Thread: Budget T-Bucket Builder

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HemiTCoupe: Your hemi is a state of the art, work of art. The envy of all who see it, including me. With a background in engines like that you have to be an expert in tuning. Money opens many doors, one of them is knowledge. I wouldn't know where to begin tuning an engine like that. We're like a Ferrari and an old ford pickup sharing the same road, and we live in two different worlds. For the money you have in that engine, on my side of the tracks, I could build two turn-key T-Buckets. They would be picked apart in your world, reverred in mine. I don't get off on being the envy of others, I get off on comradeship, its much more rewarding. It's also the creed of Rat Rodders everywhere, a group I am proud to consider myself part of. The ideas I post on the forum are simply based on my economical solutions to building rods. Chester

Originally Posted by ChestersAlive

HemiTCoupe: Your hemi is a state of the art, work of art. The envy of all who see it, including me. With a background in engines like that you have to be an expert in tuning. Money opens many doors, one of them is knowledge. I wouldn't know where to begin tuning an engine like that. We're like a Ferrari and an old ford pickup sharing the same road, and we live in two different worlds. For the money you have in that engine, on my side of the tracks, I could build two turn-key T-Buckets. They would be picked apart in your world, reverred in mine. I don't get off on being the envy of others, I get off on comradeship, its much more rewarding. It's also the creed of Rat Rodders everywhere, a group I am proud to consider myself part of. The ideas I post on the forum are simply based on my economical solutions to building rods. Chester

Chester,
The picture of my Hemi is how it sits on my motor cradle. I am building a Coupe for it. I had bought a used frame for my other one, it was crap. I sold off the other coupe and building everything from the ground up myself. I make all my parts myself that I can.
Money didn't open the doors, I learned my knowledge from doing it myself, sometime doing it wrong, but mostly doing it right.
I build my own frames, "A" frames, 4 links, motors, trannies, wiring, body work everything, except paint. That way can say I built it, not bought it, or paid to have it done.
The motor won't look like it does when it it in, I am going for the FED look, it will not have the water pump or water crossover on it it will have the twin marine water pumps and the alt will be at the bottom of the motor, and a cam driven fuel pump. I have converted the Hilborn to electronic injectors, and it will have the funny car type baffled zoomies on it.
It will have a gm 4sp on a bellhousing I made from a different one, a 29"-9" rearend that I shortened, except for the axles.
It's a full fendered Pro Street '27 T Coupe.

I still need to get the front model A axle which I'm going to drop myself, drill and polish. and I still need the Hilborn fuel pump, and some minor other parts.

I am working on my wifes '27 T Tudor, which I built everything for also, which has IRS & IFS and 4 wheel disc brakes, power Windows, CPI Vortec 4.3 and a 4L60E tranny. I may still add a back door and make it into a delivery.

Pat