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calculations been 42 years sience I was in Nam US Army

3 phase I dont think a converter would be the best but take about a 20 HP 3 phase motor and run it on 1 phase and take power off the 4 leads using it as a idler will work if you are going to add metalworking equipment, lathes, bridgeport, ironworker and other misc equip, wire the shop for 3...

investment I bought a model A w frame and chop and was a roller w fresh engine, :DI budgeted $200 to finish it, then got started and one more good part led to another now granted I am old and really felt deprived as a kid of not having any decent parts, and going out and scrounging is just as...

bullet grill nice picture of my grill thanks for the photo!!

need help find a 80 year old bodyman and get him to teach you the art of metal shrinking witha torch may be hard to find one that can still breath

shifter maybee a chevell 65 64 with factory consoiul had a shifter, threw a lot of that stuff away I built a lot of shifts with a linkage and light alum arm[no big heavy knob] be sure to m run the pivot linkage on tranny down for correct pattern whats a little risk to a nam vet???you seen...

storage and trip!! just had to get rescued, left vehicle in ditch, winter sux :confused:in NW MN . supposed to snow a lot more and get real cold :(for several days.. both major interstates are closed by Fargo got the roadster in farm barn, got mice :eek:but no shelter in a roadster!!! 63 GMC...

gas go with the gas and use solid wire, the other stuff wont weld decent make sure you do tha polarity bought a bunch of 110 vt wire feeds w /wrong polarity and got them almost free after they would not weld got tired of them and bought a small lincoln, good welder 220Vt and finally sold it...

being its the bottom of the car , cant you sandblast it???

intake 40 plus years ago I used a 216 intake on a 235 and just skipped the seal rings, it worked

drive em in did them dry, make sure to get in straight, use a 6 in ext and a socket for a driver

last time last time I was in Deadwood it looked like cars were banned on most streets and in a lot of other places too!!!:Dmaybee bike week??

OIL I usually glued a good cork gasget to the pan with weatherstrip adhesive and used some clear silicone on the other side and bolted it up and dont overtighten:) I always use clear silicone in caulking tubes about $2.00 a tube for the good ge stuff, works for me and a lot cheaper than...

home built I made mine from a old shifter and it kicked butt, had about 500 plus alcohol horsepower on a converterless powerglide:rolleyes: with aluminum flywheel and coming off the green flag just power shift it and leave all the sticks back on the straight:D well I was a little younger then...

Falls Flyers I used to restore falls flyers, made in little falls minn. the 1955 and newer were finned and laid by chopper gun. One I did just won another show:D last year after all I did the body paint and inlays on stripes 20 year ago the pree 55 boats were hand laid up and lighter, not as...

parts looks like a good time to learn how to make some stuff like rockers, a piece of metal a brake or a big bench and visegrips and some angle iron to bend the bottoms I used to cut up old car hoods and made a lot of patch panels and brazed them to fertilizer trucks and metal finished them...

spending #$$$ its a get what you pay for bought some stuff at fleet farm and is not skuff resistant or sun resistant its cheep and covers the hardner helps bought some for my 30 Ford and replaced some of the colors w better paint how long don you want it to last?? maybee get 5years out of...

solvent carb clean or brake clean should do watch paint w carb clean did my carbs and tripower intake and stripped some paint on ends of heads from carb clean:eek:

old GMC when I came back from Nam I helped a bud built a pickup just like that 228 GMC w split , stacks, and welded on dual carbs on both ends and center blocked a 55 chev car rear and 55 chev 3 speed and overdrive was a highway cruiser way back then did it Camaro green in about 1970 it...

bends well it looks like you will get to know about setback make a bend and mark where you clamp it and use it to get the right spacing used to have a electric mandrell bender did a lot of 1 1/2 black iron pipe for stock car cages, when young and ambitious:o enjoy your toy most of my bends...