August 12th, 2009

ANTI-LOCK

We have finished rerunning all new brake lines for the ABS (Anti-locking Brake System on the 1960 Ford Starliner aka The Scarliner!) So now we are concentrating on finishing up all the changes for the radiator hoses, and it is looking really good!!! 003

Also all the clamps you see holding all the lines together are hand made here at the shop! I think if we were to measure all of the tubing and electrical on this car it would probably be about 4 miles worth, no joke!
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Here is a picture of the oil cooler that we had to put in a remote location due to it hitting the fame, and a cover we made for it. The bracket that we made for the oil cooler also holds the power steering reservoir and the brake fluid reservoir, which made it nice because you don’t see any of them and there was plenty of room behind the motor.

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July 27th, 2009

SCARLINER CLARITY

Lately I have been getting asked a lot of questions about the Scarliner, on such things as what transmission did we use to bolt up to the 5.4 Ford Gt motor, what did we use for electronics and what kind of braking system are we using? Well to start off, we did a lot of homework and research before we started the car, as for the transmission we used a 4R100 that is out of a Ford lightning truck. The 4R100 did bolt right up, the only modifications we had to do is find the right flywheel and cut part of the engine block out to bolt up the starter!
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As for the electronics we used the Stock Ford GT wiring harness, yes it was very tricky but we did it! We reprogrammed the ECM to fit our application and remove security codes, fault codes, and any other codes like seat belts, air bags, etc., we also used the actual Ford GT gauge cluster and made it fit like it was meant to be in the original starliner dash!
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The brakes are another really nice feature on the car, they are off the new Porsche GT3, they are ceramic and carbon fiber injected. Not only have we used the brakes and had to make our own custom hubs and brackets, but we have integrated the anti-locking braking system (ABS) from the Ford GT!
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So as you can see the car is not just another typical Hot Rod, it has gone above and beyond that, and here at BS Industries we are trying to build a reputation for creating and building one off cars. We don’t want to be known as Hot Rod builders who build cars that can’t be driven, that is why our cars perform as good as they look……….BS

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February 24th, 2009

A Bunch of BS

The Scarliner (AKA the 1960 Ford Starliner) will be comming back from paint next week! So we have to hurry with the chassis, we are a little behind on finishing the chassis but i think in the next few weeks the car will be about 80% finished, we have missed our deadline for the TV show but it is such a cool build that they have given us an extension, I think that four months on this big of a project is pretty damn good!

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The 55 chevy is comming together and we are about 70% complete on it, right now we are doing all the plumbing for fuel, oil, power steering, trans, etc. The LS7 corvette motor is a dry sump which means there is now oil pan, so what we have done is hidden the oil resevoir in the trunk, we have also hidden the A/C unit in the trunk as well to make it nice and clean up under the dash and not all cluttered!

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As for the baddest 1956 Ford F100 in the world with the Supercharged LS7 corvette motor, is kind of on hiadus do to us being so busy, so we will keep you posted

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