1930 Chevy sedan build thread...trying for 3K.

[brickman]

Good point Brian, that is excellant food for thought considering I can pick up sedan bodys fairly reasonable.

[brianrupnow]

Two door sedans are perfect for us "Mature statured" men. When I built the roadster pickup (see avatar) I made the length from the dashrail to the back of the cockpit 6" longer than Henry Fords roadster pickup and pickup, and put in a tilt steering column. And if my stature gets any damn "maturer" than it already is, I'm going to need a big can opener---

[buckroseau]

We'll I hope it's big enough for a man of stature....I'm 6'9" Not skinny, but not to wide..about 280.

That was a concern of mine before I chopped the top, head room. I had it tacked together and I was sitting inside with boards stacked up, calculating the 4" channel and chop. Kinda came up with 3.5" chop for that reason also. I am planning on using the orginal seats and they pretty much sit on the floor.

I was actually sitting in there tonight with a couple boards stacked up. With the seat in the right position and decent angle to it...I seem to fit in there just fine.

Matt

[TurboTwo]

thumbs up for another early 30's original Chevy owner! we're rare

[buckroseau]

Figure I better post up some pics of some progress. Took some photos of the last month and I'll do my best to rememeber how it went and what I did. Probably be a lot like the begining of my thread, couple months behind

And, thanks to Brent for getting such a great site back up and running

Pics below I think are of some bear jaw door latches I welded in. I ordered the latches and the plates that fit the latches..makes it much easier just to weld in the plates.

[buckroseau]

Few more pics of the door action. I cut apart the pin assembly itself and welded the cage and nut to the back of my B pillar. Jigged up a temporary door assembly to link it together.....just so I could close the doors

[buckroseau]

I should have taken some more pics of this, but I didn't.....sorry. Got the radiator fabbed in. I bought a new 1976 Ford F-100 6 cyl. radiator for $120 bucks. I had to cut the front flanges off, and then fab up some new rear mounts and weld those in. I used some expanded steel for the grill. I used a couple pieces of angle iron on the grill, welded them to the expanded sheet metal and tapped them into the tin on the radiator. I had a new tranny cooler on the shelf and made a couple brackets out of some flat stock that spanned the rear of the radiator.

Also made a couple brackets that bolt into the lower support through the factory holes on the orginal grill shell. Then welded 3/16" flat stock to that and tapped those into the bottom of the frame to support the radiator and shell.

[buckroseau]

Mounted the visor in. It used to screw up into a piece of wood, but obviously that wasn't there anymore. I used a piece of 1/8" flat stock, welded it on the inside and drilled / tapped some 10/32 pan heads to hold it up.

Also tack welded a couple brackets in and got the dash mounted. There was an aluminum piece that ran in between the A pillars. That also used to thread into a piece of wood. I had to weld in another piece of 2" flat stock and drill /tap that into the flat stock..worked very well.

[buckroseau]

Few pics of my temporary steering column...just so I can figure out what length I needed. Also pics of my brake M/C and pedal arm. I had to heat up the arm with the torch and do a little bending.....you should be able to see how I formed it about 2" to the left to clear where the steering column is going to go.

Also one pic of the floor area. I welded in some X bracing off the tranny x-member and tapped 1/2" grade 8 bolts into the frame.

[buckroseau]

I really didn't take any pics...but welded the floor in. I used 14 ga. which is pretty thick, used a hand shear on that and fit all the lower and rear pieces. I was able to get my new 36" column mounted in and U jointed to my mustang steering box. Also mounted my acc. pedal. The pedal is out of that 75 truck I bought for the engine and tranny. Nothing special, but price was right..

Had to get the thing off the jack stands and wanted to clean out the shop, so pushed it outside and took a few glamour shots.

[buckroseau]

Finally decided to fab up a permanent front perch mount since I had a pretty good idea of the weight on the front of the vehicle. I am really glad I waited until now to make the mount. I had changed the height of it 3x's until now..and I actually mounted the spring on the bottom vs the top to get another 1.5" of height out of it. Very happy with where the height ended up.

[Itoldyouso]

Buck, I'll tell you, not only are you resourseful, you are also FAST !! I can't believe how far you've progressed in such a short period of time.


Keep the pictures and info coming.

Don

[buckroseau]

Made up some shock tower mounts. I had looked at a lot of pics of shock towers in the mags, catalogs, internet...etc.. Didn't really like anything I saw, so decided to sorta make up my own thing.

I used some 3/8" flat stock to make the towers themselves. I bought some 1/2" bushing stock material and machined a couple bushings up in the lathe, drill through the towers and weld the bushings in. I used some 1/4" flat stock and triangulated back to the frame.

I made up a jig to simulate the shock ride height at 12", so I could weld in the lower mounting points the same on both sides.

[buckroseau]

Nothing special here, but a few pics of the shocks mounted.

[buckroseau]

I used some 3/16" flat stock and made some tear drop shape mounts. Nothing real special, but after I welded them in I thought they got the job done.

I am using the original 9" headlamps...figured I better take a few pics with those on.

Matt