Manky's Pop.

[Manky Monkey]

You're in the background of the last piccie too, looking cool with Loony. 
Nice to see you too Shaun.
You come on back real soon y'hear.
Thanks again for the wheels matey. 

[brock]

  do the wheels in gloss black, chrome nuts and dust cap, maybe wide whites

[Manky Monkey]

Mmm. Can't decide on gloss or satin for the body -should the wheels match?
Not convinced about wide whitewalls, but I quite like the narrow banded ones on the back wheels at the moment.

[Manky Monkey]

These are the Hillman Minx wheels Shaun gave me & the Triumph Vitesse hubs Brock gave me.
We need to change the stud pattern to marry the two together. At the moment the hubs are 3 3/4 inch PCD & the wheels 4 1/4. I've ordered a bag of new M12 studs & chrome nuts from SpeedShack in London & when they arrive we'll grind the old studs off flush & re-drill the hubs for the new ones. Then we'll have disc brakes on't Pop.

[Manky Monkey]

Have I shown you this?
The Buick inlet manifold I picked up from Pop Brown's stall at the Billing rod run earlier this year, with the 390 4 barrel Holley Carb I bought from Brock's mate Neil, the previous owner of his Black Pig race car. The triangular mesh air filter was a freebie from Brock's own spares bin.
I'm hoping this combo will give us a bit more clearance under the bonnet, & maybe perform a little crisper than the current twin SUs too. If it still won't fit inside the bodywork, I'll swap the filter for a bank of 4 velocity stacks & poke 'em up through the bonnet.

[poprodder]

very nice,
be carefull with hubs as there won't be much meat left on edge!!!

chris.

[Manky Monkey]

Yeah, I checked with Chris at Pop Browns. They adapt Triumph hubs in the same way then weld them from the back just to be sure.

[Manky Monkey]

All the front suspension components in place now.
The 26" spring & shackles are new, sold by "Speedway", an American hotrod parts distributor, & bought through Valley Gas Speed Shop in Berkshire.
The standard Ford Pop beam axle has been redrilled to take the Speedway spring perches & the centre spring mount on the chassis is a modified Speedway one too.
The standard Pop "wishbone" locating arm has been replaced with two radius arms made from the rear wishbone. These locate the axle to stop it moving sideways. They attach with rose joints to the chassis just beyond the bulkhead.
Suspension damping is by a pair of Morris Minor rear lever-arm dampers. These are just an arm working against an oil filled piston to take some of the boinginess out of the spring. They're bolted to threaded inserts welded into the chassis legs & will connect to the inside face of the radius arms with a pair of rose jointed stainless rods which are being machined at the moment.
A very basic set-up but it's supposed to be -it's a 50s style hotrod so we didn't want anything too high tech.

[Manky Monkey]

All the big heavy welds will be prettied up once we know everything works.
The wheels are 16" Hillman Minx & will be fitted with tall skinny crossply tyres once I've checked they're O.K for the SVA test. They bolt straight onto the hubs here, but unfortunately they're not my hubs! They belong to Richard at Valley Gas & were borrowed just to get the thing rolling. We'll be using modified Triumph Vitesse ones which will allow us to fit disc brakes.
Hoping to get the engine over from my garage early next week & start fitting it.
Getting there slowly!

[tazet]

News hot off the text message. Manky has just texted to say the engine for his Pop is now safely at Marcus's work shop -Woo hoo! Will post more as and when I hear from him of the progress.

[tazet]

Just heard it's kinda in place ish 

[VALLEYSBOY]

[panthershaun]

photo's we need photo's Andy, the minx wheels are 15" mate so don't go buying 16" cross plys for them

[Manky Monkey]

I'll remember -I hope.
I gave the Triumph Vitesse hubs to Chris from Pop Browns on his stall at the Hotrod Drags yesterday. He's going to re-stud them for me to suit the Minx rims, then I can pick them up at the same time as my new radiator in a couple of weeks time.

Right. Piccies.

Gary Hance, a local car recovery/delivery guy & fan of classic Fords, picked up the Rover motor from my lock-up today & ferried it out to Loony's country workshop.
"Deliverhance" 01256-420445 or 07815-114062.

Loony shunted his stock of V Dubs about to make room.

[Manky Monkey]

Transplant patient meets it's new donor heart.
1953 Ford Pop, say hello to 1970s 3 1/2 litre Rover V8 with Borg Warner auto box.