Thread: Followed Me Home II
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04-01-2014 06:47 PM #11
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- Car Year, Make, Model: 40 Ford Deluxe, 68 Corvette, 72&76 K30
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I'm just trying to understand how a short boxed frame like these will droop with no weight on them? How much does that roadster body weigh? Just asking because I sure don't know it all. I've had people tell me my frame on my K30 will flex horribly and I'm still waiting for it. It's boxed with 1/4" and I feel you'd have to be at the end of a 300' sled pull with the weight of the sled at your back door to get it to flex.
Roger or anyone else, when I built my Corvette and did the front tilt. I used 1" round tubing for my inner structure and I wrapped the tubing with wax paper and then glassed over that to keep the 2 seperate. I got that trick from one of the greatest Corvette restorers around here. Whom, has sadly passed away. On cold days when the dew sets on the hood, you can see the factory bracing, but not my tubing. It worked on it pretty well.Ryan
1940 Ford Deluxe Tudor 354 Hemi 46RH Electric Blue w/multi-color flames, Ford 9" Residing in multiple pieces
1968 Corvette Coupe 5.9 Cummins Drag Car 11.43@130mph No stall leaving the line with 1250 rpm's and poor 2.2 60'
1972 Chevy K30 Longhorn P-pumped 24v Compound Turbos 47RH Just another money pit
1971 Camaro RS 5.3 BTR Stage 3 cam, SuperT10
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I believe this was somewhere around 2015, Rick, Rosie and Johnboy
John Norton aka johnboy