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HotRodMatt If it\'s old or rare - cut it!

3,616 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#499241
Last night while at a friend's where the HAMBsters are being built I scored a NOS conrod for a 4 banger flathead. Will make the cetrepiece of the shifter for the square. That'll ruffle some feathers...

Will be great fun butchering holes and welds on a NOS part more than 75 years old!



66deluxe Custom Title Time!

1,593 posts · joined Aug 2005 ·

#499244
Nice, thats a bloody long rod whats the rod ratio on that. I found some connecting rods and rocker arms at work NOS from a Pratt & Whitney Wasp R2000 twin row radial engine, still wrapped in the sticky brown paper, but i am going to leave them as they are, may be able to sell them for a good price.
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2,078 posts · joined Jun 2003 ·

#499248
You gotta make its eyes glow!
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4,316 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#499264
your and evil man matt, I like it!
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68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#499337
No wonder VWs were called short stroke and slow revving.....

that must be the longest conrod I've ever seen....


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bajachris88 The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 6

6,661 posts · joined Apr 2005 ·

#499372
my mates got a chrome skull head on his bug shifter. Tis wicked!
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Anthiron The Baja Rejuvenation Begins

4,936 posts · joined Oct 2003 ·

#499375
awesome idea.

is it still going to be an identifyable conrod when its all done though?
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barls Administrator Causer of Chaos and Mayhem

9,473 posts · joined Jun 2004 ·

#499383
hey matt im thinking of doing the same for my keg fridge for the taps as i can put a label in one end
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HotRodMatt If it\'s old or rare - cut it!

3,616 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#499393
barls wrote:hey matt im thinking of doing the same for my keg fridge for the taps as i can put a label in one end
The guy I got from had a whole box of them! Fresh from the Ford factory - man that paper is brittle after 3/4 of a century!

HotRodMatt If it\'s old or rare - cut it!

3,616 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#499394
Anthiron wrote:is it still going to be an identifyable conrod when its all done though?
Yep, wonder if I could register the square as a Model A? Hahahaha

HotRodMatt If it\'s old or rare - cut it!

3,616 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#499395
68AutoBug wrote:No wonder VWs were called short stroke and slow revving.....
Rod length has no relation to stroke... that's all in the crank.

barls Administrator Causer of Chaos and Mayhem

9,473 posts · joined Jun 2004 ·

#499716
HotRodMatt wrote:
barls wrote:hey matt im thinking of doing the same for my keg fridge for the taps as i can put a label in one end
The guy I got from had a whole box of them! Fresh from the Ford factory - man that paper is brittle after 3/4 of a century!
i might get back to you after the next visit up to see the old man in a couple of weeks
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