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Everybody else thrashing as hard as I am to try and get out there? Been quiet here lately.

Yes! :)

You got that right!

I am, I got my little tempast wagon going I've been
driving the s!!t out of it.
I'm also thrashing on the 2-door tempest should
have it out this month and douing some T-T at
Martin dragway. So damb close.

GT.

soon as the machine shop gets done fixin my junk, I will commence to thrashing!

Of course Mike....went out Saturday for a couple of shake down passes and now have more chit to do..:)

Hoping to dyno Saturday and then work on front suspension once mtr is back in. Gonna be busy next couple of months.

Cool! Good luck!

Getting close for sure.
Definitely been busy

My junk is in the trailer and will be out this weekend, going to try and get both guns a blazing this weekend and try a couple things.

Feeling that wheels up launch the first time out makes all that hard work well worth it!!! Good luck!!!!!

yep.

wiring done. check
narrow rear. check
lower rear of car. check
install nitrous progressive. check
put motor in car. check
mount new old Mickeys. check
ordered all nitrous stuff. check


still to do.
install Trans and converter
mount nitrous bottle bracket
install plate and purge
install anti roll bar

get testing in 3 weeks. I hope. :)

just ran lash. gotta drop in the distributer and plugs and she will be ready for the dyno. drop her off am and dyno wednesday am. Motor got a "paint" job too...

that's cool.. good luck

you ain't messing around.. feels like I'm slacking. lol

1000 or bust.. :first:

probably bust. pumping it on a rainy day. Just cant wait any longer...

yep... Just finished putting in new Butler pushrods... Goin to alignment shop on Thurs, to install the new adjustable outer tie rods, and reset toe... rest of alignment already done, on all new suspension. Installed new fuel reg, and did a little re-plumbing(more to do)... just gotta change oil, new plugs, and clean it up. Serviced trans and replaced missing shifter arm seal(leaked since 2005)... not a drip on the floor, now. Shooting for the 1st 10second timeslip , for the 'Bird, a week from this Wednesday...

Waiting for my junk to get assembled....needing wristpins....Pistons from Ross took 2 and half months....then in the car...4 weeks to opening day....

Although with all this global warming....or freezing...coldest day on record here in April...-20C here this morning and below normal for the next 2 to 3 weeks.....we could be weather delayed.

Yes,,,,,
64 Gasser, mounted a line lock yesterday. Tomorrow I'll re route the lines to it and back out along with the wiring. Drag Racing this Saturday at the Tulsa Pontiac Nats.

66 GTO, my brother Darren just thanked me for helping build his 65 Gasser with a $1,500 gift card to Summit Racing for my up coming 50th Birthday. Friggin 50 man. All I can say is I'm glad I still feel and think like I'm 30. Anyway, I just ordered everything I needed to get her going again. Hope to have it rolling this month.

Yeah I'm thrashing but not on my junk. I've been so busy at work I've only taken 4 days off since Christmas. Now it's 12 hr shifts 7 days a week. I don't know which end is up or what day it is. I was so busy last year, I only got out 3 times. Hopefully this season will be different. For me, time and money never come together. Usually it's lots of time and no money.

good luck.

EHTTFMF

Im changing my last name to Brandow... :) Darren is a cool guy, no doubt! Dude, im right behind you... i will be 44 in July... aint slowin down for nothing. Gettin ready to get my 1st 10second pass in the Bird( ive been 10s, car hasnt), gettin ready to start on my Stocker engine, goin to 2 foreign countries this Summer(Switzerland and France), workin 5 days a week, piddlin with Wagon, and eatin lots of Mexican.... Life is good right now...

Yes. Been thrashing on two Jr Dragsters tonight! David's daughter, Anniston 13, and my daughter, Marisa 12, got matching Half Scale cars this year. Engines are too big. Had to make restricter plates to slow them down to 7.90 as per rules. Oh, and worked on the bent/broken wheelie bar for the ProMod sat. Again!

Are you dynoing at Happy Holbrooks again?

nope!

Glad to see everyone is still lurking and just to busy to post up.

if i was 1030 no prob maybe more.

Yep, got engine in the car and fired up Saturday. Still have a few things to do before I'm ready to make some passes though. Good luck Mike and Hooter on the dyno sessions. Keep us posted.

