Thread: My hot rod plans

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Ok, what dad told me was that the Chrysler 12" drum brakes had one wheel cylinder per shoe. Unlike like Ford and General Motors using one wheel cylinder per wheel.
The weight of the car as dad had it was 3,000 pounds. From 60 mph to 0, he got the car stopped in under 200 feet without skidding. Discs might be great for other people for their cars, but for me and mine, I'm keeping what's on it.

In the final analysis, that is what really matters...........it's your car and you want it to reflect your Dads and your own touches. It would be a very boring hobby if every car looked the same and had the same components. If I want to see that I go to my local new car dealer.

As for your transmission choice, just another option. One of our members, Bill, (Gastrick) has a really sweet old school 32 coupe with a Hemi. He is using an adapter (I think from HotHeads) to run a TH350 transmission behind it. Makes a very nice, smooth, easily repaired setup.

Sometimes the transmissions that were used behind cars like your Hemi can cost so much to rebuild, IF you can find a qualified transmission guy to do it, that it makes more sense to simply adapt a different transmission. I had to make that decision for the 394 Olds I am going to use in my rpu. It had the original Olds 4 speed Dual Path transmission which weighed about a ton, and rather than having it freshened up I bought an adapter from Bendtsens Transmissions so I can run a TH 350. I figure if the transmission would ever go out 500 miles from home I can find someone who knows a 350, but just try to find one who knows how to fix a 46 year old Olds transmission.

Keep us posted on how the car is coming, and we LOVE lots of pictures.

Don