Projects Front Engine Dragster update

I wish I could be there to see the first pass (AKA "The Ruination"). LOL
You're gonna love it Glenn.

 

I have arrived home. Had to fight some snow on the way. Had some white outs west of Buffalo. The dragster is now safe in my garage, well at lest most of it, it does not all fit in the garage at one time.

A few freinds stopped by to help push it up the driveway (had to shovel first).

I'm ready for SPRING!

 

Totally Bitchin!

 

Stunning !!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Envy!!!! hell where did you find all that snow it's been raining here.

 

Beautiful.

 

I see you're a member of The Hole In The Wall Gang. LOL

 

^^^^that's awesome! What room is it in? Talk about a conversation piece! "here's my FED, the rest is in the garage" haha! Turned out absolutely stunning!

 

the paint and taillight really make it...

 

Holy Crap! Great looking dragster Rooman is a true craftsman.

 

Wow!!! I mean WOW!!!

Pure ART!!!!!

 

Can almost see you smiling from here. Very very nice!
Don

 

I haven't stopped in two days, my face is being to hurt.

 

It sticks out onto the glassed in porch. I finally got the approval to cut the hole in the wall when the boss realized that the only way it would fit in the garage is sideways if I didn’t cut the hole and her car would have to sit outside otherwise. It actually works out very nice as I used the piece that I cut out as a “Plug” and when the dragster is not there is slides into the hole and it is hard to tell that there is a hole there. On the porch the hole comes out in back of the couch

 

Roo Man was holding out on me and when I was there he down loaded all the pictures he was taking as the build progress. Here is one with my engine in place (I had not seen this until this morning.

I will be redoing my web site with many of his pictures as they show lots of stuff I have not seen yet.

Work starts this weekend on wiring and plumbing, and repainting the engine. New valve covers. I am toying with the idea of ditching the MSD box and going right to the Mag so when the blower engine is done I do not have to rewire for it

 

That's a good plan cause the stuff for the mag, (rpm controls,rev limiters,tach,kill switch) are all different than the MSD stuff.

 

Hi Glenn:

Hey can you post some of your pics of the GG races that you have here>>>>

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=535418

Be nice for people to see . We need to keep this race in peoples minds so they come.
Hopefully see you Saturday.
thanks
Luke
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How do you post pictures on the gasser site?

 

Beautiful Glenn great job! Yes Roo is a true craftsman. Paint sure makes it look different! Cool as hell. Lippy

 

What a beautiful car, I can't wait to see it come May at the gasser series race. The craftsmanship is spectactular, freaking cool !
On another note glad you weren't headed west, the thruway was still a parking lot from yesterdays snow storm.

 

I remember coming thru there once in a snow storm coming back from Florida. (Thruwau to Buffalo) I had to turn off as the thruway was colsed. i drove along the lake in my 94 v 10 Ram with snow actually coming up off the road up over the hood at times. I couldnt believe it. Accross the bridge in Fort Erie there was hardly any. I was worried when i heard he was heading through there in the snowy weather. Glad he made it home safe.
Don

 

Turns out they closed it after I went through and it has been closed for 11 hours now.

 

Well it looks like I made it throught that strech of the highway just in time. It has been closed now for 24 hours and people are just now being removed from it in buses. The cars are snowed in

 

I live about a mile from exit 52 off the 90 and the trucks and cars are backed up to the exit. They have been sending out food on snowmobiles and rescuing some drivers to stay at the senior center. I spent two hrs. clearing my driveway with a 29 inch cut snowblower, no wonder Buffalo gets a bad rap for snow..lol

 

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A.M. Top News: Snowstorm closes N.Y. Thruway, strands motorists for up to 24 hours
Published: Friday, December 03, 2010, 7:46 AM Updated: Friday, December 03, 2010, 7:46 AM

A Lake Erie-fed storm dumped more than two feet of snow on western New York, closing a stretch of the New York Thruway and leaving trucks and cars stranded up to 24 hours.

State Police handed out coffee and food to motorists stuck in the gridlock near Buffalo. Emergency crews passed out water and protein bars, and buses picked up drivers and delivered them to a shelter at a senior citizen center.
An 11-mile stretch was still closed overnight but the highway reopened shorty after 6 a.m. and traffic was moving.
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David Duprey / AP

vehicles shown stranded on the New York State Thruway during a winter storm in Buffalo Thursday.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A western New York highway that was closed for over 24 hours because of an accident that left trucks and cars stranded in heavy [FONT=inherit!important]snow was reopened Friday morning, state police said. [/FONT]

A Lake Erie-fed storm that began Wednesday and continued through Thursday buried parts of Buffalo and some suburbs under more than two feet of snow.

