

I cut all the pieces for the crossmember and the front kickups and welded them up.