Headed to Vegas with my beautiful wife to go and see no one other than the iconic Celine Dion.... (Flame suit on).
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Headed to Vegas with my beautiful wife to go and see no one other than the iconic Celine Dion.... (Flame suit on).
:)
Is Michael not allowed to post anymore?Quote:
Originally Posted by marshall_mosty
JJ
I was told he was out of town and would not be available till this week sometime.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadowBolt
Finished the DL engine install. The 55 is alive and running great. The exhaust sounds really good. So far so good.
The car is so low that with the iron block the floorjack will not go under either side or the front. With the Aluminum block it was about an inch higher.
THANKS DAVID!
JJ
Glad I could help but you would be better to keep some things to yourself... Glenn will be chasing you around with a tape measure...Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadowBolt
No problem with the tape measure. Been there done that.Quote:
Originally Posted by David Love AI27
JJ
On unlevel/uneven ground...Quote:
Originally Posted by David Love AI27
Richard P.
Whoop! That's awesome!Quote:
Originally Posted by marshall_mosty
JJ - looking forward to the 55 back in action.
The boy child and I took the President's day holiday to put a couple hundred rounds down range with the .45 XDM and the AR15.
Quote:
Originally Posted by marshall_mosty
Marshall, you know the musuem closed in 2010 ? http://www.liberace.org/
Marshall may not have known but you did.Quote:
Originally Posted by cjlmlml
JJ
drove the car a few minutes ago around the neighborhood and when I get back I can hear a knock at 2500 and up. Great oil pressure it idle (60 lbs. hot) and the knock is not there at idle or on decell. I hope it's in the valve train. Guess I should have not tried to be so tight and built another engine. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer to do all that work installing a unit that we never heard run. I made a video of it on my Iphone but you can't really hear it. Well $hit. May skip Cresson.
Not DL's fault. He damn near gave me the engine and I'm not upset with him. I'm mad at myself.
JJ
I did the same thing with the engine currently in my car. Bryan made me a fair price and neither of us had heard it run. I did have to change heads because of what I think was a valve leak, but got lucky otherwise. I was willing to take the risk also, since I really couldn't afford to build a new engine at the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadowBolt
I hope you get lucky also and don't have a major issue.
Last night spent a couple hours in the Company tent at HLSR BBQ Cook Off... what a freak show.
Enjoying lovely Auckland, New Zealand.... Very pretty. Weather is very nice. Meetings tomorrow and then a few days to fool around before coming back to the states...
Unfortunately no V8 supercar races...
:(
Be careful of crocodiles.Quote:
Originally Posted by marshall_mosty
....snakes
...spiders
....rabid kangaroos.
Thanks to everyone for the Congrats, we are both very excited!!! We got back from snowboarding in Winter Park, CO on Wed. Also got to ride snowmobiles which was an absolute blast.
Now its time to get the car ready for Cresson. The focus is going to be getting the torque boxes fixed so the right side might still be a little ugly.
Today I learned Japanese!
For instance: Mishimoto UNIVERSAL 19 Row Oil Cooler Kit translates to= Fits vehicles that have one of two included oil filter adapters.If I had learned Japanese earlier I could have informed American Muscle that their description of (fits Mustangs 79-12) should read (fits Fox body Mustangs only).
Still need to learn how to say "return this piece of shit" in Japanese. Back to the books.
Yesterday I started trying to figure out what the knock was on my new (used) engine. I used the old screwdriver trick to listen to different areas. I could tell the knock was in the front of the engine (or at least I thought it was). So I decide to pull the front cover off. When I put the impact on the bolt holding the balancer on, it came off with almost no effort. It was no more than finger tight (you will see why later). I pulled the balancer off to find it had been eating into the front cover (going to far up on the crank). After pulling half a million bolts out of the cover, pan, and valve covers I took the cover off. I could not see anything wrong. I took the crank trigger wheel off and noticed it was all tore up. Now this was the wheel out of my old engine since I had read that the powdered metal wheels were prone to cracking. I saw where the chain had been hitting the wheel and went and got the old wheel to compare them. The powdered metal wheen has a 1/4" lip on it that keeps it off the chain. I looked at the bottom timing gear and it had no lip but the one out of the old engine did. So to use the stamped trigger wheel you have to use the new type crank gear. Who knew? If I had just left the powdered metal wheel alone I could have saved all this BS. I'm betting this was the noise and the engine is fine. I will put it back together and chainge the oil again.
JJ
Single track or open meadow stuff? Got to ride at the Continental Divide once. The couple ahead of my wife was going so slow they got stuck, so my wife slowed down and got stuck. The boy child and I stopped next to her, skis up so we could get out. When I stepped off to help her out, I sunk chest deep into the power.Quote:
Originally Posted by michaelmosty
Yeah, from the torques boxes. Primer is a color too.Quote:
Originally Posted by michaelmosty
So the snow wasn't really all that deep.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fbody383
The front driver's side caliper is essentially stuck so I'm installing a new one. I seem to replace both sides at some point every year.Quote:
Originally Posted by GlennCMC70
I'm adding cooling ducts after MSR-C so maybe that will help. Or maybe it is just the Autozone rebuilt calipers.
