Shifter components (75+ year old NOS part)

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!

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.

You gotta make its eyes glow!

your and evil man matt, I like it!

that's one hell of a long rod!🙄

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

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


Lee

my mates got a chrome skull head on his bug shifter. Tis wicked!

awesome idea.

is it still going to be an identifyable conrod when its all done though?

hey matt im thinking of doing the same for my keg fridge for the taps as i can put a label in one end

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!

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

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.

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