Thread: One Way To Build A '32 Hyboy

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Dave-You are right, the things that look the cleanest and simplest or usually the most time consuming.

Bob-Yes, it's a motorcycle gas cap,I get them from a friend of mine, Matt Hotch, his shop is Hot Match Custom Motorcycles in Fullerton Ca.
Ken

Dave is right, it is the million little things that stand out as superb in the end. I wish I had the ability and patience to this end. What I do have is the ability to appreciate others like you Ken and what you put into your cars, as well as all the others on this site. You guys are my electric family who gi ve me ideas and help every day!

Trying to get the exhaust finished up. These are some of the pieces used to fabricate the exhaust, then you can see it going into the muffler. I haven't tried this before with a single muffler but I like the idea of not having two mufflers under the interior of the car. I have never had a street rod with air conditioning before so I'm trying to thing and eliminate things that would generate heat to the interior. There is three firewalls in it and each will be insulated, with the engine oil in the firewall I want to make sure the heat stays out of the interior. It's all three inch material.
Ken

Ken,
It looks great. What did you do after the manifolds/headers as far as joining the two sides together. Are you going to run it out just on one side or the center ala Corvette, like with an oval tip? I never knew how much "fun" it was to weld up an exhaust system until I did it

IC2-It's dual exhaust all the way back I just showed you one side. The muffler has two inlets and 2 exhaust in it with a balance tube all in side. I'm stopping it just as it shows. I don't like to see the exhaust tubes coming out the back.
Ken

Originally Posted by Ken Thurm

IC2-It's dual exhaust all the way back I just showed you one side. The muffler has two inlets and 2 exhaust in it with a balance tube all in side. I'm stopping it just as it shows. I don't like to see the exhaust tubes coming out the back.
Ken

OK - that makes sense - it sounded like 2 into 1 then a single tailpipe which is what my '94 & '97 4.6L T'birds had(suffered?)

IC2- If you go to the 6Th page you can see the muffler and see the inlets.
Ken

Originally Posted by Ken Thurm

IC2- If you go to the 6Th page you can see the muffler and see the inlets.
Ken

Thanks Ken - (and I do have to admit to terminal CRS because I remember the posting and thinking it's gonna get hot that close to the floorboars. )

Ken
we'll be down this weekend to go to my sister in laws wedding. Hope to hook up and see your projects. I'll give you a call when I get there. Steve.

WOW.. Sad to say it, but I am accually extremely upset! Simply because i ran out of stuff to read! I've spent the past 2 hours on THIS THREAD, drooling over your rod, ur creativity, CLEANLYNESS!!, and just the amount of work that has been put into this so far!! Ken you are my new found idol and this makes me want to quit my full time job and go do my OWN stuff! haha but all in all, you have caught a valued reader!! keep on making this thing an amazing creation!! ill be watching! looks amazing!!

Steve-I look forward to meeting you.

Tin-I hope it continues to be interesting for you, thanks for the nice words.

I got the dash almost done,I'm not done with the trim yet but close. This will match the theme of the interior when it is all done.
Ken

I'm starting to plum the dry sump. We made this adapter to go from the push in style hose ends to a AN style. Then I drilled my scatter shield for the -12 bulk heads. I will hard line the lines out of the oil pan to the scatter shield then stainless line from the back side up to the tank. I'm going to cut the ends off the lines that are in the pan and weld on stainless lines to the bulk head. The reason for this is I can't get tight enough radius on my bender to tuck it in like I want.
Ken

oops! I for got this shot

Very nice. Looks like an aluminum sculpture!

Looks great Ken!!!! The detail work is fantastic!