By Frank Colgoni
We're going to dedicate this article,
and digress from the work, to tell you about a few products that
we're using for this project. Specifically, the body, rear brakes
and our radiator.
The Body
While we've shown numerous pictures of our body in the previous
two articles, we didn't speak about it. So, to remedy that...
The body is a Kilbourne Rod Shop '32 roadster body made in, oddly
enough, Kilbourne Illinois.
We got our body from Horton Hot Rod Parts in Milton,
Ontario, Canada and, rather than duplicating the same information
that Horton has provided about the body, we're going to direct you
to their site where you can check it out. There is a link on the
following page that will take you to a features page with additional
photos and text about the body:
http://www.horton.on.ca/Products/prodpages/kilbourne.htm
Obviously, you'll be seeing much more about the body as things
progress.
Rear Brakes
John Edwards at Dream Machines brought our attention
to a very cool rear brake setup that is available from the Ford
Performance Parts catalogue. The kit # is M-2300-G
The kit is described in the Ford Racing Performace Parts
catalogue as follows:
"This rear disc brake kit may be low buck, but it really works!
Kit includes 11" rotors,
calipers, mounting brackets and attaching hardware.
The rotors have the popular 5-hole, 4.5" diameter passenger
car bolt pattern. Caliper mounting brackets fit the popular 8.8"
Truck/9" Late Ford axle housings with 2" x 3.56"
pattern and big 3.15" diameter bearing.
This kit is designed for vehicle installations with a 2.5"
brake gap (housing flange-to-axle
shaft flange)."
This kit features an internal, drum-type parking brake
assembly. These brakes are used on Ford Explorers so they
should definitely do the trick on our hiboy.
We got our kit from Summit Ford in Toronto. They
specialize in Ford Racing Performance Parts. Talk to Dave Brooks. |