Had the car ready and decided to take it to the track for a little testing. Broke some teeth off of the spider gears. Looks like there maybe some late nights in the garage,or pay to have it fixed. Broke when doing my burnout on the frist run. Better now than at Martin. Hope to see there. Bob
Bummer Bob!ou: Let me know if you need anything. I'm PM ing you some info., that might help you solve your problem,so check your messages. Let me know if you need a hand.We need ya at Martin. Rich C.
sadly I didn't get to see Bob make his run as Rich and I got there afterwards, but that is such a nice car. On the GT-37 front, my plans to have the car ready took a big hit last night. First, I finally figured out why the car seems to wander on occasion and the front end just didn't feel right. I have an upper control arm bushing on the driver side that is shot. Shouldn't be to hard to fix, just going to take some time. But more importantly I checked out my carb. Hmm, play in the throttle shaft. This is NOT good. My friend and I who were going to rebuild the carb, well we have no experience bushing throttle shafts so it's time to farm it out. A call to Jim McGowan at The Quad Shop went straight to voicemail, which is full ou: :rant: So, I'm going to try again later. Anyone here willing to bush the throttle shafts? Or maybe even just rebuild the carb for me, since I'd have to ship it anyway. Worst case scenario, you hand deliver it to me at Martin and I put it on since time is of the essence. Ideally I'd like it back by Sat the 16th so I can do test-n-tune on Sun the 17th. Or perhaps Monday the 18th for test-n-tune on Tuesday the 19th. I'm also working on some other options in case I can't get the carb done in time. ray: Onto some good news, I no longer have air shocks in the rear and both rear wheel cylinders no longer leak. So I have that going for me. :laugh:
Kinda figured that. Took me a while to compose the note. Was pretty long and had to get all the "F" words back out of it when I edited it. Give me at least an hour next time.
Did a test and tune at Muncie (Indiana) Dragway last night. Picked up 4 mph and 4 tenths since last fall. The car is ready to rock.:3gears:
Got my heads back today .I hope grease up the shoehorn to put the 428 CJ back in and get it running this weekend.That is if nothing else is going to delay things.I hope to get it out before Martin for some tweaking :3gears: .
We got the engine completely installed and running in 5 hours today sounds good .Its time for :3gears:
Ramrod is ready. Started up fine, ran like a bear up and down the street, just need to run out the old gas, clean it up, oil change, then good to go. 39th year of starting it up after its winter rest, still exciting.
Just need to put the top back up and gas up the truck. Prices just fell below $3 so I better go now!ou:
I guess I'm readyo No: Re-changed the change I made on the Firebird yesterday, car is now back to the normal HOG that it was:af:
oil pan is off, oil pump is out, intake is off, I thought after a dyno seesion all you had to do was drop it in :ball:
HMM...After mine was dyno'd Mark told me to put it right in. I think Mark gave you the wrong directions. Silly Mark
Maybe, little red vs BIG RED the 2006 GMC is in the garage after it's stay in the trailer over the winter. Need some vacuuming cause some varmints look they had their way with her again, but will run around some before going back in the trailer maybe a dust off and clean the windows, I think the numbers are still on from Stanton, last year. Car will be there for tech, but I have another engagement that I unfortunately have to attend to and will be there asap. See you all :beers2: :TU: soon!
