Friday, October 28, 2011

Ive just about finished up the rear fenders. They are looking a ton better than when I first started!



Thursday, October 27, 2011

Been working more on the rear fenders. Ive got the passenger fender just about finished. And im in the process of fixing the bead on the drivers side.



Monday, October 24, 2011

1937 Plymouth Sedan Delivery

This is the next big project in the shop. Got the car tore down and sandblasted. Now im starting to work on the rear fenders. First thing is to get the major dents worked out and the overall shape roughed in as close as possible.










Friday, October 21, 2011

Exhaust system

Been working more on the exhaust. Got all the exhaust run through the back, and got the side pipes run into the exhaust as well.



Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Rear webs, and rear shocks.

Today I got the rear webs, and the rear boxing plates back from the laser cutter. Got the webs tacked in place in the rear radius rods.



















I made a set of boxing plates that the shocks will mount to. They will be welded flush to the frame.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Side exhaust

Ive been working on making some side exhaust for my 32' sedan. I took a 3" pipe and tapered it down to 2". Got it mounted in the car so it just pokes out at the end. This side pipes will be straight piped, and then the other exhaust will go through the middle of the car through mufflers out the back.


Start of the new Blog!

Hey everyone,

Ive been wanting to do this for a while. So better late then never.

So far i've had the shop now for 4 years. Had the oportunity to work on a lot of cool projects. And look forward to many more in the years to come.

Check out my website for past info: www.saltflatsspeedshop.com


So recent

ly ive been working on a few projects. I have been fixing a few things on a 1928 roadster that was at my open house this year. The owner and I wanted to make it a little nicer driver so we've been upgrading a few things.
First I upgraded the schroeder steering box with a reducer to get the steering ratio from 8 t0 1, to 16 to 1. Before it took both hands to steer, and was really tiring. The owner wanted to be able to have his wife drive the car. So now its really easy to steer.















The next thing I upgraded was the pitman arm. The old pitman arm had its splines welded onto the steering box so I had schroeder make me up a new steering shaft with their splines, and had them thread the end. Then had them send me one of their ford style pitman arms. I softened all the edges and shaped it to look like the original ford pitman arm. Then I made a dummy piece of threads that screwed into the threaded end of the steering box. That way I could put on the original ford lock washer and castle nut.

Overall it looks almost exactly like it was before, just has an allen head bolt. But the main improvement was to have a one piece shaft insted of having a welded on end that could fail.