street legal jalopy/vintage fenderless oval race car 1940lSH MOPAR tribute to DAD

skull you can jump in here anytime and set us straight...

LOL..... are we seeing things or are the upper and lower a arms that far off of square to the frame? Or is that a sprint car thing?....hello...skull you there??

angled

no...it is angled a bit.

when the new mounts were put on for the race car to go left, one of the tricks is set the A arm like that to get more bite in the corner.

my friend with the alignment shop said no worries, he can adjust the front-end so it won't pull and drive 0K because l was a bit concerned about it.

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skull said:

no...it is angled a bit.

when the new mounts were put on for the race car to go left, one of the tricks is set the A arm like that to get more bite in the corner.

my friend with the alignment shop said no worries, he can adjust the front-end so it won't pull and drive 0K because l was a bit concerned about it.

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Makes sense, when you are only turning one way, you find a way to make it turn better one way, something I didn't think about. Thanks for clearing that up Skull! Carry on!

yeah, some crazy caster set ups on those roundy rounds...

but can see that if they (ball joints) are over under now, simple to set the caster to track good....See DR....your eyes were not deceiving you....mine..well not so much.....

hail

50 degrees and it was hailing enough to turn the ground white

progress-

front sway bar figured out

my son helping me, he welding some stuff, he's good.[

cutting the old mufflers off, kid cuts a straight line with a torch[S

grandson "helping", love getting him involved, next generation rodder

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Looks like you taught him well pops

help

the one pic is my younger son, says he want to take his brothers truck home today when he leaves,, hahhhaaaaaa, he's funny

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Looks like you got the whole crew involved today!

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Dirtyrat said:

Looks like you got the whole crew involved today!

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yea, today was a good day

the plan is in 2 weeks the crew is coming to help weld the body together then help to get it sat on the chassis and do as much as we can in the the 2 days they are here.[

l still have a crap load to do between now and then, so l need to bust butt and get something done in the time between now & then

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progress

l got the A arm on the driver side ready to go in, not as much of a set back on the mounting point of this one.

dug thru the shop and found some cool coil over style shocks for the rear that should work fine[cl


l am putting the U shaped diamond plate to protect people when getting in/out & on every where l think someone could scrape on a sharp edge.

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Those look like Harley shocks, Think they will be enough on car?

should

l think they should be 0K, l have honda 750 V-45 magna coil-over shocks on the rear leaf springed set up my 48 dodge truck and they work great.

these shocks are off a 12OO cc bike & the car has a 3rd shock that mounts to rear-end and then to the frame.

the car is pretty light, about 25OO LBS to 28OO LBS, if not it won't take much to change them out.

thanks for all the input, makes me think[cl

the front sway-bar is on & mounted to stay and the driver side A arm is in

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front-end

l used AFCO race shocks for the front-end, got them all mounted up today.

all done on the front-end but the brake lines, going to put all new hard lines on the car and new rubber front ones.

feels good to get one of the things on the list taken car of

now to start on the passenger side compartment. l got the aluminum top dash piece made and ran outta steam today

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progress

we got the steering column shortend and welded in[

took 6 inches out of the shaft so l can reach the pedals now. before the seat was so far back my feet didn't even touch them.

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shield/shroud

the little things still take the longest l think[S

re-did the shroud that was on the car and it took 3 hoursbut it is on that will help keep fingers outta the fan and keep the motor cooler.

also test fitting the seat so l can tell if l did the column right or

it is a comfortable seat and seems to be 0K, but bolting it down then driving will be the real tell on whether it works.

still a hundred little things and 8 great big ones, but it's getting closer everyday.

one of those little things is figuring out what depth l need to run on the steering wheel but l have a flat spoke, a 2 1/2'' , a 3'' and a 3 1/2'' so one of those buggers should work

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ME

my fat butt fits

singling right & a left turn


more room in there than l thought, actually is comfy.


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Forging ahead I see! Can't wait to see this thing slinging some dirt!

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close

found this on-line, close to what mine should look like,[cl

about what l want except he narrowed it & l am not[P


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pipes

got a set of 3'' sidepipes off CL today for $4O.OO

kinda mocked up next to the chassis they exit right in front of the rear tires, perfect for the washington state exhaust laws.


had to have "help" with them. ....of course....

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dash

real exciting day

l put the dash back in and tied up the cockpit wiring to keep my big feet outta it. even with minimal wires to run things, it amazes me how much wiring it takes in a hot rod.

link to a pic how l feel about wiring

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