Projects Seagrave 531 V12 Special BuiLd Up in Brazil

The column drop is beautiful and I like the Excelsior tires. You may have previously mentioned it, what size are the tires?

 

700/20
Thanks.


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{ DRMALACARNE } Kool Thread, and thanks for sharing. Gee, how did I miss this? So made some coffee, and started from your first post. I guess that I should to check on here more. Keep up the Great Work! I hit the watch thread button, so not to miss the rest of it! Thanks again Ron.........

 

WOW,ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!

 

We made our own set of friction shocks.
4 in front and 2 back in the rear.

We cut a steel plate to act as support for the pedals axle.

We’ll use the original 1926 Buick brake and clutch pedals.

And all the mechanical brake system.

Front brake rod. We’ll use a central support to prevent flexing.

Here the Seagrave has a lateral power exile to the water pump. We’ll cover it with the steel plate.



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OK ... Let's have a show of hands here. How many HAMBers have made their own friction shocks before?

Yeah, I didn't think so.

 

now thats some serious crazy work!!!! Awesome project, ill be following for sure!
Thanks for sharing!

 

Chip / Need louvers makes them a lot, he showed how in a build thread, maybe it's the de-uglifying a T Bucket thread.

 

I built my own for my T Speedster.

 

I built a set for the front of my T bucket, but not quite a fancy as these.

 

Woot-Woot! I'll put your name on the list, but I bet it'll be fairly short.

(Add catdad49 to the list. It's doubled in length already! )

 

We made the fuel tank from sheets of 304 Stainless Steel.
It holds 22 gallons of gasoline.

It will be attached to the frame with straps.

And I found this fuel tank cap in Ebath
We’ll make the holes in the fuel tank for the inlet hose and outlet for the fuel pump, using stainless steel niples.


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Do you forge Knives too?

 

Here's a pic of mine, created from aluminum flat stock.

 

one would say: what the heck if you're having an accident, slow, but with a bad impact angle. the steering could kill ya, even if you hit the dash, or even the fuel cell will break, you can loose your life in a fire or while flying out of the car because of no belts.
i say: congrats to a damn fine machine. not to beat. my greatest admiration to your work, keep on, i love to read your thread.
Cheers, Carsten

 

That 22 gallon tank should be good for about 22 miles with that monster engine.

 

No my friend.


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What arrangement of internal baffles did you put into the gas tank?

 

We made a central longitudinal vertical internal baffle.
I believe will be enough to brake the waves.
Gui.


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Some yahoo from Utah, made some pretty snazzy ones, a while back.
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/cast-aluminum-friction-shocks.1057735/

 

Well the list continues to grow. If those "Elmers" work as good as they look I'd say those are some keepers.

 

We took the body off from chassis to make the steering and fuel line installation.
Two people can easily handle the whole body.

And we are studying some variations for the dashboard too.



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Great progress, on the dash I'd keep it nice and simple. But I'm sure you will figure out the best solution.

 

Personally, I like the gauges centered, so they are equally visible to the co-pilot, who would most likely be monitoring them more closely than the driver.

 

Carburetors air inlets.

We made some tubes for the exhaust.

Megaphone Pipes.



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Simply magnificent! I am sure the sprit of Juan Manual Fangio, is smiling at the amazing progress you are making! Very impressive mi amigo !

 

Really nice!

 

Love the exhaust, especially the tips! From my experience, you might be a little disappointed at how quiet it might turn out to be. After I got the two 180 degree turns to bring the exhaust around the front of the engine and then ran it through over two 20 foot lengths of 2 1/4 tubing, it was downright mellow!

 

Thanks!
I’ll try to post a video with sound soon.
Gui.


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Oh man ! The temp in Brazil must be setting record lows because of the COOL this thing resonates !!!
Just AWESOME! Merry CHRISTmas to you !