Lee hello. The front carb fuel line might pick up heat from the adjacent heater hose and cause a vapor lock situation there? Until you redo the radiator hose you might consider taking a piece of 5/16" fuel hose slitting it and using it as an insulator from the radiator hose. If needed you can ty-rap it to keep it in position. Always enjoy watching you do your thing! Bob
Lee the car show looked like a lot of fun sometimes you just have do what it takes to get there all your cars are spot on in my book keep enjoying them Mike
Love the Thickstun HI-Rise! Travis from RAC Garage runs one. Looks awesome, runs well, and one less carb to fiddle with! I just missed out on scoring one from Iron Trap. Got a Sharp 3x2 instead. String throttle...definitely hot rodder ingenuity! Go LGKustoms, keep moving forward!
Lee that little car is perfection. Thanks for taking us to the car show. Good to see you and family and friends enjoying a day off including Doris. It’s Duce Day tomorrow at the British heritage centre, so I’ll be up early. It’s a little hard when you work nights and try to change your body clock for the weekend. Take care all. And best wishes. Tim.
I bet your boy liked that train .I would have to pry mine off it !Glad your all doing well.And the car is awesome!Some day i want to build a flat head hot rod. Till then i will live through your cars.
Hi Lee, you might want to get a bender that doesn't flatten the fuel line and redo the fuel lines. This will give better fuel flow which may prove to be important for power.
Trick I learned is to put a piece of weed whip line in the tube do your bend and remove the line. No kinks no pinches perfect everytime on a super tight bend.
You could put a hand throttle ring behind the steering wheel , a v8 super car driver hear in aus got caught using one as a lanch control and got a slap on the wrists for it.
I don't get your thinking. Your last set of carbs had filters, and these are open. Great way to get stray objects into your engine. Incidentally your last carbs were probably fine if you knew how to set them up properly. it might be a good idea to learn.
I’ve been driving my hotrod for years with scoops on the carbs. Never had a problem. No filters. Just frogs mouth scoops. Open side towards cowl. Also, lee isn’t the only guy running no filters or screens. Many many guys don’t. 🙄🙄
It seems to be running really nice the way it is. I put genuine Stromberg rebuild kits in a few years back and set the floats at the same time. Could it use fresh kits? I dunno? Like I said, I thought it was running quite nice haha.
Are those little two barrel carburetors like you got on that car any good I have a 1955 Ford that has a 272 V8 in it that has one of those carburetors on it everyone tells me to take it off and change the intake and put the bigger two barrel on it would appreciate any information on it thank you
I've been enjoying your channel lately, without concerns or reservations. While I do enjoy your content, this latest video makes me worry about your apparent lack of safety consciousness. String throttle linkage? Fuel filter under the dash? Rubber fuel lines under the dash? Solid copper hard lines on your tri-power? Personally, I would rather have missed the car show than have driven the car like that. You do you, Lee, but "Safety First", brother....
Yup. And I didn’t even die. String throttle linkage, I can see why this could cause concern, however if you look at any cable linkage such as a Lokar for example, it’s the exact same theory, only the string is not as durable. The two worst case scenarios here is the string snaps, in which case I coast to the side of the road, or it sticks (which any linkage can do) and I just hit the kill switch and coast to the side of the road. The steel fuel filter is under the dash because this is a stock fuel tank and it gravity feeds from under the dash. The rubber fuel lines are gasoline rated and there is less than 6” of rubber which complies to NHRA tech. Along with that, you always need some sort of rubber in the system for flex. Aside from that, the fuel line location is probably the best spot for safety, as if it starts leaking, I will notice it immediately. The copper lines on the tri-power were replaced, so that’s redundant. They were also on this car for 13 years without ever having a leak or problem. And the last point I’d like to make. This is a hot rod, not a Volvo.
