Thread: My 29 tudor Flathead instalation??

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WELL?? i know someone has an opinion? what did i do wrong? what should i do next?

nice job on the Zed frame and lightning holes

I don't know what you are using to locate the height of the engine in ehe car but it is sitting several inches higher than most A/V8's I have seen.
The mount pad should be very close to level with the top of the frame rail and then the mount biscuit on that to space it up another 1 1/2" or so.
That should put the water pump outlets just above the crossmember.

Well, if you're going to beg to be beat on................................

First, your steering is on the wrong side.

On a more serious note, hanging a suicide suspension on a stock style front crossmember with frame horns you run the risk of bottoming out the axle at the frame bottom, that's why most suicide style frames typically end behind the axle line. Looking at the one picture with the engine in from the direct front you're not very far below the frame, and you don't have all the weight on the front end yet (radiator, headlamps, coolant, a portion of the rest of what you'll mount on the rest of the car). I don't know what spring rate you've got, but I'd expect at least two inches of upward travel, perhaps more, especially on uneven surfaces where the axle will pivot at the spring centerline rather than straight up and down on both sides.