well ive had a few attempts with my chevy v8 at building a car, ive always hit hurdles and just thrown the towel in.

i think i have now found the direction to go that i have the desire to see it through to the end as it wont need to be road legal.

i have started today and it fits :






dutton phaeton dragster

the engine fits a treat and theres tunnel room for the manual but im want an auto, i have a truck back axle that will fit in just need to weld the diff up.

this is to be my santa pod toy, the supra is going to be top speed and hopefully mlr 30 - 130 event car.

 

Proper old skool tool, i like it
Is that a viva ifs ?? you gonna slide a ford 9" under the rear ?
Small Block but 350 or 383 either way should make a fun car on Gas and with you sitting at the back and i guess you will get of the line well .............on the back wheels !!!

Regards
Ian

 

Guess it will be a standard 350 with 4 bolt mains if its out of a vette ??

Cool project mate and guess will be pretty cheap to have running in the 11's at least

 

are you saying he is fat ?

 

its a 327 from a 60s corvette, but it was a blueprinted engine pro built back in the day, wild cam in it and high comp, ive seen the videos of me dad grass tracking it and he used to just drive round the outside of everyone i kid you not ! lol

i have a chevy c10 truck back axle to go on it with some general lee 275/60/15s to go on it aswell
weld the diff up job done.

i got the gearbox in aswell tonight its a 4 speed saginaw i had lying about, may run that first of all, just dummy running at the moment, got the syamese headers in tonight aswell

 

This should be an interesting project to watch develop more photos please.

What kind of times/speeds are you hoping to achieve?

 

Logging in. Nice project. Good luck

 

tb honest i dont know, gearing and 6000 rpm suggest top speed of 142 mph in 4th gear.

 

so removed axle from my chevy c10 truck chassis



i took the back of to find its a 9" open diff



so i commenced with the welding done both sides with a proper industrial 1mm wire welder



clean up and put rear cover on, i brimmed it with oil and run it up and down a few times as its been stood for years, i put hg450 final drive oil in i guess its around a 60 weight will do the job fine. i also just cut the handbrake cables no point in handbrake for a dragster.



and there she is hopefully get it in tmrw night, im gonna try and just drop rear of leaf spring, remove shock and just roll out and roll in new axle, fingers crossed it goes as easy as that

 

327's are like rockin horse now i would do abit of looking you could be sitting on quite abit of cash there.

 

the planet gears wont last mate weld a nice big thickish plate in there so it becomes one big surface area ive broke a few diffs in road cars welded like that do it right do it once, even more so that you will be launching.

do it in stages as not too warp the bearing too bad as they do lock up from the heat if not when being welded hth

 

gonna be a mad motor when done keep the pics coming

 

This is what I was going to say. Do it like this, and it'll be much stronger.

 

Will be a fun toy this when its finished.

 

Looking good, only issue with any of those engines is that they need some extreme cooling.

The Vette I mentioned before has a radiator like you have in a house and that still gets a bit too warm tbh.

Get a nitrous kit and let it have it, has potential to be a very quick car ! If you get bored of that I know where there is a Dodge Dart for sale, ex 9 sec car, recently painted but has no engine or box, could be a nice little project for you as the guy isn't exactly rolling around in money at the minute

 

thanks fella i have welded a piece of 1/4" plate in both sides this morning

 

should be a hoot mate, take it to pod on a trailor and have a laugh, im not all that comfortable using the supra tbh its my road car so thought id better get building a car for pod giggles

im in the workshop every night at the moment pop down if your passing mate, youl know im there as workshop will be lit up well.

 

Cheers mate, I'll get over at some point, working most evenings on the Peugeot at the moment but I will get over.

 

Good luck with build

 

this is how you do it if you can drive

 

all the best with it bud! its normally long and painful, but keep with it, cos it worth it im sure

 

busy day today the back end went from this



to this




but she was sitting too low, so i lowered leaf springs again, then bolted up leaf springs and rolled axle underneath them, made some temporary u bolts just to get it mobile and vwalla






axle may be moved forward a bit im not sure, just dummy running at the moment til i get the new ramp, im chuffed though got a good bit done in 3 days, the engine and drivetrain is in loose which is a good start

 

ha ha ha good lad let me know when ur done and il pop over should be a giggle :O)

 

thats gonna be terrifying! would be better road legal but its less hassle i spose

 

lol its gonna get quite a bit of bracing box section so it doesnt lift one front wheel and transform into a banana lol

cant be doing with road legal tbh i have the supra for that and tbh in anything other than a straight line the dutton will be poo !

im having a night of tonight gone mad on it the last 3 days, i want it up on the ramp before i final fit the axle, gearbox and diff for the permanent mounts making / welding. ramp should be up next week hopefully.

 

good luck with a trailer to get that on lol nice project mate

 

its decieveing mate the car is extremely narrow which makes the back axle look wider than it really is.

 

well i removed this earlier



left it with the missus and got it back like this



ive took all the other shiny bits in house now for here to scrub

ive welded 2 extra support bars in for the front of the suspension mount



ive completely stripped the interior right out, heater, wipers all thye loom ect ready for making the cage, i may buy a cheap second hand one and alter it to suit not sure yet.
oh and made it hydraulic clutch too



i shall be on it again tmrw

 

cool project Karl

 

Epic use of a pair of old trousers there.

 

wow you defo look like you no what your doing. fair play .nice project and will be awesome when all finished

 

Fucking hell, thats gonna be shit scary when its done

 

the missus had a bufty today i thnik its come up extremely well considering all she had was some meguiars and wd40 lol



i altered the breather today and made the conversion plate to run the throttle cable to carb and that was it was out on site repairing machine today aswell so lost 4 hours there.

i have also decided im gonna make the roll cage out of box section, the whole car is made of box so im gonna stick with the boxxy theme lol

 

cheers mate im gonna make it so the headers extend out the sides so i can add silencers and take it to track days if they will let me on

lol

i dunno about that mate but il give it my best shot

hopefully

 

carb adaptor made for throttle linkage



fitted to card and made new mount welded 2 together and vwalla



water gauge adapted to manual cat gauge, breather altered and steering figured out so i just need 1 uj about half way down



and finally some numpty had fitted 4" pcd ford wheels to 3.75" pcd spitfire hubs casuing the studs to bend and break, ive ordered new studs and nuts, ebc pads and fitting kit and caliper reseal kit, so i stripped out and checked regreased left wheel bearing, stripped and cleaned caliper ready for new seals




sourced a custom high mount chrome alternator kit from usa along with a few other goodies

time for a rest now im fooked tbh had a non stop 6 days on it where time was available. hopefully getting ramp tmrw

 

 

well ive been super busy on it still

both headers are done, bit patchy but paint will hide a thousand sins, i hope lol






my cousin came over and helped out after college

steering all done and works perfect no play at all now








and finally done a trial cut and layin of the bonnet, not sure wether im gonna use it yet or not



brake calipers are rebuilt ready to go with ebc green pads, new wheel studs and nuts to go in. im now going to troll the interent for a battery box, front 300 lb springs and a radiator

 

You're a crazy bloke, this is ace!

I think run it without the bonnet, looks better imo.

 

bit of heat wrap headers will look fine,be a cheap fun car that

 

still undecided yet, i will do the bonnet then just 4 bolts to remove it

good thinking i hadnt thought of that, if they look poo once shotblasted and painted then il wrap them