1930 Chevy sedan build thread...trying for 3K.

[49 club coupe]

awesome this stuff is what inspires me everyday!i hope that one day i can meet most of you guys on the rod road some where!!!

[buckroseau]

Got a solid 10 hours on the chubby today. Basicly it was a day of fabbing up the floor tubing. Pics pretty much say it all. Took a lot of time to keep crawling back and forth from underneath it. But, needed to do that before I cut the doors loose. Towards the end of the day I had 10 mounting points tacked and bolted in and everything pretty much squared up so I was able to cut the doors loose. That was a lot nicer to do some more work without having to crawl underneath it anymore.

I cut and welded pieces down the center for the driveshaft, that should work out pretty decent. Once welded solid I will cut the lower portion of the tube out. Not real happy with how the front x tube looks that goes over the tranny. I guess it seems like it should work, but just seems like there should be a better way to do that?? Everything is tacked to together so if I come up with something different in the next day or so, I'll redo it.

Lot of snow fell today, so my morning tomorrow is going be spent plowing snow. But after that I hope to get going on it again. I think tomorrow I am going to start working on getting the doors swinging....that is going to take some time drilling and tapping plates.

Matt

[buckroseau]

2 more pics of the fun today

[brickman]

Are you going to put any rubber between the metal's of the body mounts in the final assembly?

[buckroseau]

Got in about 6 hours today on the chubby. I pissed away about half of the day getting my plow truck started and plowing snow. Spent pretty much that time getting the doors mounted back up and swinging.....I think it's pretty cool that it has probably been 50+ years since the last time those doors swung open. Took a pic of the backing plates I made. Drilled and tapped them to 1/4"-20 and used a counter sunk machine bolts in the hinges. The orginal ones were countersunk also, but they were wood screws

Doesn't seem like much to get done today, but drilling and tapping those plates and then I had to drill through the 3/16" flat stock on the A pillar I had made a few weeks ago. After installed they actually fit pretty decent. I did fire up the gas ax and heat the hinges in a couple spots and massage them a bit to gain an 1/8" here and there in the door openings.

I had boughten a couple door handles throught speedway, along with some bearjaw door latches last week. I spent a couple extra minutes and installed those handles in the doors, I think they look pretty good. Hopefully this week I can get some more time in and start fabbing up the bear jaw latches and striker pins.

Matt

[buckroseau]

Are you going to put any rubber between the metal's of the body mounts in the final assembly?

Yes, I am planning on it. I have some rubber belting here about an 1/8" thick that I am going to cut up and mount in between the body and frame. Not a lot, but figure it might help take some of the vibration out. And, that's what I have laying around.

Matt

[EMSteiner]

Looking good

[bluestang67]

Buck some great work you have done in the past few months. Stay with it and dont forget YouTube will let us hear it run when you get it ready .

[brickman]

Cool, I would imagine that it will help with keeping it from squeeking too huh?

I like the way the outside door handles look, very cool. Do they work nice and easy too?

[buckroseau]

Cool, I would imagine that it will help with keeping it from squeeking too huh?

I like the way the outside door handles look, very cool. Do they work nice and easy too?

The handles rotate nice and easy, but I have no latches in yet so really don't have a good feel for that yet.

Hopefully I can get some time in on it this weekend. I have the bear jaw latches and pins. Probably take a good day to get them installed.

Matt

[MNPoser]

Looking really nice Matt man!

I am really looking forward to making it up to your place for a weekend!

Hopefully there are all sorts of fun projects to get after…

[brickman]

You pretty much just designed your frame to fit the body you have the best way, how did you come up with the length demention?

[buckroseau]

You pretty much just designed your frame to fit the body you have the best way, how did you come up with the length demention?

In that one pic I have the body, drivetrain and radiator layed out on the floor. I actually traced the outside and inside of the body, roughly penciled out the motor and traced the radiator...I had the the fan on and got the distributor 1" from the firewall. I picked everything up and marked everything out, snapped a few chalk lines and started cutting.

Hope that helped, Matt

[brickman]

Thats Cool Buck, I love the simple stuff. Everything is coming along nice, I am wondering if there would be enough room for a 6'2" man with lets just say a "Mature" stature to drive the car. Just wondering for my own build which way to go body wise.

[brianrupnow]

Thats Cool Buck, I love the simple stuff. Everything is coming along nice, I am wondering if there would be enough room for a 6'2" man with lets just say a "Mature" stature to drive the car. Just wondering for my own build which way to go body wise.

It doesn't matter how "mature" your stature is with a sedan. you just move the seat back untill there is room to get the "mature" part of your stature between the steering wheel and the seat. And generally, tall men and short men are all the same height from their arse to the top of their head, when seated.