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« Reply #105 on: February 28, 2008 1:06 pm »
it still aint chome and chrome won't get ya home.
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« Reply #106 on: February 28, 2008 2:29 pm »
"There's nothing fake about Hot Rods."
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« Reply #107 on: March 03, 2008 6:22 pm »
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. When's topper's?


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« Reply #108 on: March 03, 2008 6:35 pm »
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Perfection is the enemy of completion, or something like that?

Thats Other Ryans sig.

That intake looks bitchin! Can't wait to see the linkage! Thing I love about a 4 carb setup, you can't 'dummy' any of the carbs. Its the real megella.
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« Reply #109 on: March 03, 2008 6:41 pm »
I'm going to find some ka-niving way to ka-nive those broken, non-working, derelict, impossible-to-fix strombergs into my posession...
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« Reply #110 on: March 03, 2008 8:58 pm »
looks like all it would take to fix those carbs is Tops.. just buy 4 REPOP SCOT Tops for em...
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« Reply #111 on: March 03, 2008 10:29 pm »
I hav never seen carbs cut up like that. I don't have any tie rods either but I think they are only 10 bux from speedway. If you had heim joints with a 5/8 thread you can get them from the local parts store. I have them or had them on something.
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« Reply #112 on: March 10, 2008 5:00 am »
pete did you deside if you are goinh to narrow the doors.  so thare not as thick and more like a roadster door
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« Reply #113 on: March 17, 2008 9:28 pm »
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pete did you deside if you are goinh to narrow the doors.  so thare not as thick and more like a roadster door


Yes, my brethren convinced me that'd be the ticket. But not today. Not tomorrow either. But I will.
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« Reply #114 on: March 18, 2008 8:40 pm »
Big Daddy called those big lines "port nozzles".....random but true.....looking good Pete!!
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« Reply #115 on: March 19, 2008 6:33 pm »
You should put pics of the carbs up on the HAMB and see if anyone has any ideas on what they may have been on. The mods can't be very common that were done to them.

You should also contact the seller and tell him about the damage. You never know, he may have another 97 he could send you.
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« Reply #116 on: March 20, 2008 2:12 am »
When I was building my T, I found tie rod ends at TSC for a Ford tractor, on a hunch with thinking how tight Henry was  and how tight I am ,I picked em up off the clearance table for 3 bucks a piece and they are exactly the same as the old ford car ones...
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RE: tie rods
« Reply #117 on: March 20, 2008 5:27 am »
I just got a new shift knob for the roadster from Tractor Supply Company too....
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« Reply #118 on: March 21, 2008 5:45 pm »
So this is the layout for the floor. I like how the trans cover fits over (straddles) the gussets on the engine block. The floor will be wood and will be retained by the angle iron you see stretched across the floor of the car and the original sub rails. The trans cover will lay on top of the wood and be bolted through the wood to its own frame. Yes, it looks like the brake pedal hits the steering box, but worry not.

I haven't welded in the front plates. You see the drivers side plate finished. Figured I should drill holes for the body mounts before welding. All tubing is welded in, though. The passenger side front plate needs to be finish ground, but you get the idea. The tubing coming out of the subframe was inspired by the floors on Winston Cup cars (the real ones) and those guys who put subframe connectors in camaros. Not the guys who bolt them on, but cut nice slits in the floor and integrate them. I like the look and as long as that old metal likes being welded (it probably doesn't) it will be strong. Still haven't made vertical body gussets/braces, but thats why the good Lord said "all NDSU students shall have the monday after easter off!"

Works for me!
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« Reply #119 on: April 14, 2008 6:25 am »
I cut a floorboard out of some old plywood. I then built a seat back out of a piece of plywood. It wedges itself under the lip in the body on top and wedges into one of the sub-frame cross brace on bottom. Stiffens up the body ALOT. Then built a seat bottom out of. . . plywood. Cut two 1" thick slices out of a piece of 4x4 square tubing. I turned the squares into quadrilaterals and welded them to the angle iron i bent to fit around the front of the seat bottom. see picture.I then knew exactly where I was sitting. Finally. . . I could now finalize where I located my steering and brakes. What do you think of the humvee seat pads? I don't know if I like them, but they work for now. Maybe even just painting the wood OD green would help.
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