57 Nomad Project

[kwhizz]

Very good. I'm curious as to how you will find the Glide seat.

I ordered the seat with the 3" shorter seat backs to keep the perspective and seat back height the same............

[minendrews68]

Man, that's a beautiful car!

[wfo guy]

I'm really starting to like this car, also. I want to hear about the trip after the tour.

[1965_SS]

If you keep having problems with that serpentine setup, I would check out the Wegner LSA drive kit.
Car came out awesome!

[kwhizz]

If you keep having problems with that serpentine setup, I would check out the Wegner LSA drive kit.
Car came out awesome!

Yep !!!.........Wish I would have seen that one before I bought the Concept1 $$$$$$$$$$$$$ Set-up...................

[kwhizz]

If you keep having problems with that serpentine setup, I would check out the Wegner LSA drive kit.
Car came out awesome!

Wish I would have seen that one first........Much better design

Ken

[kwhizz]

Dyno pull at Nickey Chicago



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXa36XQL7sU

[wfo guy]

Should we say: they're not done until we run out of ideas?

[kwhizz]

Headers in..........Check





Hinges in and Hood Aligned.......Check...







And since the weather is nice.........Drive it to work......Check




Gonna be interesting to get it back to Nickey Chicago and see what if any power gains were made.........Again.......I should have put the Headers on during the initial install.....

Ken

[andrewb70]

Car looks great Ken! What's the butt dyno telling you?

Andrew

[kwhizz]

Car looks great Ken! What's the butt dyno telling you?

Andrew

Definitely more torque......So.....We will see

[1965_SS]

Looks great!

[Josh@Ridetech]

Very cool!

[minendrews68]

That's one really good looking car. Nice job!

[wfo guy]

Once again, they're not done till they're done. Still waiting for the trip report.

[kwhizz]

So...….The story continues...… The seat was at three different upholstery shops over the last 2 1/2 years trying to get a decent job..... Now.....This is a Glide Engineering seat ordered for a 57 Chevrolet...….The upholstery shops (all except the last one, had a issue with the stupid way that Glide designed the pivot arms for the seat backs...….They are about 4" in from the seat sides...….Normal seats the swing arms are outside the cushion (common sense)…….So.. After throwing away two sets of covers that were terrible... I went back to Dave who did the 37 Ford....So... Dave did a great job on the seat except I would have preferred a more rounded form on the top of the seat backs..... Picked it up today and wanted to get it installed right away as we are taking the Nomad on the Good-Guys Road Tour and she wanted a comfy seat in the car...… Well......I get the old seat out and get the new one in and after getting it bolted in I went to raise the seat backs and guess what...……..The seat back frames are 1" per side too wide ……..Great Job Glide.....Here we go again !!! All I want is to be a person that gets what he wanted and paid for that actually fits and works...… I guess that is asking too much...…….Glide Engineering Sucks !!!!!

[kwhizz]

I called Glide today and explained what happened and they are going to make new seat back frames to suit and all for N/C...…….. Great customer service after the fact.....They could have told me tough luck......Not the case !!!!!!