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

[thesals]

yup, stuck here on the left coast where the sun is bright, but the people aren't

[Irelands child]

yup, stuck here on the left coast where the sun is bright, but the people aren't

Which is why we on the virtuous and verdant green Right Coast call your part of the country the Land of Fruits and Nuts .

[randyr]

Which is why we on the virtuous and verdant green Right Coast call your part of the country the Land of Fruits and Nuts .

Well, having lived on both coasts and in the middle, I've seen "fruits & nuts" all over this great land.....it just depends on what variety you're looking for.....LOL! About the time I think the left coast may have a higher concentration of them, I travel somewhere else and think....hmmm, I'm not so sure.....

Doesn't matter where you go there's going to be a percentage of really great people, some really bad people plus a few idiots thown in to round things out....makes life interesting I suppose. It'd be pretty boring if we were all just alike, don't you think?

[Irelands child]

Well, having lived on both coasts and in the middle, I've seen "fruits & nuts" all over this great land.....it just depends on what variety you're looking for.....LOL! About the time I think the left coast may have a higher concentration of them, I travel somewhere else and think....hmmm, I'm not so sure.....

Doesn't matter where you go there's going to be a percentage of really great people, some really bad people plus a few idiots thown in to round things out....makes life interesting I suppose. It'd be pretty boring if we were all just alike, don't you think?

Randy,
After traveling worldwide for business for many years, plus living in several states, can say that, IMHO, SoCAL seems to have a magnetic attraction for "interesting" people.That's not to say that we haven't our share here on the other side of the country, we sure do. They sure help to make life more interesting.

[randyr]

I've shown you the before/after pics of my firewall in previous posts. Here's the before and after of my trans mount. In the before pic, when my dad & I originally built the car, we cut out enough of the x to get the c4 trans thru it then created a mounting bracket.....the trans mount slid into the slots, then a steel plate was drilled and bolted to the trans and to the mounting plate to hold it secure. It wasn't much to look at and I don't think it was really all that strong, but I drove it that way for 80K miles....


The new one give more room and is much stronger. I also beefed up the brackets that run from the x-member to the frame rails by welding a 1"x 1/8 strap around the perimeter of the top and x-member side, then redrilled the holes. It stiffened it up considerably. I failed to take a pic of that. I've painted the frame since these pics and got so anxious to get the floor in that I covered up before taking a picture of it from the top....oh well....

Will get some better pics of the floor in a day or so.....

[Irelands child]

Good solid looking frame, Randy. All those holes that Ford put in it, mostly, if my recollection is correct, for the original mechanical brakes and their various brackets. I suspect that most of the cracks you had to fix were caused directly or indirectly from stress. Next major with a body-off in another 20 years or so you can fill them in and do a frame box

Have you considered a journal to post your pictures? I started one but each photo had to be sized correctly and loaded individually and is a time eater so have not kept it up. I do intend on eventually updating it for "posterity".

Crummy wet weather, but warm, relatively speaking, for a Californian today so will be a "car day" rather then a yard ( I've told my wife that the next house will be in a former hay field rather then the woods )
Dave

[randyr]

Good solid looking frame, Randy. All those holes that Ford put in it, mostly, if my recollection is correct, for the original mechanical brakes and their various brackets. I suspect that most of the cracks you had to fix were caused directly or indirectly from stress. Next major with a body-off in another 20 years or so you can fill them in and do a frame box

Have you considered a journal to post your pictures? I started one but each photo had to be sized correctly and loaded individually and is a time eater so have not kept it up. I do intend on eventually updating it for "posterity".

Crummy wet weather, but warm, relatively speaking, for a Californian today so will be a "car day" rather then a yard ( I've told my wife that the next house will be in a former hay field rather then the woods )
Dave

Thanks Dave, the frame looks much better now that it's painted. There are a lot of extraneous holes, some from the previous trans mount, some from exhaust brackets, some from the factory, some from what seemed to be logical choices at the time...etc...It will definitely never be a "show car" frame but as long as it's safe & decent looking, I'll be okay with it for a while. My dad & I did a body-off build on the car when we first built it. The next time the body comes off will be to set it on a nice new TCI chassis! But who knows when that will be??? They may have outlawed streetrods by then!!!

I've been trying to take pics when I can. I have considered posting them in a journal but just haven't done it yet. When I download them from my camera, I size them for emailing purposes. Don't know if that's the right size for the journal site or not but hopefully will check it out soon.

Be thankful for the rain. It gives you a chance to play with your car . It's supposed to be 80 and sunny here today but we're currently under a "marine layer", west coast terminology for "clouds". It should burn off by noonish. It's not always sunny in SoCal, much to my dismay!