Downtown [FONT=inherit!important]Buffalo was largely spared, but dozens of schools canceled classes and more were scheduled to be closed on Friday. [/FONT]

Police closed Interstate 90 about 3 a.m. ET Thursday after a truck jackknifed the previous evening and vehicles became backed up and buried in blowing snow, State Trooper Daniel Golinski said.

Drivers also were stranded on a 3-mile stretch of Interstate 190.

Golinski described the scene overnight as "13 miles of bumper-to-bumper cars, two lanes each — three lanes each depending on where they are."

Though parts of I-90, better known as the [FONT=inherit!important]New York Thruway, were reopened by midday, an 11-mile stretch remained closed as darkness fell. [/FONT]

Traffic, mostly big rigs, was backed up for about 2 miles in the eastbound lanes and a mile headed west after sunset.

The rest of the highway was reopened at 6:15 a.m. ET on Friday.

The snowfall was expected to stop early Friday after leaving another 4 to 8 inches, which would total up to 32 inches for some communities.

'Stuff happens'
Jack Geiselman, who was stranded for 14 hours in 32-degree [FONT=inherit!important]weather, took it all in stride. <O></O>[/FONT]
"I tend not to be a ranter-and-raver about things and the point is, it's nothing I have any control over," the 60-year-old semi-retired civil engineer said. "I guess the way I look at it is, it's over. I guess stuff happens. It's not the end of the world."

Geiselman was traveling in a Honda Civic from Keene, N.Y., to Cleveland with his black lab Boomer to help his daughter get her [FONT=inherit!important]house ready for a baby due between Christmas and New Year. [/FONT]

He had with him a sleeping bag and plenty of warm clothing and gas. He said state troopers came by with coffee and food for people in cars.

Emergency crews on ATVs passed out water and protein bars, and buses picked up motorists and delivered them to a shelter at a senior citizen center.

State Police had no reports of medical emergencies, although one older motorist who uses oxygen was among the stranded and was taken to safety, said Capt. Michael Nigrelli.
Not to be discouraged, two [FONT=inherit!important]truck drivers who left their tandems idling in the morning tramped through the snow for about half a mile to pick up a breakfast sandwich and coffee off the highway. They seemed almost cheerful despite the hit on their livelihood. [/FONT]

"The wheels are not moving and we're making nothing," said Don Lanphere, 51, a trucker for 32 years who was hauling dog food. "The only guys making money are the plow operators."
"I had the radio on listening," said Curt Doverspike, 40, a trucker from [FONT=inherit!important]Jamestown. "They said we should be getting out soon. Nothing ever happened so we just went to bed, woke up this morning. We're just kind of used to it." [/FONT]

He said regular travelers were venting their frustrations but the truck drivers were calmer.
"There's traffic jams, accidents all the time," Doverspike said. "You just get used to it. I guess it's easier for us than those in the cars because they get frustrated. We have a bed. If we get bored, we lay down and go to bed."

In need of 'nice cup of a coffee'

Nigrelli said the combination of fast-falling snow and the large number of commercial vehicles — many of which had to be towed out after the snow piled up around them — made re-opening the road slow-going.

"Unfortunately, that's not something that can be undone very quickly," he said.
Some truckers left the road to find refuge at truck stops, parking lots and city streets, but most kept their rigs parked on the highway, especially the tandem drivers.

Matt Welling was [FONT=inherit!important]hauling a double tractor-trailer full of groceries when traffic came to a standstill.[/FONT]

 

I sent you a PM about club racing, did you get it?

 

Yes I sent you a p.m. back, that would be a no go for our club, not enough interest in drag racing other than a couple of us.

My friends in south buffalo say the snow is over there head and they are stuck, even the plow got stuck on their street !

 

Just checked my messages again, never got it. The snow must have stopped it and it will get here in 24 hours!

To bad we really would like to get a fourth club interested.

 

Fine lookin' FED. Hope to see you at Bowling Green. KY father's day weekend.
Haul it down to Fla. and get your license while it's snowing in NY. Hats off to
Kieth.
MB

 

Bowling Green is on the list of places to go to, getting the license over the winter is on the the to do list. I do have a house down in Fl. but it is on the gulf coast and no tracks near by.