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  2. i think there's a lot to be said for no aggravation.
  3. oh yeah. i guess that the transmission couldn't mount rigid or else the suspension would wreak havoc with everything in the drivetrain. i'm sorta getting this, albiet slowly. great K frame shot, too. is the springy thing visible in the center cut-out part of the mechanical brake assembly? thanks
  4. oye! this gets deep but i do appreciate the help. i'm concentrating on "period correct" gow jobs, so gratefully i can not think about all the possible variations of engine mounts just yet. next genre will be dirt trackers but just trying to get the basics down for now. i'm okay with the flathead front mounts. in the Tardel hot rod book, the transmission looks like it's sandwiching the K member and bolting through to the little bumpy thing on the end of the torque tube. Q: is that a correct conclusion? now i'll go and perform my due diligence on the google* link. thanks again *oh, lordy - what have you done to me! gonna be a late night ............
  5. good stuff; thanks. what i am taking away from this for the immediate, is that i need block support front & aft on a "driveshaft", and block support front on a torque tube. i'll grow into the nuances as i journey down the road. now, hypothetically, if one had researched, say a '63 chevy inliner, and came up dry, could someone suggest a website that would show full mounting in clean detail? thanks again
  6. engine mounting. can an engine be plausibly mounted at any point along the block, bellhousing, & transmission? or only at certain points which will hold the weight - and i assume dynamic forces of the engine developing its power. can the mounts be welded, or are they all bolted?
  7. i've made up a chart that is helping me with sizes of materials. went through the scrap box and measured a bunch of materials, then cut 1 1/2" pieces and mounted them on a piece of cardstock. as time goes on and "eyeball engineering" takes over, i'll probably refer to it less and less, but for now it's extremely valuable. then i made up a spreadsheet with dimensions in real fractions, scale fractions, decimals, & millimeters. if anyone wants a copy (6 pages), PM me.
  8. it does look less complicated than the diagram in the Tardel book i have. i found the site that shot came from; looks like a great resource, thanks
  9. new though du jour: anyone consider photo-etching a '32 ford K member?
  10. just end it under the lowest pulley & use a dab of superglue.
  11. next to early hot rods, "fairgrounds dirt-trackers" are my favorites
  12. beautiful! i remember Almquist ads in my older cousin's hot rod books when i was a kid. so picture 2 of those blowers and the carbs mounted up over the oil filler up against the firewall. i gotta scan the picture.....
  13. what don't i understand here? is this a kit, or a drawing, or .... ?
  14. i just ran across this (DM) site after seeing a banner (on another forum). there seems to be a lot of great photo etch details available that could be used in a variety of ways - especially for "period correct" hot rods.
  15. the 2 blowers are mounted on top over each head. maybe i can scan & post the picture from the TRJ article. reading the rest of it, this is a quintessential example of the A-V8.
  16. i tried to get a picture from TRJ website but no luck. and evidently my, or perhaps the owner's, google-foo is weak because a search there turned up nothing either.
  17. TRJ #56 page #10 - Reed Jensen's A-V8. powered by 296 c.i. '48 Mercury flathead with 2 McCulloch centrifugal blowers! anyone suggest how this could be modeled? i know the resin companies have the blowers, mill & carburetors fairly straightforward, but how to go about making the snakepit of tubing? not the tubing itself, but rather where it starts & stops.
  18. that bracketry looks similar to one of the pictures i found. i kind of like the option of not running the tube (?) all the way across the passenger side. i'm familiar with Early Years, but who's Ron, and does he have a website ? thanks oh; EYR is Ron! found this out from Racing Lobby
  19. great visuals; thanks. and now i have yet another forum to peruse!
  20. this will be interesting to follow
  21. cowl steering: is there a structural mounting system required, or is eveything just bolted to body metal? (i.e., firewall, driver, & passenger cowl inside). thinking of it as an upside down T, with the steering wheel bracket holding the long part and steering shaft (don't know the correct name for the part the pitman arm attaches) going out through the driver's side, is the other part of the structure just an empty tube? i did a HAMB search with interesting but non specific results, and a google images netted a lot of street rod stuff i think is to - well, "refined" comes to mind. was cowl steering so complicated the Elders just used a rail mounted box?
  22. good information; thanks. TRJ #56 hit my bench yesterday. on page #1 there's a great shot of the McMullen Roadster. the pressure pump is right up in front of the radiator shell (double points!!) and there looks to be a petcock on the mounting plate. 'cause of sourse i wondered how the driver would be pumping, shifting, & steering at the same time. so i guess sequence of operation is: "fill up, pump up, and GO"
  23. yes. is this pressurizing an air tank which in turn does the fuel tank, or the fuel tank directly?
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