Thread: My From-Scratch project

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started on a door today. kind-of messed it up, but I think I can fix it. I've fixed alot of mess-ups already. They say "too err is human"....I guess I must be, like, super-human

love the duesenberg idea. will be a real head turner. keep up the good work and please keep posting pictures.

Originally Posted by jyardgirl

love the duesenberg idea. will be a real head turner. keep up the good work and please keep posting pictures.

thanks...dont think it will look like a Duesenberg much though. I'm not very good at the body work. It wont be as pretty and fancy with real nice lines and stuff. but noone else will have one like it, and I'm building it myself. here's another picture.

worked on it some more today and yesterday. finished the top, and the part of the passenger side. came out a little better than the other side. then started doing the back corner. still not got that compound curve in the very top back yet. not too good with the english wheeling machine yet. put a kind of false bumper around the back...here's some pictures
sam

It's starting to look like a custom!
I think your doing just fine with the metal work!

Originally Posted by stovens

It's starting to look like a custom!
I think your doing just fine with the metal work!

thankyou
I'm not sure if I want the rear fender to extend out past the running boards, and part of the rear tires will stick out past the fender, or if I want to extend the running boards out farther......hmmmmmm

did some more today. got the rear corner in there. don't really like it though. the edges are curved like they're supposed to be, but the center is too flat. maybe I can round it off more with some filler or lead or something....hmmmm....have to think about that for a while. Get to pick up my V12 Jag motor tomorrow morning. dont think I'm going to pay the extra $100 for the original Jaguar transmission. can get an adapter kit and attach a 5-speed manual trans to it, and lower the cruising RPMs to about 2100 instead of 3000 like the original, and the kit's about $500 (from what I was reading).
sam

Looking good, Bluefish. I guarantee if you pull into a carshow with this running a jag V-12there will be more people gathered around this than all the cookie cutter musclecars. Nice job thinking out of the box. Can you shrink your pictures a little, though?

Originally Posted by falconvan

Looking good, Bluefish. I guarantee if you pull into a carshow with this running a jag V-12there will be more people gathered around this than all the cookie cutter musclecars. Nice job thinking out of the box. Can you shrink your pictures a little, though?

thanks...yeah, I usually cut them down to 40% of the original camera size, and they show good on my screen, but I just remembered that I have it set at 1680x1050 so I guess they would show alot bigger at lower resolutions. I'll try making them smaller.

Got my V12 today. It's HUGE...like 42" from back to front, without transmission. that's about 12" longer than my ford engine. The engine compartment wont look empty now. took some pictures, but the sun-light keeps screwing them up. I'll try to take more later. I'm going to put a Gm T700 4-speed manual trans on it, (unless I change my mind again like I usually do) and change the rear end gears in the ford 9-inch to 3.08 or 2.75. should be about 1900RPMs at 80MPH instead of over 3000 at 70mph. should save about 30% on fuel too from what I have read. Going to tear it apart to look inside and clean everything up. hopefully shouldn't have to buy a bunch of stuff to rebuild it if everything's okay inside. want to make a new single fuel rail to replace the old double fuel rails. read that they had trouble with hot start-ups with the double rail, and found a site that has instructions for replacing them with a single, which fixes the start-up problems......found alot of other ideas too.....

sam

A really weird crazy thought just popped into my head.......who needs a steering wheel and gas pedal.....why not stick steering and throttle lever.....or even 2 sticks, like a tank (2 sticks would need to be connected, with a swivel point in the center...wouldnt do forward/reverse with sticks, only steering )...one on each side of the seat...and keep pedals for brake, accelorator, and automatic trans shifter.....
I guess that's what i get for walking around with my head empty all the time...


SAm

I guess I wont get to work on the car much more this year. work called. I have to be at Turkey Point Nuke in Homestead FL september 18th, for about a month. Then come home for a while, and go to Port Saint Lucy Nuke in FL the end of december for a while....then somewhere else from febuary to may.....might get to work on it again in may....sigh....Maybe I can get some of the motor built this winter well I'm home. Too bad I cant be independantly wealthy.....or marry a rich cute girl )

got an engine hoist today. cut out the old motor mounts, and made new ones for the v12. set the engine in. have to lower the front mounts a couple inches so it sets a little more level. I may have to slide it back about 2 inches also, so the front pulley doesn't hit the frame.I'll do that tomorrow.....I think this is a more proper size engine for this application.

sam

cool!

Shortened the motor mounts a few inches, and welded them in. Now it sits a lot better. The oil pan isn't on it right now, so it will hang down a few more inches underneath. I'll still have room to put the six Webers, or 4 Straumbergs on top too. don't really want to put that old ugly fuel injection back on. Looks like the car was built for that motor from the start.
Got confirmation today about the job at Turkey Point Nuke. Have to be there next Saturday morning at 0700.Now I'll have to clean out my garage this weekend, and put the car in there for a while. Maybe I can get some work done on the motor this fall/winter.

Sam