Technical What did you do with your car today? * NEW*

I got a new base fabbed up for the Ram air, now to cut a hole in it without messing it up ! plus I got to use my new shrinker/stretcher

 

I just about finished the floor, and got my steering column and wheel mocked up.

Does anyone have a suggestion for headers or exhaust manifolds for a small block Ford in a Model A on ‘32 rails? I have Vega box.

 

I got the base welded up with no problems. I think I will venture out and find a slip roller to do the center section.

 

I moved to Louisiana recently and got my 62 Belair out of storage and trailered down. Last few days I’ve been cleaning getting ready to bring in the shop.

 

Prepping some parts for an old 50's Chevy that'll be for sale in spring.

 

Moving forward .

 

Finished blocking out the front fenders and squirted some black sealer on them; hauled them up to the garage, and hung them in place. Now on to finish the nose of the hood without messing the fenders up; not sure why I didn't do that before I took the fenders off.

 

started doing the dash on the correct side
done did the firewall, then realised the battery wont go on the firewall as the thing stuck up too far, got to put it under the seat, run longer cables to the elastic trickery doohickeys

 

Spent the afternoon fitting the fender to cowl bolts, the inner fender bolts, and the front pans; amazing how things that were bolted together a year ago fail to line up again.

 

Just going over parts of my ‘62 260 chasing threads, cleaning gasket surfaces, ect getting ready to assemble. Found stripped threads on one of the fuel pump bolt holes in timing cover. Better I found it now than later!
Now out come the taps.

 

Came out OK

 

I made a little progress this week on my air cleaner. The snorkels are welded in place, I added three stops to locate the filter element. There is still some clean up work on the spot welds and then get it closed up and make the top.

 

The air cleaner is finished. I am very satisfied with how it turned out. Now to install some inlets in the front fenders and run the hose.

 

Run it through the rectangles in the grille.....

 

Many of you probably know how bulky and ugly a marine intake/exhaust manifold is for a 120 HP Mercruiser engine. Well, over the last couple days I cut all of the "marine" stuff off of one to use the intake portion on a Chevy/Mercruiser 4-banger I plan to use in my Model A Tudor. It took about 2 days, a sawsall, cut-off wheel, milling machine, bandsaw, angle and straight die grinders with sanding discs and a carbide cutter, and a metal chip in one of my eyes to convert one to this......

Lynn

 

You're only issued one set of eyes! You weren't wearing your safety glasses, were you? You're almost a grown-up, how many times do you have to be told? Sorry, I was just repeating what my father always yelled at me.

 

You are absolutely right. I looked for some safety glasses today and couldn't find any in the shop but I'll guarantee you I will be picking up a pair of safety glasses.

I didn't have much grinding left to do with a carbide cutter today but I'll guarantee you I made sure I was positioned so that the chips were being thrown out away from me.

Lynn

 

Shoot, all I got done was to install the windshield.

 

I wired in this universal turn signal kit that my wife got me for Christmas.

 

Cleaning snow, that if officer asks, sticker is visible.

 

TA DAD Nice work!

 

They have to go in the outer fender

Thanks, I have really enjoyed building this truck. Other than the store bought solid motor mounts everything is home fabricated. So the old air cleaner was just of of place. And this is what I came up with. Hopefully it will pick the truck up and not slow it down !

 

No un-ringing this bell ! ( not that it really matters in the whole scheme of things ) Just trying to get my thoughts together on how to do it.

 

Just brought it home.

IMG_9484 by jrod60 posted Jan 22, 2024 at 11:00 AM

 

I like it! One suggestion, add a bug screen to your design if you haven't already planned for one. My 442 has fresh air intakes under the bumper and they pick up leaves, rocks, insects and even a plastic bag once. Your engine will definitely enjoy the added cool air.

 

Should be going to prime soon

 

Made a set of door access plates out of my old mail box; so I can hang my, new-to-me, old original door panels.

 

Good point, Thanks. I had not thought that far thru it. One thing I did think of this morning is the hoses in the wheel wells will be exposed to road debri. But this thing sees limited use as I am a worn out old guy and my travels are not many these days. I stopped by a buddies shop this afternoon and this piece of stainless was laying there so I probably have the inlet screen taken care of.

 

Drive with it to work and back home.
Because my wifes suburban broke oil pump shaft and i gave my 71 220d mercedes her to commute.

 

I am still chugging along on this project. The whole truck is very easy to service so it took about two minutes to pull the fender off so I could get it up on the table. Then my original idea did not go as planned , so after a couple more attempts I got back on track. I plug welded the the snorkel into the fender that way it keeps the same look as the rest of the truck as far as the welds go. The inlet is about 3/16 of an inch proud of the fender so I have to grind that down and I might weld it in solid and the plan right now is to put a couple pieces in the replicate the grill bars.