1956 Ford F100 - Totally Tubular

Rob installed the engine mount.

Accordingly, the Chevy tubular engine-mount bolts will fit in these two receptacles on the No Limit Engineering custom tubular chassis.

Before fitting the engine and trans into the chassis, the BeBop's Glass Works '56 F-100 fiberglass cab floor had to be cut to allow room for the Tremec T56 six-speed manual transmission.

To hold the rear of the Tremec transmission, No Limit Engineering designed and fabricated a four-point tubular trans bridge. Fantastic!

After lowering the Tremec T56 into position, the four sleeves in the No Limit tubular chassis reveal where the trans bridge is bolted into place.

Using the header gaskets as a guide, Rob programmed the shape of the header flanges in the Flowjet. He cut two .090-inch-thick aluminum test pieces (one shown), before cutting the two 3/8-inch-thick steel flanges. The aluminum pieces took 1 minute to cut and drill in the Flowjet-18 minutes for the 3/8-inch-thick steel flanges.

After creating the header flanges, eight tubes need to be made, which transition from a 1 5/8-inch-diameter circle to the flanges' oval openings.

From solid steel stock, Rob whittled a buck. He used the 20-ton press to change the shape of the 1 5/8-inch-diameter tube stock from a circle to an oval, and repeated the process seven more times.

Using a hammer, he fine-tuned the oval opening of each transition piece.