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Don, I'm surprised you haven't started a gallery for your progress shots. It'd be a quick way for later arriving folks to catch up with what you've been accomplishing.

Don, she's beautiful! Way to go man! I too wouldn't mind checking out some profile shots before the fall weather sets in and tunrs everything to winter. I really like the color.

Car is going to be super, Don. Great worksmanship and a well planned and well executed build.... Congrats on a fine one....


Weekend racing update--On Friday, Greg won his heat, 5th in the feature. Last night he won his heat, 2nd in the feature... Ebay has been kind to us this week also, scored 2 very nice sets of 461 heads... The rules for Super Stock next year require cast iron GM heads--no Vortech's--and only 1.94 and 1.6 inch valves... Looks like we have enough goodies now to start getting some engine's prepped....

Bob and Brick,

Well there is still a lot to do but I could collect pictures scattered here and there if I knew how to make a gallery; I still haven't figured out how to make a new thread on this new software. Bob, great idea, tell me how within the limits of the present Forum software. Brick, I just got back from the Richmond NSRA Nationals just three miles from my home and there were some amazing cars there but there is still a lot of room in the '46-'48 Chevy category, so choose your color! Think of all those old Chevys out there longing for a V8! Bob while you are telling me how to make a gallery, can you also tell me how to start a new thread? I took a lot of pictures at RIR yesterday and I could put some on the Forum. Also how do some people put more than one picture on a post?

Don Shillady
Retired SCientist/teen rodder

Wow Don, really great looking rod. Love the color.


Don

Okay Don, but it's gonna cost you some day.

To do your gallery just click the camera icon under your name from within a thread as here, or click the gallery link (with the picture of Dave's orange roadster) if you're on the home page. On the right side of the second link bar near the top of that page will be the "upload pictures" link that will take you to a page similar to the image management one you used to post to this thread. You can add titles and comments in a couple of the boxes if you wish to describe what the picture depicts.

To start a new thread there're two quick ways to get there. In the left column of the home page near the top there's a box marked "main menu" with two links listed (at least on my screen) the second is "forums", click that and you choose the forum you want to post in and it will give you a page with a "new thread" radio button in the upper left. Also on the home page, or any thread page for that matter, half way down in that left column is the
"CHR quick hop" box. If the forum you want to post to is listed there it'll take you right to the page with the "new thread" radio button.

There are other ways to get to these pages, but those are the two quickest I've found.

Went to a swap meet in Springfield Mo and I picked up a set of flowmaster 40's for $100.00! The guy had 8 sets left and I think most of them went to my buds. They are going on tomorrow and I can't wait to hear how it sounds.

Hey Brick, if you or any of your buds want their hundred bucks back, let me know!!! As the old saying goes, sometimes it's better to be lucky then good, !!!!!! Heck of a good score, way to go!!!!

Drove her home from the Muffler shop today and was very pleased, it's not radically loud but deeper and more presense than before, I really like them.

I guess that means you won't be selling me them, huh Brick????

I didn't let any grass grow under my feet, they went right on the car. I put a couple hundred miles on her yesterday and it sounded great. Makes it just that much more fun to drive!

Just another small bit of progress. My son helped me bolt in the fuel tank I had fabricated by Rock Valley. It is of heavier 14 guage stainless than the 16 guage they usually use and they made it from a cardboard box I taped together. I had some small adjustments in the mounting taps and I had to get a new drill bit to drill some holes through the very tough stainless but we bolted it in and then found we could not get the hinge bolts back in the rumble lid, so we took it all apart again, installed the rumble lid and then played "teeny-tiny hands" to get the bolts back in between the quarter panels and the rumble hinge. I'll show two pictures, the first shows how the fill neck tucks under the lid in the left rear corner of the rumble seat. The actual "seat" will just be thin padding rather than the usual bulky cushions.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Brick: I am reading your muffler description with interest. I was going to go with cheap turbo mufflers as lt1s10 suggested but the decision is not made yet so I am interested in hearing various descriptions of muffler sound; you seem totally sold on the flow-40s; I guess at that price they sound even better!

Tank looks great, Don!!!! Know what ya mean on the teany tiny hands deal....Mine sure don't work as well as they used to, that's for sure!!!!

Continued Thanks to this Forum for the help and advice I have received and a place to report to. The idea of finishing the car often overwhelms me and I just mull it over for a few days and then do the next step. I am attaching a second picture showing the other side of the tank in which the 4" wide steel bar behind the tank is more visible. I had to angle that plate (1/4" thick) forward on the bottom to clear the bottom edge of the rumble lid when it is in the open position so I could only get a single 3/8" stainless bolt on each rear mounting tab but the front of the tank has a 20" long by 4" wide tab on the floor with three more 3/8" stainless bolts. The tank should hold about 13.3 gallons and should be well protected by the Model A rear bumper and the steel bar behind the tank. Compared to what I see on some 32-style tanks with only a chrome bar behind it this looks pretty sturdy to me and not likely to result in a Pinto-type explosion on rear impact unless by a train (in which case the explosion is the least of the problem!). I hope the upholstery person does not want to remove the rumble lid to attach a pad because I don't want to do the "tiny hands" trick again on those two back bolts. Actually they were easier to tighten than the windshield-cowl bolts on an MG midget; that is the teeny-tiny bolt-hole record for me, try it sometime!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Note in edit: I was working on the second picture when Dave replied, thanks for the encouragement Dave!

Note 2 in edit: the bolt with a washer on the inner fender mount is heavy duty since it is the inside of the under-fender mount for the rumble step plate on the top of the right rear fender.

Thanks DennyW! lt1s10 gave me some ideas for the fuel line which is the next step and I will make sure it is mounted BELOW the hot wire from the battery to the starter which is also along the right rear frame rail. Still, looking at the situation I am a little surprised that the inlet on the stock Chevy fuel pump at the lower right front of the engine faces forward! I have the simple type pump with no tube fitting for overflow return to the tank, just one outlet to go to the carb. What I am asking for is what is available for a flexible line from the front end of the fuel line and whatever fuel filter I add at the end to the pump. A rigid fitting would probably last only a few minutes of vibration so there needs to be some sort of flex line from the fuel line along the frame to the pump inlet. Suggestions?

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder