Chip Foose

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Don't like the muffler orientation

Still lacking the muffler support.

Imagine position will be good when that task is finished.

Larry

Personally I like straight exhaust tips and the ones they had had the angled tips. Just made me think that the mufflers wouldn't have the proper angle. Guess I won't know until he is done

I do like the majority of his stuff.

It looks like Chip Foose will be using 15" wheels/tires on his Pantera. If you look at the attached photo, the tires in question are Pirelli P7 Corsa Classics. I assume he'd use 235/45-VR15 in the front but the tires in the photo, which must be the rears, are 305/35-VR15. Seems a bit short to me.

Pirelli makes the P7 Corsa Classic in a 315/40-VR16, which would work for people who wanted to run their OEM wheels on the front and 16" Campi replicas at the rear.

The detailing under the ZF looks better than new.

Interesting that he appears to be rear-mounting the transaxle. I wonder if he knows the risks involved with that?

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Originally posted by ktmike:
Interesting that he appears to be rear-mounting the transaxle. I wonder if he knows the risks involved with that?

I am not sure I understand. Please explain, Thanks.

He should probably flip the drive shafts around for more exhaust clearance.

I think he's talking about the early style ZF mount on the back side of the transaxle.
Simon

Chip probably wouldn't know that there was a later ZF side-mount. His car is a very early car that came with the rear mount only.

Early cars including my 1464 had rear mounted ZF's only instead of the later side mounts.
These cars tended to snap the studs off of the rear of the ZF with heavy acceleration, which is how my car arrived.
The ZF is easily converted to side mounts with kits from Hall, IPSCO, etc. which is a much sturdier mount, and doesn't sacrifice the rear studs on the ZF.
Somebody should tell Chip the first time he gets on the gas really hard he risks snapping the rear studs on the ZF with a rear mount.

Mike

Thanks,
I knew there were rear and side mounted ZF's but was not aware of why they changed to side mount.
Thanks for the shedding some light on this.
Jay

More evidence of the wealth of information in here....

I've got an early build so I'll double check that while its still in "bits" in relative terms and see about side mounting mine as well.

This is what you need:
http://www.ipsco.org/Pantera%2.../sidemountsblack.htm

Or this:
http://hallpantera.com/cgi-bin...ntera-inc&item=22099

Mike

I have the IPSCO sidemounts. Very nice.

Hey Mike and thanks! Running the risk of hijacking this thread though is it possible to have both side and rear mounts? I had a look at mine this morning in the workshop and it's got the rear mount still there but also had a side mount that looked a lot like the Hall Pantera kit as well? I'll have to get a photo up on the build thread I've got going on 1424 and get it checked.

M.

Here it is.


Ron

Very nice. He still needs to paint the rockers black !! :-).

Also an interesting interpretation of the Wheels. Single slot-like center with Gr4-like outer.

Wow, that's beautiful!
I agree Push, the rockers should be black or at least match the wheel color ;-)

I like it just the way it is. Only modest changes. I'd like to see interior/engine bay pics. I'm betting they are mostly stock.

I like it, which surprises me, including the wheels but to me the obvious is it needs black highlighting like black out the chrome and yes on the black rockers.

In other words, it isn't finished yet I don't think?