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

[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)