johnyrotten

Beautiful work Zippi. 👍👍

I found a Stewart Warner vibration tachometer with the sleeve and instructions at a yard sale today.

They number their cars similarly to what I deal with with vintage harley davidson motorcycles. Before certain years, the engine numbers are what are registered as there is no frame numbers or vin stampings. Thanks for the information, very interesting how other countries operate similarly,with small twist and changes.

Those cars definitely needed something beyond stock. This car was the first one I heard of a clutched auto. He explains why he chose that option https://www.hotrod.com/how-to/hrdp-0703-supercharged-pontiac-400-engine-build

I actually looked it up, it's about three hours from me, and was sold according to what I found. Small world. Very cool that you can now reproduce an actual car ,tag and all. I like how the tag stays with the vehicle, we don't do that over here.

My wife loves these photos. We have a lot of shade, it's difficult to get certain types to grow.

This just rolled through the laundry mat parking lot.

I picked these up off of ebay.

This particular car is "design it as I go". I've had to move the front axle foward, the entire rear suspension is scratch built, differential was partially scratch built. It's an exercise in skill building for me. Everything you see comes apart and back together with little fuss. And is positively located, no chance of a mistake when I finally paint and assemble it for the last time. Still a long way away. On a box stock build I dry fit, clean up what's needed, paint,detail and finish.

Happy to see the experiment is working out for you. Hopefully you'll continue to have success, fingers crossed. Your idea with the in the interior is using the pva as a primer or bonding agent,correct?

I pin a lot of things together and very small amounts of c.a. glue. This is all mock up to check fitments and clearances. Here's a picture of the pin in the front axle,in the center under the radiator.

All part of living in the "woods". I don't mind the creatures till they damage the house, or go after my dogs. Other than that, all good. It would be nice if they would pay some rent.

It's my understanding these came into play before we had good converter technology. Not really sure how something like this would work on the street, everything I've seen with them were in full blown race cars. Interesting ideas

Welcome to the forum.

metal forming is always impressive to watch, especially when it's really heavy plate. That's real power in action. Robotic welders are repeatable and fast with less chance for defects. I see a lot of similar things day to day at work, I may be a bit numb to it. It definitely is a tried and true method for constructing complex shaped housings, cheaply and lighter than a casting.

Just hammering the bolts home without starting them. Especially when they put the cap on the bearing. Interesting video. 👍👍

I've seen a fisher a few times on my property. 2-3 times in the decade ive owned the house. Angry, mean creatures I've been told.

Cool old school tech. There's a guy on YouTube going over a clutched th400. Poor man's lenco.

Thanks! I'm trying to salvage a raw deal. I'll tell you, everything on this build is tight! No room for anything. The interior will be a challenge, I may try opening the doors, body mods are something I've done VERY little of.

Always liked international trucks, I'm gonna pay attention. Nice work so far👍👍

That worked out very well for you, David. Polished up nicely. 👍👍

Bare metal foil. Like everyone above says. And a fresh #11 blade. StevenGuthmiller above has a fantastic tutorial on trimming arches as well.

Done a bit work more the past couple nights. Moved the front axle,and engine forward, just copied the front mount with some .080 square and shaved off the original. Mocked up a blower, I really want hilborn injection on this, but I needed something for reference. Got most of the firewall made. This is 2024 .025 aluminum sheet. It polishes to a mirror very easily. Probably the last piece going on the car during assembly, it scratches easily as well. Thanks for looking 👍👍

Yeah, I hear that. I wish I had a picture of them. There was about a half inch of the steel shoe on either side of the friction. Just imagine what that would do to the drum.

I've yet to run into too thick of material, when I went to change the shoes on the gmc due to noise last year the frame was the same, the WIDTH of the material was narrow. Nope, not running that. Scuffed up the old ones and back on. I'll deal with the squeak.