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AA/Fuel34fordpu, did you sell your Austin?
Falfasnightmare just gave me the heads-up on this event, it sounds great. i had not been on in a week or so and i had missed it as i'm knee-deep...
wow, wow....wow. great find, and great folks to have found it. thanks for posting
awesome thread.... subscribed! thanks for posting
looking and sounding great Todd.
56 and earlier was a good strong unit. Mickey Thompson offered the magnesium pig for it side by side with the 57-64 unit check the 1967 peterson...
yeah, ahem. they were so "sucky" that they remained the prime choice for top fuel cars thru the end of the sixties....
thanks to Todd for relaying this information to me and for using my old chassis to recreate the Hollish Bros. car. you are a true inspiration Todd!
Relic Stew & i found a floor jack in the middle of the road once...
holy 12-port jimmy Batman. is that the Fontana/Skinner head? nice work guys. ditch the nine-inch though...needs an early Olds/Pontiac rear axle...
great work, as always Ryan, and great score on the Moon timing cover. are you gonna be able to make the Hunnert Car Heads-Up with it?
thank god the insert has no crank hole.....
thanks for the kind words Bob, Royal & Tman on one hand i just feel like i have thrown 6 months away and let a lot of people down.... but i...
fantastic tech and very well explained. thanks
what Heathen said... and another point to ponder...wnen an msd box is used in a points ignition, the points will not heat up enough to burn as...
the drill press is very likely made by Atlas and is a very high quality small-shop tool
not cheap, but easy, and in a rattle can, and as good as i've found is the Wurth stuff (i think it's made by SaBesto or somesuch)
just a comment about the Tree vertical mills in general... these are seriously-built pieces of American iron, don't pass one up "just because it's...
the spindle modification you did to the lathe (adding the flange) was to accommodate using the newer "camlock" chucks?
this sucks...RIP porky
thanks Bob, will do. PBRmeASAP, any time you wanna see it let me know.
tacked, reinforced, and in place... [IMG] [IMG] the ride height was too low so we blocked it up temporarily, until we fix it. we then stood...
[IMG] here is the first look we had from ground level outside the car of the ladder bars now onto mounting the springs...as i said, this is a...
[IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] here we have the ladder bars attached to the center k-member. note that we had to angle them slightly towards the...
thanks Relic Stew, as always i can count on you for dishing the real dirt on good, solid engineering practices. we could always use your input for...
[IMG] nuthin' like carving on brand new parts to make 'em fit together! ...though that's not exactly true... Charlie at Winters said that the...
[IMG] [IMG] we ended up ordering a panhard rod from S & W Race Cars. i dont think we could have put a kit together to build it any cheaper than...
[IMG] before i describe what we did with the rear springs, let me preface by saying that the result is a work in progress, due mostly to a...
---------------- Now playing: DMZ - First Time via FoxyTunes in this photo the front of the ladder bar is not yet attached to the crossmember...
those are 3/4" heims at the front and 1/2" clevises at the back. bars are around 55" length
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