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U stab 'em .......... we slab 'em.

i think you've built a "Mean Hole Digging Machine".

Sure beats diggin' with a shovel.

I am currently working on a 51 Merc for a friends son while he's in Iraq, last year we set it on an 83 olds frame, this year he got sent back,so we mounted his 472 cad engine in place, cut down a set of patriot headers and fitted them into a set of cad flanges,mounted the Olds steering column and brake master+pedal assembly to the firewall. Instead of stretching the roof when he chopped it,we took 5 inches out of the rest and now it's a 113 in. wheelbase. Unfortunately now we have to take 5 in. out of the back doors. I was thinking of cutting out the center post and attaching it right to the back door and installing some kind of latch assembly to it. Any body tried this and can steer me to clean and simple latch system for this?

Heres a few pics of my 47 Ford going from grey and some other colors to DP90 semi gloss black. After the winter Im gonna have the body bead blasted, and do it right, but this should last through the winter.

More masking...

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My first time shooting anything besides cheap grey primer!

Next week, retrofit original factory bench seat...

Looks good Chad, it should winter well.

Nice work so far ChadS, all though they are a little dark on my screen, the car is looking good.

Ok, I have a question for you guys.........

I got my car hot at the Branson "Shepard of the Hill's" show a few weeks back, I mean she hit 260 and was starting to spit water out bad. I managed to get it off to the side of the road which if you have ever been there for that event you know that the burn out freaks make it hard to pull off the strip. I let it cool and re-filled the water and cruized on. Ever since I have replaced the small 13" fan and shroud with an 18" electric, had the radiator rebuilt, added a recovery tank and new hose's. It runs 190' perfect but it still spits out water, any ideas guys?

do you have a cross flow rad. or top to bottom? if its cross flow its gonna spit some water out, but a overflow tank and the right cap should suck it back in when needed. if its spiting it out and no way of getting it back then its gonna run hot again . what lb. cap are you using? its sounds like you have a cross flow rad. that the recovery system is not working on.

Hey Brickman, after it got so warm maybe the cap is junk. Might want to check it out on a pressure tester....

It is the stock '48 trickle radiator that has been rodded out and tanked. I haven't thought about the cap, I'll have it checked. Does the overflow tank half to be the same height as the radiator? Right now I have it mounted down on the inner fender, once it blows out about half a gallon it seems to let up some. Maybe I should have gotten a bigger overflow tank?