Project 1955 Bel Air: Installing The Front End Progress is happening on our 1955 Bel Air Project! It seems like what we have been doing lately is working on tedious small things - which add up over time but it was great to do some things that made a massive jump towards a finished car. What we worked on was installing the front … [Read more...]
Champion Cooling’s New Electric Fan Controller
Champion Cooling's new Electric Fan Controller steps up your game to the next level when it comes to cooling systems. Their new, Bluetooth ready controller allows you more control over your cooling fans; the free app can be downloaded for IOS or Android devices, allowing you to set separate on and off temperatures, whether you have a single cooling fan or dual cooling fans. … [Read more...]
Flowmaster American Thunder Install With Catalytic Converters
Flowmaster American Thunder Install With Catalytic Converters Installing exhaust isn't a hard task - most people can accomplish it fairly easy. Especially when you use a kit made for your car, like we did with Flowmaster on this 1955 Bel Air. What made it take more time was that we changed the mufflers that came in the kit and added a set of high-flow catalytic converters to … [Read more...]
Installing A Tilt Column Shift Steering Column
Installing A Tilt Column Shift Steering Column We've been chipping away at our 1955 Bel Air build - primarily under the car. One piece of the puzzle that needed to be installed to make moving the car around easier was a steering column. We reached into our pile of new parts and found our steering column from Classic Performance Products. If you've been following along, … [Read more...]
Install: Eddie Motorsports Trunk Hinges
Installing Billet Aluminum Trunk Hinges Eddie Motorsports are known for a wide variety of billet accessories including hood hinges and serpentine systems. We were recently poking around on their site ordering up a set of hood hinges for our 1955 Bel Air project and saw they made trunk hinges for it too. The factory hinges worked just fine - they have the arms attached to … [Read more...]
Project 1955 Bel Air Rear End Finishing Touches
Installing The Rear Bumper, Emblem, and Tail Lights On Our 1955 Bel Air On our Project 1955 Bel Air, we have gotten the car out of paint jail and are excited to get this car back together! From our previous stories you can read all about building the chassis, suspension, brakes, etc. Now it's time to make this car look more like a '55 Bel Air! Our first order of … [Read more...]
Fueling Up For The Long Haul With TANKS INC
TANKS INC For The Long Road Ahead There's always a wrong way and a right way to do something. When it comes to a fuel system, this is not something that you want to do halfway right or wrong. For starters, if it leaks then you obviously risk a fire which can quickly engulf your ride and put an end to it. The other side is a system that just doesn't work or starves your … [Read more...]
Cooling Like A Champion!
Champion Cooling Systems To The Rescue Right now it's summer. It's hot. We feel it and our cars do too. If you're going to drive in the summer or try to survive Power Tour, you need a cooling system that's up to par. Our 1955 Bel Air build has an aluminum radiator and electric fan so it should be good to go, right? Wrong. The no-name radiator fits in the stock mounting … [Read more...]
How It’s Made: CPP Tubular Control Arms
Video: Classic Performance Products Control Arms Last year we installed a complete set of CPP Tubular Control Arms on our Project 1955 Bel Air build. Naturally when we took them out of the box, we were checking them out and admiring how nice the welds were and just how well built they seemed. That got us thinking a bit on how exactly does a tubular control arm get built? … [Read more...]
Project No-Name: 79% Increase In Power With TorqStorm!
Getting Blown with TorqStorm Editors Note: When I wrote this I totally messed up - actual percentage change is 79% increase in power, not 43% as I originally had. In our previous stories, we showed you how we grabbed an junkyard LY6 6.0L and built it up to handle boost. That boost is coming from a TorqStorm supercharger! Now we could have used the factory brackets and … [Read more...]
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