Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

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Only in my dreams, only in my dreams.

It's kinda like the time I told my Girlfriend that when she turned 40 I was going to trade her in for two 20 year olds. Her reply was " don't worry Honey, you aren't wired for 220." Guess she told me.


Don

If every weekend were as productive as this one, Dan's car would be running in no time. We got some major stuff done Saturday and Sunday. Of course, we didn't leave the shop until 5:30 Sunday morning and went back again Sunday afternoon, but those hours really paid off.

We finally wrapped up mounting his quarter eliptic springs in the rear. He settled on one way of doing it, after rejecting about 10 different ways ( ) and got the brackets built and welded on. It works pretty well and gives him a bunch of ride height adjustment just by turning two bolts per side looser or tighter. Thank God that is finally out of the way.......I thought we were never going to get that task done.

Then we were able to mock the engine and tranny back on the frame and put the body back on temporarily to see where the car would sit. The bed was the last thing we got done, and it needed a c section taken out of each side for the rear axle assembly to go up into. Once the lower skirt was installed all the suspension is pretty well hidden from sight, but since he is going to leave all the workings exposed in the bed people will be able to see the entire rear suspension setup by looking into the bed .

The 1940 Ford wheels he bought on Ebay showed up Saturday and they are really nice. Tomorrow I have to take them and two others he has to the powder coaters to be coated black. The extra two wheels will mount some Hurst slicks that he will alternate using for shows and stuff.

So here are some pictures of what we ended up with tonight. We also sent his axles back to Moser to have them redrilled for a 5 on 5.5 pattern.

Don

Very slick. This is going to be very fun watching it come together. Steve.

Originally Posted by stovens

Very slick. This is going to be very fun watching it come together. Steve.

Thanks Steve. I am really enjoying helping him put it together. Aside from spending time together it is nice spending someone elses money for a change.

Today I took his wheels to the powdercoater. He bought 4 '40 Ford wheels on Ebay that were nice and he already had two on the front of his rod, so they are going to do all 6. He is going to put Hurst slicks on the other 2 just for shows and cruises.

Quite an operation over at the powdercoaters place. Two booths outdoors doing nothing but sandblasting all day, and a huge facility doing all kinds of stuff in powdercoat.........everything from car stuff to huge dumpsters and cabinets. We have never had anything powdercoated so we are anxious to see how they come out. He's going with gloss black.

Don