Thread: A log of my updates on my '32 Brookville highboy

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Living vicariously through your build!! ; )

Glad to share it! And hope it gives you inspiration to do your own one day.

Originally Posted by Hot Rod Nick

Glad to share it! And hope it gives you inspiration to do your own one day.

Inspirational
To say the least!!
So Many ideas!! When it ever thaws we'll be in the garage with the goal of 2 more years to finish our Camaro.
Topics like this get me motivated---
You folks are great role models by showing it doesn't matter what you have, just don't give up--plan your work; work your plan!! I see it in CHR like an unspoken mantra but the urging & moral support is so obvious!!
Thanks for the inspirational glint!! : )

I don't know how you have those 6X9's firing in what direction, but to add to the quality you might consider a cross over for a small soft dome tweeter that faces toward you and the passenger for each channel to compliment the bass and midrange of your 6X9s.

Last 14,000 miles in the last 4 years.

When I replaced the Muncie M21 with the TKO 600, I was hoping for just a swap, but the Tremec was a lot taller above the center/shaft height.

Muncie out


Tremec ready to go in....


But not without a lot of fiberglass cutting...


Time for some sheet metal work....


Throw the rugs back in....

Thanks for the props on the Corvette guys. Usually I don't hear positive comments from some rodders. Others are amazed by it.

Nick, your car is looking great! I really like your exhaust routing under the rear axle and then back up and out. It looks awesome!

Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe

Thanks for the props on the Corvette guys. Usually I don't hear positive comments from some rodders. Others are amazed by it.

Nick, your car is looking great! I really like your exhaust routing under the rear axle and then back up and out. It looks awesome!

I have a soft spot for compression ignition (diesels). Back around 1980 I bought Ford's show truck the "Savage", which was a marketing platform for the heavy truck after market.


My girlfriend behind the wheel at her home.


Got out of trucking during de-regulation and didn't have anymore diesels till 2000 when I bought a F-350. Nick, from the other thread, this is the truck that prompted me to get my 1st G-Tech. Over time wound up with a larger turbo, intercooler, injectors and exhaust.

Bob, those pics of the Tremec are too tempting so I'm blocking them out of my mind for now Luckily I can get my shifting cookies off in my other car for now.

I'm just moving these two items from my other thread asking about finned valve covers to this one since I ordered the valve covers and air cleaner and hopefully they'll fit.

Trans-Dapt finned tall:



and air cleaner:

Damn, Bob! Hot rods, airplanes, ships, trucks. Have you ever owned a locomotive or railcar?

I work for a company that was founded by my buddy whose last name is Pirkle which is what's on the door of your truck.

I mentioned locomotives since a device we manufacture is installed on virtually every diesel-electric locomotive (i.e. all freight locos) in North America and many in China (being built in partnership with GE). A lot of locomotive hardware are interesting components that might interest hot rod people.

I leased on with Pirkle Refrigerated Freight back in the early 80's. Same company?

What is the devise?

The top engine looks like a two stroke. The last container ship I served on had a 9 cylinder Wartsila-Sulzer diesel. Direct drive to prop, produced around 65,000 hp at 118 rpm. For astern would stop the engine, engineers would change valve timing and the engine would be re-started in reverse, not a fast process. The last vessel I worked on was a diesel-electric, using (7) 4.6 MW medium speed Cat gen-sets for a total of 32 MW. Hotel and drilling loads (it was a drill ship) was about 1 MW, the rest was available for holding position in winds and currents. I had (6) 5,000 hp electric thrusters. If I have to use most all of it (white knuckle time) I was burning about 1,000 gallons of diesel per hour. Here is one of the (7) 4.6 MW gen-sets.

Cool pics! I'm going to start saying my '32 is Caterpillar yellow (although it's actually a Ferrari yellow paint code).

Originally Posted by deckofficer

I leased on with Pirkle Refrigerated Freight back in the early 80's. Same company?

What is the devise? ...

Not the same company as on your truck, coincidentally just the same name. Since I knew about his mom and dad, it wasn't the same immediate family, either.

The device is a self-operating freeze protection dump valve for the locomotive cooling system. It's really the default industry standard for this application. Class 1 locomotives (i.e. all the major RR operators) don't use antifreeze so they're susceptible to freeze damage under various conditions, not running and unattended. Better to dump the coolant than cause hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage.

Wow, cool pics and info guys!

If you like your diesels big.............

And that is me in the pilots seat of the Mercedes Actross Tractor pulling that little load. Yeah right..... but that is what I drove for most of my driving days and a darn excellent rig too .

I've got that exact engine in my sail boat......................