CHORD

[geezerman35]

Thanks to Buck Z, I have had a 1937 Cord 812 front wheel drive engine waiting for me to finish the 40 vert. No directions or clues, so I Googled. Found many pics of beautiful cars but few details of the innards. Found a couple of pics of engines in a museum, and finally a drawing of the front suspension. So I have a vauge idea, now, what some of the parts are, and on how to proceed. Most definitly calls for a scratchbuilt frame, and I will rely on my usual imagineering to come up with a faintly plausable model. Try to keep it a 'clean' build (no beater) and fairly traditional. I would attempt to put it on TRaK, but I've already decided to put a 4 bbl on it.

[tooltas]

a cord hot rod in rod in custom an year or too back they made a skesh of a 40 cord in a high body rod look,

[ddlova]

nothing un-TRaKable about a 4-barrel is there? maybe if it's a Dominator or modern Demon?

i think i've got some instructions from the Monogram kit around here somewhere if you need them.


Dave

[geezerman35]

Thanks, Dave.
Might help, because the way it looks to me, the engine faces the firewall from the transaxle, or else sticks way out in front of the wheel line, which would be unacceptable to my vision of this rod.
Still leery of TRaK. I might want to do something else. I'm fine with just lurking there.

[RodBurNeR]

sounds like a cool project, knowing your crazy style this is going to be interesting!

[tooltas]

turn it back a.. and fin a bug bus to shick it in an chop it that would be sick

[geezerman35]

May 24, 2010 22:10:36 GMT -5 tooltas said:

turn it back a.. and fin a bug bus to shick it in an chop it that would be sick

Can't see building a cool unique engine and then hiding it in a VW.
I've worked on the intake manifold and have it set up for 3 deuces

[geezerman35]

I did a little detailing on the transaxle today, from some reference fotos.
This is too much fun!!! I have to get busy on a frame before I get the engine too fragile to handle.

[moparmarc68]

Cool project and with the 3 deuces setting on top of the motor will be sweet.

[geezerman35]

Sure is an interesting engine. I'm having a hard time keeping my hands off of it and getting to a chassis. :?


Had to detail up the carbs yesterday,



And scratched up some wire looms for the heads today.

[tooltas]

looks lot like a flat head ford

[paraphrenic]

I've actually got one of these CORD kit's coming, to be parted out though, not to build a CORD!

I'm also in the process of trying to track down an affordable 1925 Hanomag Limousine 1/25 scale (A kit out of East Germany from the 1970s)...

Watching your thread has made the thought cross my mind that I may try and adapt this engine for that build! Cool induction on top and everything... Like what you've got going here!

Very curious what it's going in... Keep up the great work!

[moparmarc68]

Looking good Geezer.

[geezerman35]

Ok, making some frame progress now.
Transaxle cradle:



Frame ready for some finessing.



Mock up with body:

[geezerman35]

And yesterday, I cobbled up a rear end.