AFX Help

[805moparkid]

hello racers, i am an 18 year old mopar fanatic that is curently atending WyoTech Sacramento. i have a 1965 Plymouth Bevedere HDT that originaly was a slant car... and has a 505 stroker waiting to be dropped in... but anyways
i am curently in Chassis fabrication and after some discusion with the teachers we want to AFX the car. i am trying to track down a straight axle and have some questions.

Like do i use the A-100 steering box or the stock car box?

any info would be a great help!

thx ed

 

[HOTMOPR]

Why not just relocate the K member forward? Thats the way its done now days..

 

[805moparkid]

i thought about doing that but i like the sraight axle look better

 

[glassman]

Such a good project. I wonder if this car was ever completed? Anyone?

 

[Mike Gaines]

When I built my funny car in 1966 I used a CAE tube axle with 40 Ford spindles and leaf springs. I did not use the clunky I-beam straight axle which I think looks terrible

 

[Budnicks]

Try Speedway Motors IIRC they have a couple straight axle to chose from...

https://www.speedwaymotors.com/Search?query=Straight+axle

go down that page about 1/4 or 1/2 of the way

they ain't cheap, $849.99 one brake, you could adapt 2 brakes
IIRC you can piece meal, that axle too, just need to do a search

you could buy ends for the spindles
weld them to a tube for your specific width,
they have different sizes for different type of spindles too

Just weld on the proper perches at the proper angles
lay back the caster a little so it will track nice
use a mono leaf {they probably sell too} & hangers to mount it, after its done

good luck youngster,
{I'm about 100-120 or so miles east of Sacramento}

You could check out http://www.racingjunk.com too
a few nostalgia guys there may sell it too...

 

[glassman]

Well guys if you look at the date he posted this conversation it was in 2009 and I hope the Wyotech project is over by now. just curious on how the project came out . Thanks for your input though. A lot of guys around here are using the Speedway axles and the company that Mike Ganes used on his car probably went out of business 40-50 years ago. A lot of guys are running Ron Pope axles brakes and springs on their gassers. Thanks Budnicks for the good pictures. You two guys are the greatest.

 

[Mike Gaines]

Well guys if you look at the date he posted this conversation it was in 2009 and I hope the Wyotech project is over by now. just curious on how the project came out . Thanks for your input though. A lot of guys around here are using the Speedway axles and the company that Mike Ganes used on his car probably went out of business 40-50 years ago. A lot of guys are running Ron Pope axles brakes and springs on their gassers. Thanks Budnicks for the good pictures. You two guys are the greatest.

Yea, I bought my straight axle from CAE in 1966. I had it setup for 1940 Ford spindles.
I went out to the local junk yard and found about 4 or 5 1940 Fords. The owner just cut off the ends with the spindles intact. (back then there were actually 1940 Fords in the junk yard.
I took the 2 end back to my shop. Heated them up and pounded out the kingpins. I then installed the spindles on my CAE axle.
I used the American Racing 12 spoke Magnesium spindle mount front wheels (that were popular on Altereds) with no brakes...lightweight setup and that setup became fairly popular on a lot of funny cars during that era.

 

[glassman]

That was a hot set up back then and believe it or not , today too.