T5-4116 are back in stock!

Back in stock and ready to ship.  Sorry for the delay and thank you for your patience.

'36 update

Some progress has been made on the '36 over the last several weeks.  The passenger side door is mostly roughed in and all of the rust, bondo and lead is all gone.  The driver's side door has also been started only to realize what I originally thought was going to be the easy side was in reality not much better than the previous one...

It appeared that there have been several attempts at repairing this door over the years.  The door didn't really have the correct shape nor did it fit all to well.  However, once I cut away all of the previous repairs, it relieved itself of the internal stresses and laid like it was suppose to.  It is interesting to note that the patch panels must be made of a much softer material that the door skin itself as I have to spend more time straightening them out than I do with the original material.

Oh boy.....on to the driver's side...

master cylinder lid....

A while back ago, I did some work for a close friend.  He wanted an finned aluminum cover for his Wilwood master cylinder.  The original post can be found here.





Once he was satisfied, I eventually machined it out of aluminum and sent it back to him.

Well, he finally had a chance to polish it and install. Lookin' good!

'36 3 window project begins....undoing years of pervious sin....

So initially, this car didn't look too terrible.  Sure there were no floors and we knew that there was some bondo in the doors but....

I always like to start with the most difficult part first...in this case, it was the passenger side door.  There was a large bulge at the lower rear, which initially was thought to be bondo, and extensive use of flashing on the inside.

Once the the lower section was cut off, it appeared that the skin had been dented and "repaired" sometime ago.  There was quite a bit of lead and a spot where it was punctured and ripped.  The bulge wasn't from filler but from the repair and the lower frame being tweaked.  Once everything was cut away, the skin relaxed and fit the curvature of the repair panel perfectly.

'56 Ford Fender repair....

Had a customer drop off a very solid '53 ford fender to get straightened.  As usual on previous "repaired" body panels, there was copious amounts of bondo...

It looked like someone ran into the front of the fender and then caught the rear lip and bent it in...

The metal was fairly stretched from the previous attempt to straighten with what appeared to be a sledged hammer....

Ahh yes, the fix-all....

Ready for some primer.  The customer wanted to save the "patina", so he'll have to fog in some spots but overall, it is definitely better than when it showed up.

It's starting to get real....

Parts have started to show up for the 2JZ transplant in the Volvo....

New adapters....

T5-4954F

I have had some requests over the last several months to come up with an adapter for the '94-'96 s-10 T5 that uses the Ford bolt pattern to a '49-'54 passenger bellhousing.  The Ford bolt pattern lends itself particularly well in this application and this adapter provides a great solution for  a much more readily available version of the T5.  Even though they share the same bolt pattern, the S-10 version has a small diameter register on the bearing retainer than that of the Ford Mustang T5, not to mention the shifter locations are different.  However, if needed, we certainly can make one for use with the Ford T5.

T5-9495R

A somewhat unusual request but easy enough to complete was this adapter for a Ford bolt pattern to the V8 Camaro slanted bellhousing.  The customer needed to use the Camaro bellhousing it his particular application due to the location of the slave cylinder but had a '94-'96 S-10 T5 that he wanted to use.  The transmission bolt pattern on the V8 Camaro bellhousings were rotated for space contraints and the '94-'96 S-10 T5's used the Ford pattern.  This adapter could be easily made to use a Mustang T5 if needed.