The Jalopy Journal
My garage is not insulated or heated, so I don't work out there in the winter .... It's 28 degrees today ... No need ... just something that...
I have managed to get the dash wiring completed and mounted the dash in the car.. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] This gives you an idea of how it...
The dash is painted with the gauges installed and I'm fitting the switches and cables in place. [ATTACH] Of course the original switches from...
Going thru some old picture albums and I ran across some more photos that were taken back when I was first working on this. Fitting the fenders...
Machined up some parts out of brass today. The smaller round tubes have a hole drilled half way into them and the other half of the part is...
I machined out two small blocks of aluminum to mount the two glove box door stop brackets to. [IMG] Each of these are fastened to the inside...
I'm using my tube bender to form a radius in a piece of 1/4 inch square steel rod. [IMG] This is formed to fit on the inside of the glove box...
They came off a 1953 Ford dash.
The glove box door panel is cut out of the dash and a piece of piano hinge is welded to the bottom edge. [IMG] The bottom of the dash is...
The ends of the dash are finished and it's time for another test fit. [IMG] While it is in the car, I marked where the speedometer go. [IMG]...
The piece of metal is cut to size for making the new dash and a quarter inch lip is bent up along one side that will fit up under the windshield...
I was thinking about that myself. The resister spring on this style of ballast resister is closed in ceramic all the way around so the resister...
I had built a dash for this car that held this speedometer and used " idiot lights " for the electrical charging, oil pressure and water...
Sometimes fixing one thing causes a problem with something else and that's what happened when I put a harmonic balancer from a newer engine on...
Back when I made the post on adding a pressure cap to the radiator, I had shown you this photo of the original, un-pressurised, winged radiator...
The bucket seats are cut in two so I now have an individual seat bottom and a seat back. [IMG] The front mounting holes on the seat bottom...
This piece of wood took me a little time to figure out how to design it and how to cut it out. [IMG] It fills in the area under the rear...
Time to do some work on the inside. This model-T body is only 45 inches wide on the inside. I have a pair of small bucket seats that are only...
I have a power brake unit mounted under the body and when I went to hook up the vacuum line, I realized there isn't a place to hook it up to. The...
I had a lot of wild ideas when I first started building this back in the late 90's and the exhaust turned out a lot crazier that it really needed...
Fitting the exhaust manifolds onto the engine. The heads on this engine hang out over the frame rails and in order to be able to get the manifold...
This is the pipe that will connect the 3/4 inch vent pipes on each gas tank and connect to the vent pipe on the gas filler tube. [IMG] Looking...
Rubber from an old inner tube is glued to the surface of the mounting flange on the gas tank for the right side. Rubber is also glued to the...
The back of the engine is getting a little tight as I assemble more parts there. The distributor is mounted and the holding clamp for it is bolted...
OOPS ....... I made a mistake on the extension that I made for my distributor. As you can see here, there is a counter bore in the top of the...
For the timing tab, I made up a bracket that will bolt to the lower part of the engine and then fastened a Chevy degree tab to it. [IMG] Here...
The Chrysler originally had a duel point distributor. It worked well but I would prefer to have electronic ignition. Of coarse several types of...
.... Continuing for your entertainment with information of adapting parts from other engines to fit the early Hemi engines. .... NOTE .. some of...
Here is an interesting article on Chrysler's Hemi engine that I had run across : WHAT WAS THE FIRST MUSCLE CAR ? [IMG] 1956 Chrysler 300B with...
........ A little information for those of you that like this sort of thing ................. The early Chrysler, Dodge and DeSoto Hemi engines...
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