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’32 Update: Body Being Bolted (article 44)


Remember these little guys?  In case you missed the post, check it out.


I enlarged the holes in the floor to 7/8″…


…then machined these tubes or “slugs” to drop in the holes.  The purpose of the slugs is to prevent the head of the bolt from crushing the top layer of fiberglass as the bolt is tightened.  I machined them so that they sit on top of the bottom layer of the floor and just under the top layer, so that when the bolt is tightened it will compress the floor just a bit before bottoming out on the slug.


Here is the finished product – we were wondering whether to paint them, but I think they look pretty sharp the way they are.  They are only about 1/8″ off the floor, so they shouldn’t catch feet.

What do you think?

June 1st, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: 32 Build, Body | Leave a comment

’32 Update: body bolts, motor mounted. (article 39)

body mounting bolts

We thought for a while, drew our thoughts on the blackboard, and finally came up with a much simpler edition.  Since the floor of the Bear Fiberglass body is so thick (almost 2″), and it is composed of two layers of fiberglass sandwiching a sort of foam material, it can be ‘squished’, for lack of a better word.  Imagine standing on a pop can.  Or you can stand on a soda can.  Either way, unless you’re reading this blog from the comfort of the womb, you will probably collapse the walls of the can.  Imagine now that you drop a steel tube inside, just shorter than the height of the can.  The walls will collapse just a tiny bit, but then the strength of the tube will hold your weight.  Probably.

Same idea here.  We’re putting a tube spacer inside the floor so that when the bolts get tightened, they will cinch the body down but won’t be able to overtighten and crush the fiberglass.

rear end fluid

This is one of the only pictures you’ll see of me working on the car… and it happens to be the easiest job other than cleaning.

engine install 01

Time to install the engine!  Here, the transmission mount is swung (my computer didn’t put a red line under “swung”, so I guess it’s a word) out of the way, waiting for the transmission.

Great!  Fits just like it did the first time!

sneak peek

March 27th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: 32 Build, Body, Engine | 2 comments