I bought a Rolls Royce and want to build it. (Page 16 of 33)

Don't most of us?

(if you count spilled beer)

Dear God that is glorious.

Well, I mean, THIS WHOLE BUILD is glorious, but so is that steering wheel.

Perfect.

Please tell me that's sterling silver ...  please?

HAHAHA, of course it is, because......

4.2.1: Beside the items and processes listed in Section 3, the following are considered safety-related and therefore exempt:

Driver comfort & information (steering wheel, shifter, gauges, pedals, cool suits, vents, heaters, radio)

IT'S EXEMPT!!!!!

Goal is to have the engine running by this weekend, and driving by the following weekend.  Getting real close here.

THIS is the weak link.  a 1958 F100 rear axle with small end bearings and 1.75" spacers...not so good.

Machined some hub centric spacers today.  Had to redrill the rotors to a ford pattern, open up the bore of the rotor to match the spacer, and turned the bushing/spacer whatever thing.

Agree ^^

drilled rotors will only give you problems, especially on a heavy car. They provide areas for stress concentrations and they will crack on you. The best rotors you can run for endurance racing are center vented solid rotors.

My worry about the spacer is extending the leverage of a heavy whee/tire on a heavy car outwards on a 60 year old axle shaft.

This was the only thing I had that I could run, anything built would have taken 3 weeks because I had to run a weight axle length that is not common.  So in this axle went.

Because of the 2 month build, everything was done differently that I normally would have.  Sometimes I had to buy "cheaty" parts because of the speed of install. I normally would have repurposed most of the stuff with OEM parts off cars I have around the shop but that would take a lot longer.  Basically, car would have been a lot different if I didn't have a super small time window to complete and I would have figured out a different axle option.

So, in essence, you’re saying that if you weren’t so rushed for time, you could actually have done some nice work on this car?  Sheesh. I am sooooo lame.   I feel bad about my skills.

Anybody have any tips of routing Hoses through steel?  I have 2" holes over the car that I have lines going through and need to find a way to keep the lines from rubbing against the sharp metal.

A hole like this.

I was thinking using something like this. Then wrapping the hoses with rubber & zip ties.

Door edge molding if you have it and wrap the hose in strips of inner tube.

I split an old heater hose and put int in the opening before running the oil cooler hoses through.  Don't forget to add some type of debris screen too.

Debris? At a Lemons race?

This continues to be amazing.

Same here. In fact I might've learned this from one of your posts.

YEP. Been there, but not on a car as pretty as this one.