My crossed fingers are starting to cramp.... LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by ShadowBolt
What kind of caliper grease are you using? I'll have to look to see the brand but Glenn pointed me towards some Ultra High Temp Caliper Grease and I do them every year. Take them out and clean it all then use the high temp grease.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoustonNW
Jerry-that sounds encouraging and maybe the perfect time to upgrade the cams.
What are you, 6'11"?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob Liebbe
That explains it, you're too tall for a race car.
I'll need more details on this. Is the caliper not floating on the guide pins or are the pistons in the caliper stuck?Quote:
Originally Posted by HoustonNW
Does it help to tell you Ihave been runningthe very same calipers since 2005. Not even a rebuild on them yet. I have to think your doing something wrong to get these results. Is this after any work you have done? Pad change? Anything?
The guide pin lube I use is Permatex's Ceramic Extreme Brake Parts Lubricant. It is rated to 3000 degree's. The Permatex P/N on the bottle is "Item # 24125".
It contains Ceramic Solids - so I brushed it on my exhaust manifolds. I make a hell of a mess during brake jobs. ;)
Dave,Quote:
Originally Posted by Fbody383
It was a combination of roads, single track, and open areas. We'd go for a while through various conditions and then come to a nice open area and our guide would let us open them up. It ended up being 3 different pond-type areas where we just ran circles around the edge. Not huge but enough to get up to 45-50 mph.
There were 4 of us that were lined up right behind the guide and then 4 others that always were a minute or two behind us. We would stop about every 10 minutes and wait for them to catch up and then continue on again. It was funny to hear the little kids tell their moms to go faster so they could stay up with the group!!
That's it... move Hallett to February on snowmobiles!Quote:
Originally Posted by michaelmosty
Put the engine back together with the correct crank trigger but no soap. F'ing thing knocks after it gets hot. Betting a broken piston at the wrist pin. Took my original iron block apark and it looks okay. Making Cresson is going to be hard now but I have to weeks..............
JJ
Damn Jerry...you really pissed off the motor gods this time. Sounds tough but I'm pulling for ya to get it done in time. I'm literally just a few minutes down the road from you...send me a PM and lemme know how I can help.
Jerry-sorry about breaking your arm. Looks nasty. Don't see how you are going to get the motor going with your arm. Do most of the parts interchange? I need to get back to polishing wheels. Good turnout at cars coffee yesterday. Think there were three mclarens.
Co-worker's FIL is selling his gun collection to fund a retirement boat.
Friday I picked up a Bushmaster M4 w/accessories, Remington 700 in 308 with optics and an unfired Yugo SKS with grenade launcher for WAY less than the cost of a set of 17" RA1s.
Jerry, take a tip from these guys. They seem to have the engine removal part down to a tree.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5V9g...ature=youtu.be
Just picked up the heads off the DL engine from the machine shop and after shelling out $150.00 all is well. Starting back together tonight. I pushed the two pistons and rods that had been hit by the valves (at Hallett in 2010) out of the block and had them checked and all looks great. Spent $350.00 last night on cam timing parts, head gaskets and bolts. That did not include chains, or gears or tentioners. Just guides, tentioner arms, seals, and gaskets. Damn mod motor parts cost an arm and a leg. So we add 70 lbs. to the nose but get to lose 50 lbs. off the total weight. I'm going to try like hell to get this all done this week and dropped in this weekend so I can make MSRC.
JJ
JJ
You go girl.....er, huh Jerry.
I got a day of CBP in with a new driver's side front caliper, new slider pins, and the high temp "ceramic" grease. Still got bad pad kickback and had to pump the pedal on the straights.
Someone asked if I left-foot braked, saying if I dragged the brake pedal it might be heating up the brakes too much. Not sure if I agree with or understood the reasoning but I quit. No more soft pedal!
I think the car might be a touch loose. I have 650 front and 200 rear springs, 30mm front and 19mm rear bars. Does anyone in the Houston area have a 32mm front bar that I could borrow for Cresson?
Cresson is a tighter track than TWS... a little loose might help the car rotate better in the tighter corners... just a guess..Quote:
Originally Posted by HoustonNW
Quote:
Originally Posted by HoustonNW
I have a 32 front I can bring to Cresson when I deliver the brake ducts.
wayne, check the slop in the rear axles at the center diff pin....push axle in and out. We chased pad knock back on my car for over a year and it turned out to be slop in the rear axles causing the REAR pads to push off the rotor. No knockback at all now even with shot front hubs.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoustonNW
Loose is fast Cole, sinch those belts down tight and let the back hang out!
(PS - I'd be glad to take 'er for a spin and see if it really is "too loose". From the enduros I've done in all kinds of various different cars, I have discovered that I call balanced what most other people call "OMFGWTFBBQ that's undriveably loose ;) - jus sayin )
Loaded the car on the trailer and hooked it up to the RV. Leaving for MSRC Friday morning. Hope the car is okay. Is there a dyno we can use at the track?
JJ