Cle piston power auto show ratrods and radials

"briannutter1" (briannutter1) 03/31/2014 at 11:46 • Filed to: None

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JGrabowMSt > briannutter1 03/31/2014 at 11:56

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This tow truck is awesome. I've seen it before at a local show. The seats are an upside down bucket, and a farm tractor seat.

It has those dymo labels above the driver door with it's "trophies."

It's fricken awesome.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > briannutter1 03/31/2014 at 12:01

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I'm not really sure if building to look like a non-radiator'ed dragster and then putting an actual radiator in back is clever or just cheating.

briannutter1 > JGrabowMSt 03/31/2014 at 12:14

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Yes, it is really detailed and inspired. Very pure form of art I think.

briannutter1 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/31/2014 at 12:16

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Yeah, I've been doing a lot of research on rear radiators for better weight distribution. A lot of drift cars do it too. Another bonus is getting to seal off the front end of a normal car for better aero.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > briannutter1 03/31/2014 at 12:33

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Tying in with the other post, my custom Ranchero isn't going to have a rear trans, but as a weight distribution measure it *will* have either fender radiators or something rear. For my level of hp/displacement, I should be able to get it done with a pair of racing radiators for the classic Mini - good for at least 150 hp worth of heat each out of a liter and a half or so (vs. 4.2l, ~250hp). Lightweight, aluminum, compact, cheap (roughly 11"x17"x3.5"). I won't be sealing off the front end as such (looks), so there won't be direct aero benefits there, but I will be streamlining the undercarriage and semi-closing it off, since I won't need to dump air there.

As the trans only weighs like 60lb and I'm moving back the whole engine/trans setup by a good bit, rear trans would be a lot of engineering for little payoff.

briannutter1 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/31/2014 at 12:38

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sounds excellent. Have any pics or a timeline? My 2nd car/truck was a '68 Ranchero. Black, slightly decromed, 302 2bbl, c4,

Roundbadge > briannutter1 03/31/2014 at 12:50

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Nice to see I'm not the only NE Ohio opponaut.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > briannutter1 03/31/2014 at 12:55

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Mine is a Falcon Ranchero - '63. So far, I've got this:

These two items (car and Jag IRS):

This (a '60 grill, from the eBay listing I bought from):

And, no pictures for the following:

4.2 Rover V-8, window mechanism from a Range Rover (so I can roll down the back window), tailgate pins and latch from a Range Rover (so I can make a mid-gate), two sets of Honda motorcycle throttle bodies (stacks, yo)and some other assorted bits.

Still missing big-ticket items: Wheels, front disc conversion kit, bellhousing+clutch, floorboards, seat improvements, radiators, '72 Mustang bumpers.

Other pic:

Timeline - hopefully mostly done within the year.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > briannutter1 03/31/2014 at 13:01

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As a clarification, the throttle body setup will be something like this. Somebody did my exact conversion on a Rover V-8 already - which I didn't know until after running the airflow numbers to make sure they were alright. Megasquirt or equivalent, hopefully the new version with sequential fire will be available by the time I need it. If not, batch fire should be fine.

briannutter1 > Roundbadge 03/31/2014 at 13:11

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Absolutely. Pretty close knit group, so it always surprises me to hear from others.

briannutter1 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/31/2014 at 13:14

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yep, I know those pretty well. My grandparents had a falcon.

briannutter1 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/31/2014 at 13:14

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nice!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > briannutter1 03/31/2014 at 13:27

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It's really conducive to the whole "two radiators", because putting a motorcycle or four-banger-sized thermostat on each bank and routing one to each radiator is very easy. The stock manifold combines those two coolant runs you see - all I have to do is... not combine them. There are also two taps for the heater - so I can use two small heater cores and go dual-zone - a good thing, as my engine is moving into where my heater box was.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > briannutter1 03/31/2014 at 13:29

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As I didn't call out the trans, it's a 4-speed BW Super T-10, as you'd find in, say, a '80 Firebird. The diff is a Powerlok, which is nice.

briannutter1 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/31/2014 at 14:04

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nice work. the LFA is similar and it makes a lot of sense.

briannutter1 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/31/2014 at 14:06

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yeah, I didn't know that. Sweet box! I had a muncie m21 in a car once and loved the way they shift compared to a lot of new transmissions (including my t56). Keep me posted on the progress.