Hallett - Time to sign up

Note that second pic was taken in progress. We chamfered the broken edge inside and out, then bolted the piece to the bellhousing, and the bell to the block. He left the corners intact for alignment purposes at that step. Then, he welded that strip on the outside, plus part of what could be accessed from the inside.
Removed the bellhousing, and he used a die grinder to carve out the remaining crack, and welded it.

When it was all done, it was a fully welded joint, not just a flimsy top-coat over the 1/2" cast aluminum. He carved it all out and welded it. I couldn't be happier.

Jim and I are the only folks in the group that have been to Doug's shop, but it a shop/ museum combo. He's a drag racing guy, but will work on anything. He's done all the stanchions on the Fulcrum wings, if I'm not mistaken.

Jim, I'm glad you got it fixed, but the round trip from your place to Doug's ( plus fab time) I'm sure sucked up the entire day... Sorry dude.

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Originally Posted by Dulaney

The others (white fox body team) don't have their cars ready. They want to come as a group, not individually. We somehow need to convince them that we're their group, so it's ok to be 'alone'. They're also not active i the forum, so I highly doubt they'll hear your call

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Sounds like beers and burgers in Austin then!?
We're thinking about a road trip to Austin for sometime in the next month or so once we get Anna's car road-trip worthy(was out of the garage for a quick test spin the other day...found a few issues we need to resolve).
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Two of the white Fox body team actually live in San Antonio and New Braunfels. One lives in Dallas, I think. Not sure on James.

I'll put some pressure on Mike Montgomery to bring out his squad at TWS, and I'll re-ask him about Hallett.

Anyone else staying at the Hampton Inn at Sand Springs? That's about 30 mins from the track. My wife's uncle is in the hospital so the RV isn't happening. He'll be fine, for the record.

Across the street in the Best Western. I've stayed in the Hampton Inn twice, and it's nice.

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Originally Posted by BryanL

So is anyone else planning to come that hasn't signed up yet? Overall attendace is great but that's due to all the out of region dudes. Where is everyone else? No reason we shouldn't be over 20 in CMC and over 10 in AI!

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I'm in New Mexico... Looking to hookup with RM next year and maybe make a few Texas events and hopefully Hallett...

Get your practice in before LiiR comes back...

IT'S TIME!! Assuming my alignment and a handful of other things come together this week the #24 should be in it's best shape ever! Thanks to one of my multiple crew chiefs I have enough ballast to be legal, too-if only I could get my lead crew chief to make the event. Even with the added weight I'm feeling nimble for the weekend but we will see how it is after I raise it up a little for my special summer shootout setup (say it 3 times fast at the strike of midnight saturday night). I'll also be cool as a cucumber if Clifton remembers to bring my radiator. All of this really doesn't bode well for another driver who is also feeling pretty cocky right now. Granted he has done a great job of getting down to fighting weight which I am happy for him. It will just break my heart to see him scratching his head and wondering what he has to do to catch up.....

Seriously, this looks like a pretty strong field and great to have some out of towners coming that think they can run with the trophy girls-heck, right now I feel like I can run with them so much so that I'm looking to follow up last year with another top 5! I'm going to make that fox body cowboy feel like he is wearing his white outfit on Grinder cause I'm going to be all over his rear. For a mid pack slacker getting in the top 10 will be a good weekend though. If you are sitting on the fence about coming you are going to miss an awesome weekend. There are still some guys missing that I hope end up showing up to get us over 20.

Everyone remember to gas and beer up in Texas since it's all watered down in OK-I'm not making that mistake this year. See you at the Mike Stephens Circle!!!

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Originally Posted by BryanL

IT'S TIME!! Assuming my alignment and a handful of other things come together this week the #24 should be in it's best shape ever! Thanks to one of my multiple crew chiefs I have enough ballast to be legal, too-if only I could get my lead crew chief to make the event. Even with the added weight I'm feeling nimble for the weekend but we will see how it is after I raise it up a little for my special summer shootout setup (say it 3 times fast at the strike of midnight saturday night). I'll also be cool as a cucumber if Clifton remembers to bring my radiator. All of this really doesn't bode well for another driver who is also feeling pretty cocky right now. Granted he has done a great job of getting down to fighting weight which I am happy for him. It will just break my heart to see him scratching his head and wondering what he has to do to catch up.....

Seriously, this looks like a pretty strong field and great to have some out of towners coming that think they can run with the trophy girls-heck, right now I feel like I can run with them so much so that I'm looking to follow up last year with another top 5! I'm going to make that fox body cowboy feel like he is wearing his white outfit on Grinder cause I'm going to be all over his rear. For a mid pack slacker getting in the top 10 will be a good weekend though. If you are sitting on the fence about coming you are going to miss an awesome weekend. There are still some guys missing that I hope end up showing up to get us over 20.

Everyone remember to gas and beer up in Texas since it's all watered down in OK-I'm not making that mistake this year. See you at the Mike Stephens Circle!!!

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I just hope my car will start.


JJ

Dang it jj. You just jinxed me. That is the one accessory I don't have a spare for. Guess I better get one now.