Thread: Tech1, Parking Brake?

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No doubt I am under some peer pressure here, but even I don't like the looks of the 1" angle iron so I decided to use the rectangular tubing I bought recently for an added crossmember. It is 1 1/2" x 2 1/2" with 1/8" wall and I found a former student who took my course many years ago who now has a superb machine shop to cut the tubing at a slight angle on each end. For $7 of tubing and a $14 U-tube from Chassis Engineering I will go to a welded crossmember and remount the cables using Adel clips and holes tapped into the bottom of the crossmember. This much stronger crossmember will "look" much better and may function as a reference corner for a roll bar and maybe also for muffler support. Anyway the pictures from C9 show a high quality setup and I certainly don't want my underside to look cobbled so a neat welded-in crossmember should look a lot better. I'll post another picture when the weld-in safety loop is completed. In the world of hype maybe my car will look faster with a safety loop, but I doubt if the car will ever make it into the 12s at a strip unless the engine is beefed up a lot more. As a side note I remember when the AMBR No. 1 '29 roadster on essex rails with a full flathead was tested and found to run something like a 15 in the 1/4 mile, so what would have been the ultimate car in the 1950s as a "dream car" to me would not make it into the 12.99 cutoff which requires a safety loop. So if the chassis looks better and the loop makes it look faster that is worth $21 in materials and who knows maybe someday I will upgrade the motor. Well the pictures from C9 are amazing so I at least want my chassis to "look" good.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder