GN JAP again...

Found some more pictures of this totally insane aero-racer! LOVE this car!! The most beautiful vintage racer I've ever seen and it gets driven HARD!

YEAH!!!



Have to show this detail picture again!

One Nasty Willys Coupe Gasser!!

I just saw this thing today and had to know more! The car is an all steel, 1940 Willys Coupe. It's owned by Larry and Wanda Blanchet and can be seen way out East burnin' up the track!

Here's a little blurb from Wanda on their car..

"A few things about the car it has a 1957 olds rear in it, a 1957 392 blown and hillborn injected hemi. Estimate is around 700 hp. It has the original willys front axle in it, home made ladder bars, fiberglass buckets, aluminum door panels and an old school style roll bar. We have been on tour with the S&S team and pork zartman (who drove the original filthy forty) for the last couple of years"

Larry and Wanda's car was inspired by the legendary "Filthy Forty", originally belonging to Charlie Hill and driven by Pork Zartman. More about the original Filthy Forty can be seen HERE at Nitrogeezers.

Thanks Wanda for all the pictures and for the info! I expect a video soon and so will the readers! We need to make sure that Hemi sounds as good as you say it does! :)

Awesome Willys! Well done!






This is a picture of the original Filthy Forty at the 1963 Indy Nationals. The original car was destroyed at Maple Grove a few years later with new owners at the wheel

Delmo's 28 Hemi Roadster

This little '28 Model A Ford Roadster was brought to life by Del Uschenko. Here's what he mentioned to me about it...

* a '57 331 Chrysler Hemi (Industrial converted for street use)
* TH350 Auto trans
* Currie 9" Rear end
* Pete and Jakes Ladder bars
* Pinkees built '32 railed custom chassis
* 40 Ford split bones up front
* 5" dropped Superbell axle
* Monoleaf front spring
* SoCal Speed shop's disc kit up front (he commented about his driving style, HAHA!)
* steers with an upside down Corvair box
* Speedway steering column
* 32 headlights
* cut down Walker radiator to keep the Hemi cool
* and yes... original 1928 Ford spoked wheels roll it down the road

Go to Church! See choppers!

There's only one thing that I dig more than cool stickers.... Cool people who SEND cool stickers!!

YOU GUYS RULE!! THANKS!!

Check out Church of Choppers --> CLICK HERE

Bugatti EB Type 37

Now THIS looks like fun!!! Here's a little blurb about this Bugatti on Onyx...

Onyx Sports Cars

The real thing or not, looks like a fun ride to me! Grab your goggles and flight cap!!

It's friday

Some drag classics worthy of repeating!

Hope everyone was wearing their diapers that day... and I'm not talking about engine diapers!

To the Readers!

Things have been really busy here guys! Been working alot and pushing hard to get the Model A done. I'm a little behind on getting stuff up. Bear with me though! I've still got some good things in the works, including a little something from Steve Sellers, a Hemi roadster to tell you about, some Holley 94 rebuild stuff and tons more inspirational pictures from various people. I'll be posting more on the Model A project as well.

If you guys would like to send cool pictures or anything related to traditional hot rodding, Early Hemi tech and information, or maybe have a blog or website to tell everyone about that is related to these topics, please email them to me and make sure to put something in the subject line that will let me know it's not junk mail. Make sure you give me a name so I know who to give credit to.

MY EMAIL

Thanks for following and for your support!

Scott

P-51 and WWII Plane enthusiasts!

For those of you who really appreciate history related to WWII aircrafts, here's a little video about Pilot, Jim Brooks, and his P-51 being reunited after 60 years! Some great flying footage of the P-51 and a great story. Enjoy!

Gray Eagles Video

Curtiss P-40

By all means, one of the most iconic airplanes in the US military to have circled the skys during WWII. Masterful, intimidating and certainly fast!

(these pictures were collected from the internet)



Everyone should have a V12 Rolls Royce Merlin engine at their disposal


The nose art in this picture is insane!

Hot rod on the salt pic of the day

This picture was taken by Mark Dinwiddie. Perfect! This is what it's all about right here!

It's ALIVE!

First turn of the key and the Hemi fired right up! The monster lives!

Tons of things to iron out, including a gummed up carb that I borrowed from a friend to get it started, but the good stuff is on it's way!

Closer yet!

Getting it ready for lift off!


no the Holley is not staying on there!

TGIF!

I love roller coasters!!



Fugazi in the headphones...

Hemi Tech- Fitting an SBC water neck to your Hemi

So here's my quick simple tech on fitting a Small Block Chevy water neck to your early Chrysler Hemi. Why would I want to do such a thing, you ask?? I'll explain...

Reason #1: Early Mopar water necks are mostly straight up. In my case, my car is channeled 4-inches, so the top of the radiator is alot closer to the top of the engine than would have been if I went with a "High Boy" stance for my hot rod. So, I really needed something that was right angle and could shoot off to the driver's side. No such animal exists (that I could find) to do just that in the Mopar water neck world. Which leads me to my next reason...

Reason #2: Availability of different angles and styles and the hole pattern is the same.

Reason #3: I didn't have one at all.

I found an SBC water neck that had just the shape I need. The problem with using a GM water neck is they don't have a recess for the thermostat, like the mopars do. So, I picked an o-ring type which had me half way home already. No mill required, but that would have been handy if a mill was off in the corner of the shop that I could clamp down on. But, not the case here. I just used simple air tools. A right angle grinder setup with a 100 grit disc and a cut off tool. The discs are close to the same size as the portion that's being removed, so they worked great for material removal. It's important to be very careful here. Don't nick the surrounding housing or you might not get a good seal when the system is pressurized. The idea is to just take off enough so the lip of the thermostat can sit flush with the bottom of the housing. Go slow, do trial fits, check for flatness of the seat your making for the thermostat.

Something I chose to do when I was modifying this neck was to take a little off the surface of the clamping ears so I could get a little better clamping force on the water neck when it gets tightened down. Only like .003 or so. Taking too much off could crack the housing if it's tightened down too much.

When you're done fitting it, you can use a smaller o-ring than what was provided in the groove that's still there, or you can just goop it up to create a seal.

NOTE! A Mopar style gasket must be used on the water crossover/thermostat housing itself. An SBC gasket will not fit correctly on the water crossover and may actually have a tendancy to slip into the water neck when tightened down. I used the stock replacement as provided in my rebuild kit or available at your local autoparts store.

Hope this helped someone.

Something's missing.... hmmmm...

o-ring style water neck. Bottom view

Thermostat is larger in diameter. The diameter will have to be cut down slightly

Tools to do the job.

Don't take too much off. Just enough to drop it in and stay centered.

First test fit. More material needs to be removed.

finished product. The smoother lip, the better.

Here's what you've got

Goop it up or use an oring with a smaller cross section diameter.

Bolt it up! DONE!