Should be placing the order today, if I can get back to my measuring tape before 3:45PM, West coast time. That said, if you need good advice, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Travis Currie Enterprises. I'll think twice before narrowing a rear end again, as it's another one of those expenses that adds up in a hurry. Measure twice, cut once has never made more sense. After thinking I had all my measurements done, Travis alerted me to the fact that the large bearing rear has a new and old sizing and since I couldn't identify the exact year of the Bronco rear end I am using, I needed to measure the existing bearings just to be safe. So I'm going to have custom Currie axles pre-cut for my rear. It didn't take long to figure out that I couldn't use the new 9-plus cut-to-fit axle shafts I'd been reading about read about in Rod & Custom and Street Rodder magazines since they aren't available in the same 5 x5.5" bolt pattern size that my vintage Torq Thrusts were purchased in (by me, hind sight being 20-20). So I called Currie and spoke with Travis in sales. But seeing as we're really going for it on the roadster, it's the only right thing to do in order to nail the proportions. Let's just say it ain't a poor man's sport. Yeeee-ouch! Have you ever narrowed a rear end and needed to get shortened axles as a result? Welcome to my world. BTW, I was most happy to get a referrral from Travis, so high marks to Currie for being helpful, even thought they won't be seeing any money form me. I'm going to pitch myself off a roof if these don't fit perfectly. The axles got a little more expensive they're made in the USA and I've been told they'll be perfect. So it turns out I have a 70's old style big bearing, 31-spline, 9" with a Detroit Locker carrier from a Bronco, which is what the seller had told me. He even called me back today to get one more measurement. I dealt with a guy named Ray who asked for numerous measurements and once he had them, let me know that it would be no problem and that he just wanted to make sure he had every measurement necessary so that the axles would be perfect. Obviously, that ain't gonna fly on an open wheeled roadster.įortunately, Travis was nice enough to redirect me to Graffiti Alley in Eugene, Oregon. According to Travis, Currie could build them but they'd push the drums out an extras 3/4". It turns out that Currie cannot build me the shortened axle shafts for my 9" because its flanges have a very narrow (1.5"from the flange to the backing plates). I'll also need a new 9" carrier unit for my 9". Other parts I'll need to source are: a 4" drop axle, radiator, dash, wiring harness, hinges for the trunk lid, and some kind of latch mechanism, a magneto, a finned aluminum timing chain cover, steering column, seat belts, a headlight bar and tail lights, headers/pipes/baffles. I'm in the process of trying to find out more about this set-up. It appears to be an extremely chopped stock A with the swivel still intact. The white roadster above is somewhere in Japan and belongs to one of his buds. Tano T Roadster's Facebook provided the inspiration. I've been thinking a lot about the winshield and found a great reference shot of what I want to do.
I'm simply going to start procuring the parts I still need in hopes of collecting up all my parts now and putting it all together in the summer or next year.
The businesses are going good and we're going to ring in 2011 by cranking the 29A project back up. With the start of a new year in a new city, we're getting settled in nicely.
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