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Well it could have been a lot worse. The cam lobe is wrecked and the main bearings show copper. However, the rods are perfect and the rod and cam...
It's really amazing. They are our people. Heck, all I did was donate a needle and seat to those guys. I hope I can help someone to that level next...
Well Sick Smokies was a heck of a lot of fun although ended early for me. Test n Tune on Sunday Day 0 at Huntsville went OK but it has been 7...
Sadly, I'm out. A roller lifter lost it's needle bearings Tuesday night after the Nashville race. There was lots of copper glitter in the oil filter.
Dad did the hood scoop and off/on switch and then made the patterns for trunk and quarter lettering. I gave the patterns to my lettering guy and...
Congratulations! Your belly tank is one of my favorite builds.
Thanks!
Sick Smokie is three weeks out and I needed a trailer. I bobbed a small boat trailer, moved the axle forward and added a job box for tools and...
Dad lettered my hood scoop and kill switch. I went back and forth on more lettering since I'm kinda low key. I finally decided that we'd add the...
Thanks. It's street/strip: 14 mpg on the street and runs 122 mph in the quarter.
'61 with a 460 and toploader. It comes in right under 3000 lbs. [ATTACH]
Yeah the car deserves a better driver! I just need to launch at 5K to get rid of the bog but I've been scared of breaking the Toploader.
It should be challenging in a manual steer, straight axle stick shift car with a trailer behind it!
100 mph in the quarter is pretty good for a long legged car!
It's hard to tell from the photo but it was a convertible GT/CS.
Thanks. It was driving me nuts.
OK I'm stumped. I spotted this rolling up I-75 in south GA today. What's the year, make and model of the baby blue convertible on top? [ATTACH]
That's the kind of swap that gets me going. I want to do a poor man's Cobra with a 289 and manual trans in a Sunbeam Alpine or similar 60s Brit car.
I'm partial to 351C and BBF swaps but they're OT by a couple years, I guess. [ATTACH]
Nice hammer form work!
I blew oil out the dipstick tube on my last pass. Leakdown is good but it was probably due to too much oil in the pan. So I reduced it by one...
Nice progress!. You will like the Auburn Deluxe. I have the 10.00-15 in the rear and they ride great.
Congrats!
I ran the local drag and drive yesterday. The tune helped! I shaved a full second off my 1/4 mile time, running an 11.72 at 122 - even after...
The middle seat from a Dodge Caravan fits well. You can cover it to look period-correct.
If you follow the drag and drive world, you know that spots sell out within minutes of opening to the public. Sometime after Tom Bailey bought...
Sick Smokies opened early registration to gassers for the 12-19 October event. That's a big deal since these drag and drives usually sell out...
I changed to a thinner head gasket to bump the compression up, recurved the distributor to 14 degrees of mechanical advance and switched from...
They ride very good. I have around 1000 miles on them and no complaints so far. I wish I would have bought them for the front as well but I got...
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