Event Coverage Welcome to the 2017 Meltdown Drags

Ric what if you had someone put a wrap on the car to ressemble the other car, than if you wanted to go back just pull it off? Instead of a permanent change, if that's possible. Or not just speaking out loud.

 

Never thought of that. Pretty good idea, but feels kinda cheesy. I guess its no cheesier than trying to turn it into a car that its not.

 

Ric ask Deucedup about a wrap that's what he does he could give you all the ins and outs of doin it personally I would find another car I am partial to the child those ol 56 Chevys are a dime a dozen nobody wants those lol


Chrome don't get ya home

 

Way Cool

Scoop on backwards before cowl induction, must have been paying attention to Smokeys Nascar.

Looks like the rear axle is bent or the driver side Slick is flat ?
Might be the angle or the shot?

Any more pictures of this one?

 

I'll be there with my family again with my Anglia , and with any luck my son's Prefect .

 

It's the way the pic was taken of the original. He is sending me the original so I can scan it properly. Sticky Doo, you haven't seen these? The first one is C/Gas '63 March Meet. The other is B/Gas San Fernando '67. You are right on about the cowl induction. Smokey Yunick was my dads hero, and he pointed out that there was more pressure at the base of the windshield. With a forward facing scoop like that, the wind hit the hood, and bounced over the scoop, and landed in the wind shield packing up against it, and is driven downward, the reason Chevy put the vented panel there to feed the foot vents. That's why we run ours backwards, Gene Cromers Willys has a backwards scoop too. A short forward facing scoop on these old cars, is just going along for a ride, and not much else.
PS. You just got bent housing fobia man!

 

Hope to have the wagon ready for the Meltdown this coming year...


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Cheesy is as Cheesy does!

 

Love it! And I have to say that must have been one fast ass car to need a cargo shoot that size to slow her down! That thing is huge! Has to be a story there....Awesome pics!

 

I've posted this pic in another thread but this will be my entry.

 

Hoe did I get so many duplications?

 

Hey Deuced Up-

Are you bringing your 12-second Austin this year?

 

Ha, Ha...Very Funny. We will be there, that is all I can promise. Whether we can squeeze a 12 second pass out of the stupid supercharged 600 plus hp Austin or not....is still up for debate! LOL But hey...what ever it does, we look super cool doing it.

 

Clamp the leaf springs...

 

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I welded a metal strap that goes around the springs at the back it's not tight so the springs can still have some movement, I don't think the rear half should be clamped, at least not tight anyway.

 

Agree with unclamped rear of the spring. Did it on my OT class racer Ford Cobrajet and it worked great just like the Mopar S/S springs that started this.

 

By this time, our dad had built a 401" small block Chevy that would run upper 10's in the high 120's. Our home track was San Fernando aka "The Pond", which had a short shut down, and the car weighed just over 3000 lbs with driver, and had no front brakes. Instead of spending more money at Deist for a chute, they went to Joe Factor Sales (army surplus store) in Burbank, and got that big Shute, for a song and a dance.

 

There were a few Meltdowners who haven't given up on 2016 at Da Grove yesterday.

 

The old remedy was air shocks 10 lbs left side 30 lbs right side

 

well I am gonna bring the ROTTEN RANCHERO only question is will it hook up? hope to know that before the meltdown. This will be our first year with a car.

 

That car (truck?) is killer!
Tell us some more about it...It looks like you are gonna have tons of fun with that one!


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Salsa Ranchera!

 

not much to tell 57 ranchero SB MOPAR with a 4 speed, but that's gonna change I think speedway axle, steering and brakes old dragmasters on the front cheater slicks out back a posi equipped 9 inch leaf springs and ladder bars. its had a bunch of new panels welded in hence the name. the truck still needs but it will be ready. Thanks for the kind words

 

Find you a smaller crank pulley and let it rip!!

 

SB Mopar in a Ford, what's wrong with that?!

 

I know but availability makes strange things happen. It was in another project that went by the way side runs great good power just ugly. I have been considering a big block ford but not sure I have the time or money to get it done before the meltdown. There were so many really cool cars last year I just wanna be part of it. Being a spectator was great I can only imagine what it will be like with a car.

 

I may be interested in the Mopar stuff, spares for the Falcon, PM me with info

 

Not a damn thing I dig it man just leave it be and run the hell out of it it will probly run as good and handle way better than a big block


Chrome don't get ya home

 

BBF - Boring ... leave the odd ball mill in the Mo-Chero !!
Bring the car, make a hundred laps, have fun... pretty simple. Not changing something that currently works would be a few dozen less things to do before Meltdown... (I can't believe I just gave that advice...)