Boost This
Pirate Jack Hot Rod & Restoration has added the BCK5005 Original Look Booster conversion kit to its product line. You now have the ability for a factory look without sacrificing reliability by using remanufactured parts. These kits are made using brand-new, officially licensed GM restoration parts, giving your Chevy a factory-fresh OEM look.
Kit includes 11-inch Delco-Moraine booster; master cylinder, which has casting numbers, bleeder fittings, and dual reservoir just like the original; distribution block; proportioning valve; and four-piece brake line kit for multiple configurations.
Pirate Jack
(888) 601-4455 (Tammie)
Your Move
Chess-designed dress-up knobs are available to fit 3/16-inch and 1/4-inch shafts and 10-32 thread. This design is available from Watson's StreetWorks. The knobs are available with Watson's extensive line of Neat Nob Latch release kits.
Watson's StreetWorks
(860) 859.0513
www.watsons-streetworks.com
Classy And Classic Look
PML has sand-cast aluminum valve covers (made in the United States) with vintage Corvette script and fins for small-block Chevrolet engines. These covers will fit perimeter mount, pre-'86 heads.
A location on the intake manifold side can optionally be machined for PCV or breather holes. Sand-cast aluminum construction adds thick walls for strength and thick gasket flanges for a secure seal. A mid-height design clears most roller-rockers. These covers also feature cast-in baffles.
These valve covers are available in as-cast, black, or Chevrolet Orange powdercoated and polished finishes. The script and seven fins are cast in to the cover and are shaved when a powdercoat finish is selected.
PML, Inc.
(310) 671-4345
www.yourcovers.com
'Rail Job
Aside from a solid floorpan, the subrails serve as the mounting point for the lower door posts, rocker panels, and other bracing. Steve's Auto Restorations offers exact replica subrails for your '33-34 coupe, roadster, cabriolet, or sedan. Die stamped from heavy 16-gauge steel, electroplating ensures a rust-free foundation.
S.A.R. also offers the subrails assembled in their floor assembly package providing a rust-free foundation.
Steve's Auto Restorations
(503) 665-2222
www.stevesautorestorations.com
Tight Fit
American-made "Tight Tubes" (limited lifetime warranty) street rod headers from Hedman Hedders have a patented collector design that tucks in tight against the engine block, providing more clearance during custom engine installs. Ideal for narrow framerails or any tight application where the use of ordinary block hugger headers is impossible, the Tight Tubes collector produces as much power as a standard header collector and builders have more design flexibility without sacrificing performance.
Available for big-block and small-block Chevy (including D ports) and Mopar engines. Each model uses 4-into-1 collector and available with or without Hedman's durable HTC Ceramic-metallic coating.
Hedman Performance Group
(562) 921-0404
www.hedmanperformancegroup.com
Don't Choke, Ok A Little
Stromberg announces the new genuine Stromberg 97 carburetor, available with a cable choke kit ($49.95, PN 9552K-C) pre-fitted at the factory.
The Stromberg 97 cable choke conversion kit has been available, but now you can have the genuine Stromberg 97 pre-fitted from the factory with cable choke kit. It is an exact reproduction of the original Stromberg parts as fitted to the latest model 97s.
The kit comprises of a special choke lever with a cable clamp swivel in place of the standard ball-end fitting. The lever is riveted to the standard 97 throttle kicker bar, which "kicks" the throttle open whenever the choke plate is pulled shut. The kit also includes a new throttle idle adjusting screw and spring, plus a separate hold-off bracket, which holds the choke cable covering and keeps the cable in perfect alignment with the choke lever to ensure smooth operation. All parts are stainless steel.
The main advantage of buying the carburetor with the kit installed (apart from the cost savings) is that fitting the aftermarket kit requires removing and replacing the kicker end throttle bushing, as the Stromberg 97 kicker bar is clamped under this bushing.
Stromberg
Email: sales@stromberg-97.com
www.stromberg-97.com
Vented
Vintique Inc. offers their reproduction cowl vent screens ($50) for '32 Ford passenger cars and '32-34 Ford pickup trucks. Ford never manufactured a vent screen to keep out the road debris and bugs that occasionally get through.
Vintique Inc. offers a vent screen patterned after a vintage accessory part. It clips in and sets with a 1/4-inch bolt.
Vintique Inc.
(714) 634-1932
Smooth Ride
The Total Cost Involved Engineering's `37-54 Chevy Truck four-link suspension kit features 1-inch bars, 3/4-inch stainless adjusters, urethane bushings, axle housing brackets, bolt-on frame brackets, crossmember, coilover shocks, track bar, and hardware. Air spring, plain, chrome, or polished/stainless options are available.
Total Cost
Involved Engineering
(866) 925-1102
www.totalcostinvolved.com
Bucket Project
Speedway Motors now has an all-new lineup of fun, affordable T-bucket street rod kits. Each Speedway Motors T-bucket kit is designed for simple, straightforward construction using basic hand tools. Kits are available as chassis assemblies or body-and-chassis packages with one of Speedway's fiberglass bodies. The frames are built from 1 1/2x3-inch rectangular steel tubing and use spring-behind-leaf front suspensions with Super Glide springs and 4-inch dropped tube axles, Vega steering boxes, and cross-style steering. Rodders have their choice of '37-48 Ford or '49-54 Chevy-style spindles, and plain or chrome suspension components. Optional rear axle housings are available with suspension brackets pre-installed, making it possible for you to assemble a complete rolling chassis without doing any welding.
Speedway's four T-bucket kits include three different '23-style T-buckets and one '27 T roadster option.
Speedway Motors
(800) 979-0122
www.speedwaymotors.com
Now That's Quick
Winters Performance Products offers a steel tube and bell V-8 quick-change (PN SR2220STB) that fits big-bearing flanged axles while Torino big bearing (PN SR2550STB) fits big-bearing flanged axles. Both are built to your specs. Their steel tube and bell quick-change includes a 3.78 ring-and-pinion, wedgelock differential, inner tube seals, and one set of straight cut, six-spline gears of your choice. Prices start at $2,800.
There are other options available, like polished casting, helical gear set, closed drive 10-spline, and flanged axle set.
Winters Performance
Products
(717) 764-9844
www.wintersperformance.com
World Apart
World Products' offers its Motown II, a cast-iron engine block that is also available with bolt patterns for LS cylinder heads and the taller LS deck height.
Among the host of new features included are a new priority-mains oiling system for better lubrication of main bearings, cam bearings, and valve lifters. To eliminate potential camshaft oiling troubles that occur under high valvespring loads, the camshaft oiling holes were moved from the regular 6 o'clock position to 5 o'clock. A new water jacket was established around the camshaft tunnel. This block can be poured as a regular small-block Chevrolet with a deck height of 9.025 inches, which accepts the small-block cylinder heads or, alternatively, with the LS deck height of 9.240 inches, which accepts the LS cylinder heads.
Weighing approximately 190 pounds-about 75 pounds less than GM's LSX iron block and with enlarged water jackets for maximum cooling, this Motown II is a unique and practical hybrid.
World Products
(631) 981-1918
www.worldcastings.com