Today we're kicking off our 32 Roadster build by changing the front brakes. These
cars come with disc brakes which do a great job of stopping the car but they
don't really look the part of a mid-60s hot rod which is what we're after so
today we're gonna fix that. Josh is coming by and we're gonna tear into this
thing. This new product that we have here I think is gonna look a heck of a lot
cooler you want to tell us about it Josh? Yeah it's certainly gonna kind of give it some
old-school cool here so we've got some of our new components for this season.
This early Ford brake drum that's styled like a 45 finned Buick drum it's got all
the right dimensions to work with our early Ford components as we'll notice as
we put it together and then our normal flattop
Ford spindle to go right with our early Ford self energizing backing plates so
kind of dress it up that old-school look right.
Street Rodder built this car in the first place we sent them the car without
the engine and transmission sort of as they come and they put a they put an
engine in it. They put turbo 350 in it and they did
all that and they wrote about it it was even on the cover of the magazine in
like 2007 and that was this very car. It's been kind of the road warrior the
tour of the world in the show rigs. It's been to a lot of shows that's for sure
but I don't know that it's gotten a lot of roadtrip time so we're gonna try to
fix that. Yeah these cars started out as Bill's favorite 32 that he had and that
had to get diced up and used to make body stampings and whatnot. I always
heard that this was sort of his version of what a 32 Ford should be you know the
50s Pontiac taillights and the red paint and all the chrome and the 40 dash you know
this was as if he was gonna build a 32 Roadster this is what he would build.
What do you think of the chrome backing plates Josh? They're pretty beautiful
they really match with our chrome axle and shocks here and everything and our
aluminum fin drums it's really a pretty sweet package all together I'm glad we
took the time to take them apart and send them in. Yeah I mean these are just the
ones that we sell just raw but I thought for this car with all the chrome that's
on it you know it would be good to have them having chrome so we sent them out.
These are the Bendix style backing plates that we sell that require that
the flat be ground and the spindle and so it's nice the other nice thing is
that now we sell that spindle that has the flat in it so that you don't have to
do all the grinding or chuck it up in a mill or do whatever people have been
doing for years to use this 37 to 41 spindle with the Bendix backing plate.
Yeah and you don't end up holding your tongue half out and squaring one eye
trying to grind the top of the spindle down at the right amount and checking it
20 times you know this is already done it's already done in
nice mill and it has the right amount taken off.
Okay are you ready put hubs on? No I just got the wrenches you had the wrenches the whole time.
You want me to just say it I'm gonna say it.
Just like that we have brakes. Hubs next we've already assembled these packed the
bearings installed the seals so these are pretty well just ready to slide on.
These are our reproduction 40 Ford style hubs which will fit right over the
spindle and will fit right inside our Buick drums. Getting close to putting
that jewelry on. The jewelry. Spin those over put our dust cap on and on to the
drums setting on.
Alright the big moment is here pretty excited. Oh man that looks great. Nice.
Are you happy? Oh yeah that took a lot of time to get to that. A lot of time planning on making
these. For the time being since we changed the bolt pattern on the front to
a five on five and a half early forward bolt pattern we just pulled these these
reproduction five on five and a half wheels that we sell it's just like a
clone of a 40 Ford wheel and mounted some 450 16 bias plies on them. That's
what it's all about right there that's what all that whole fuss about getting
these finned Buick looking drums on there is that reveal are getting to see
those fins on the inside of the wheel and that's not covered up by a fender.
Those are the brakes that belong in this car. Yeah totally changes attitude of the
car. A fender-less car this is all hanging out in the breeze so it's got to be it's
kind of got to be pretty. It's kind of like going to the jewelry store a little bit.