Projects The Cad Powered 1934 Ford 5 Window Project.

Nice start!

 

Remove and rebuild the hinges, fit the door in the hole and see if there is a workable door gap or not.



Not perfect, but good enough to not have to separate the cowl from the quarters to get a decent gap.



The outer cowl skin is actually not too bad, but it has to go to give me room to fix all the nastiness in the cowl foot area.








Matt at Iron Trap hooked me up with a pair or lower cowl patches.



And, they fit. I tuned up the boogered up hood latch hole while I was at it.



Here is the inner cowl structure. Now that it is solid, I can start making everything else fit from there. After I built all this crap, I found that some dudes make reproduction cowl feet. Might have to look at that next time...



See ya, -Abone.

 

Start collecting parts and saving money and combing your local swap meets and classified ads. Also be open to a car that may not be the "dream car" but a cool second choice none the less.
There is no reason why any of us should not have a car that we thoroughly enjoy.
We need to enjoy them now before fuel stations are outlawed.

 

Just found this thread, I'm in for the ride. Thanks!

 

Lookin good! I was able to score a great 34 fordoor cowl & windshield locally, all the way up to the top opening. Found a pair of four door doors in Florida. They needed inner and outer bottoms and I used two door, door tops for the correct curve. Doing that also meant I only had one weld to do instead of using the shorter 5 window/four door, door tops and having to fill the gap from chopping the top.

 

Way cool. Definitely way more cool than your basic sbc or sbf and auto generic street rod. Can't wait to see it done.

 

Most cars I drag home are missing the bottom 8 inches all the way around, but this one actually had a floor, rockers and subrails.



Unfortunately, it was all booger welded junk. Lots of layers of metal laid over each other and stick welded together. Lots of lead and porch screen. In the end, it all had to go.




Now the front cowl feet are in position and the B pillar is located on the bones of the new rockers, this thing is actually structurally sound.




The back end is hanging out in the breeze.




This is definitely one of those gets worse before it gets better deals, but now she can start heading in the right direction.



See ya, -Abone.

 

Bravo!

 

So last we checked in, the little car was clinging to the frame at the cowl and B pillar only. To the rescue comes the FlamedAbone Close Enough To Stock For Me (tm) subrail kit.





Now, there is something to attach the rockers and bottom quarter to.



Cowl, rocker, quarter and wheel well bottom finally attached.





Other side.



Now to the rear tail pan corners. After I melted all the lead out of them, they weren't too bad.



Passengers side needed a little love.



Made a little panel.



The tail panel in the hole. Probably not for the last time, but at least that sucker is in there.



And, there you are. The little body is now structurally sound and I can move on to the cool stuff like figuring out where the front suspension and engine are gonna go.

Tune in next time. -Abone.

 

Keep strokin, Jeff.

 

NOW we're talkin'...

 

Perfect.

 

Awesome job!

 

Best to put the Front suspension in the front

 

Could be Bitchin'

 

Checking in on the progress @flamedabone .

 

The rear tires finally showed up. 16X4s on bias plys.



Grabbed a set of wishbones out of stock.



Cut off the spring hangers.



Set up the digital hone program.



Welded bungs on the ends.



Made a tapered insert for the frame.



-Abone.

 

Part 2, engine stuff. Strapped her to the '36 for a trip to the car wash.




Got most of the big chunks off.



This is the Speed Gems kit to bolt a GM manual trans to an early Cad.



Everything pretty much bolted right up, '62 390 Cad to Tremec TKX 5 gear. Had to fool with the pilot bushing depth a bit, but nothing crazy.




Wrote a file for the motor mounts.



Cut it on the scissors program.



These are from the FlamedAbone Form Follows Function Collection. (tm)




Here she is, resting comfortably in her new chassis.



All the rest of the engine stuff.



She is almost a roller.



See ya, -Abone.

 

Nice. . .

 

Don't know how this thread slipped by me. That thing is gonna be juuust right.

 

Looks good!

 

I have and use the same CAD program as you!! Show us your scissors!

Very cool build btw!

 

Outstanding!

 

What are the plans for the 390?

 

The little Cad will be pretty tame. Mild cam, a four pack of 97s, nothing crazy. I will be running the Cory Taulbert Secret Oil Pump Modification Trick. (tm)

-Abone.

 

Man, those specialty tools you have. Digital hone program, writing files for motor mounts, scissors program, and the 4F's parts, no wonder this coupe is going to be another bitchen hot rod from your garage.

 

The motor and trans are where they are going to live, so now I had to figure out the clutch linkage. The throw out arm has to move in the opposite direction of the pedals, which made it a bit of a pain in the ass, but Rube Goldberg was able to give me a hand.



I usually build my own quick changes, but I don't have any small quickie stuff laying around, so I Gold Chained a complete rear from Winters. Super good folks to deal with and they gave me a screaming HAMB discount.



The most caveman set of ladder bars you will ever see.



Always remember to use your Traditional Pinion Angle Fixture when setting up your chassis.



Rear end is in there.



Pretty sure this is a Model A crossmember.



Had to flatten it out a bit, but she didn't mind.



Finally a roller.



See you next time.

-Abone.

 

Looking good! Nice clean shop!

 

Perfect!