Name’s Chad Henry from Portsmouth, VA. Looking to represent the East Coast.
So we left the church on our wedding in my first build, rat rod roadster pickup, and knew I’d need to build a sedan within a few years therefore the name “BabyMaker.” My buddy found this on CList down in NC. Didn’t really have the money but a deal I couldn’t let get away. 1954 210 sedan already has 3″ chopped top and ’70 Nova sub. Very solid body and floor. Have a ’94 Impalla SS LT1 w/ 700R4 for the mill. Going to enjoy my rat for the summer and do some research on what direction I want to go with the ’54. Looking forward to getting started and excited I found this site. Thanks for putting it out there.

I am Jeremy , and wanted to share some photos of my 1954 chevy 210 sedan, that i am currently building in my garage. I started out installing a Total Cost Involved mustang 2 front end with disc brakes and air bags. I soon pulled the body off of the car to build the rest of the chassis. Out back is now a step
notch with a curie rear end ford 9 inch cut to 60″ flange to flange. I then decided how i wanted to build the mounts for the triangulated four link. You can see in the pictures what i came up with. When all was measured and welded for the four link i worked on the custom cross member witch houses a drive shaft hoop from art morrison, at the time i purchased the hoop i also purchased there universal K member kit , that i put some holes in along with holes for the exhaust. I will soon have more pictures of the updated progress.

Nico from Finland sent in these photos of his 1954 chevrolet custom.

Hello! This is my 54` Chevy custom. Motor is 350cid. Transmission is
also 350. 4door, chopped. 60` mopar taillight`s. This is my first ride
and I build it 6 years ago, and still working. I put my other custom
car pick too. It`s 55`dodge kingsway.Before I chopped it,was 4door.

Best wishes,mr.Niko A

Cedric sent in these photos of his 1954 chevrolet.

Hey this is a bitchen site. Here’s a couple a pics of my 54 I have had since high school, its been down for 17 years just got it on the road three weeks ago. Cedric …

1. Remove Stock Emergency brake mount.
2. Trim or Remove Firewall fins.
3. Tack Weld Motor Mounts.
4. Test Fit Engine.
5. Remove Engine.
6. Finish Weld Motor Mounts.

In order to make everything easier I removed the entire front sheetmetal. You can keep the grill, radiator support, and fenders bolted together and remove the front assembly as a whole. After removing the front fender and motor, I removed the emergency brake mounts with a 4 1/2″ cut off wheel. On my 50 there was a few brackets on the frame that needed to be removed in order to install the walton’s motor mounts. An air hammer will quickly remove the brackets or if you don’t have access to air tool you can drill out the spot welds that attach the brackets to the frame.

Accessories that fit:

Headers/Exhuast Manifolds
For the stock steering sanderson headers will work with most small block chevy motors.

Cast iron manifold will also work. A rear dump type on the drivers side and a center dump type on the passenger side. See manifold in engine photo >>

With aftermarket IFS systems most block hugger headers will fit as well as a rear dump type on the drivers side and a center dump type on the passenger side.

I used Sanderson headers with the crate engine I am installing in 1950 chevy. Chassis Engineering also make a specific header for 49-54 chevrolet cars.

Emergency Brake
Since you have to remove the stock emergency brake mount to install a v8, here are some options to re-install an emerrgency brake in your 1949 to 1954 chevrolet.

S-10 Truck (junkyard)
Lokar
Control Cables (makes non-billet foot e-brake)
55-57 chevy car e-brake handle (May not be easy to find, mounts on left side of dash)
Gennie Shifter E-brake (Gennie sells a complete setup including cables)

Water Pump
A short water pump will fit. Long water pump did not fit in my 1950 chevy with a ZZ3 GM Performance crate motor and walton’s fabrication motor mounts.

Motor Mounts
This page is still in progress, check back for updates.

Motor Mounts:
Speedway Motors
Walton’s Fabrication
Chassis Engineering
Total Cost Involved
Chevys of the 40s (3659291M bolt-in, 3693425N weld in, 3700332 bolt-in)

Headers:
Sanderson headers for use with stock 49-54 IFS
Chassis Engineering

How-To Links:
V8 Conversion – Walton Fabrication Mounts and crossmember

How-To Links:
V8 Conversion – Walton Fabrication Mounts and crossmember

Firewall – Inline 6	Firewall – Trimmed	Walton Mounts	Motor Mock-up
Motor Installed

Took some photos this last weekend of the Asphalt Invitational at Swiss Park in Newark, Ca

Got them added to the site.

Check all of the photos out here

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