Keeping the Speedster engine cool

While we were waiting on the engine to come back, we sent out our radiator to be flushed and pressure checked. Because of environmental regulations regarding the chemicals used to acid-dip, a majority of radiator shops can only boil and flush brass radiators today, even the coil cleaner we used to use is taboo these […]

Hemmings Speedster plumbing

Once we completed the changeover on the front brakes, we felt the pretty steel braided brake lines that were installed throughout the Speedster were not large enough to accommodate the other changes we made to the brake system. The F-1 wheel cylinders were plumbed for 7/16-20 thread, as the originals were but the steel-braided lines […]

Hemmings Speedster progressing along

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 […]