The Street Rodder's Handbook: Step-by-Step Guide on How To Build a Show-Winning Street Rod

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Item # HP1409  ISBN: 1557884099




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Build Your Own Rod From the Ground Up!

Master rodder and writer Frank Oddo has completely revised and updated his classic best-selling HPBook to include all-new information on how to choose the right street rod and outfit it with the right components. Some of the topics covered include:

• Vintage tin or repro?
• Chassis options
• Engine options
• Auto and manual transmission options
• Suspension and handling
• Independent front suspensions
• The conventional rearend
• Independent rear suspension
• Engine and driveline installation
• Brakes
• Restoring vintage tin
• Fiberglass
• Paint and interior

Should you go with a big- or small-block engine? Fuel injection or carburetion? Automatic or manual transmission? Coil-over or solid axle leaf springs? These and many other questions are answered in 24 detailed chapters with hundreds of photos to help you through all phases of your street rod project. Add this classic best-selling HPBook to your automotive library today.

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Dedication
• From whence we came
• Vintage tin or reproduction?
• Finding and evaluating vitage tin
• Reproduction bodies
• The workshop, tools and equipment
• Tearing down vintage tin
• The street rod chassis
• Street rod engines
• The automatic transmission
• The manual transmission
• Suspension and handling considerations
• The early Ford front suspension
• The steering system
• Independent front suspension
• The street rod rearend
• Independent rear suspensions
• Engine installation
• Driveline installation
• The brake system
• The cooling and exhaust systems
• Restoring vintage tin
• 'Glasswork
• Paint work
• The electrical system
• The interior and cosmetics

About the Author

New Orleans born and bred Frank Oddo has been immersed in all forms of hot rodding for more than five decades. He started reading Hot Rod Magazine in grammar school two years before his dad taught him how to drive. His other book is Street Rodding Tips and Techniques.

The Street Rodder's Handbook: Step-by-Step Guide on How To Build a Show-Winning Street Rod