Getting warmed up for the cool down

Making plans for some winter work, once we get through the holidays I have a few updates to make on the car. I had a great season with it, can't wait for the next!

Best Traditional Rod

Rockin' Rods was a blast. I was there with family & some good friends and I had a great time - plus I took home an award for best traditional rod. The awards are peer judged so that felt very affirming since my goal was building what I thought a traditional rod to be.

Anyway, here are some recent pics of the car from the show and some after I got home.

Rockin Rods n Rochester

Next Sunday, August 12th I will have the hotrod down at one of our local shows that I always enjoy. Going down with a couple buddies and their cars - always a great time. I will put up some pics afterward. Anyone looking to go, it's free for spectators more info here: Link

Back on the road

I ordered a rebuild kit for the carb even though everything looked as it should, during that time I also grabbed a couple new air filters and put everything back together. It's been unrealistically hot here (mid 90s) for the past couple weeks so I haven't had it on the road just yet but all signs point to better.

Recent workings...

I have been having a rich condition for teh last few runs I have made in the hot rod and noticed a bit of fuel puddling on teh intake manifold one evening. I decided it was a good time to tear the secondary carb apart and see if anything looked askew.





Everything looked fine but I gave it a good cleaning and reassembled everything, cleaned up the engine and tried to crank it - I was met with a small whirr and a resounding click. I pulled the first spark plug and fuel poured out of the block, a scene that continued for the other 7. Next up was draining the oil, I filled up one drain pan and then another. Flooding doesn't describe it.

For the past day it has sat with the plugs out and everything trying to evaporate, I fogged the cylinders as well. I will put it all back together this week and see what's what.

My first Model A hot rod build is finally on the road - and nowhere near done. When I got the body (or parts to a body) a couple years back it arrived like so:

Fast forward to about 30 days ago I decided to thrash this car together as I was getting tired of missing out on some good cruise time year after year.

I decided that I needed to get this thing on the road in 30 days or put it aside for awhile while I attend to other parts of life. I spent every single day out in the garage from the time I got home until I couldn't stay awake anymore but it paid off (I think). I drove it for the first time on Saturday and besides a bit of squeak and rattle everything seemed to go just fine. I have some tuning to do and some NVH work but its up and going and I can enjoy it. Anyway, on to the (large amount of) pics!









































 

Hi-Res pics available here

Finished up a couple little things; brakes are bled, all fluids are done, everything tightened up and all woodwork is complete. Just putting a few thing together tonight and hopefully will make the first shakedown run tomorrow. I also came up with a solution for the front shocks that I am happy with. I ordered lower shocks mounts and some small body shocks from Speed3way and fabricated the upper mount. Everything is bolt on so it can be changed pretty easily.