Thread: One Way To Build A '32 Hyboy

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Thanks for the information Ken. I do know what you mean with angling back of a standard A frame - it looks awkward on a fenderless car, especially. Your assembly really cleans up the front end of a hiboy that has an IFS. I do like IFS, but the conventional TCI/Heidt's, etc just has too much claptrap hangin' out in the breeze. Waiting for more

The other thing I dislike about independent front ends on fender less cars is that big cross member to mount all that stuff. When I decided to do this one of the parameters was to only do this if I could get rid of, most of that cross member. If you look at the rendering that is what I wanted to see before I made my mind up. The 1" tapered channel of the body, allowing the grill shell to be dropped so radically and still have the body lines perfect. The more you drop the grill shell the wider it gets then if you mount the head lights to the upper control arm bolt on the frame it pretty much hides that ugly necessary thing.
Ken

Originally Posted by Ken Thurm

The other thing I dislike about independent front ends on fender less cars is that big cross member to mount all that stuff. When I decided to do this one of the parameters was to only do this if I could get rid of, most of that cross member. If you look at the rendering that is what I wanted to see before I made my mind up. The 1" tapered channel of the body, allowing the grill shell to be dropped so radically and still have the body lines perfect. The more you drop the grill shell the wider it gets then if you mount the head lights to the upper control arm bolt on the frame it pretty much hides that ugly necessary thing.
Ken

I do have to agree with that point with the fact that the big cross member and attaching structure is not very appealing on a hiboy. Fortunately for me, I did choose to build a full fendered car - which in Upstate New York is really a good idea with the usual weather we have. I'm attaching a picture of my TCI IFS so others can see what we are talking about (someday I'll wipe down the dust from the chassis)


I've seem many channeled cars where the builder will just cut off the bottom of the grill shell, leaving a truncated, IMO, mess with the radiator often hanging below the bottom. The grille then is out of proportion.

The rendering shows the car with hood sides - will you be able to run them with the brackets mounted where they are and the push rod running up to the bell crank?

Yes, everything will fit behind the hood. To make things more difficult I'm going to make the side panels in one piece. Normally (or normal people) split it around the push rod so it's easy to get the side panels off. I don't want that extra parting line on the side panel. So to remove the side panel I will have to take the weight off the suspension and remove the bolts holding the push rod in and then take the side panel off. This gives me the opportunity to screw up my paint job every time I take them off

Originally Posted by Ken Thurm

Yes, everything will fit behind the hood. To make things more difficult I'm going to make the side panels in one piece. Normally (or normal people) split it around the push rod so it's easy to get the side panels off. I don't want that extra parting line on the side panel. So to remove the side panel I will have to take the weight off the suspension and remove the bolts holding the push rod in and then take the side panel off. This gives me the opportunity to screw up my paint job every time I take them off

Interesting - looks like in your 3rd picture that the bell crank will hit....but pictures can be deceiving

Once you get any bugs wrung out, you shouldn't have to pull the sides off but very seldom anyhow - every 75-100K to change the plugs, maybe??