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Old 10-12-2020, 01:38 PM   #12
PeteVS
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Default Re: Tradel Bishop AV8 question on a 30 -31 body

What's the length of your '40 torque tube? I'm putting together a '29 with a SBC. Temporarily, I'm using an A rear. (I have a '40 rear waiting in my trailer.) According to my measurements, a '32 and an A both have the same distance between the bell mouth on the torque tube to the centerline of the front crossmember. So, I set up my motor mounts based on the A rear / '39 trans / Offenhauser adapter. To clear the crank pulley, I grafted in the rear flange of a donor crossmember to get that space. For the heads and distributor, I'm cutting out pieces of the firewall and welding in little boxes and a half of a 6" fire extinguisher. I didn't want to loose too much floor room by doing a drastic recessed firewall.
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