Hot Rods New backing plates from frying pans

Who would have thought you could get Hotrod parts at Bed, Bath, and beyond. I bought these frying pans to cover my disk brakes. They're almost 3/16" thick polished aluminum. I also put trim rings on both sides of the wheels. First picture is what the brakes looked like before. Dean

 

When you slam on the binders you can hop out and make breakfast. Nice innovation!

 

Dean, looking good!!

See you at the Drags, Keith

 

that is too damn cool................................dave

 

and brake dust won't stick to the teflon coated inner surface. yer a genius!

 

great idea,,,thats thinking outside the box for sure..

 

Very impressive indeed!

 

i like em but ifn that trim ring comes off won't it ... like severe your brake lines"(


good ya took off the pan handle you r smart..

 

I saw some made into air cleaners too.

Lots of things to do with frying pans apparently.

 

Thats thinking out side the box. Problem is when all the gearheads start showing up to buy frying pans the will raise the damn price.

Dont tell anyone what they are and nobody would know

 

Thats cool thinkin, rivet some scoops on um, outa smaller ones.

 

These are on a friends car a while back.

 

this is why i love hot rodding.

 

Very cool.

 

looks ok i remember a tech in sr a couple years back that did that and this place about burnt down

 

yea i made two air cleaners out of stainless soup bowls and mr gasket flat air cleaners welded on and filled with lead. the brake pieces look great!! i wish i had though of this before i had to pry old ones off at the junkyard and hammer and dolly them back in shape. this would have been much better.i'm doing import shit the way most people build hot rods, idea still works though, never have liked buying anything in a store or out of a catalog. they are on SU carbs but they would work on just about anything. just change the base pattern

 

i seen that in street rodder years ago. still cool today, i done mine four years ago and haven't had any problems with them.

 

I love reading stories like this ,you people are awsome !

 

actually before i found the soup bowls, i must have looked at hundreds of different pots and pans working on my idea,my wife thought i was nuts, i have about a dozen lying around now with holes drilled in them from different air cleaner designs. I will have to find a pic of my hot rod trailer, looks like a small hot wheels car i tow, I made the "rear end housing" out of a heavy aluminum pot i actually dug up in the yard. put a nice pattern of bolts in it so it looks real. I saw some martha stewart heavy aluminum pots at kmart that would make sweet looking air cleaner bases for any street rod,they were polished too. more then a quarter inch thick aluminum. had potential.fat ass how long did i take you to find frying pans that fit? funny story here you can relate to,I was at one of our hole in the wall department stores measuring cookware with a tape measure, apparently a clerk thought i was nuts, she asked me if she could help me,and i said no,i'm fine. well about five minutes later,here comes the manager with a security guy, wanted to know what i was doing. he was cool though,i explained to him that i was fabricating something out of metal and i was trying to find something in a certain size. he left me alone,but left shaking his head. security guy kept popping up though from time to time.

 

its awesome that other blokes are doing this.....I always kept my mouth shut about my use of cookwear....

the pair of full moons on my boy's 37 ford stroller was robbed from me wifies identical crepe pans....she's still lookin for them....and its been two years

 

nothing wrong with using cookware, anything is game when you are building car parts. I wonder how many hundreds of headlight buckets are made out of bowls. my wife told me she didn't care what i used but stay away from her cookware.

 

That's really cool! Nice job!!!

 

Now watch...So Cal will have 'em in their catalog by Christmas!

 

Very cool concept....Way to think outside the box

 

Now your cookin!

 

This is bitchin'. I'm gonna copy.

 

Bet that sucker really fries the tires now...

 

That's a great idea....My buddy did that on his Model A.....It sure looks better than rusty disc brakes....

 

Very cool, thanks for sharing.

 

Yeah, but with a seven hundred dollar price tag!