by "camaroboy68ss" (camaroboy68ss)
Published 11/04/2017 at 00:55
by "camaroboy68ss" (camaroboy68ss)
Published 11/04/2017 at 00:55
Tags: Project Car
; 1955
; 1956
; 1957
; Tri-five
; 55 chevy
; Chevrolet
; Bel Air
; restoration
STARS: 10
Well hit a big milestone this week! The body is off the rotisserie and now back on the frame! Along with this mile stone over the last update, my grandfather has been polishing all the Bel Air stainless himself (and there is a lot of it on a Bel Air) as well as starting to put it back on the car. Alot of the rear end of the car is back together already. The plan is to have everything hooked up to try and fire it up by the end of the month.
Here all the other previous updates to see how we got to this point (from oldest to newest):
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"Steve in Manhattan" (blogenfreude01)
11/04/2017 at 02:20, STARS: 0
That is an amazing build ... I stand in awe.
"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
11/04/2017 at 07:18, STARS: 0
awesome.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
11/04/2017 at 08:24, STARS: 0
That is fantastic!
"John Norris (AngryDrifter)" (angrydrifter)
11/04/2017 at 10:30, STARS: 0
That’s beautiful.
I’m guessing you are going to hate the three carbs though. They look very cool, but back in the day getting them tuned was not trivial. Perhaps that’s changed. I’d have a back up plan though.
Whatever the carburetor result the time you have invested in this is well spent and the things you have learned will stay with you for the rest of your life.
"just-a-scratch" (just-a-scratch)
11/04/2017 at 11:15, STARS: 0
Looking good.
"camaroboy68ss" (camaroboy68ss)
11/04/2017 at 11:20, STARS: 0
tri power is actually very easy to set up for carburation. The linkage is a progressive setup. Most driving conditions you are only using the middle carb. Only when you put your foot in it do the other two get used. The outer carbs are linked together so they are in sync. Its kind of like how dual fours operated. My grandfather and I have run quite a few tri power set ups over the years and have ran great. We even have built a couple motors with 6X2's. Our current show car has one of the setups and it runs really good:
"Frank Grimes" (FrankGrimes)
11/05/2017 at 13:02, STARS: 0
So nice to see an engine that fits with the rest of the car. Seems a lot of people who build hot rods just want to throw everything chrome and billet at an engine and it ends up looking really wierd.