New build thread; 48 Plymouth

[Dave Severson]

Charlie, Falcon and Mike-----if you get too bored with your own project you guys can come up here and help me!!!! Might not get much work done but I betcha we'd have fun!!!!!!!!!

[rspears]

Now I don't feel so bad about the '32 sitting idle for a couple of months.... Of course Don (DA34Guy) thought I should have been done with it in May!

[Dave Severson]

Charlie, Falcon and Mike-----if you get too bored with your own project you guys can come up here and help me!!!! Might not get much work done but I betcha we'd have fun!!!!!!!!!

Just an after thought, maybe you guys should stop in Kansas and pick up Roger when you come to "help" me, we could call him adult supervision!!!!!!

[falconvan]

Just an after thought, maybe you guys should stop in Kansas and pick up Roger when you come to "help" me, we could call him adult supervision!!!!!!

I think we'd need it! I got a feeling it would be more visiting and telling stories of the old days rather than working!

[falconvan]

Well, nothing like restarting a project and running into a huge goof right off the bat! I bought a set of stainless block hugger headers a few years ago and once I put them on I wondered how in the heck I was supposed to get the front spark plug in as the front tube was directly in front of the hole. I contacted the manufacturer and they said to use an Accel short header plug. So a couple of years and projects later, I finally picked up two of them today and tried it.

Not even close! Ok, so it's been 3 years, probably can't return them. Now it hits me that maybe I've got them on the wrong side. So I pull them off, switch sides and that's it! But no, there's more! I built the motor mount pads (now securely welded to the frame and painted) around the reverse placement of the headers. Now that the headers are on correctly, the collectors land squarely on top of the motor mount pads. !!#%&$@!!!!!!!! So, time to chop off my nice, painted motor mount pads and start over. Oh well, at least it's a cheap fix. Man, I love cars.

[Henry Rifle]

Oh my! The law of unintended consequences. That's NEVER happened to me.

[rspears]

I'd laugh, but I did one today myself. Pretty much wasted the day and get to reverse track tomorrow and re-group....

[40FordDeluxe]

1 step forward and 2 steps backwards is how my luck goes too!

[34_40]

Ouch! Well, it's not like you're alone in that one.. we've all been there... here's an example of why a painted frame is better than a powder coated one, at least you can restore it and no one but us will ever know of all the changes.

[Mike P]

"......Ouch! Well, it's not like you're alone in that one.. we've all been there....."

Ain't that the truth. Nothing hurts worse than a self inflicted foot wound.

On the other side of the coin, down the road, when someone is explaining having the same problem trying to screw plugs in and you say...."you just need to swap the headers around".....and it works, the kids wonder how you got so smart.


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[Dave Severson]

Well, nothing like restarting a project and running into a huge goof right off the bat! I bought a set of stainless block hugger headers a few years ago and once I put them on I wondered how in the heck I was supposed to get the front spark plug in as the front tube was directly in front of the hole. I contacted the manufacturer and they said to use an Accel short header plug. So a couple of years and projects later, I finally picked up two of them today and tried it.

Not even close! Ok, so it's been 3 years, probably can't return them. Now it hits me that maybe I've got them on the wrong side. So I pull them off, switch sides and that's it! But no, there's more! I built the motor mount pads (now securely welded to the frame and painted) around the reverse placement of the headers. Now that the headers are on correctly, the collectors land squarely on top of the motor mount pads. !!#%&$@!!!!!!!! So, time to chop off my nice, painted motor mount pads and start over. Oh well, at least it's a cheap fix. Man, I love cars.

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Oh well, if building a car was easy everyone would be doing it!!!!!!!!!

[stovens]

Better than having to pull your motor to move it foward an inch and a half for the same reason! No not me!!!

[falconvan]

Very true; it looks like I'll be able to fix it without pulling it back out. I think I can put some blocks under the oil pan and fix one side at a time.

[falconvan]

First real progress in a long time on this. I did the final wet sand on the hood and should be painting it this week.I also decided to relocate the coils away from the valve covers for a cleaner look so I removed them and started building some brackets, plus ordered some aluminum valve covers, a fuel cell and pump, and some other misc I'll need to get the engine running. As soon as the hood is painted, the front is going up on blocks to fix the motor mounts and build some inner fenderwells. Sorry, no pictures; camera was out of batteries.

[cffisher]

Oh my! The law of unintended consequences. That's NEVER happened to me.

and I'd bet your nose is growing