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Russ Jackson
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 24/04/2025 : 09:57:05
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this may have already been posted at sometime but for those that haven't seen it, it's quite interesting....although I'm not sure this is a good thing or not to do to a little J2 but it's certainly different......and before you ask....No I wont be puttng a V8 in mine......LOL.....check the link below
https://lainefamily.com/FlatheadJ2.html
(I may not be a clever man but I know someone who is) |
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JMH
United Kingdom
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Posted - 24/04/2025 : 11:58:29
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Once when my Dad was competing at Prescott with his J2 in the 50s, a spectator approached him to say that he also had a J2 & that it would do "more than 90". With the optimism of youth, he thought maybe the chap actually had a J4 & didn't know it (so he might be able to get a bargain..). Taking a quick look in the car park during lunch break, he found the car - a J2, not J4, but also fitted with a V8, still on 8" brakes as well!
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coracle
United Kingdom
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Posted - 24/04/2025 : 12:57:39
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I have seen the story before, some time ago now but still found it interesting to read again. One quote from it:
"I was almost done and on schedule until I ran into a glitch on the rear spring perches..., where the spring slide through the slot.
As I removed the last one, the end of the frame snapped off. You don't just run down to Lowes to buy a big die for rethreading either, they are left-hand British pipe threads on both sides. I can't imagine what they were thinking to use left-hand pipe-threads."
Is answered in the previous post:
https://www.triple-mregister.org/forums/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=20897
They were L/H thread as when combined with the R/H threads of the oiling union an effective lock was achieved. They were pretty nifty in those days.
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Richard Hardy
United Kingdom
2235 Posts |
Posted - 24/04/2025 : 23:22:38
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It is in my view damn right irresponsible what has been done here.
Apart from wrecking what formed the basis of a good mmm restoration project, the car was simply not designed for an engine of that size.
Why not just build a hotrod on a more appropriate platform. Good engineering but a rather tacky and ill-thoughtout concept in my opinion and with lots of horrendously tacky ‘replica’ parts
Rich
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coracle
United Kingdom
2214 Posts |
Posted - 25/04/2025 : 13:28:57
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Rich,
In his defence one notes from his "Retrospective."
"This car presented a dilemma for me, as I mentioned in the beginning. After all, this old J2 is quite rare, so I thought long and hard about what direction to go. But I think I made the right decision for me. The car was too far gone, in my opinion to cost-effectively try to bring it back to perfectly stock - too many missing pieces and bad earlier modifications. So I've restored and re-used every original part I could, adapting or making other parts for the rest, but in a fashion as was done back in the thirties, to keep the car period correct for the most part. So, while I've had the car, I've restored the body, chrome and chassis to near stock configuration. When parts were missing, I referred to the J2 Compendium to find out what would be correct. With the bonnet closed, few people in this world would look at it and realize that it's not in it's original configuration. And I've done it so that in the future, someone could bolt back in an original drive-train and interior pieces if they wished, and be way ahead of the game from where I started."
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Westbury
United Kingdom
2214 Posts |
Posted - 25/04/2025 : 14:17:10
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Always remember that a future owner could decide to return the car to original format. Nothing is impossible!
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