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Our condolences for our friends at AZ Streetrods

Rod and crew,

This comes as a shock to me. One of my worst fears in operating a business is to lose everything to a fire. Rod is old school Phoenix hot rodding. A national standout and someone I am glad to call a friend. As I understand he did have an insurance policy and they are already setting up plans for rebuilding. Let’s hope the red tape doesn’t entangle them for long.

Cheers my friends!

http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/local/phoenix/street-rods-shop-fire-9-3-2010

http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoenix/neighbors-offer-support-to-business-lost-in-fire

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Product Showcase: 1932 Ford bolt-in K-member legs

The missing link(s) in your stock 1932 Ford frame, these bolt in legs turn your K-member into a full ’33 and up style X-member increasing chassis stiffness greatly. These legs are made from 10 gauge Cold Rolled Steel and formed in our press brake to mimic the look of a factory made part. Drilling holes in your frame is not required. These use the existing transmission mount bolts and the rear fender bolt locations. We have included a third mounting bolt hole location that would fall inside the rear fender if you desire to install it.

Lower bridge piece not included.

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Product Showcase: Early Oldsmobile engine mounts

The first Oldsmobile overhead valve engines are definitely one of the coolest, vintage engines you could put in your hot rod. The availability and variety of accessories makes the early Olds a winner in our book but mounting them can rack the brains of the novice installer. The stock tricycle mount works fine if you have a stock trans, however, if you don’t want to run a Hydro your engine mounting scheme hits a brick wall.

Ross Racing Engines has provided some stellar adapters to mount manual and modern GM transmissions to these engine. We use one of their adapters in the current ’31 Sedan build using a Tremec TKO 500. The loss of the stock Hydro means the loss of the rear engine/transmission mounts. It makes sense to use the mounting pad on the Tremec and mount the engine more conventionally. This was the idea behind the vintage Hurst mounts, we went a slightly different route. CNC cut from 1/4″ steel plate, formed and TIG welded, we picked up the stock engine mounting holes in the timing cover. The mounts are made from Energy Suspension universal polyurethane mounts, we machined the aluminum cups to restrain the bushing and add a bit of class. These will get polished and the mount will be chromed.

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Mount installed

So if you are interested in something like this for your own project, we made a few extra. They are in the E-store in plain or chrome!

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Now in CHROME!