"Ker-blammo!" I was gonna ask who built the engine...Ferguson, oh man, built by the expert! Here on the East Coast it's San Giavoni! These guys are the Ardun whisperers! You can tell that's one of the new castings by the beefier rocker arms and oiling system, which made the original beasts so delicate! This build is awesome! What beauty! "She's sure fine looking man, she's something else!" Gorgeous car and a motor to die for! Well done and thank you for sharing! Go Gordy and LGKustoms, keep moving forward!

Great show Lee, and as Troy M said, looks awesome and sounds the same. Fantastic job on the Temp sending unit housing install...I am a 77 year old, old school Hot Rodder from Maine, and soooo jealous of folks like you & Shannon, I wanna get my hands dirty, and greasy, and eat a PB&J without washing my hands, one more time :-)......Back-To-Work lol. Keep up the great work, I'm here in Olympia, Washington, and we love the show over here.

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

One of the Hot Rod basics; making things fit! Good job, Lee. Nice looking car.

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

Awesome Job Lee!!! It looks and sounds great! very cool car and a very cool build up.

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Troy!

The orignal superchareged flatheads were on 1937 Ford trucks. For added horsepower.

That ardun sounded good and started right up nice going 👏

Great video, Lee. Thanks for taking us along. Great music on this video. Take care, Rick

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

I like the Pontiac logo on seat back. THe looks so nice.

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Yea, it fit the car when it was still Pontiac powered. Seems a bit odd now. Gordie and I were discussing a new plan for the seat a few days ago.

Hi Lee and Shannon , will that was sure a treat to watch and I had the best seat in the house . Lots of detail and really nice work !

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Best place for the fan sensor is the bottom tank of the rad. If its on the engine side of the thermostat, the coolant in the block coolant will always be hotter and the fan might never turn off. Super cool car.

Yeah Lee! Love it man! Well done! Would have been amazing to hear that first start up in person!

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

It’s so rowdy!

I'm totally impressed! That's a nice build! I think that should make a great t-shirt!

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Great looking car. Nice job on the install.

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

Good work! It looks and sounds cool!

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I agree!

Killer Roadster! Well done Lee!

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Maurice!

..hi Lee....that car is a jewel......shout out to whoever did the paint on it.....looking forward to the test drive.....thanks....

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Me too! I’m not sure who painted it. It was originally built in Bellingham Washington.

This has been the coolest build so far since i started watching your channel

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Haha thanks. I love how stoked you are on this build. Thanks for watching so enthusiastically!

Awesome job. Sounds good 👍

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Great job as usual.

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

A really cool engine design 🤓

Good to see her come back together that is one beautiful hot rod

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Thanks.

Nice video, nice project.👍

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Thanks you!

I had to look up what an Ardun was. Very cool design!

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Pretty high tech stuff back in the 40’s! Still make respectable power even by today’s standards.

@KyleJewell

Жыл бұрын

@@LGKustoms no kidding! I am impressed by it. Very neat engine.

Cool - cool - cool ! Fun stuff !

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Thabks

Working on a blown Ardun....is walking in tall cotton...great show!

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Definitely a career highlight

Can't get enough of Arduns. I have recently finished fitting one to my A roadster here in jolly ole England. Last build was 1954 (proven by the newspapers that the valley gasket was made from). I have since fitted an English Marshall blower with three 97's. Amazing coincidence was dyno figure on mine was 332hp and max 357ft.lbs torque. Keep up the good work LGK

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Wow that’s so great! Was it originally built in England in 1954, or imported recently?

@simonlane1277

Жыл бұрын

@@LGKustoms I built the car itself in the late '70s with a blown flathead. I bought the Ardun as a kit of parts from a friend in 1983. It was originally fitted in a J2X Allard in '49 or '50. I eventually built the motor four years ago and fitted into the roadster as part of a recent overhaul.

Sounds awesome!!!

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Agreed!

Man! it sounds so good.

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

It’s incredible!

That came out so cool👍 and 335 hp holy smokes ! I think the original ARDUN conversions made about 160 to 170 hp about 50 hp over the stock flat head. Those headers came out awesome!

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. I’m excited to take it around the block!

Cool engine & dash

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Yea I’m a fan of the dash too!

Nice car and nice job.

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Very good video

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

neat ride ! never ever heard one run before.

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Me neither!! Definitely doesn’t sound like any flathead I’ve owned!

Pretty cool aright! a proper Hot Rod in my books, cheers from Nanaimo, enjoying the snow? Not!

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Ha! we didn’t actually get snow. A slight skiff Tuesday morning (when this was filmed) but it melted by lunch.

Now that was cool wow very cool love it awesome 🛠️🇨🇦🛠️🇨🇦

Chrome shifter handle should bolt right up if you unbolt the old shift arm. Ardun sounds great - sweet build!

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

The old shifter arm is a thread on style, not bolt on.

Cool duece/ hi boy and good job!!

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

I love the Pontiac gauges!

