Model B "Tourer" Startup at Turlock

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 01/29/2018 at 11:40 • Filed to: None

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This gorgeous engine and stand was at the Turlock, California swap meet today. This man heavily modifies Model A and Model B engines by installing standard bearings, drilling the crank shaft for oil circulation, using aftermarket aluminum heads and fabricating his own aluminum connecting rods, dual Stromberg carburetors, and more. Very cool.

Party-vi > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/29/2018 at 11:59

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Damn. Heads and conrods? That’s some cool shit. He should offset-grind cranks too for more displacement.

Future next gen S2000 owner > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/29/2018 at 12:01

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We need to dyno this man’s creations......for research.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Party-vi 01/29/2018 at 13:24

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He may have. I know he talked about modding so that it “actually developed oil pressure.” He also said something about “adding 120 horsepower.”

If I had stupid money to burn and a building to house my toys, I’d have bought the entire thing off him, stand and all, and brought it home.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Future next gen S2000 owner 01/29/2018 at 13:24

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I bet he has and he could tell you the results. The fun thing about that guy was how much joy he took in his creation. He couldn’t wait to run it up for us.

BigBlock440 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/30/2018 at 15:50

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I’d love to get to the point in my life to be able to do something like that. Maybe when the kids grow up and start doing their own things. It’d be neat to pull something really old out of a barn and make it run again. Simple and low power enough that you could custom fabricate parts if you have to, and old enough that you likely will since nobody else makes them. Buying parts and slapping them on is fun and all, but making your own parts is a whole different level.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > BigBlock440 01/30/2018 at 16:33

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Did you see the gnarly ‘63 Chevy pickup in my other post? Inspirational, it was, for my own project: www.tinyurl.com/vandurapics

BigBlock440 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/31/2018 at 08:23

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I did, not my style. I don’t know if it’s the super short bed or the lack of hood making the lines not line up from the side view, or maybe the lack of a front bumper, or how the radiator is so high above the hood line, but something (or maybe multiple things) about it that makes me not like it. Any of it. It looks like it’s trying to hard to be a piece of crap, but at the same time, not completely over the top like most rat rods. But aesthetics are mostly subjective.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > BigBlock440 01/31/2018 at 12:35

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A difference in taste. I assume that there’s a hood for it somewhere.

For me, the deliberate imperfections are what makes it perfect.

Personally, I wouldn’t own such a highly modified thing, but I may take a couple of ideas from it as I arrest the decay of my ‘71 GMC van.