Doug and Glen, no problem with clearances. I've heard that a few times. The design mimics the truck mount and is actually a little larger than it needs to be. 

Larry, those are just off the shelf Speedway truck headers. We will be making a few tweaks to them though. Lengthening the collectors by 3 inches or so and possibly raising them up right after they come out of the head. That part is more for looks than anything. Was Justin's idea. His shop is doing all the work on it. 

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Good eye Doug, I had though that myself, but figured they had a plan.

Glen Henderson



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Lance, It's got to make you feel good seeing it setting on a set of wheels. Fronts look good. What make of header are you using ? I got mine from Speedway but just purchased another set on e-bay that I'm going to try.

Larry Short

First class work and looks great.  But if you have not done so you might just set a harmonic damper in place to be sure it clears the front motor mount.  From the pics it looks like there might be interference.

Doug T

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Larry, if you go to the beginning of this thread you can read all about the motor. Tim McMaster is building it. The rods did change to Mummert rods from what was posted back then. 12:1 motor will be fun. The engine is only as far as whats listed. I'll be posting up the final assembly images pretty soon. He's going to get back on it. Its been on pause for a while while I sorted out a bunch of things. Nothing to do with Tim. Tim's also building an engine for my '62 Slick I just picked up. See the thread in the regular car/truck section for that info. 

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Look'n Good Lance, Can't wait to see it finished. Do you already have a motor built for it or is that next ?

Larry Short

MAJOR UPDATE:From Justin at JG Fabrication & Design on the Monster build.
So here's a finished install of our shackles. Then a reference picture of rounding our tube overlays on the motor plate. We used heat, then the persuader aka a hammer, rolling them over the tube, tack l, weld, repeat. Once cooled we installed bushings in the motor mount then bolted up our tabs. Our tabs helped center the motor in the chassis, then just had to position it front to rear and centered our rear tail shaft verifying the motor square and level in the chassis.



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Update from JG Design & Fabrication​ on the Monster build. 

"After laying our spring fixed position, cycling the suspension, and determining our shackle mounts while giving us 45* degree shackle mount. We used a hole saw to drill the frame at 1.5" hole, then cleaned the holes up to make sure they were straight and level side to side. To verify our side to side trueness we run our bushing sleeves in the frame with a 1.25 OD tube through the frame / sleeves. Once leveled and squared, we tacked each side inside and out, then welded it out. We then ground our welds out, installed bushings after greasing with wheel bearing grease. Then a simple shackle install and there we have it."





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Towel City tires are what I have on my Gasser too ! You can't beat their price.

Larry