Thread: Project "Left Overs"

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Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Well, i've got all these buttons on my keyboard and I get curious every once in a while what they do. You are right, I must have changed some setting inadvertently. When I logged off and back on it changed back. I thought I was in the Twilight Zone there for a little while.

Don

As long as you don't see the little man on the airplane wing or in your case riding shotgun in your "T", you'll be just fine.

Originally Posted by rspears

Jim,
Not to beat a dead horse, but the string [(5280ft/mi x 1hr/60min x 12in/ft) divided by pi] has a numerator of 5280 divided by 60 times 12 which equals 1056, which divided by pi equals 336.13. In the original formula you're entering MPH so the values in the 336 factor get you to a numerator of revolutions and speed in inches per minute with pi being dimensionless. Then when you divide by the denominator tire diameter in inches you're left with RPM.

Thanks, Roger. I was using 60 as a multiplier instead of as a divisor. DUH!! Even at my age I can still learn things occasionally and as long as somebody is learning, we're not beating a dead horse (That's the school teacher coming out in me...).

Don, sorry we hijacked the thread for a few postings, but some old fart (me) had to have help seeing through "the haze".

Today was like Xmas, UPS brought me a Speedway box. I got the new wishbones and Ford tie rod ends for them. They are really really nice, and so close to the originals you would be hard pressed to tell the difference......except these have no pitting and all that normal stuff.

Once I laid them up against the car I decided to run the front end suicide, so I called Speedway back and ordered the proper perches that screw into these. I also ordered my tires from Coker. I am going to run my usual 5:60 x 15 whitewalls on the front (just like my 27 has) but on the back I am going to run the 8 inch wide Firestone slicks, also whitewalls. I had the same tires on the back of the 23, except 10 inches wide, and after 3 years and lots of miles they still looked good and had lots of tread depth left.

Finally, I took the back two rims to the powdercoater to have them done in black. I already had them do these same two rims in red a while back, but when I got the black ones from Coker for the front they just looked better to me. Not sure yet if I am going to run the Olds hubcaps I have or not. Once the tires and rims are on the car I can figure that one out.

Here is how the new Speedway wishbones look. So glad I bought them.

Don

Geez, I miss a couple of weeks and you just about build a whole new car!!
It really is looking good! I was wondering about the quality of speedways bars, good to here they are nice.
Ken

See what you get for leaving without telling us where you are going! I thought you've been a little quiet lately.

I'm pretty impressed with the quality of these wishbones, Ken. If someone was building a high dollar car these couild be chromed very easily, hardly any prep work compared to using original ones.

BTW, you may have also missed that I sold my 46 Tudor to Don. He was looking for a new project and I was looking for some room in my part of the shop, so we made a deal. He's started moving ahead on it already, he ordered one of the TCI parallel rear spring setups for it. I hope he does a build thread on it when he starts.

How about your projects?

Don

There was someone doing stainless wishbones, can't remember who it is now, they were quite spendy though !!!

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

See what you get for leaving without telling us where you are going! I thought you've been a little quiet lately.

I'm pretty impressed with the quality of these wishbones, Ken. If someone was building a high dollar car these couild be chromed very easily, hardly any prep work compared to using original ones.

BTW, you may have also missed that I sold my 46 Tudor to Don. He was looking for a new project and I was looking for some room in my part of the shop, so we made a deal. He's started moving ahead on it already, he ordered one of the TCI parallel rear spring setups for it. I hope he does a build thread on it when he starts.

How about your projects?

Don

I remember seeing those. They were nice, but like you said, about $ 700 a pair, I think. At $ 300 a pair these were more my speed. Usually, when people reproduce something they always get something wrong, just enough to make them not quite the same as the originals. Not the case with these, whoever Speedway is buying them from did a great job of cloning IMO.

Don

Originally Posted by roadster32

There was someone doing stainless wishbones, can't remember who it is now, they were quite spendy though !!!

I don't know if it's the same hardware you saw, but there was a guy in Vegas who was making some a few years ago. He would display them at the LAR swap/show for a couple years. Very well made and looked terrific. But too many people had the same reaction to the price you did. They could still be had, but you'd have to "motivate" him.

Could be the same ones, Bob. I think I saw an ad in one of the hot rod mags for them too. I guess, being that they were stainless and probably limited production, the price wasn't horrible, and they could be polished I would think. If you took these Speedway ones and had them chromed you would probably be in that price range anyway, so maybe they weren't a bad deal in stainless.

Bob, on a side note, I just saw some information that your State, Washington, is proposing a bill to do away with antique collector car plates. Have you heard anything about that?

Don

No, not eliminating the use of the plates, but currently when registering the car with YOM plate it's a one time fee of $35, "good for life" (until sale then it cycles again). Under that program you're limited to use for "car shows" only; driving to and from basically.

The new proposal is for $30 annual fee and somewhat looser restrictions on use, but the bill is in committee so it's likely to get massaged some.

The one time fee was/is an awfully good deal...........so difficult to believe the money grubbers in the state capital would leave it alone, but the real concern is any change usually is just the opening round to future attacks.

What was posted on another forum was that Fred Finn has proposed this bill. Is that the same one you are speaking about, Bob? Here is part of what the poster said on the other forum:

"There has been a bill introduced into the legislature to effectively do away with the benefits of having a collector plate on your vehicle. House Bill 1134 proposes a $30 annual renewal fee for Horseless Carriage and Collector plates. Please read the bill and if you are opposed to this new revenue measure by the state government, you need to contact your representatives in the legislature and let them know how you feel and how you want them to vote on this measure or if they have the horsepower, to kill it."


Don

As you know, sometimes you have to interpret what people write because they use words loosely. e.g. "effectively do away with benefits". I presume his main focus is the inexpensive fee of one time $35 vs. $30 annual. I know that will hit my wallet as I have 5 of them. On the other hand, what's the alternative? If you go with regular, no restriction plates, the fee will be even higher than the $30 annual, and because the way the regular plate statute is written you must mount plates front and rear. The YOM plates only require one mounted on the rear, no front necessary (which those of us who don't like "clutter" appreciate). So, IF it works as it appears there will still be some benefit, but cost more. I looked at Nevada as an alternative last year and it was much higher, even than the new proposal, so, like most things in life, you compare your alternatives and choose what works best for you. My first preference would be for we as citizens to force the clowns we elect to budget and spend responsibly.........................but too many of my fellow citizens here don't quite see it my way.

Don - I was in the market for stainless whishbones so I reasearched it pretty good. Allen Johnson in South Carolina advertised them but really isn't making them yet. They will be cast but donn't have the tooling done yet. They are making billet aluminum ones now that are really nice. I asked if they would make me a set out of stainless and it came out to $9,000. He is really a nice guy, I felt bad waisting a lot of his time giving me a estimate. But he explained the hours it would take and at a reasonable shop rate that's what it would be. So I'm on my own, we are going to make them here. Cen Pen also advertised them but I had no luck there.
Ken

Only $ 9.000.00......did you get one or two pair?????????? Wow, that is pricey. I swear I saw ads for them, or maybe it was in one of those little articles they do in the hot rod magazines about "New Products." Somehow I am remembering something around $ 700.00. But then again, I am having trouble remembering what I had for breakfast this morning.

Don

I'm not going to start on them for a few weeks but if you remember please let me know. Thanks
Ken