Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

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send him this pic. and tell him you just bought it at a deal.

LT1 great idea . That will put his mind in motion wanting to hear something like that run . .

I'd give both testicles for that engine, right now...no hesitation....have 'em in the mail in the am!! Very nice one LT, that is really a beautiful engine. How much HP right there you figure?

The pic's didn't come through IToldYouSo, I would like to see pics of the floor going in myself.

Originally Posted by brickman

The pic's didn't come through IToldYouSo, I would like to see pics of the floor going in myself.

Did they come through now brick??

Don

Don do you realise there are now 1000 posts to the thread and over 25000 views. You have become pretty much required reading around here.

Anyway, I know the feeling about seeing something that seemed sooooo good until it was actually mocked in place. I think one of the things that comes with time and age is the ability to go back and re-do something to make it right rather than deciding to live with it.

Don---Are ya havin fun yet????? Been there, done that, got the scars to prove it---- By the way---without making me flip thru a gazillion pages, do you have any close up shots of how you are hanging that rearend, far as radius rods or hairpins go? I'm trying to figure that one out on the post I'm doing "how to build an early hotrod frame". I'm trying to help out a guy in North Carolina that wants to channel a model A sedan 4" and Z the rear of the frame. It gets pretty damn tight for hairpins or 4-links--you can only move that frame kickup so far ahead and then you run out of front seat room.---Brian

Me too. Got a few sparks down my ear while cutting today.

Mike:

25,000! Wow. Must have been all the talks we've had about cats and stuff like that. Or maybe people are just waiting for me to fall on my face on this build. Nah, you guys are all too nice for that.


It has been fun, though.


Don

Brian, sure I have some pictures for you. Are you going to run a traditional cross spring or coil overs? Reason I ask is on my '39 we had almost no room back there for a radius rods because the bed is so short and the cab is in the way. We solved it by having Suicide Doors fab up a three bar set up, and we used coilovers with it. The top bar is like a wishbone turned on it's side, and then there are two single locating bars running parallel with the bottom of the frame.

On my T I just am using a cross spring with two early ford type radius rods mounted to the frame in front. It is actually an aftermarket item that PSI used to sell back when.

Here are some shots if it will help.

By the way Brian.........another outstanding thread on the Tudor build. You always give 110 percent when you do these.........thanks.

Don

Brian, Dan is sending me some pictures over that better show the three bar setup. As soon as they come I'll post them.


Don

Brian: While I'm waiting for them to come, here is a couple of shots of the same suspension set up on Dan's '29. He actually came up with it, and I just stole the idea. I do a lot of that.

In the pictures, the reddish bars are the 3 link setup. Obviously, when he airs it up to ride height, the bars will be parallel with the ground.

Don

Okay Brian, I got the pictures Dan sent me. This setup is super simple and short, if you have little room to work with. Oh, and the beauty of this setup is that you need no panhard or watts linkage to control side to side movement. The top wishbone does that for you.


Don

Don, you need to step back and take a look at that rear suspension. You're putting the connection of the top bar at the frame into a side bending load from the pivot point of the bushing back to the weld point of the intersection of the triangulation bar. I see what you were intending to do, but you still have a bending load introduced into the top bar as well as the bottom bars at the frame connection points.

I have to agree with tech....I was trying to figure out how this setup would eliminate the need for a panard bar. I just dont see it. It looks basicly like instead of a 4 bar you have a 3 bar setup. and the "Y" on top is just pushing against the 3rd upper bar with a side load. Or am I missing something?

But I must admit, your welds are beautiful!! Wish I was half as good!

Don---Thanks for the pictures. Since the fellow already has a set of newly purchased coil-overs, and a Panhard kit from Speedway, I went with a pretty straightforeward 4-bar design, and will use the Panhard rod that he has.

Brian, glad to see you got her all fiqured out. Looks like a very workable solution.


I had a really strange week this past week. Tuesday I woke up and had some discomfort in my chest, and by the time I got to work it hadn't gone away. Since I had a heart attack 18 years ago, and this felt a lot like that, I called my Cardiologist, and they told me to go to the ER. So, I did, and they admitted me for observation. Kept me there all day Tuesday and Wednesday and ran every test known to man, including Nuclear medicine and stress on a treadmill. Found nothing at all. Said the heart looks good, but that my Cholesterol is high (159) so I gotta work on that. Released me Tuesday night, and I feel fine now, and think the pain may have been muscular from all that grinding on Sunday.


Then, Friday at 5 pm the "new" General Manager at our Marina comes into my office and tells me they are eliminating my position. No big surprise, I knew 3 months ago when Ritz Camera/ Boaters World bought us that my days were numbered. They simply love to employ minimum wage people, or slightly above, and we were all on a pretty good pay scale. We made a lot of money for the family that owned and just sold the marina, and they really took care of us because of that. Ritz has tried twice to make a go of the marina business and has failed both times, and the VP told me personally "we aren't going to let that happen again." Well, guess what, they are on the same path once more if they think they can run this business without experienced people. Business and moral have both dropped dramatically in the 3 months they have owned it.

So, there is good news and bad news. Bad news is, I lost my job. Good news is, I lost my job. Now I can spend some time finishing up my car. Every time I wanted to go to a sandblaster or some other business, it was during the week when I had to be at work. Now I will be able to do that stuff. I have already had one person call me with a semi-offer of a new job, but I told him to give me a little while so that I can get some things taken care of. I don't want to jump right back into something right now, and need some time to figure out my next career. I didn't think it would be cool to tell him I wanted some time off to work on my hot rod........might make a strange impression. lol

But in the meantime, I have ordered some of the final pieces I need for the engine, and yesterday I worked on the battery box. That is about the final work I need to finish before the frame can go to the sandblaster. As work goes on, and there is more interesting stuff to post and photograph, I will do so.


But the worst thing of all...........CHR was down all week !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks,

Don