Working on getting convertor changed, fuel pressure gauge installed along with a trans temp gauge, and setting up suspension with new rear DA afco shocks to make some passes on the 20th! :)

Car looks Great Mike!

Front subframe is all done and ready to roll back under the car. Back shell has been stripped, epoxied and should finish up the last of the body work tonight then spray another coat of epoxy. Hopefully early next week I can roll the subframe back under the car then start cutting out the back for the mini tub and remove the roll bar for the new cage. I got a late start to everything (lazy) so I'm shooting to be done by early June. Motor is sitting on the stand ready to go in.
I do have the wife's 74 to race between now and then so its not so bad. Should be taking that out not this weekend but the next. Her car will be getting my old cal traces and split monos as soon as I take them off mine. :thumbup:

Yep I am busy but little jack is just dazed confused and SCEERED that he is going to get "Smaced" so he doesn't know what to post only thing he can think of is "are you drinking"

Cars painted, chassis update to 24.5 done, roll cage and inside painted, scale and weight movement getting done, new hood almost fitted, new fuel system in, new tires. mostly plumbing and wiring left. don't worry lil jack it will be mid summer before I am ready for you so you i rebuilt the entire car so it may take some time to dial in,,,or maybe not you never know.

Last year I smoked my trans. at Norwalk. I fixed that but never got anymore 1/4 runs in due to family and the weather. I just had my carbs setup so I can run the sheet metal intake I made last year and started it last weekend. I just have to change the oil and give the car a bath. The intake is the only change other than fixing the slipping trans. but I think the parachute is going on and 8 second slips are in my future. It's been a ruff ruff winter in many ways. Working 55 hour weeks, taking on a big side project, and chasing women but 2013 is going to be my lucky year!

are you drinking?



:)

Started building headers and waiting on parts. Have a date at the chassis shop for a cage upgrade next month and will try to get the new bullet dynoed, hoping to have it all together by Memorial Day. Yesterday I was Looking for some T&T days that would work at Etown (now that Island closed :()

Still shooting for Norwalk, but realized it is the same weekend as my daughter's 18th Bday and then she leaves for college two weeks later so Norwalk plans are far from final.

great updates guys. It appears that i will be dynoing on friday instead of tomorrow

Good luck. I hope it exceeds your expectations.

Dyno day reminds me of a first date...filled with anticipation, excitement and some anxiety. While the track is like marriage...you now know exactly what you got. :D

sometimes disappointingly so....

New springs and shocks on the back of the LeMans. Still need to to a back brace and anti rollbar. New mickeys mounted up today. Converter is at ptc and then it will start getting put back together. Still have a bunch of work to do, but trying.

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Im doing all I can to get to the chassis cert this weekend. Nevermind that what is left of my car is still sitting in boxes. Should be out by September.

Working on everybody else's stuff fixing broken trans this week trying to assemble new bullet if engine not done will run old one it's still in car only has 600 passes on it

Waiting to get back to my Tempest supercharger conversion, but first I have more blocksanding to do on the '60 Catalina so I can paint it finally and get it out of the garage.................

Oh, and Monday was my 70th birthday:oogle::eek::gag:

Jim

congrats! hope im doing this at 70!

Par for the course, my dyno session now bumped to the following Saturday. I swear I'm gonna make it out this year......

Well Happy belated BD Jim..
Be sure to send pics when 60 is done..

BTW: Got ya beat by a couple of years:)

What you got about two years left before that 70th bday Mike. ha ha

GT.

Got mine up & running, Ran great! Now I'm doing a gear change:D

8" of snow predicted for tomorrow. i may never get out.

Oh well...back to thrashing..:rolleyes:
Getting this diaper on full frame car isn't going to be easy...but it should fit fine once there..I hope..
Modifying a AllPontiac bolt on front plate is taking a little time.. A "A" body won't work (IMO) due to motor mount differences..Think I got it do'albe but getting nuts on frame L-bracket will be very limited on space..
Have at it guys..:D

Well...how did it do XSIVPWR..??:)

I haven't run it all out yet, I raced a S/St & S/G race in Vegas last week so it was throttle stopped. but it ran 11.05 @ 142.5 in S/St & 10.05 at 146. in S/G @ 4100ft. Not to shabby for holding it at 4200rpm for 3 1/2 seconds:D