Thread: One Way To Build A '32 Hyboy

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Ken, from what I have seen of your builds, I see no reason to think you can't handle modify the V12. It will be an awesome ride that I would love to see and watch you build. I've been known to drive anywhere just to see a nice ride up close.
BradC

Originally Posted by BradC

Ken, from what I have seen of your builds, I see no reason to think you can't handle modify the V12. It will be an awesome ride that I would love to see and watch you build. I've been known to drive anywhere just to see a nice ride up close.
BradC

You are welcome here anytime, just let me know.
Ken

Ken, we've all been so intrigued by the V12 thing, I forgot to comment on the body style you are thinking about for the truck. The one you posted is really swoopy, looks great. How much modification are you going to have to do to a stock truck to get it to sit and look like that.

I gotta tell you, when I look at some of the work you and other talented people do, my jaw drops. I mean it when I say I wouldn't have a clue where to start engineering something like the bike engine or V12 engine. Or the front suspension on your new '32...........how do you figure that stuff out???????

I feel good if I can change out 8 sparkplugs without snapping one off.

Don

Don,
The changes in that model are tremendous, and usually when the model company's do something like this it really isn't possible to match it in real time. But this truck can be very close. The theme is a wedge, if you look at the side profile, the chop on the roof and the windows. I think the hardest part is going to be re shaping the front fenders for the small diameter tires. It's going to be all steel and no bondo
I'm going to stretch the cab 1 1/2" so the doors can be flush mounted, and from experience the extra cab room would be nice. After watching Dan's project I'm thinking about making it so the roof comes off. I will only do this if it isn't noticeable. So It can be a rpu also. This isn't as easy as it sounds, there are a lot of considerations to be made.
I honestly don't know where some of this stuff comes from, I'm sure some of it spurs from things that I have seen other people have done and the rest of it I don't have a clue. But I know most of it comes to me about 3:30 a.m. The suspension stuff comes from owning a chassis shop for 18 years.
You are selling yourself short, I know of a real nice BLACK BEAUTY that came from some where, and the beginnings of a real cool truck.
Ken

Hi Ken, I'm a new member here and I know about your KT Components torsion bar system for the Softails, and being a Springer owner, also know about the front end rockers you made that lowered the front 1". Didn't you also offer a non-adjustable torsion system?

A friend from another rod site told me about this site and I have to admit, it is much better than he told me it was.

I spent last weekend reading all of the posts here regarding the build of your '32 and it's an amazing project. I check in daily just to see what's new. Having the mechanical engineering background and the design, manufacturing, and fabrication resources available to you makes me wonder what's next, keep the ideas coming, it's an inspiration to many of us.

When I first started reading your posts, I knew that I recognized your name from somewhere and when I saw the pics of your truck at the photo shoot with the trailer I knew the connection. I owned one of your Kendon fold-up motorcycle trailers, not the newer round tube trailers like in the pics, but the old style with the square and rectangle tubing. That was one of the best pulling trailers I've ever owned, if you didn't look in the mirrors, you would never know it was back there.

Come on, get busy on the '32, I can't wait to see what's next.

Mike

Welcome to the forum. (I'm not the official greeter, just practicing up for my new job manning the door at Walmart )

Probably get to meet you at Turkey Run in November??

Don

Mikes really my brother

Don- I thought you told me it was K Mart, how am I going to find you when you can't keep a job?

Nice shot Ken, slipping a relative in to praise your products.........with thinking like that, you should be running the Country!


Yeah, WalMart is a better deal. I have a fancy title " Personal Inside Greeter" So when you walk in the door and see a guy with a name tag with a big P.I.G on it............that would be me. And I get a discount on cookies.

Don

Mike52-Thank you for the kind words. Yes we made both under the Sofspension name. (HD sued me for using that name, but we won)
This is a great place, some really nice cars are being built here, I think the only requirement is you better have a good sense of humor It gets pretty ruff at times. Welcome aboard!
Ken

Heh, heh... I can see Don now. It'll be just like ventriloquist Jeff Dunhams puppet, Walter: "Hi, welcome to Walmart. Get your shit and get out!... Have a nice day."

I thought I would show what these access plates look like before I weld them in. These are larger than what I usually put in but there is so much going on in this one area I want to make sure everything is accessible without disconnecting one thing to get to another. We start with a 3/8" plate then machine off to the thickness of the existing frame material. Then slip it inside the frame and rosette weld it in and weld around that lip, so the finished access panel is flush to the existing frame . Also on the other wall of the frame that I didn't molest, I put in another 1/8" plate that looks like the other side but isn't cut out. In my opinion it is stronger in that area than we I started hacking
Ken

Originally Posted by Ken Thurm

I thought I would show what these access plates look like before I weld them in. These are larger than what I usually put in but there is so much going on in this one area I want to make sure everything is accessible without disconnecting one thing to get to another. We start with a 3/8" plate then machine off to the thickness of the existing frame material. Then slip it inside the frame and rosette weld it in and weld around that lip, so the finished access panel is flush to the existing frame . Also on the other wall of the frame that I didn't molest, I put in another 1/8" plate that looks like the other side but isn't cut out. In my opinion it is stronger in that area than we I started hacking
Ken

See there you go again, great idea, I think i'll rough out somthing similar
for the hole in my floor pan to access my master cylinder! I used rough out, to clearly state, that mine won't come close in the pretty dept.!

That's a great way to do that Ken. Takes some time certainly, but what a difference it makes in the overall car. Gonna be a shame to upholster this one and hide all the neat touches you have put into it. For that matter, it's a shame to cover up the frame and running gear with a body!

Don

Don & Steve,
Thanks, there a lot of advantages to putting all this stuff in the frame. Just keeping it away from all the elements and crap, besides not seeing all that stuff. Of course this is just my opinion.

I'm hijacking my own thread but I thought I would share this. I'm still thinking about the Ardun project so I ordered one of those plastic motors. I have used them before and it is really helpful when you are having to pull it out every other day. I called this guy on a Sat. night just to leave a message to ask questions about the replica he makes. It seems he just got back from Europe that night and stopped buy his shop on the way home. We start talking about his motor and he start telling me this story. He asked me what I was going to use for an intake, and I said I wasn't sure yet but would probably build fuel injection for it, something along the lines of the old Algon style, (spelling). He asked me if I watched Nascar, I said yes. He asked me if I knew who Zora Arkas Duntov was, yes, did you know he also was instrumental in working on the small block Chevy, yes, he said I'm going to send you a manifold that Nascar uses today. I said O.K.
Well the plastic motor shows up and the manifold, I bolt it together and guess what, the manifold is so close to fitting perfectly, with some small messaging it would work. I'm not going to put a 4 barrel carburetor on a V12 but the coincidence is pretty strange.
Ken

Thanks for the warm welcome guys.

Don, I look forward to meeting you in Daytona.

Hey little brother, can I borrow the keys to the red Deuce, I won't be gone long, I'll fill it back up with gas and I won't do any burnouts, I promise!!!!!