Scroungers C.C. 1964 Falcon Drag Car

not junk man thats a treasure to me....lol
I love old hubcaps never put them on anything but my garage walls...lol I claim the if no one wants them...
wait I think i said that....lol

I ended up taking Corey and Jonathan home and by the time I got back Ferrell and Ryan had the front end off and the rest of the suspension. within a few minutes out came the cutting torch and the cut off wheel and things were happening.

rebstew wrote:I ended up taking Corey and Jonathan home and by the time I got back Ferrell and Ryan had the front end off and the rest of the suspension. within a few minutes out came the cutting torch and the cut off wheel and things were happening..

DAMN I"M FAT.... Not for long going to the GYM starting tommorow...lol

here is the start of the mock up. I stopped at the store and bought some perches but Ryans smooth hands cut the old ones off and they was reuseable. we just need to weld them a few inches over. stuck it all together and got it close to where it will sit. you can see it starting to come together.


we made a cardboard template for our rear brackets. it turned out pretty good.

here Ryan is seeing if the template works on both sides of the frame.

we are good to go and next comes the rear spring brackets. it was getting late so we cleaned up and closed up the garage for the night. not bad for a days work

Well not as much progress as hoped for, I had other thinks on my plate today, but I did use the template and made 2 rear solid mount spring hangers...I hope to get the frame and misc. sheet metal that was cut off removed tommorow morning/afternoon... I will be starting around 9 am if anybody is free or wants to stop by....I guess surgery does have it benefits....Ryan

Got the inside of the engine compartment where the shock towers were cleaned up, and the driverside rear hangers ground and cleaned and clamped in place...coming along well for the day..

driverside inner fenderwell and frame rail cleaned up from the removal of shock tower







1 pair of solid mount spring shackles for the rear of the driverside spring.







spring shackle sitting in place on driverside outside frame rail.These are made out of 1/4" plate steel and will be welded to the box frame of the car.

wow, that frame rail clean up good where the shock tower was.
I scored a matching set of Ford rims with tires to use on the front for mock up and to pull it around with. Thanks to Dennis for the loan of the rims. later we will be buy some for the rims that Ryan found

You planning on Steel rims or some sort of mag or racing rim? I got some old 15" steel rims that are pre disc brakes. I think they're 15 x 5.5. Stock 50's Ford rims. I got a stack about chest High. Also got 2 old Cragar style 14 x 7 reversed. Let me know if you need them. Might be able to have Jeff deliver when he comes down that way for romance. LOL

Mr. Fabulous wrote:You planning on Steel rims or some sort of mag or racing rim? I got some old 15" steel rims that are pre disc brakes. I think they're 15 x 5.5. Stock 50's Ford rims. I got a stack about chest High. Also got 2 old Cragar style 14 x 7 reversed. Let me know if you need them. Might be able to have Jeff deliver when he comes down that way for romance. LOL

we have a set of mags we are going to try to use. but you never know thing may change by spring

So, whats the plan for the motor? Something big I hope. Forced Induction would be my preferance.

1.8t89Jetta wrote:So, whats the plan for the motor? Something big I hope. Forced Induction would be my preferance.

if you go to track talk down at the bottom of the forum there is a post on there about what motor to use. you can vote on it and we may use what ever is picked
http://www.scroungers.net/track-talk-f27/what-engine-should-we-run-in-the-gasser-t205.htm

If some one has a nice Induction set-up they wanna donate that would be killer..... or maybe a Hillborn set-up ..Hell I'd like to see a nice 327 with a carb show up..I still say we use a nice cheap engine that is user and wallet friendly... something period for a gasser....289 ford would be nice hell anything beats what we have...lol . I like the 460 Ford but thats gonna be hard on the wallets....

thing is in time the car will find a SBC in it I think. It would be cool to have a 460 but we are going to blow the engine. even with a rev limiter it will one day die. we won't be able to get a 460 again without tossing some $$ at it. so if we go with what we can afford then we will have a huge firewall hole from the 460. also we haven't measured yet but we may set the firewall back. if we do the 460 may be in the way of the master cylinder. yes we can move it but it is taking up more time fabbing when we could toss something in it and go. I like the idea of the 460 I'm just wondering how long it would be down when we blow 2 rods through the block. then we start over with making new frame mounts, making headers, new trans, trans cross member, shifter set up and redoing the firewall so it doesn't look like crap with a small block sitting in a big gaping hole. I'm up in the air. I like the 460. it would look cool in it. but a mild built small block chevy would put a hurtin' on a 79 smog, stock 460. I'll leave it up to you guys what you want to do. if you want the 460 we will do it. hopefully not, but be ready for a mid season rebuild and it will cost some $$

If you dont make up your mind on the motor soon the 460 might find its way in a mid 60s chevy II,I will put a 514 stroker kit and other goodies in it and blow away any sbc you can come up with.