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| posted on June 11th, 2006 at 10:35 AM |
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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!
 
 
 
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| posted on June 11th, 2006 at 10:43 AM |
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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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| posted on June 11th, 2006 at 10:58 AM |
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You gotta make its eyes glow!
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| posted on June 11th, 2006 at 12:28 PM |
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your and evil man matt, I like it!
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| posted on June 11th, 2006 at 03:37 PM |
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that's one hell of a long rod!
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| posted on June 11th, 2006 at 05:43 PM |
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No wonder VWs were called short stroke and slow revving.....
that must be the longest conrod I've ever seen....
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| posted on June 11th, 2006 at 07:07 PM |
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my mates got a chrome skull head on his bug shifter. Tis wicked!
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| posted on June 11th, 2006 at 07:21 PM |
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awesome idea.
is it still going to be an identifyable conrod when its all done though?
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| posted on June 11th, 2006 at 07:32 PM |
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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
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| posted on June 11th, 2006 at 08:16 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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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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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!
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HotRodMatt
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| posted on June 11th, 2006 at 08:17 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Anthiron
is it still going to be an identifyable conrod when its all done though?
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Yep, wonder if I could register the square as a Model A? Hahahaha
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HotRodMatt
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| posted on June 11th, 2006 at 08:19 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by 68AutoBug
No wonder VWs were called short stroke and slow revving.....
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Rod length has no relation to stroke... that's all in the crank.
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barls
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| posted on June 12th, 2006 at 07:23 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by barls
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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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!
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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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