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Re: Success with improvements for touring I personally strive for a completely authentic Model A but if someone wants to modify to suit their needs they would still be welcome in our local chapter and get along just fine:)
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Re: Success with improvements for touring Great post tbird.....great ideas indeed. Its a shame people are so defensive.
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Re: Success with improvements for touring I like all A's. The woodie is being slowly restored back to all original from a touring car, since its not a great touring car....too uncomfortable. My Slant, OTOH, is for touring and has E ignition, HC head, counterweighted crank, Stipes 330 cam, overdrive, Winfield carb and manifold and cast iron drums with Teds floaters on the mechanical brakes. Its a great touring car. My AA will be stock to the JS, and my infidel pickup has the dreaded and blasphemous pinto in it.
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Re: Success with improvements for touring "Tube shocks are a cheaper fix than a properly working original shock, but definitely not better. You can't tune the ride quality on a tube shock. You can on an original shock."
I almost always agree with what Brent has to say but that statement must have come from a weak moment because I know he is an ex racer. One thing for sure though, most of the kits are cheaper. I haven't seen one yet that is worth using though. They have taken an existing shock that fits the space available MECHANICALLY and adapted it with little if any consideration given to compression rebound rates suitable for a model A. HOWEVER, tube shocks that are readily available and adaptable to model A's are easily located used on Ebay or many racing websites. These are for sprint cars or midgets. Some are adjustable, all are available in increments of compression and rebound that can be adapted to almost any car that was ever made. Usually a sprint car shock that has been "used up" on the track can be used on the street for at least 20,000 miles of good service. I have done this many times. The ride can be "tuned" to almost anybody's requirements. One big problem here is, most people don't know what is "good" because they haven't tried different compression/rebound rates. The mounting hardware for the model A shock kits that I have seen looks to me like it was designed by a bunch of (expletive deleted). Brent is right on one count, the stock shock is easier to "tune". They sure don't work as good as a race shock though. I have stock shocks on one car and race shocks on another right now so I have tried both. The PROPER tube shocks are FAR superior. |
Re: Success with improvements for touring I have been thinking of some modifications for "touring" that would be nice---a fuel injection/ignition intergrated with knock and mixture control,auto trans, 4 wheel independant suspension with 4 wheel disc brakes, power steering, integrated ac,heat automatic climate control, power heated seat with memory---so if I use the A engine and grille with a motormeter will it still be a model A if some of the other parts come from other cars??
Can a properly restored "blue ribbon" car tour with touring modified cars ---or will they have trouble keeping up? |
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Re: Success with improvements for touring Just a quick comment about the shocks....
It seems that finding rebuildable OEM Houdaille units is getting more and more difficult, and not always a guaranteed success, and Mr. Stipe may not resume production of his shocks, due to his move and down-sizing... So, while tube shocks may not be "as good as" properly functioning Houdailles, perhaps they are better than no shocks at all ? :confused: |
Re: Success with improvements for touring When touring the problem we have in both clubs I belong to is that a lot of folks have OD and a lot do not therefore on a tour the OD folks want to run 55 mph and those with out OD want to run 40 to 45 mph.
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Well, that'd be pointless. Everybody knows that Model A's have blackwalls, just like Chili has beans... ;) |
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Now, maybe we can convert kidney beans into a Model A fuel, and put corn back on the table.:D:p |
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BLASPHEMY! Everybody knows that chili without beans is merely meat sauce... :D |
Re: Success with improvements for touring Ity funny you compare chili and Model A's....there's about as many ways to cook chili as there are people making it...just like everybody's idea of a Model A might be different.
Bowls of chili and Model A's...there are no bad ones, but some are better than the others.:D |
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That's exactly why I made that comparison. ;) Now, if we could just do something about those delusional people running around thinking their meat sauce is actually chili... :rolleyes: :D |
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You can make your chili anyway you want. You don't have to add anything specific to make it better but you can experiment. If you want to enter a chili cook off you have to follow their rules, different rules for different cook-offs. The international chili society has no beans, but a local one may allow it. The most important person to please is the person making the chili.;) |
Re: Success with improvements for touring I also have made some changes to my 30 coupe , Just dropped in a T-5. I have 16 inch tires . the rest of the coupe is original. It's easier on the car and me . And in todays traffic It's a lot safer. Sure is nice to down shift here in these West Virginia mountains instead of riding the brakes. But on the other hand to each his own. And one other thing , better gas mileage, and at todays gas prices that's a real plus. :D
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Re: Success with improvements for touring I was thinking someone needs to make a planet gear system (overdrive) that would fit inside the bell housing. That way the car would look stock, and the speedometer would always be accurate.
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