Mark Coffey's 34 Chev

Mark has owned the Junior since the mid ’80s, and had it stored in various garages around the Hutt Valley and after starting the build process himself, Mark couldnt quite find the much needed time to put in the hours the car required so the 34 sat and waited patiently.Mark finally entrusted the 34 to us so we could do our thing.As many of you will appreciate, entrusting someone with your pride and joy, and asking them to perform what you haven’t the time to do, is a big thing.The original chassis was fully boxed and braced to safely handle the torque from the crate motor, before being painted with PPG silver.The body of the old girl also got a darn good seeing-to, and we filled the roof and widened the rear guards by 40mm. The rest of the body was given a good going-over to ensure it was nice and straight.then it was sprayed with PPG two-pack black.To hold the body up off the tyres there are Carrera coil-over springs on all four corners. The front end has a stainless Mustang II steering kit, with the front suspension from Fatman fabrications in the USA, where it was specifically designed for 1934 Chevrolet Junior sedans. The rear end is made up of a McDonald Brothers four-bar setup, which is adjustable for height and ride, and like the whole exhaust has been HPC coated.At the front end there are now Wilwood four-pot callipers and Mustang rotors, while the anchors out the back are Ford drums.The power plant that gets the Tru-Spokes rolling is a 572cui Monster crate engine.There are great gobs of torque, 650ftlb to be exact, and  620hp comes easy from the 9.5:1 compression crate motor which runs on pump gas. That gas comes via 850cfm Demon carb, and from there into the big block topped with alloy heads. A high performance HEI ignition is assisted by a 6000rpm limiter in charge of spark. To allow the crate motor to exhale properly there’s a set of headers with two-inch primaries, which lead to the rest of the HPC-coated exhaust that is complete with removable dump plates for drag racing. At the firewall end of the bonnet sits a shift-kitted Turbo 400 trans, complete with 2500rpm stall converter. A Ford nine-inch filled with an LSD head wearing 3.25:1 gears makes sure that the big block’s power heads towards the ground.This is one kick-arse rod that has gone 11.1@120MPH and is looking to go quicker in the near future.