Today kinda marks the start of the Tudor project. I have just sold my 3 Window Coupe (see www.1933fordcoupe.blogspot.com) and will now reinvest funds into getting the next project underway.
It was pretty hard selling the Coupe, but we needed to free up some cash for our business and if there is a positive to be taken from it, its that I now get to start another project and take into that all the learning's from the Coupe build.
I will build another 1933/34 but this time it will be a Tudor and I'll go for a more modern rod that is dripping with fruit like aircon, powersteer, electric windows, cruise control and a few other goodies I have up my sleeve that I'll cover off in future posts. I'll certainly be doing things a bit different this time around and will take a lot more time to get things right. It will be nice starting from scratch and to not be working around stuff that others have done.
Initially I will be looking at a chassis, an independent front suspension and an engine/trans combo.
First big spend today, the Toyota Quadcam V8. They are all alloy 4 litre engines, fuel injected and will rev out to 6500rpm with a smidge under 300hp. Should be good value, nice and reliable and economical. Certainly more than powerful enough for a glass bodied rod. Whats more, at full noise they sound like a V8 Supercar. Sweeeeeeeeeet! Add to that the fact that the trans is 4 speed with a lock up torque converter and a power/economy selector.
Above are some pics of the actual engine. It is being shipped up from Christchurch via Phil Bradshaw, an engineer in Wellington with a passion for these V8's. He knows these engines inside out and how to get them running just as they were in the $160,000 Lexus it came out of. Phil will wire the engine for plug and play for me and do the cam belt. Should hit my garage in 6 weeks or so.
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