1930 Ford Model A Coupe build up

May update. 09/05/12

Have made some progress on the car over the last few months.

Fitted braided fuel line for the engine & Nitrous.

Fuel line from regulator to the carby fitted up.

Fitted up the dash & gauges. A dash header panel goes over the top edge to finish it off.

Fitted up the extractors. I need to make covers to make them legal. Not worried about that at the moment.

Original 9 inch headlights dummied up. I have some smaller 7 inch aftermarket ones that I will use until I restore the originals.

Trial fit of the 5 inch air cleaner. The support rods need to be modified to clear the air cleaner.

Or I can run a smaller 2 inch element that will fit under the rods. A bit of 2 inch cardboard used to see what it will look like.

Mounting frame and fan mounts. The mounts aren't finished in this photo. Im still working on them.

I wanted something with 351 in it but all the combo's I wanted were taken.

Nitrous switch and mounting bracket. Switch will activate the nitrous at WOT (wide open throttle)

Radiator trial mounted in place.

Braided hoses for fuel pumps fitted under the car and bulk head mounted to through the boot to the pumps.

Fuel pumps dummied up. The one on the left is for the engine. The one on the right is for the Nitrous.

Engine fuel pump & in line filter mounted.

More sound proofing fitted.

Whats left to do ???

Mount trans cooler and trans cooler hose's.
Mount horn.
Mount the head lights.
Paint the front apron.
Mount the glass when it comes back from being cut.
Cut down the windscreen frame.
Paint the windscreen frame.
Make the door trims.
Fit out the door locks
Get a tailshaft made.
Remove the diff centre and swap out the diff gears.
Fit the tailshaft loop.
Wire up the whole car.
Fit up some mirrors.
Fit up the interior & seat belts.

2012 Update

I haven't updated this thing for a while...This is what i have done over the last few months.

Fitted the steel out bars inside the car
Bolted down the front guards
Bolted on the running boards
Bolted the body to the chassis
Modified the original dash to hold switches
Fitted up the brake assembly
Plumbed the brake lines (Thanks Joe)
Fabricated a lower brace for the steering column
Repainted the steering column
Fabricated a bush for one of the steering shafts
Fitted some of the sound / heat proofing to the front of the car

Pulled out the diff and four bars and refitted them after I painted them

Fitted the exhaust wrap (not the easiest job to do when the pipes are mounted under the car)
Fitted the boot lid catch
Fitted the boot floor (3 pieces)
Modified the fuel tank
Fitted the fuel tank and filler neck (Thanks for the polish on the filler neck Matty)

Fitted the boot lid (Thanks for polishing the hinges Joe)

Fitted the battery kill switch

Fitted the battery box
Fitted the Nitrous bottle brackets. Still need to plumb the Nitrous set up.

Fitted the rear guards, rear indicators, tail lamps & rear exhaust pipes.

Removed the two pack paint from the engine

Stripped the engine
Repainted the engine

Fitted the engine and gearbox to car

Removed the engine and gearbox from the car after I remembered that I didn't fit the sandwich plate between the engine & gearbox
Refitted the engine and gearbox after my stuff up was fixed (Thanks Joe)
And probably a whole heap of little bits and pieces

Back in Black (and Purple) 22/10/11

Close up of one of the running boards

Close up of the boot lid.

One of the guards and the front panel thing (I don't know what it is called)

I need to clean the blue protection off the front tyres and need to clean the white walls on the back tyres

A lot of hours was spent on this quarter to get it as straight as this.

In the booth. 22/10/11

Elvio laying down the first coat of PPG Black on the bolt on panels.

This guard reacted to something and bubbled up. Luckily it was the only panel that played up.

The wheels are painted the same colour as the firewall, Morpheus.

It felt good pushing it into the booth.

First coat of colour

My paint plan was that the car was always going to be satin black with a purple pearl firewall and rims. Even though the car looked good in satin after speaking to Elvio and other owners of satin cars I decided that it should have a clear coat on it to protect the paint.