What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2021]

[Supercharged111]

Last night I unloaded the camper, brought the dually home, and zapped some reinforcements onto the 2 exhaust hangers I did a couple years back.

I had ebbs and flows with the quality of welds, but it's a d@mn sight better than it was. The 1/2" rod fit the stock rubber, but was too strong to bend along the thin walled pipe. The 3/8" wasn't super easy, but after a couple inches of bead was down it really beefed up the pipe to the point you could reef on the rest to get it bent into shape.

 

[CopperNick]

Scoti, the published reason for Henry Ford waiting so long to transition to juice brakes is that he did not trust the reliability of the rubber being used to fabricate the hoses. Funny thing here is that Chevrolet and Dodge/Chrysler had changed over back in 32-33? or somewhere in there, and their systems displayed no apparent issues or that problem wouid have appeared in the national print media right smartly.

in all probability, it was more likely a case of Ford being a penny pincher and not wanting to invest the capital needed to upgrade the plants to use the new??? technology. Remember, this was a guy who bought his own forest just to ensure the quality of the wood that was going to go into the body infrastructure in his cars. In 32, a lot of the screws that held things together still ended up bedded in wood. By contrast, the 32 Plymouth had almost no wood in its sub frames and screws and bolts went through metal and bolted metal to metal. Both of them were running semi-elliptic longditudinally run leaf springs front and back on both axles where ford had continued to stick with semi-elliptic springs that were tranverse mounted which needed wish bones both front and back to stabilize them.

Anyway, whatever system you elect to run, pictures for the curious eh?


Nick

 

[scoti]

Scoti, the published reason for Henry Ford waiting so long to transition to juice brakes is that he did not trust the reliability of the rubber being used to fabricate the hoses. Funny thing here is that Chevrolet and Dodge/Chrysler had changed over back in 32-33? or somewhere in there, and their systems displayed no apparent issues or that problem wouid have appeared in the national print media right smartly.

in all probability, it was more likely a case of Ford being a penny pincher and not wanting to invest the capital needed to upgrade the plants to use the new??? technology. Remember, this was a guy who bought his own forest just to ensure the quality of the wood that was going to go into the body infrastructure in his cars. In 32, a lot of the screws that held things together still ended up bedded in wood. By contrast, the 32 Plymouth had almost no wood in its sub frames and screws and bolts went through metal and bolted metal to metal. Both of them were running semi-elliptic longditudinally run leaf springs front and back on both axles where ford had continued to stick with semi-elliptic springs that were tranverse mounted which needed wish bones both front and back to stabilize them.

Anyway, whatever system you elect to run, pictures for the curious eh?


Nick

Most definitely.

 

[motorheadmike]

Washed a pair of them. Both Natasha's Camaro and the TBSS.

Also packed up for another day of autocross tomorrow. Likely a split day again with us having to watch the kids.

 

[Supercharged111]

Washed a pair of them. Both Natasha's Camaro and the TBSS.

Also packed up for another day of autocross tomorrow. Likely a split day again with us having to watch the kids.

Run the TBSS.

 

[ck80]

Run the TBSS.

With the kids in it.

 

[motorheadmike]

Run the TBSS.

Roll centre is too high.

With the kids in it.

And that wouldn't help it not rolling over.

 

[ck80]

Roll centre is too high.



And that wouldn't help it not rolling over.

You can weld. Make those rigs they use when they test lateral g and keep a vehicle from tipping more than 2 wheels so they can fall back to ground.

You've got all night to do it.

 

[Supercharged111]

Roll centre is too high.



And that wouldn't help it not rolling over.

Somebody doesn't like to party.

You can weld. Make those rigs they use when they test lateral g and keep a vehicle from tipping more than 2 wheels so they can fall back to ground.

You've got all night to do it.

 

[motorheadmike]

You can weld. Make those rigs they use when they test lateral g and keep a vehicle from tipping more than 2 wheels so they can fall back to ground.

You've got all night to do it.

Somebody doesn't like to party.



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As they say: Don't race anything you cannot afford to push off a cliff.

Aaaaaannnd since I am in the process of selling it, for money (not sexual favours), it wouldn't be prudent to race it.

Now get out from behind your keyboards and go race something of yours. 😉

Come at me, bro.