Hey Racin...We will be heading south about the same time... I will be running down a trailer load of stuff to a rental house in Prescott AZ. Then coming back empty to get the MH with my racecar trailer and pull my two horses' down with my F 150 Moving south for the weather.

 

Right on, Ill be leaving the Thursday night before thanksgiving, heading down through NV (Reno, Vegas, Blah blah) and getting to Yuma by Monday or so.... if it lines up, maybe we can sort of convoy or something....

 

Are you stopping in Vegas? Are you bringing the truck?

Either way, let me know. I'll buy the first round.

 

Well when it gets closer I will know more but it looks like my last day of work will be the 22nd of November then I will leave for the first run down to AZ a few days later when I have loaded all my wife's crap on the trailer. I have done all the route's to AZ from here over the years so we will be burning fuel over the same Blacktop somewhere along the way... I'm welding up the cut to bits pipe into a new configuration but I need a drivers side manifold to finish the job...You got one layin around?

 

I will be, we usually spend 3 days in vegas, but due to the nature of the trip, its only going to be one night...

Either way, its Vegas, so anything goes ....

 

Sounds complicated ...

 

I was waiting til I was done, but that wont be til probably tomorrow....

Here is some pics of the Rod Sleeves... I am done with about 5-1/2 of them... I am a pretty good machinist, but when I have to cut away 75% of the stock to get my part, its a little tedious... That's all I could find material wise though... So far I am in it an hour per sleeve... uke:

Anyway, progress...

 

I wish I knew machine work...too much math for my head lol na man looks awsome! Cant wait to see it run

 

Thanks man...

As far as machine work goes.... Nothing to worry about, don't be afraid to screw up a few parts on the way, and it becomes easy....

 

What not bronze?....What did you use?....You guna heat the rod and freeze the sleeve and press it in or what?

 

Just the sleeve, bushing will go in over it...

Only reason I did it this way was because my machinist wasn't sure it was idea, and I was impartial... So I did it this way... I don't think there would be a prob with bearing bronze, and I originally planned on bushings out of my chuck of aluminum-bronze I have in my stock, but this was the safe way out....

 

racer, and racin, if you go by the shop turnoff, holler and Dan and I will come look at your moho.

 

you need to make a set of exhaust manifolds to sell gonna be yankin the motor out of my pig to start a frame off with a few goodies to boot lol got a shopping list for your site

 

Can't wait until I'm a machinist. I hope those things work as good as they look.

 

Wheres the update man, I havnt got my IDI fix this week lol