Forum: Model A (1928-31)
06-12-2013, 04:23 PM
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Replies: 47
Views: 12,208
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Forum: Model A (1928-31)
06-11-2013, 04:12 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 16,344
Re: True 40s. Hot rod
Not anywhere in the Midwest, that's for sure.
California hot rodding is the best documented because that's where all the media was done. The East Coast had hot rods but the media there were not...
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Forum: Model A (1928-31)
06-11-2013, 04:05 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 4,966
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Forum: Model A (1928-31)
06-11-2013, 03:49 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 4,709
Re: lightening a flywheel
If you have a counterweighted crank shouldn't the flywheel be lightened because you already have added reciprocating mass?
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Forum: Model A (1928-31)
06-11-2013, 03:44 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 16,344
Re: True 40s. Hot rod
99 percent of these "traditional hot rods" are not traditional at all in terms of what actually was done back then. Most hot rods were very regional, people in a certain area usually did similar...
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Forum: Model A (1928-31)
06-06-2013, 09:46 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 15,691
Re: 8BA block in a Model A frame
It might be a Hot Rod but probably not a Street Rod, although a street rod could have a flathead...with lots of chrome crap on it and an otherwise modern driveline.
Then again it could just be a...
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Forum: Model A (1928-31)
06-06-2013, 06:28 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 7,591
Re: Model A prices rising?
Pretty much. Despite unemployment, car labor is skyrocketing because few people want to do hot or cold dirty work any more. And restored high dollar CCCA classics and exotics and pro built street...
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Forum: Model A (1928-31)
06-06-2013, 06:15 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 15,691
Re: 8BA block in a Model A frame
Apparently you are one of those people that think anything modified is a Street Rod.
A Street Rod usually has a late model driveline and engine and is not like an old car. Usually built out of...
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Forum: Late V8 (1954+)
06-06-2013, 06:08 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 4,859
Re: sad day today
The Edsel wasn't a bad car in any way and the styling wasn't all that bizarre by fifties standards. It was mostly an example of herd mentality, the meme got started that it was a dud and then no one...
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Forum: Late V8 (1954+)
06-06-2013, 06:02 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,427
Re: Plug wires : solid or carbon core?
Suppression resistors act to dampen the Q of the tuned circuit formed by the plug wire and capacitance to ground. In a metal bodied car solid core works fine with resistors so long as you have a good...
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Forum: Model A (1928-31)
06-06-2013, 05:54 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,960
Re: not Model "A": vintage race car crashes
That was the thinking. Fire was the big fear, no fuel cells, no Nomex.
The expectation of safety was not there. What changed things was the expectation that if the carnage was not at least ...
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Forum: Model A (1928-31)
06-06-2013, 05:51 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 6,082
Re: Right hand Conversions
I'm guessing a rural mail carrier might want a RHD car and I wonder if the USPS or private contractors bought them that way when new in the US.
As to why someone would convert a car, in some...
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Forum: Model A (1928-31)
06-06-2013, 05:40 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 3,071
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Forum: Model A (1928-31)
06-06-2013, 05:38 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,791
Re: Old Tool Set
Not necessarily. Tools improved a lot after WWII and the good ones made today, SO, Stahlwille, etc are as good as any in history. The old tools were often outrageously heavy and bulky and that...
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Forum: Model A (1928-31)
06-06-2013, 05:36 PM
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Replies: 54
Views: 13,253
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Forum: Model A (1928-31)
06-06-2013, 05:35 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 4,966
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Forum: Model A (1928-31)
06-06-2013, 05:00 PM
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Replies: 54
Views: 13,253
Re: Had a guy try to sell me this today
I am not a woodworker besides model airplanes and guitars, I'm more of a jackleg machinist. So I don't know this subject well, BUT,
Aren't detailed plans available somewhere for the woodwork...
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Forum: Model A (1928-31)
06-05-2013, 08:02 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 8,174
Re: Antifreeze alternatives
Fifty cents! When was that and what were the proportions, roughly?
We have a couple of the survivalist crank types at the place I work sometimes as a fill in. They are blabbering about how they...
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Forum: Model A (1928-31)
06-05-2013, 12:07 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 8,174
Re: Antifreeze alternatives
The railroad runs straight water in their EMD and GE engines. They also idle engines for days or weeks on end and have an automatic water dump valve if the water gets to 36 F. or so. Yet every year...
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Forum: Model A (1928-31)
06-03-2013, 03:11 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 8,866
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Forum: Model A (1928-31)
06-03-2013, 12:49 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 8,866
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Forum: Model A (1928-31)
06-02-2013, 07:43 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 8,866
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Forum: Model A (1928-31)
06-02-2013, 07:38 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 3,011
Re: Scrap Drive Photo
My dad drove a Model A in college but it had a different engine and transmission. It got wrecked when he let a girl drive it and she was injured and he had no insurance, in those days it wasn't...
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Forum: Model A (1928-31)
06-02-2013, 06:27 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 3,011
Re: Scrap Drive Photo
Yes, it was all about "keeping the home fires burning". The only thing the US really needed to ration was rubber, we had plenty of petroleum and steel.
It would be interesting to see how many T's...
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Forum: Model A (1928-31)
06-02-2013, 03:31 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 7,904
Re: Casting New Model A Blocks
The 8N engine was used in a very few vehicles by Ford too. It has quite a bit less displacement than the A/B engine and was heavier. I always thought that Ford should have just used the B engine and...
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