I sure hope so, need to paint the rockers, hood pins, put the door tops on,head lights,tail lights and dump the anti-freeze. Also need to get the front end realigned, seems the wheelies knocked that out of place. Tonight on the way back from grabbing pizza I blew a brake line in my daily driver / tow vehicle so that's at the shop already. Stupid newer vehicles and their 4 lines in and out of the frame into junction boxes, I'm letting someone else do that one. I'll be busy, hope my head lights fit this front end and will have to lengthen the wires for the tilt front.
Sorry about the bad luck. Glad to here you are going to try and make it with the J. Really looking foward to seeing it in person. If I was closer I would give you a hand but the 8 hour round trip wouldn't leave much time in the garage. Good luck getting it ready. See you at the drags, Bob
As everyone has already said your car is bad(moon) to the bone. You got the fiber glass from my friend can't wait to show him how it turned out. Keep it AWAY from the wall for sure. Jim
Tell him thanks again, it did take a bit of work to get it patched up, still working on those lower fender sections. I might just cut mine off my old fenders, think I would be ahead of the game.
Since racing was cancelled today I took the time to clean the car up, here it is outside the garage for a change. I think I'll put a few street miles on it this week to break in the new rear gears a bit.
What a difference from 6 months ago ! Looks excellent. ( I'd like to see 1/2 of the back wheels painted white. )
Thanks guys, can't wait to race ! I found a kinked fuel line from the tank to the filter, be interesting to find out if that was why it was a little sluggish once into high gear. More gear, more convertor less weight ha ha ha, lets get it on.
Just thinking that about a year ago I hit the guard rail on the first pass with the second new engine. Beat that quarter back out and with new Moser axles finished the season, two days after season was over (6 months ago) it looked like this.
Just read this thread from the start, very cool Henry. Looks great now, bet you're proud of what you've achieved in such a short space of time. Ray
Man Phil looks great out side. Was so stoked to see the J yesterday when we went racing out to Empire. Got there only to find out it was cancelled. What a Bummer. Long ride back home. Hopefully we'll see you at the next one.
Well it's a 20 footer for sure and the forecast for this Saturday (next race) says 30% chance of rain, hope that changes through the week. I didn't find out that the race was cancelled until picking the car up from the alignment shop. I thought he was just busting my balls until I looked it up on the computer. http://empiredragway.com
Phil that car is gonna look bad ass with the front tires about 2 feet in the air with the slicks all wadded up. You better make sure someone has their camera ready cause we're need to see some pictures for sure. Rocky
Well I got a few miles on it and it's an attention whore with the new bright colors. Where were these people at when it was flat black...lol I hit a cruise night last night and got a taste of the new 4.57 gears, winds kind of tight. This morning I took my 8 yr old to school in it, although he wants picked up in the t-bucket (his car). Tonight I plan on hitting the Quaker State cruise night with it, then tomorrow back to race trim, life is good.
Ha ha, I got the police spot light on me for my yellow head lights, I think he thought I didn't have my lights on. He didn't turn around and I wasn't lookin to stop either !
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