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

[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