Ask the ExpertOn this page, you can ask a personal question of our Expert of the Month by clicking the red line below and typing out your question. PLEASE LIMIT QUESTIONS TO HOT ROD HISTORY AND TRADITIONAL BUILDS. Within approximately two weeks, we will post on the website our Expert's or Pioneer's answers to as many questions as we can handle. This will be in the form of an audio message that everyone can listen to and that can best be heard on a PC with a sound card. Thanks for participating! The dry lakes were Art Chrisman's proving ground and, with his brother Lloyd in a ‘34 Ford coupe, they exceeded 140 mph before World War II. After the War, the Chrisman Garage in Compton began producing serious competition machines. Art became one of the five charter members of the 200 MPH Club driving Chet Herbert's “Beast”. His success on the drag strips was, for a time, unrivaled. In 1955, at Bakersfield, he went 140 mph in the famous “No. 25” that had originally belonged to Leroy Neumayer. Art and team built the Hustler I, powered by a 392-cid Chrysler engine, the first car to reach 180 mph. Throughout the 1950's and 60's, Art competed with the best fuelers in the sport. 
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This is in a 37 chev street rod. The supplier of the brakes says "The master cylinder supplied with the booster is a Corvette 4-wheel disc brake unit." The supplier of the brake line kit says "DO NOT use a built-in residual check valve for 4-wheel disc systems." I would like to know if the Corvette master cylinder has a built-in residual check valve. I'm having some drag problems with the front brakes. I have installed 2 lb. residual check valves in the front and back. Thanks, Dan
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How does a person safely use 35 ford wires over juice brake drums? Are there spacers that you make/buy? Thank you for your consideration.
bobh
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When you built your T, you were right out in front of everyone else, in terms of design and in engineering. I understand that you'd be compared to the likes of Boyd coddington today.
I read that the juice brakes on your T were adapted from a Chrysler product, because Ford juice brakes were all but unobtainable. (I was told that Ford and Chrysler traded juice brakes for the Ford Soybean enamel paint in 1939)
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