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

Tweet

Nice work on the oil pan! When you come up with a part number for that K&N tall oval filter, post it please. I would like to get one for the air cleaner I have now.

Ryan,

I don't have it in hand yet since it's on the way from Summit. It's K&N E-3504 Washable Lifetime Performance Air Filter Element, Filtercharger, Oval, Cotton Gauze, Red, 11.5 in. Long, 8.125 in. Wide, 4 in. Tall @ $54.95.

Nick,

We are all expecting a report this weekend.

Thanks for nudge, Bob. The only thing I'm waiting on now is the upholstery guy to finish the leatherwork on the bomber seats. Sadly that won't be done until toward the end of this week

In the meantime, I got the taller K&N filter I mentioned above and it was a pleasant surprise that it fit perfectly into the finned air cleaner housing without any modifications. I think now the motor won't be sucking air through a straw.



As a consolation prize since I don't have more to say about the hot rod, I'll post this photo of flowers. This is the latest delivery this week from the Christmas present I got for my dearling wifey pooh, which is flowers every week for a year. Since I'm such a photogenic kinda guy I take pics of each one and this is the latest. If I get impatient waiting on the bomber seat pads I may post more of them. I hope this goes to show the women that hot rod guys can be sensitive and like flowers and poetry not just nuts and bolts and the smell of nitromethane in the morning.

Nick, stick a milk carton crate behind the wheel and drive it.

The trans governor kit needs tweaking since it shifts a bit late. The instructions said it's sort of trial and error and I guess we erred a bit. So while doing this and hammering it once my fabricator/tuner buddy says "..."how can I word this...it's like jumping on the back of a grizzly bear and punching it in the asshole..."

LMAO! And nice flowers there buddy.

And a milk crate on a bony ass is no fun. I'd wait for the seats too. Haha

Here's a bit of an update and slight change of plans.

The guy who I wanted to do the upholstery on my seats got a big job redoing a Winnebago motorhome a day before I was ready to drop it off and he'll be tied up for a couple weeks. So I contacted another local who was highly recommended by an old school established hot rod shop and he's also tied up for 2 or 3 weeks. So I decided to just wait for my original guy to do the job. I'll take it back to him when he's done with the motor home.

Since the weather is supposed to be real nice this weekend, although rain Friday/tomorrow, I'm driving the hot rod home after work today and I'll just sit on blankets for now. I'll be driving it as often as possible as weather allows. I'll try to get a passenger to hold a camera to get some video footage this weekend since I don't have a camera set up to mount in the car.

Well, since we've got to tread water on the upholstery, I'll toss out a slight diversion. Your weekly flower arrangement deal brought to mind a somewhat humorous event from many moons ago. We had gone to one of those charity events; banquet, dancing, and of course the seemingly mandatory auctions, both silent and live. This one was for Muscular Dystrophy. As these things go they like to start them off with a bang and as a result there will often be lively bidding to get the juices flowing. The first item up on the live auction was..................a flower arrangement per week for a year! The bidding started out at something like $100, and before you knew it it was down to two bidders going back and forth, back and forth. The crowd was abuzz as the high bid gradually moved up in increments of 100, then 500 dollars. Ended up somewhere around $8000. One of the two combatants was a local commercial real estate developer, the other, some guy named Bill Gates.........................Gates won.

You travel in a high roller crowd!

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

....One of the two combatants was a local commercial real estate developer, the other, some guy named Bill Gates.........................Gates won. You travel in a high roller crowd!

Uncle Bob (or I should say Mr Parmenter, Sir!), I'd say that YOU travel in a high roller crowd!! Most of us can't say we've been in the same room with Bill & Melinda Gates (I assume he brought his wife), but YOU'VE had dinner with them!!!

Whoa! Cool story Uncle Bob. But you know what (...dear, are you reading this? ) even if it cost me $8000 she'd be worth it. So watch out, Billy G, if you're ever bidding against high roller Nick!

In my travels as well as my private life have rubbed shoulders with some pretty high level muckety mucks like the late Leon Hess or Armand Hammer or the Pres. of a couple countries or even Mr Mayor, but not the Gates family level!!!

I guess we will need to start calling you SIR Robert or Mr Parmenter, never again Uncle Bob

OM Gollee

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Right now the only way I could afford a bouquet a month would be if it were payable in pesos!

Back to how that 427 will drive. It is a good thing your last engine was the purpose built odd ball my 383 was. I drove the T again yesterday, looking for a business I had never been to in an industrial area. Boy do I miss how the 383 performed below 2000 rpm. The higher rpm is impressive but sub 2000 not so much. You won't have the same issues with the automatic with a torque converter that will allow above 2000 before really connecting the power aft. Since I will have to have a fabricator massage my hood to fit over this engine, I should have just had a sbc blower motor built with a small, low profile positive displacement blower. That is the only way I know of to get the best of both worlds, great low rpm grunt and the high rpm zing. Either that or ditch internal combustion and go with electric drive.

Bob, you skipped right over a turbo.