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Me too! Pontiac tail lights too!

Sounds great. Gordie looks like Smokie Yunick adjusting the carburetor.

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Haha yea he does!

There's two bolts under the white plastic fust above the shifter boll it's mounts in rubber

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. I’ll look in to it!

Wow... Yeah that's it

Beautiful 😍

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

Hello Lee, great content you deliver. Did you know your picture is in the 75 anniversary issue of Hot Rod? That’s too cool. Keep up the good work Merry Christmas

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! I bought a copy a few weeks ago. It’s also in the current issue of Canadian Hot Rods Magazine right now too! Merry Christmas!

You need to get Kool Tool's kit for braded hose , save fingers etc.

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

What’s that? I’ve never heard of it?

Speedway has a mag tac trigger reeds ground pulse little box four wiers for Taylor vortex magneto that was what I used on my mag to a monster taddle tail an shift light worked great she sounds as good as she looks

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

That sounds pretty similar to what I have here

Hey, you have a silver streak Speedometer Cluster. I hadn’t seen that before so I was going to do the same.

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

1950 Silver Streak! It’s a great looking cluster!

Hands down the best Looking 32 I’ve ever seen. And that engine looks beautiful with a blower on top. What year is the engine and who makes Ardun?

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

The engine is an 8BA series Flathead, 1949-54. Arkus Duntov (Ardun) was an engineer who designed the Ardun overhead valve hemi conversion heads for Ford Flatheads. He later went on to work for GM developing the Duntov corvette.

👍👍👍👍👍

8:22 It's just my opinion but that carb return spring looks like "who did it and ran". Some sort of aluminum bracket and shorter spring would look better. 9:03 12 point socket head bolt might work better. You then could use a 12 point 1/4" drive universal socket on a long extension to tighten them up. Did you use one or two thermostats ? Did you drill a vent hole in them ?

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

The return spring was set up that way when Gordie dropped off the engine. Could it be done better? Probably, but that’s not what I was hired to do, and as it is, it does the job. I used one thermostat on each side, 1/8” hole drilled in each one.

@RichieCat4223

Жыл бұрын

@@LGKustoms Thanks for your reply.

Sweet. Need a 90 on the gauge, that’s wonky looking..

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@gordonalberg402

Жыл бұрын

@@LGKustoms We plan on putting a 90 on the gauge so that it points forward. Cheers, Gordon.

Hey is this original body? I think you mentioned something about it some episodes ago but I can't find it

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

It’s a glass body. Not sure the manufacturer.

I wish I had a roadster like that except I would rather have a real flathead, but then I'm 75 so probably don't know any better. My first car had just a flathead six.😥

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

Nothing wrong with a regular Flathead!

As always Lee, great job. This of course is my opinion, and we all know what they say about that. But an Ardun's and BF Goodrich really don't go together. I'm sure I'll get some crap for posting this. Remember just my opinion.

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

I agree 1000%, and it was the first thing I suggested when Gordie brought the car in. But he disagreed with us. 🤷‍♂️

Is that a real ardun or fake ferguson one?

@LGKustoms

10 ай бұрын

The entire engine was built and tuned by Don Ferguson.

What can I say (weetabix, followed by poached eggs on brown toast)

@timferriss905

Жыл бұрын

I carnt help but think how much the music goes with your snoopy and Charlie Brown tattoo. Made me chuckle.

This build is confusing to me...electric fan..allen head bolts and an ardun? Im my experience traditional guys run flatheads, yet this build doesnt say traditional at all...why run a flatty? I love the ardun! I would just have standard screw heada and a mechanical fan and bias ply tires...thats just my speed

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you 100% and if you’re a regular to this channel you’ll see most of the cars I build are very traditional. Especially my Model A Roadster. However, this 32 is not my car, and the choice of hardware, tires, and fans was not up to me. I also would not claim this to be a traditional build at all. It’s a reproduction Ardun, in a fiberglass car, on an aftermarket frame. There isn’t a single original early ford part on this car. I’m not going to let these details stop me from building this car however, because even though the car has some things I would not do to my own car, I’m still very grateful that I am able to pay my rent and buy my groceries this way. Some people change brake pads on Prius’s everyday, or fill out mind numbing TSP reports for Bob at corporate. I get to make my living by putting an Ardun in a 32 roadster.

@tradrodsandcustoms

Жыл бұрын

@@LGKustoms i hear ya, i figured it was the customers ideas...just confusing to me. Like you though my heart is in the traditional realm and i enjoy stepping into time capsules! I dig the channel, been following for a little. Appreciate the content! May even start a channel of my own!

@tradrodsandcustoms

Жыл бұрын

@@LGKustoms btw theyre tps reports for bill lundberg hahahahaha hilarious reference

@LGKustoms

Жыл бұрын

@@tradrodsandcustoms lundburg! Last night replying to you I couldn’t remember his last name to save my life haha. And then I realized nobody would get the reference anyways, so who cares. But you did haha