Projects Let me get this straight (axle). Streetfreak project!!!?

Posted in the new member section as a gasser build. As I am new and learning here, I guess I will be building a streetfreak, NOT a gasser. LOL. I want to share my project progress with everyone. Thanks for looking and sharing

 

Should be a cool build thank you for posting pics good luck and please keep us posted on the progress! Hobo Jim

 

Dig it! Hot Rodding in its Truest form, An I don't care who's tell'n ya, That's a Fuxk'n gasser, An actually a rather Kool one! There where to many to mention, More door gasser's in history... Since it appears to be consuming some ot the B-ball "court" thinking the "Court Stalker" h-hee... Welcome aboard

 

OK, where's the Willys truck? I've had to many not to notice behind car...

 

Bad Ass!

 

BBC, 'axle, radius job on the wheelwells, we're on the same page.

 

Might be best to call it a "gasser" around here. Street Freaks come from a time after the time focused on here. Enjoy!
-Dave

 

Once you get the car further put together, with all the heavy parts that will be on it, you can play with the front springs to get the ride height where it wants to be. If you take out a few leaves, it will sit down lower, and not look so much like a street freak. So you might want to play with it now, to make sure the steering linkage will work right, etc.

taking leaves out helps the ride quite a bit, too...softens up the springs so they can actually spring.

 

Will do sir. Thanks for the heads up.

 

Not really a Street Freak either. All the same, call it whatever you like.

 

Now I get it.

 

The brethern around here don't like phrases from the 70s/80s lol

 

i am building a '54 ford sedan gasser myself. built along the same lines of your car. it is a replica of my first car built in the early sixties. it was a real gasser and it sat high all the way around just like they did at lions when i was going there. so, your car is nothing like those "street freaks" cars. mostly because they don't cut the wheel wheels out. does anybody not look at the willys cars of that time?

 

I was born in 1961, started driving in 1975 and bought my first car ('63 Dodge) in 1976.
If you remember those years they make for good memories, but not a time I'd really like to relive. To much negative automotive change. Start with big ugly safety bumpers showing up in 1973. Remember the term "smog motor"? park your car turn the ignition off and walk away while the engine dieseled for several more minutes. What about exhaust that had the aroma of rotten eggs? Got to love those catalytic converters. I could go on, but why depress myself more?

So yes, let's keep things closer to 1965 and older please.
-Dave

 

Got any pics.

 

can't post pic. sorry

 

Worked on closing off door/fender where I radius the wheel wells. Still have to do the door and the radius. It is a lot more work than I anticipated.

 

maybe that's why we usually try to find a 2 door to turn into a hot rod?

 

Looks like a Speedway axle kit. Are the brakes the GM Metrics that come with the kit or something different?
Keep rolling on your project, it'll be fun when you're done. You have welding skills, which is important in a project like this. Good L:uck.

 

Yes. Speedway 58-1/4” Ford spindle. GM Metric calipers painted with red caliper paint. Looking for a Ford 9” rear end. Stock rear axle is 56-1/4”. I don’t think the stocker can handle the big block anyways? I was thinking of going 62”-63” flange to flange to get the tires sticking out of the wheel wells for better stance look. Anybody have any thoughts or comments on the wider track width. Also planning 4:11 gears.

 

Working on getting my steering back together. GM 800 box ‘64-‘88. Installed the box in front of the axle. Had to build a bracket to support the lower end of the column. Also cleaned up and painted the heater blower motor, fan and housing.
Edit: By the way the fan motor works very well and is a 2 speed high and low. Tested it on 12v and works great.

 

Ford 9” going in soon along with some new front and rear windows and gaskets. Got the windows with the parts car, and now have an extra rear window to practice on installing lol. Pics of windows later.

 

Im gonna give you some crap over that chevy piece that is sitting where a FoMoCo part should be...
How wide is your rear axle?

 

i have to agree. i have a friend with a ranchero that wants to put sbc in it. wtf!!!

 

I am putting a 302 in a 74 dart just to piss people off it’s a car I don’t care about so might as well make it useful to stir the $#it pot I like to do shit like that


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yea, i am just busting his chops. i can't really get to upset considering how many sbc are in '32's, '34's, a's, t's, '40's and the like.

 

That was the only performance part I could find lol.
Edit: 61” rear axle

 

Neat project. I see the car in Competition Orange with Cragar S/S or chrome reverse.
I'd take it to the next level, with a 2 door conversion. Scrounge up a pair of 2 dr. doors, slide the B pillars back....

 

I got the 9” installed. Swapped out springs with the Ford 2dr. parts car. They seem lighter duty than the Mercury. My thoughts were for smoother street driving. I can always go back to the Mercury springs. I put the axle under the springs in the rear for more lift. Still have the low ass end look, with a fairly level stance. Need to get some brake lines ran, brake booster, brakes, etc. Also a pic of the parts car.

 

Is that an old Hein Werner jack holding up the ball bat?