37 Ford build--IE: old Header issues thread /37 Ford/5.0/GT40P heads

[Don Shillady]

35-40 and Bobby D. Thanks for the kind words. The hood alignment is a compromise, but I am tired of messing with it.

Don Shilla

[IC2]

Glad to see you are making your quarterly appearance, Don We begin to wonder if you have lost interest, but then ----- there you are.

Now with the "plaudits" done, I'm glad that you are back and puttering with the car. I really looks nice and that hood is just fine. Ol' Henry Ford made them pretty loose and yours looks better by far.

Drilling the frame for the latches is a 'given' but as a guy just putting a car together the first time, there are some gotchas. Then since this Model A chassis is virtually the same through the entire four year run, there are just some things after market can't do. And dings - I have a few and just figure they are road and shop rash. I'll touch them up over the winter and go on driving. Now, driving mine - it's usually rained when I have the time this summer. I think I drove it once in September and not much more in August with Irene and Lee making some roads as well as my yard a mess.

Later

[bluestang67]

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Working a lot since I went back , also still trying to organize up .

[randyr]

Working a lot since I went back , also still trying to organize up .

I hear ya Bobby. Won't it be great when we get to hang these parts back on the car instead of on the freakin' wall?!!

[bluestang67]

Randy that will be one of the best days to start and run one down the street , no blocks to go around in a 3 street culdesac subdivision .

[406Rich]

Randy / Bobby, are we getting em done yet.....I`ve got to stop driving long enough to get a few things done this winter, especially clean the poor thing, its been neglected but not from driving it.

[randyr]

Randy / Bobby, are we getting em done yet.....I`ve got to stop driving long enough to get a few things done this winter, especially clean the poor thing, its been neglected but not from driving it.

Hey Rich, wish I had more to report. I've been working my butt off, just not on the 37! argh!! Hopefully, I can post some progress soon.Thanks for asking. If I had your 37 I'd probably be driving it all the time....but then it looks like you have a nice selection of choices!
Talk soon.
r2

[IC2]

Rich - Maybe it needs to have some surgery. Took mine partially apart to do a few mods - i.e. get rid of that Cool Flex top hose, change to a 4 hole phenolic spacer, move the alternator to the right side and much lower, add an MSD Cap-Adapt to stop ignition cross firing and a few other odds and ends - - - and polish the aluminum:

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The weather this summer and fall has been so crummy/wet, every piece of (billet) aluminum has some fusty crud on it.

Randy, between you and Don Shillady, sighhhhhh

[406Rich]

Rich - Maybe it needs to have some surgery. Took mine partially apart to do a few mods - i.e. get rid of that Cool Flex top hose, change to a 4 hole phenolic spacer, move the alternator to the right side and much lower, add an MSD Cap-Adapt to stop ignition cross firing and a few other odds and ends - - - and polish the aluminum:



The weather this summer and fall has been so crummy/wet, every piece of (billet) aluminum has some fusty crud on it.

Randy, between you and Don Shillady, sighhhhhh

I moved my alt down low when I did the engine transplant in `03 just kept welding pieces of scrap together so I had something to bolt to, then did measurements and made the brackets out of stainless tubing and alum bar stock, the store bought one never even got close to working...Why did you remove the cool flex....?

[34_40]

The weather this summer and fall has been so crummy/wet, every piece of (billet) aluminum has some fusty crud on it.

Randy, between you and Don Shillady, sighhhhhh

Fusty crud! Yep! that's what it is! And I got a bunch of it too!

And.. SIGH.... Just about says it perfectly!

[406Rich]

Here is the alt pic, just need to clean things up a bit this year, alt sits 1/2 inch from the block and 1 inch from the side panel...

[IC2]

Rich - I'm moving the alternator to a mid position on the RHS. I made up the existing wrap around bracket and married it to a Street and Performance head mounted piece. What it does is make it difficult to access the distributor plus seems to take over the top of the engine. I also can't install a big cap on the distributor to stop potential cross firing with the MSD. I'm going to use a Wysco bracket and fully understand that I'll probably have to do some mods. As far as the Cool-Flex hose - I just don't like it - too many cars have them. I'll be making up a replacement from a 1.5" piece of tubing.

[randyr]

re: all the "sighs".....

Oh ye of little faith.......

[IC2]

re: all the "sighs".....

Oh ye of little faith.......

Randy - Post 4, 2007, in this multi year, long winded/diverse thread shows where my car was at that time

Now, repeat after me, s-i-i-i-g-h

[randyr]

Randy - Post 4, 2007, in this multi year, long winded/diverse thread shows where my car was at that time

Now, repeat after me, s-i-i-i-g-h

Don't make me create a spread sheet of comparative excuses, Dave!!

It's not the destination, it's the journey......ok, so perhaps my journey gets stuck on the side of the road too often.........now, I'll join you in the "sighs"......