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Power is provided by a basically stock one of the nicer touches of this build
8Ba flathead of 1951 vintage. “i would have is the cool dashboard. erik had already
added more speed parts to it but i just purchased some vintage ’38 Ford gauges
wanted to get it done,” says erik. the stock just because he liked the looks of them in
carb proved problematic, so he opted to his other builds. then he had the idea to
shell out for a proper stromborg to feed try and use the actual dash those gauges
the flattie. a bent pushrod necessitated were meant for in his ’29. as it turns out, the
converting to an electric fuel pump, which newer dash was only 1” wider and had the
as a bonus provides greater reliability than same curve as the original
the stock piece, anyway. the electrical one. a little trimming and
system has been converted to from 6 to12 it slid right in.
volts and the distributor hides a Pertronix
ignitor kit. a chevy s-10 t-5 tranny was
adapted to the old engine to make the car
more freeway-friendly.

Believe it or not, those are
not mail-order headers. erick
actually creates these twist-
style headers any time he
builds an open-wheeled
car. he doesn’t use a jig.
instead, he just starts with
the flanges and starts to
add pieces of bent tubing
until he feels he’s done.

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