Hot Rods 29 RPU- "Street/Strip" B/SR Build - Marty Strode

John, I do have Louie, he is the oldest of the bunch. Didn't your son buy a Challenger down here ? Great to see him working on cars. Here is Louie guarding the dash plaques on my desk. See you at the races !

 

Marty
We had a beautiful cat like that one, we named him Bigfoot as he had six toes on his front feet.

 

There’s no “O” in Petersen btw… He and I usually chat once a week

 

Fixed it ! Thanks.

 

Karl was the painter at the local Chevrolet dealer, a couple of my high school pals knew him, I went with one of them to look at a 57 BelAir he had just painted, black if I recall, it was a beauty.

 

Okay I’ll add mt wife’s last cat, Penuchi. She was a rescue and about 11 pounds under all that fluff. Don’t know if you can see her feet clearly, she was polydactyl, all 4 feet! One of the last times I took her in for a manicure/pedicure, I asked the vet tech, who was new at the practice, what she thought of the feet. Her response was when she got to 20 toenails trimmed, and hadn’t started on the 4th foot, she stopped counting.

And thanks Marty for the advice. I reread your entire thread again, and looked at the NHRA rule book. I’m to contact the area’s tech person for further advice, however, I see an easy way to make a similar arrangement in my car. Now to buy another set of dies, and some 1-3/4 dom. It should also be viable for the other uses I intend for the car.

 

Dave you can’t go wrong with more dies, mine is 6-5/8 centerline. I made shoe liners to bend 1-5/8 and 1-1/2 tube with the same die.

 

Funny thing Marty. I have the 1-1/2 and 1-5/8 dies. And smaller ones as well. Just never thought I’d need larger.

 

Thought there would be a Louie in the mix. My son's Challenger was purchased by him up North in our neck of the woods. He called me one day at work and said, "Dad I'm going to sell my WRX and buy a Challenger, I've wanted one since I was a little boy." My reply, "Are you sure son you have a ton of work in that car." He was 21 at the time, sold the Subaru and we started looking. Found an old drag car that had not too many sins committed against it. A good one, 1970, RT 440 four speed car, needed a ton of work but he stuck with it and 5 years later has a really cool car. I'm mighty proud of that young man, can you tell! Take care and we'll see you at Toutle.

 

I stopped by to see my friends at DVC Machine, Dennis and Dave are doing a great job on the 327 for the RPU. It is a culmination of parts from friends and family. The block was given to me by John Rigert, a std bore 1966-275 HP. The crankshaft was out of a stash of parts from my late friend Frank Lynch. Dave decked and bored it .030 to fit the Keith Black pistons, and re-conditioned a set of rods. After balancing the ***embly, Dennis installed a Schneider solid, flat tappet cam, 1.6 rockers, and a set of Edelbrock heads, all from a couple of engines my brother Jerry owned and raced. It will be topped off with a fresh Hilborn Injection and a Vertex Magneto. It should carry the little truck to 7 flat in the 1/8th and 11 flat in the 1/4. Now to take it totally apart to powdercoat the ch***is.

 

I took the truck apart for ch***is welding, and then it's off to sandblast and powdercoat.

 

I've said it before and I'm saying it again, you do nice work Marty! Good looking mouser too!

 

I like how you re-forced the ladder bar crossmember and ladder bar pick up points by triangulating them into the transmission cross member and mount. Very stout with minimum material used. Nice work as always.

 

Sometime back I marked a date at Woodburn on July 12 & 13 this year. Something about, "first time out" for a Roadster Pick-up. Is that still in reach?

 

Mike, it will be Toutle in August, if all goes well. See you buddy.

 

Thanks Tom !

 

Thanks Bill, I have 9 cats, some outside mousers too. See you on one of these Wednesdays.

 

I look forward to it @Marty Strode

 

This is my wife's favorite feral that lives with us. Matches her truck.

 

I have a male that is named Blackie, how original huh !

 

There was a kool kat from Fresno named Blackie.

 

I knew him too !

 

Bad ***, Marty!

 

Well, not Bad *** by Jim Stevens measure, but thank you !

 

I got the ch***is apart and finish welded everything, sandblast and powdercoat coming up.

 

As you know it's getting harder to get any work done, that you farm out with any expedience. I took the frame along with the fender and running board brackets to a sandblaster. It took almost 2 hours before he called me to pick it up ! It sat in the pickup overnight and then I took it to the powder coater. I dropped it off yesterday, and picked it up today. It turned out great !!!!!!!!

 

That's excellent service from both the sandblaster and powder coater. The whole project looks great and now what I call the fun part, the ***embly back together. Looking forward to the updates. I built a '29 A Model roadster back in '67 and didn't finish it due to a government ***ignment. But like many of us, wished I'd kept it and raced in the B/SR cl*** at the local strips. Really enjoying this project. Ron

 

Thanks Ron !

 

Marty, I always enjoy homemade tools and their uses. Saw this in this tread in the picture with a dis***embled quick change. It is obviously a wood baseball bat. How was it made and what do you use it for?

 

I normally use it for Tuck Shrinking on my stump. I used it to separate one of the side plates on the quickchange. Gives enough reach and won’t dent the aluminum. Good eye. I cut the handle off, bored a hole in the mill, then machined the handle for a tight fit in the lathe.