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

[34_40]

Mike have you been getting any buff time in . I ordered the Por 15 engine enamel paint , But there is a lot to do before that happens . I am off work right now with a torn meniscus and hobble around . All this free time and stuck sitting or laying down with the leg up .

So Bobby.. What were you trying to say in post 1128?

Sorry guys, no "Buff Time" yet. I hope to start this weekend, life got in the way.

Bobby, you gotta heal up and get'er painted! That injury sounds painful!

Randy, how about you? Any progress??

[randyr]

Randy, how about you? Any progress??

No, Mike. I suck! I haven't gotten anything done since my last post. Life got in my way, too.....

[IC2]

No, Mike. I suck! I haven't gotten anything done since my last post. Life got in my way, too.....

Priorities need to be set correctly. None of this life gets in the way!!

[randyr]

Priorities need to be set correctly. None of this life gets in the way!!

"Life got in the way" is merely a catch-all phrase to cover for the other "priorities" that kept me out of the garage. Trust me, in many of those situations I would have rather been working on my car!

[34_40]

"Life got in the way" is merely a catch-all phrase to cover for the other "priorities" that kept me out of the garage. Trust me, in many of those situations I would have rather been working on my car!

Heck! I'd rather have been working on your car!

[34_40]

Priorities need to be set correctly. None of this life gets in the way!!

We'll remember this when your hauling your tail south!

[IC2]

We'll remember this when your hauling your tail south!

At the rate we are going - that might not happen. Six specific house hunting trips where we have found nice homes and the 2+/- acre yard is mountain goat territory and vise versa. Then there are the home owners covenants that rule out, among other items having a travel trailer (ours is pretty big - 34' long x 12.4" tall). Then there are those with 'open plan' where the kitchen, DR, LR entry way are one big room. Neither of us wants that (but it seems that is the way many if not most of the homes built since about 2000 are designed. Regardless, we'll be moving somewhere out of where we are.

[34_40]

At the rate we are going - that might not happen. Regardless, we'll be moving somewhere out of where we are.

Having moved across the country a couple times, I know EXACTLY what you're saying! And then as I was typing this I was wondering if your move would prevent us from reconnecting in Burlington sometime in the near future?

I hope not! I've had a lot of fun looking at the cars with a like minded person such as yourself! And I missed the last one That weekend snuck right past me!

[IC2]

Having moved across the country a couple times, I know EXACTLY what you're saying! And then as I was typing this I was wondering if your move would prevent us from reconnecting in Burlington sometime in the near future?

I hope not! I've had a lot of fun looking at the cars with a like minded person such as yourself! And I missed the last one That weekend snuck right past me!

Mike -I hadn't planned to go as we had just gotten back from a VA trip, but woke up on that Sat morning and told my wife I would see her about 9:00 PM . It's become a PITA to go to VT with the Champlain Bridge being rebuilt and the ferrys full. Maybe this year (and I'm not planning to go to York either for the first time since about '92 or '93)

[34_40]

No, Mike. I suck! I haven't gotten anything done since my last post. Life got in my way, too.....

Well Randy! There is one thing we can agree to in that sentence!

[randyr]

Well Randy! There is one thing we can agree to in that sentence!

Oh Mike, don't make me pull out the "Y" on you again!!

:-)

[34_40]

Oh Mike, don't make me pull out the "Y" on you again!!

:-)

WHAT??? I didn't say anything bad!! HAH! ! ! Randeeee

[Don Shillady]

Thanks for the welcome in the cold months! I am posting on this thread because I want to keep in touch with IC2. Well the weather is good again and yesterday I had to use the fan in the garage! I had a long spell of mind-bending details with a textbook manuscript but two weeks ago I sent in the proof corrections and then I was wondering what to do with my time! Anyway I am still putting off the final wiring on my 'glass '29 but I decided to work on the hood. I am working under a constraint from my wife that the car "has to look like a Model A" so that is why I have been following IC2's all-Ford roadster. I really wanted a bob-fendered '29 on '32 rails but that did not pass the budget approval process (although it would have been cheaper)! Anyway here a few new pictures of a preliminary hood installation. I still have to worry over the hold-down latches and mess with a different center-rod mount. You can see that when I use a correct 1929 hood mount the hood is too high at the cowl. My local restorer friend Dick Ivey just down the street suggested I try a '30-'31 mounting bracket which is a little lower. This is the first gennie part that has not fit my Bebop 'glass body. I think there should be an indent in the top center of the cowl for the hood rod mount. I will have to take it apart again to paint the stainless center rod on the end that shows and hopefully the '30,'31 clip will solve the gap problem. Hey, now I have some "real steel" in the car! Sorry about that vulgar SBC in the third photo! Anyway it looks nice and is getting me back in the garage again. Maybe I will actually finish the car someday?

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

[IC2]

have been cheaper)! Anyway here a few new pictures of a preliminary hood installation. I still have to worry over the hold-down latches and mess with a different center-rod mount. You can see that when I use a correct 1929 hood mount the hood is too high at the cowl. My local restorer friend Dick Ivey just down the street suggested I try a '30-'31 mounting bracket which is a little lower. This is the first gennie part that has not fit my Bebop 'glass body. I think there should be an indent in the top center of the cowl for the hood rod mount. I will have to take it apart again to paint the stainless center rod on the end that shows and hopefully the '30,'31 clip will solve the gap problem. Hey, now I have some "real steel" in the car! Sorry about that vulgar SBC in the third photo! Anyway it looks nice and is getting me back in the garage again. Maybe I will actually finish the car someday?

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Just happened by and caught your post, Don. Nice to hear from you

Car still looks good, even with that, that, that Brand X engine

OK - hood hinge and some things to consider. Do you have the rear welting in place yet? The hood will "drape" differently without it actually molding the hood. Of course, that wont fix the problem of being too high in the back. My guess is that Be-Bops made the assumption that 'everyone' would be using a 3 piece hood rather then a four so didn't make a recess allowance for the center hinge bracket. It looks like it's made of sheet metal with a piece of tubing welded to receive the center hinge rod. If so, perhaps you can section and reweld .25 or so lower - or maybe make one of your own design. I have the '32 style hood hinge as it will have less chance of bending at the loops and popping paint chips at the joints and that rear bracket of mine is a cast special that also acts to hold the SS cowl band in the center - and is less then perfect too.

As far as the hood latches, you might utter some strange four letter worded language putting them in place - I pulled mine off, filled the holes before paint and currently am not using the side panels tho probably will eventually, but with Dzus quarter turn fasteners (and maybe draw catches)