C9, beautiful pictures of incredible high tech underpinnings with lots of neat filters! I have several comments. After a night's sleep I think you are right about having the cables come into the cable bracket parallel together rather than at an angle. Since I don't have my body on yet I will have to figure out something like some light duty cross members to put the clamps on. I wanted the type clamps (Adel) you used but have not found them yet locally, I will search for them now that I know they exist. I can use the driveshaft loop for one but may add enother to secure the cables to under the body which is completely flat until the rear punpkin area. I also note your headers are full headers while I bought the shorty type so I will just have a single header pipe on each side. Your picture shows that your air cooled trans pan is protected to some extent by the H-pipe. I recall seeing brake cables with a fairly large difference between the two lengths and a big swoopy gradual kink with the cables entering the bracket parallel as you show. It would seem necessary to have sturdy clamps as you show so when the cable is pulled up the compression is taken up by the cable cover. I should have thought of the small floor mounted hand brake for the added room by my "sweetie" but my original goal was to get my car to look a little like the original Model-A hand brake, although the one I got sure will take up comfort space on the passenger side. What is the drop on your front axle? With a 5" dropped front axle my stock trans pan is already at the same height of my engine pan and much lower will be fair game for the center ridge in my driveway. I think I will just get the B&M model which only holds one additional quart but is not so deep. I also purchased a 24" two-tube frame cooler (Derale from Summit) and it looks like the fender apron along the front OUTSIDE of the frame forms a partial scoop that would have access to fresh air and is wide enough for the cooler and air space. The running board apron narrows close to the frame but inside the '29 front fender there is a wide place for the cooler that will be hidden and because the '29 fender rounds down so fast (compared to the '30-'31) the cooler will be hidden from rocks, at least from the side. I need to get the body into the garage on some kind of lift setup because winter is coming eventually and I really think I need to put the floor-fenders on and off several times to fit things, but I wanted to get the chassis as finished as possible before fitting the floor-fenders. I added two wooden arches in the roof of my garage formed from laminated 2"x10" and that should hold the weight so I can use an engine hoist to pick up the floor-fenders and attach ropes to slowly lower it over the frame and check clearances as well as nibble out the hole for the trans and brake. Well C9, you really have a neat setup, thanks for the pictures, they are very helpful.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientistteen rodder