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Dang, ProZ, that's looking down right WICKED!!! Nice job.

Thanks Duane. This Saturday is chassis tech day. ohhh boy

good looking chassis pro.

Very very Awesome Pro70Z! I love the last shot of the tires from the rear, very cool. That car is going to be bad to the bone!

well just got my income tax check. guess what i'm going to spend it on. i have 2 questions for you. i was told that i could use a s-10 frame for my 47 chevy coupe, what do you think? chop or not to chop? i want to lower the roof about 3 inches. talk to me my brother. the shadow

Inome tax Return!? Whats that!! If I had to pay less than a thousand dollars I would let my wife drag me on my butt behind the car to Detroit and sing motown on a street corner in a vat of ice for a month!!! Ain't going to happen!! Good the hear from you shadow and I didn't look into the S10 frame for my car (didn't know about it). The rage was MusII, but....Doesn't mean it won't work. Measure the frame on your Coupe?/Fleetline? and see if is the same or close to the design of the chevys. I think a guy could work an S10 under any car. I didn't know there was a coupe in the fleetline line. Got a pic?

Chop? Truely an individual taste thing, makes the car special and adds flavor IMHO. I didn't have the know how or I would have chopped my car alot more than three. This is a pic of one of my local bro's car he built, can anyone argue that this air ride cruiser isn't bad to the bone?

I have learned a valuable lesson the last 2 weeks, lesson #1; Never put anything thats not brand new on a new engine because it will immediatly go south on you. Number 2; You will be repeating lesson 1 alot! I think I am getting the bugs out, I drove it up through town yesterday and back to the shop without getting stuck so thats a good thing. New sparkplug wires on tomorrow and it will be running well then I believe. Valves are quite, no exhaust leaks...Damn I may have done it! Time for her spring cleaning and detail.

Well, got the box off the '71 again...Got to get the suspension finished up, relocate the upper shock mounts and install the lower shock mounts. Geez, my garage sure is small compared to the old shop!!! Got a bunch of shinys and other goodies for it, radiator should be here tomorrow. Hopefully it will be done and painted by the end of April.

Well just some little steps over the winter but now I can't think of any further stuff to do before mounting the top of the roadster body on the Bebops fender-floor. Yesterday I put some foam tape with a sticky surface between the floor panel and the frame rails. It looks like I'll have to round up some buddies to help lift the body on the frame. Because of the internal steel framework the 'glass body is surprisingly heavy and when we took it off to separate the floor section and make all the cutouts it took four men to lift it and there was some grunting going on. To put it back we will have to lift it up onto the frame. I'll get some pictures when we get the body back together.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Geez, you're way ahead of me, Don!!!! Really anxious to see the pics of the body on the chassis, it is definitely going to be one sweet ride!!!!!

Hi guys,

I just wanted to share some pics of my 1935 Ford 5 window coupe.

I purchased the car on July 4th of last year and have been working constantly on the car. I hope to have it done within 2 or 3 months.


Heres what the car looked like when I bought it....





About 4 months ago....




And what it looks like now...








Heres a pic of the zz4 right after we first mounted it (4 1/2 months ago)





And heres what it looks like now... (the valve covers are on there only temporarily, I dont wanna mess up the brand new covers)




The previous owner dynoed 440rwhp and just under 500ft lbs of torque with the 142 blower and a 850 cfm holley. He ran 10's in a 69 Camaro.

We swapped the "hot" cam, 142 blower, and 850cfm Holley with a Predator 234/244 cam and a 4-71 blower (6% overdriven) with a Predator carb (The cam and carb are not made by the same company).

Was told by the woman that owns Predator carbs that the cam was a 40-50hp drop in.

Im hoping the engine will put out close to 600rwhp when we go to dyno it.

hard to belive that 750 carb. was enough carb. I tried that and it didn't work. the predator worked great though. looks good

I dunno Mike- look at those headers on the last pic., look's like they are burning real hot, maybe a little lean.....

Originally posted by lt1s10
hard to belive that 750 carb. was enough carb. I tried that and it didn't work. the predator worked great though. looks good

Thanks. Sorry, 750 was a typo, it was 850. (I seem to have a problem with hitting the 7 key instead of 8)

Originally posted by hambiskit
I dunno Mike- look at those headers on the last pic., look's like they are burning real hot, maybe a little lean.....

After we changed the cam and blower, we had alot of flames shooting out of the exhaust (they are ceramic coated, btw) and the pipes were turning bright orange until we changed the pushrods and got the carb tuned correctly. The engine runs very good now, even better than it did before.

Originally posted by hambiskit
I dunno Mike- look at those headers on the last pic., look's like they are burning real hot, maybe a little lean.....

The first blower I had was about the same set up he has and evrybody told me a 750 would work, and after a bunch of holes in pistons and a lot of blown head gaskets I went to a bigger carb. and got rid of the problem. hate to say it , but I've been there done that. i did get by with the 750 for awhile, with 92 jets in the front and none in the rear, but I didn't have the motor he has and its was still lean, just not blowing head gaskets.