so I haven’t been on here in a while.
Andy (1qikz) was over dropping a few sleds off for me to work on, and while chatting realized I haven’t been on here in a while, as well as that there were a lack of projects in my garage. ha.
so an update for the '47…pretty much as it was last seen on here is where I left off. I had about $2500 total into the project, and did an even trade for a running/driving '50 dodge business coupe. flathead 6, 3 on the tree slushbox with the fluid coupling, sidepipes, etc. I did some work to it cleaning up some of the really hacked crap, slammed it on the ground, then traded it off again as I didn’t want to deal with the rusty underside. fun car, but not right now. the '47 is now in Belfast and the new owner is making it a ratrod with a small block chevy.
the car:
meanwhile in the process of this, I also put my frame table to use, doing the minitub on the buffalo motorama project “sinister” chevelle, a '66 chevelle pro touring build, which should finally be at the motorama this coming year. I did the minitub, frame boxing, went over all seams on the frame, and fixed a couple bad spots in the frame. NOTE: I did not weld on the transmission crossmember tabs or rear relocated body mounts. those were done by the painter and I do not want any credit for that part.
the frame:
some welds:
the car the frame is under:
so back to that trade. I traded the '50 straight up for a snowmobile with a shit ton of parts. I know I know, a snowmobile?? well, it was the same year/model as mine, but with a big bore built engine, nitrous, etc. lots of extra parts. 1400 miles on sled, less on the engine.
so then I strart tearing everything apart. putting the engine in my sled, my stock engine in that sled. returned that other sled to 100% stock and sold it, made some changes to the engine before putting in mine, then finished the swap. sold extra parts and had some dyno sessions for building power.
all said and done, I turned $2500 into $10,000 in value. I have a $5,000 engine in my sled, few grand cash in my pocket, and complete skids, tracks, etc for each season of racing…pavement, grass, snow flat & hilldrags.
and the engine makes 230hp/155tq tuned on c12 (without nitrous). 1200 big bore twin two stroke. next phase will be going 2 stroke turbo 1200 to the tune of 4-500hp.