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 Post subject: Re: Ethan's 1951 Build
PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 10:11 pm 
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Damn dude!! Amazing!! So great to see the kids involved!! I'm excited to see the progress!! Great find :thumbs: :D

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 Post subject: Re: Ethan's 1951 Build
PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 10:46 pm 
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Wow, that car is gorgeous!!!

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 Post subject: Re: Ethan's 1951 Build
PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 10:08 am 
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Man that thing is nice.. you are doing awesome work..

Huge thumbs up on this one!!

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 Post subject: Re: Ethan's 1951 Build
PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 11:52 am 
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Super awesome!!!!!

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 Post subject: Re: Ethan's 1951 Build
PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 9:31 pm 
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Well a little more progress, running gear is back on and she is close to being a roller. I got the trans, front and rear brakes installed, lever shocks and new hard and soft lines. I am waiting on the master cylinder to come so that I can finish up the brakes.
A few things stumped me and it took way longer than I thought to install the trans with the fast Fab nose cone mount. I decided not to por 15 the pans. I figured since it will not see rain unless i get caught out in it. and will be kept in a climate controlled garage that would be just one more thing
strip off once I blow it apart.

I had Glenn rebuild the 019 that Jeremy gave me. It turned out nice.


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 Post subject: Re: Ethan's 1951 Build
PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2018 11:50 am 
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Love it! I like the fancy hydraulic brakes ;)

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 Post subject: Re: Ethan's 1951 Build
PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2018 2:47 pm 
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That's a great car, very clean. My split was purchased as a shell and I've built the chassis with some more modern components. Expensive, although I bet less expensive than trying to source original split parts :)

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 Post subject: Re: Ethan's 1951 Build
PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2018 3:14 pm 
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Nice.. :thumbs:

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 Post subject: Re: Ethan's 1951 Build
PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2018 10:20 pm 
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Very nice.

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 Post subject: Re: Ethan's 1951 Build
PostPosted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 1:48 pm 
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ScottyG wrote:
Love it! I like the fancy hydraulic brakes ;)


Yep you can have those cable brakes..lol I am glad that someone changed out the backing plates already. Those 4 bolt cylinders that are in splits are way to expensive. Even changing over to the 2 bolt early oval cylinders is expensive. Probably why mine was already changed to 1 bolt.

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