Slant Six Roadster Build
Overall it's been a great learning experience and am proud to have done all the work myself except for the welding which my buddy Drew has done graciously for whiskey and a welding shop gift certificate. I'd like to get a welder soon and learn though. It may not be perfect but hell I love it! I plan to take it to some vintage racing events in southern PA next year. The events include circle dirt track, paved drag racing, gravel drag racing at Allentown Fairgrounds, street style gran prix at Coatsville and what ever else I find out about.
The current to do list get it on the road is as follows:
*Add headlights. They will bolt on here and will be wired with weather pack connectors so I can remove them when racing. When on the dirt tracks I will make a frame that bolts into the headlight locations for a screen to protect the radiator. Right now I covered the radiator with a Nomex honeycomb radiator guard which is used on a lot of dirt cars.
*add Ford hydraulic lever shocks to the rear. Just need to get some dog bones the right length to connect the shocks to the rear. Don't worry the yellow clamps are just temporary, I will paint them black before I'm done.
add front shocks. Haven't decided which way i'm going to go yet either make my own friction shocks
or a set of ford hyrdraulic shocks
I'm also torn on where to attach them. If I go forward either option will have a long distance to the axle (about 11-12") so that leverage may reduce the effectiveness of the shock. Yes I see the humor in my babbling about leverage affecting the effectiveness of 1900-1940s technology. When I was at the Eastern Museum of Motor Racing (York Springs, PA well worth the visit they have every auto racing genre covered, dirt and asphalt circle track, drag racing, land speed, motorcycles) I saw this setup on a dirt track car (can't find the photo after looking in every folder i can think of) where the hydraulic lever shocks were attached to the front hairpins. The front hairpins had a piece of steel welded between the hairpin arms. I will try and find the photo so it makes more sense.
*add lap belts. I'm going to sandwich the lower rear plywood in the body with 2 33" long x 2"wide pieces of 1/4 steel to make anchor points for the belts.
*finish the shifter handle
Future plans include
adding a small rollbar
add five point seat belt that attaches to rollbar
making a tonneau cover for the passenger side of the cockpit
rear bumper and hidden hitch
hook up the parking brake if i can find room in the cockpit
maybe make a soft top if the windshield to rollbar line clears my head.
Overall it's been a great learning experience and am proud to have done all the work myself except for the welding which my buddy Drew has done graciously for whiskey and a welding shop gift certificate. I'd like to get a welder soon and learn though. It may not be perfect but hell I love it! I plan to take it to some vintage racing events in southern PA next year. The events include circle dirt track, paved drag racing, gravel drag racing at Allentown Fairgrounds, street style gran prix at Coatsville and what ever else I find out about.
The current to do list get it on the road is as follows:
*Add headlights. They will bolt on here and will be wired with weather pack connectors so I can remove them when racing. When on the dirt tracks I will make a frame that bolts into the headlight locations for a screen to protect the radiator. Right now I covered the radiator with a Nomex honeycomb radiator guard which is used on a lot of dirt cars.
*add Ford hydraulic lever shocks to the rear. Just need to get some dog bones the right length to connect the shocks to the rear. Don't worry the yellow clamps are just temporary, I will paint them black before I'm done.
add front shocks. Haven't decided which way i'm going to go yet either make my own friction shocks
or a set of ford hyrdraulic shocks
I'm also torn on where to attach them. If I go forward either option will have a long distance to the axle (about 11-12") so that leverage may reduce the effectiveness of the shock. Yes I see the humor in my babbling about leverage affecting the effectiveness of 1900-1940s technology. When I was at the Eastern Museum of Motor Racing (York Springs, PA well worth the visit they have every auto racing genre covered, dirt and asphalt circle track, drag racing, land speed, motorcycles) I saw this setup on a dirt track car (can't find the photo after looking in every folder i can think of) where the hydraulic lever shocks were attached to the front hairpins. The front hairpins had a piece of steel welded between the hairpin arms. I will try and find the photo so it makes more sense.
*add lap belts. I'm going to sandwich the lower rear plywood in the body with 2 33" long x 2"wide pieces of 1/4 steel to make anchor points for the belts.
*finish the shifter handle
Future plans include
adding a small rollbar
add five point seat belt that attaches to rollbar
making a tonneau cover for the passenger side of the cockpit
rear bumper and hidden hitch
hook up the parking brake if i can find room in the cockpit
maybe make a soft top if the windshield to rollbar line clears my head.