Projects KIWI MADE 1927 T Lakes modified - Journey to the end of the road!

[striper]

Holy shit man! Some of us can build cars but others take it to a new level altogether.

Between you and Surf City with his '36, I'm all set for entertainment for the next few weeks I'd say.

[woodbox]

Originally Posted by ForEverFour

Looking really good Wade - cant wait to see it all finished!

Originally Posted by kiwijeff

Great stuff. Im looking forward to seeing it completed.

Thanks Guys....no one more so than me too!!! It has been a long haul, but it won't be long.....soon!


I found some real early shots of the mock up, on my work computor. Note the wooden chassis and grill suround!

I also found some pictures of the steering wheel I mentioned earlier. I couldn't up load the version of this from home, but it seems to have worked from here.....go figure!!

Tomorrow I should get some more panels prepped for the painter, and might even get some new pictures to post.

[Beau]

Is that a 215?

[woodbox]

Originally Posted by Beau

Is that a 215?

Yes it is! Well spotted! I am waiting for it to be assembled at the moment

It has had a 40thou over bore, new cam, balanced spinning bits, and some porting and modern seals.

I am looking forward to firing it up soon too!

[Beau]

I'm doing the same thing in my modified!

[woodbox]

Originally Posted by Beau

I'm doing the same thing in my modified!

Don't be holding out on us.....let's see it!

[woodbox]

Foundations maketh the house! A little insight into the chassis.

Right from the outset I wanted to build this car around a tube frame chassis. The inspiration for this was from a number of places, including a 1927 T built by Ken Robesky that I saw in a magazine. His was a more contemporary looking car, but I thought that there was no reason it couldn't be done using some more traditional parts.

The tube is 38mm OD seamless boiler tube with 3.6mm wall thickness, any amount strong enough, but I was not too worried about weight because of the plans to use the Aluminium Buick 215 cu in V8. I did a lot of the cutting with 38mm hole saws carefully in the drill press. Plenty of cutting fluid and a little dressing with a file or grinder. I used some sand filled and compacted method for hot bending of various parts.

When I was happy with the majority of the frame a friend of mine helped out with the welding (his tickets were current, mine weren't). After the bulk of the welding was complete, I found that there had been some movement of the main bottom rails and they had developed a 'Sag'. So I had to make good use of the heavy duty bench, on which the chassis was made, and a gas torch and some pressure aplication in the appropriate places. Long story short....it is straight again!

I think that this should make a fairly stiff sort of a platform for this project and eagerly await the day I get to take it for a blast through some of the hills and corners in this part of the country.

Take a look at the pictures any way.

[fleet-master]

shit yes...its gona be fun scootin through the Brynderwyns or the infamous Mangamuka Gorge in your wee car Wade!! Should still corner good with a 120" wheelbase?

[woodbox]

Originally Posted by fleet-master

shit yes...its gona be fun scootin through the Brynderwyns or the infamous Mangamuka Gorge in your wee car Wade!! Should still corner good with a 120" wheelbase?

Maungamuka's was the one I was thinking of too! can't wait!

[woodbox]

Spent this afternoon sanding and prepping some more panels. I dropped them off to the painters today. He has the other panels all undercoated and ready for a sand then some color!! Woohoo!

Any way here are the panels I took over today.....lookin all shiney!

[RussTee]

Now your cooking love that chassis!

[woodbox]

Rod (the painter) is screaming out for more panels to paint, so I spent today tearing the last of the panels off the chassis. I had to roll the axles out from under it too. Now there is just a bare frame sitting in the middle of the shop on stands! I guess that some time you have to go backwards to go forwards. I will prep the remaining panels on my next days off (shift work) and get them away to paint. It will be a busy week! I had to shoot into town and get some more sand paper and brushes for my grinder this afternoon. While I was in town I dropped the intake manifold and Carb off to Trevor (Mechanic assembling engine).

[woodbox]

Last night I managed to get a whole bunch of parts into the bead blaster and tidy them up ready to go to the painter this week. Work again to night and meetings for the show tomorrow so I can't see much happening on the car for the day. Four days between shifts is not enough to get everything done!!! I need to take some leave to spend some more time on it but I have nearly run out for the year! Roll on July when we get our new allocation of leave!!

[SamIyam]

Great work... I really like the design of the tube chassis.

What I like most is that I could go for a ride it in and feel like I am driving.

You should put another steering wheel on your passenger's side there...

Sam

[woodbox]

Originally Posted by SamIyam

Great work... I really like the design of the tube chassis.

What I like most is that I could go for a ride it in and feel like I am driving.

You should put another steering wheel on your passenger's side there...

Sam

I could just whip the quick release wheel off and hand it to you while we driving!!!

[woodbox]

I was able to spend a few hours today on some more prepping panels for the paint shop. Tomorrow I hope to finish up on the last of them and deliver to paint. I will post pictures of the last batch to go. Next week I will finish weld the chassis and put together a rotissery for the guy doing the blasting and painting.

[woodbox]

Another batch of panels off to the paint booth. Only the dash and glove compartment lid left to do next week.

[LIFESTYLZ]

Looking good.
You are doing a great job there mate.

[woodbox]

Originally Posted by LIFESTYLZ

Looking good.
You are doing a great job there mate.

Cheers Mate! This is the exciting end of the job. Time to get fussy!

[Kiwi Helrod]

Why haven't we seen this else where.
Looks bloody awesome.