Now that we've got our 383 back from the engine shop Jeff's gonna come back and
help us install it in the car we're gonna change out the wheels and tires
and throw in a few other details to make this car look like it rolled right out
of the 60s and then we'll be ready to hit the road.
We tried hard to make this look like an early to mid 60's you know era
specific engine but these are all brand new parts. Finding a lot of these parts
had for years to become very difficult so we managed to put together a really
good ear correct looking package with parts right off the shelf and out of the
catalog. The 471 blower when I look at that I think of the 60s but you might
ask why not a 671 you know this fits a little bit better this has a 2 inch
Gilmer Drive. And this doesn't have to be under driven the way that a 671 would on
the street you can run these one to one you can overdrive it. 671 builds a lot
more heat the rotors are longer everything there's more friction
involved this is just a lot more reliable package.
I'm putting the bracket on to mount our power gen so rather than put an
alternator on here to make this look like a 60s hot rod where we're gonna put
power master power gen which looks like a generator but it's actually an
alternator. Does kind of look like an old GM generator but it's got alternator one
wire alternator guts in it. When you run a hot rod like this without
a hood every detail kind of makes a difference.
Cool. You ever use one of those MSD starters Jeff? I haven't. So what we've used on all
the race cars and we have really good luck with them. Looks like a pretty nice
unit. Here's the swiveling neck thermostat to give us a little more
latitude when we're ready to do the upper radiator hose.
And it is funny to watch somebody try to turn one of those around under the car.
You wren't back here at 6 o'clock this morning watching me do it. This is the new GT
performance steering wheel that we're gonna use in the 32 fits the flavor of
the car a whole lot better than the lacera 40 Ford wheeled did. This is a 4
spoke bell style which is very similar to what was used in a lot of vintage
race cars. It's got a rubber grip chrome center. It's a nice looking wheel. I've
got to get our adapter on here first it takes a standard three bolt style
adapter and horn and setup. You know there's nothing wrong with the 40 wheel
in fact I think a 40 is my favorite hot rod steering wheel ever but yeah more of
a 40s early 50s kind of deal but for the hot rod dry lakes and drag strips look
you know there's nothing like a bell 4 spoke.
That's not going anywhere.
This expansion tank on it we're actually gonna be driving the thing we don't want
it yaking water all over everywhere. Gonna be a little tricky getting a nut
on here. I'll get it. Okay. It's one of my superpowers.
To finish this out we're changing the wheels and tires these are ET 15 by four
fronts and these are Coker American classic radial tires that look like old
bias plies so you know we won't be going 700 miles wrestling with bias plies but
it's got the look. And then in the rear we've got some torque thrusts American
torque thrust with the same tires only in an 8 20-15 so we offer this
stagger this is basically the smallest you can get in the biggest you can
get in the back. These are 7s on the rear and 4s in
the front and it seems about right with the section of the tire. Yeah it makes a
really good section profile with that that width of wheel keeps that really
true 60s flare to it. Should we put it down? Sure.
That is killer. Five pounds want to come up six and a half or so? Yeah yeah that's six.
Sweet! It lives!