Hemmings Speedster front brake changeover

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While we had the engine out being rebuilt this winter, we also decided to change the original front brake set-up to a more modern self-energizing style.
Thanks to some information from an old American Rodder article we found online at the Flathead V8 website www.flatheadv8.org we decided to go with 1948-’52 F1 pickup front brakes. Most […]

Hemmings Speedster progressing along

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There has been quite a lot of progress on our Speedster project in the last few weeks. Despite a few setbacks, we expect the engine to go on the dyno shortly. These shots were taken at Allied Auto’s machine shop last week.
The engine was in pretty tired shape. When we pulled the heads, we found the […]