Thread: 1950 Studebaker Champion Mordoor project!

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Glad to see your handle pop up on the screen. And you're working on a project too. Thanks for the update.

I installed new rear shocks in the stock location and on the Chevy rear end. Everything lined up like it was made that way.


Finished the drive train tunnel.


Found some 1962 vintage Mickey Thompson Tri Rib wheels for the car.

I built the exhaust head pipe using the pipe I removed from my Camaro SS when I change to headers.

Scraped, brushed, and ground the bottom clean and coated with Eastwood rust converter and indercoat.

Working getting the engine all connected. Digging through boxes to see if I have what I need is a chore

Been working on getting the fuel tank installed. I clean it up and painted it with Eastwood tank refinisher. The 69 year old tank looked brand new inside. I was amazed!

The tank was originally mounted to the left frame rail and to the spare tire well. Since I removed the spare tire well I can now center the tank and run the exhaust pipe down each side,





I made some brackets using a combination of original and bone pile stuff.

Nice work on mounting and cleaning/painting the tank!

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Wow, that turned out nice !

My other option is buy another electric fan.

Working on getting the radiator and cooling fan sorted out. With a shroud I'm about 1/2" too wide. I can try mounting the fan on the inside of the shroud, mount the fan on the radiator and not use the shroud, or use a mechanical fan?

I despise those fosdick electric fans screwed to the radiator core. I have yet to see one of them that will cool the motor properly. Electric fans work well on OEM applications, but that's because they have in-house mechanical engineers on staff to use all the right stuff.

The best we can do as hot rodders is to use the tried and true 7-blade, 18" diameter mechanical fans bolted to a thermostatically-controlled fan clutch with the blades sitting halfway in and halfway out of a closely-contoured shroud and sucking through the largest radiator core that you can bolt to the frame and frame brackets. My approach to this has always been to seek out a 70's/early 80's big block Impala, Caprice or truck in a boneyard and take all the components including radiator. Cap this off with a quality 190/195 degree thermostat and you're home-free.

Do not use serpentine pieces unless you use the entire serpentine system. The fan blade is stamped reverse to what you need with a fan belt system.

Here's some good reading.....
https://www.crankshaftcoalition.com/...cooling_system

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Just read through your build. You're doing some nice work keep it up. Looks like you got a lot of the tough stuff done.