Beach Cruiser Update

[Track Junky]

Lookin' good dude. Glad to see some more forward progress.

[Beach Cruiser]

My wife got me a billet gas pedal and cable assembly! Maybe I'll be driving around the block tomorrow!

[WSSix]

Cool! That would be a merry Christmas present

[DETON8R]

Originally Posted by Beach Cruiser

got some new sheetmetal yesterday to try and get the radiator support figured out. More parts on the way from the brown truck Santa, but heres the start of the Christmas break rush.

Who knew? buying a part for an American car, that was built in Asia would take some American engineering to make American made parts to fit it into an American car?


Installed and ready to mock up the intake ducting,


picked up a radiator support from the junkyard that I think might work, it's from a 6 cyl Camaro.



Raditor support with my SLP lid installed, getting closer. I need to drop the Radiator about an Inch to make it perfect but I'm getting closer!

I'm wrestling with the same set up for my intake set up for my 69. I had resigned myself to mounting the 4th Gen F-body LS1 radiator without using the SLP air box, however if you have an elegant solution, I'd consider using it.

When I was planning to somehow make the 1st gen/4th gen work, I was going to cut the lower radiator cradle sheet metal out of the 4th gen, and attach it to the 1st gen, then rework the sheet metal on the upper core support to mount the lower air box and make it work with the radiator canted. Hope that makes sense, after thinking about it, I just figured it was a ton of work and unnecessary extra weight, so I decided to take another route.

Current plan is to mount the radiator with no angle, and mount it flush against the 1st gen core support. I have aluminum brackets and will hold the radiator at the 4 points where the core/tank seams meet. Unfortunately that means I have to ditch the SLP air box set up, and buy something else.

[Beach Cruiser]

Finally finished up my Radiator support and Ram Air mod for the car. Looks really good in my opinion, but I have to build some block off plates on the sides to fill in the gap to force all the air into the radiator.


I drove the car around my nieghborhood for the first time in 9 years, so I figured I should make it legal to do so again!


Ordered new front end sheetmetal over the holidays so the next post or so should show make the car look a little better! I've also been distracted by rebuilding the motor in my boat that spun a bearing in Sept, but that's done and hopefully back in the boat and out of my massive racecar manufacturing facility this weekend!


But the biggest news of all is that My oldest Son just left for college to UNC Charlotte and this is his new garage! I'm so proud of him!

[Track Junky]

Congrats for your son.

Looks like the Camaro is coming along. I would probably lose that upper radiator mount and just fab up a new set up kind of like the Penske/Donahue '69. They had the radiator raked just like yours is.

[Beach Cruiser]

I went with that setup so I wouldn't have to build anything, I'm getting tired of building stuff! do you have any links to the car you're refering to?

[Track Junky]

This is a great link and has lots of detailed photos. I've spent alot of time checking these out.

http://www.canepa.com/inventory/race...aro/index.html

[B Schein]

I spent a lot of time in that motor sports lab building formula cars. Is luke still running the shop

[Beach Cruiser]

Ok, the boat is now done and out of my driveway and garage so I made some more progress on the car. I started working on the exhaust system. With the Open headers the O2's are reading funky and its dumping fuel. My tuner told me to put exhaust on it before we put it on the dyno. It looks a little ghetto, but it fits really nice. I need to weld it all up and make it look a little better, perhaps with some 2000 deg paint after it's welded. I don't think it turned out too bad considering it's a mix of old cut up stuff that I did laying on my back on the concrete floor.