Hot Rods the Hand Grenade 55 chevy- engine, chassis, trans, interior

Here's a video of it running

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Dude, your car is bad ass!!!!!!

 

Bitchen!

My '55 had a drag brake too!



Keep us posted... your car is period!

Sam

 

What do mean had?!?!? You didnt sell the car did you?

 

Do you know if that was an Ansen one or a Blair's Speed shop? I believe Blair's made them too.

 

Sweet 55

 

I'll second that big time!

 

Ry did your dad figure out the clutch fork deal yet?

 

yeah, wasn't that at all. We had a dumbass attack and put the clutch together wrong. You'd think with as many times as we have had this thing apart and back together we wouldn't make a mistake like that. Broke the clutch in the process. So the car has a new clutch and 30 lb. Hayes flywheel now. Problem solved.

 

Good deal but you guys have some bad luck

 

No... it was owner fabbed!

 

the car looks good and the motor sounds like a symphony. have fun driving the snot out of it.

 

man that car is cool love 55 chevys.

 

real nice.

 

Wow, that Bel Air is a beauty, very nice pix to share. The Anson stuff is ultimate hip and fuction plus. Good luck with the "J" next. Cool to be partnered up with your Dad, please don't take that for granted, this is something few dudes get to experience, and my greatest memory teasure of my Dad and I building together. Rock on Amigos!! ~Sololobo~

 

If we didn't have bad luck, we'd have no luck at all

 

Man,this car is cool! Always good to see another 55 gasser being built. Keep up the good work guys....And good luck

 

man...classic ingredients..301, dual quads, muncie, ansen scattershield, white headers,drag brake, all rolled up in a black 55....too cool and nice work.

 

Falfa would be proud! Great car.

 

Started on the exhaust the other day.

I ordered some Hooker 3-2 1/2 reducers and 2 2 1/2 J bends. The pipes had to drop a little to clear the frame so I could kick them out the side. I trimmed the one reducer to make up for the slight stagger in the headers.





These changed the tone of the car little. I think the cork screw shape of the bend creates an interesting flow for the exhausts and it resulted in a cool sound.

 

I did this last night. I was inspired a little by the "Badman" and I cut and flaired the side-outs.


welded in some pieces to fill it up.

Ground down the welds and trimmed the edge to the correct angle.

The angle of this picture makes the openings look different, but they are the same.

opening them up like a megaphone makes the car cackle like hell. It has a real badass sound. Next step is to run up to the old Warshawsky Muffer man shop and see what kind of ScatCat glasspacks we can dig up. I have to weld a flange on these side-outs for a cap to bolt to, and then route exhaust inside the frame for the glasspacks.

 

wow that looks great and im shure its loud as hell.

 

Heck yeah!! Looking good. You should shoot a quick video with the sound now for comparision before it heads to the muffler shop.

 

You're bringing this to the Hunnert Car Heads-Up on May 8th, right? RIGHT?!?

 

Hopefully this and the Henry J.

 

How about a little green onions while viewing this thread...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLTIX0k-tMA

 

!!!!!!

Go 55 go!~

 

cool build man. I can dig it

 

Little 55 sounding mean. Very cool car! would not change a thing.