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Simsy

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Simsy last won the day on December 2 2017

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    1948 p15 plymouth

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    retired business owner
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    South Australia
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  1. Hi Andy , i would love to call you and have a chat about a couple of things , as i said i am no expert and although i have a few toys and have had a steering wheel in my hand since i was about 8 years old , im 58 now , i grew up at the coast and had buggys all my life , the first being a cut down t model ford , then progressed to a 1936 plymouth that my brothers built , with a welded up diff , and being shortened 3 foot 6 , it was a beast to drive and i beat the hell out of it for 10 years or so and not once did it ever let me down , even after putting it over a 40 foot razorback sandhill and landing on its rhs at the bottom , it just suffered slightly bent roll bars for the rest of its life , that was once of 2 times i rolled it , and never hurt it , or me for that matter , i also have a shortened vw dune buggy , road regd. that i bought 40 years ago and its still in perfect condition . i have many Plymouth questions going around in circles in my head and would love the chance for a chat on the phone sometime if thats ok with you . The fella that built the engine is known as flathead mike , ( Mike Davidson ) from Victor Harbor S.A. He has a website ....Flatattack ......he is mainly into Ford flathead v8 motors , im sure you would have heard of him , if not look up his website , he creates master pieces , that dont blow up .It cost me an arm and 2 legs , but im a very happy chappy . Kind regards . Simsy.
  2. I stand corrected , crackling rosie IS a bottle of wine ........well u learn something every day .....well i recon its a ripper name anyway , cheers mate , Simsy.
  3. Hi mate , the Plymouth was built here in South Australia in Adelaide . cheers Simsy .
  4. Hi Andy , i wanted to keep the original motor standard as i dont intend to run the hot engine in the car full time , and was advised by a very reputable flathead engine builder that a 230 was a better motor to play with as it has a larger dia bore than the existing motor , so can be taken out to 250 cubes , which it has , i am no expert by far but research i have done , i have found similar recomendations . As for the South Australian rego , it will be regd. with the standard motor in it , then i will swap it over and ....sssshhhhhh. cheers mate .
  5. Hi all , your response has blown me away , thank you to all for your input , a couple of things i forgot to mention were , the motor i have had built already had a fluid drive bolted to it when i bought it . For curiosity i installed it into the Plymouth (miss daisy ) and after a bit if electrical brainstorming , i got it working perfectly . It seemed to change up and down very smoothly and i noticed no loss of power , hence my curiosity as to its strength. The motor in the car is a 25 inch and the tricked up motor is also 25 inch . p.s. , miss daisy gets a name change when i put the new motor in , she will then be called ....Kracklin Rosie ....... i believe Kracklin Rosie was a .....store bought woman ..( a whore ) ...and i think miss daisy is going to be like a whore to handle with her heart transplant . So Kracklin Rosie it will be . Just for intrest , i bought my Plymouth just 2 years ago , it had been in the same family since it was 2 years old , it had been in storage for 48 years when i bought it . In that time it had the motor totally rebuilt , it had never been started from the rebuild , it had a bare metal respray , a new radiator and the seats had been totally restored . All i have done to this car so far is put new white wall tyers on it and give it a polish . It was a true barn find and i pinch myself every day .....I paid $3000 for it ....TRUE.
  6. Hi all , i would like to put a 230 Dodge Kew engine in my beautiful old 1948 Plymouth and couple it up to a fluid drive transmission . My question is , has anyone any ideas how strong the fluid drive tranny is , as i have had a couple of slight mods done to the 230 . eg ....bored to 250 ci fully balanced , full race cam , forged pistons , full race head and twin inlet manifold from you guys over there in EDGY land , electronic twin fuel injection ,electronic dizzy with a lil supercharger bolted on top . The fluid drive would be a perfect solution to an auto 4 speed , but i dont know how strong they are , keeping in mind i dont intend to drag it . Thank you in advance to anyone with any info at all , cheers Simsy .
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