No topic thread,,, Part 2
Post Fiend
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From: Yorkton Sask
monday's the day...man, am i excited!!!
Post Fiend
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From: carter lake ia.
paul,
i just love your sense of humor! and i thought driving stock car was dangerous. hell you got me beat by 15,000 ft. i have problems with 15ft.
let alone 15,000ft.
not funny you got hurt. but the post was funny.
jack
i just love your sense of humor! and i thought driving stock car was dangerous. hell you got me beat by 15,000 ft. i have problems with 15ft.
let alone 15,000ft.
not funny you got hurt. but the post was funny.
jack
Lead Driver
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From: Eccles, WV
I got some pics of my (his) car around this apartment somewhere. If I can find them, I will post them
Post Fiend
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From: carter lake ia.
hi guys,
yeah i let my nascar licsense laps about 15 years ago. we race at south sound speedway in rochester washington. my neighbor races a limited late model out there. and i'm on his pit crew. i've been driving stock car since i 14 years old. and i have built a few myself as well. here back in 1989 i bought a car and i hate using the D word on a ford forum but yes i bought a 68 coronet 2 dr hrdtp and i've owned it for almost 19 years and its still a stock car all beat up. but still run and drives.
jack
yeah i let my nascar licsense laps about 15 years ago. we race at south sound speedway in rochester washington. my neighbor races a limited late model out there. and i'm on his pit crew. i've been driving stock car since i 14 years old. and i have built a few myself as well. here back in 1989 i bought a car and i hate using the D word on a ford forum but yes i bought a 68 coronet 2 dr hrdtp and i've owned it for almost 19 years and its still a stock car all beat up. but still run and drives.
jack
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From: Eccles, WV
Hey, the Coronet is a great bomb to drive, I had one myself. Had the craziest transmission I have ever seen. No one could figure it out. Once it got hot, there was no 2nd gear. The one I replaced it with lasted about six months and started the same thing. My mother said the car was hexed. Damn that thing would run though. My sister trashed it. It was that funky chrysler medium light blue metallic with blue interior. 383 under the hood. One bad *** car.
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Post Fiend
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From: carter lake ia.
mine used to be forest green with gold super bee stripes across the back of it. when i bought it, it was white [latex paint] and the front end was messed up. the guy i bought from hit the wall with it. so i put a 70 newport bumper on the front of the old bird. i had to do some cutting and welding to get it to fit. the newports are 6" wider than a coronet. when i got it it didn't have and drivers door bars it. the door glasses were still in both doors w/regeulaters the heater box was still under what was left of the dash and the hood scoops were still on it. it had a 383 magnum in it and the hood scoops showed it. i just tore it all apart and started over. my ex-wife gave it a name of bertha! as in bertha butts. bertha is sitting right now. i just don't have the money to put her back on the race track! but i still own it. i put 3 engines in that car over the years. the current engine is a 318 w/360 4v heads that i built and she has a comp cams extreme energy cam and valve train. 7.3l ford diesel valve springs.
jack
jack
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From: carter lake ia.
yes sir,
it comes from me working in the salvage yard thats really how i learned.
have to reserect a engine that has been wrecked or what not is a challenge. i figuerd out that the early 7.3 valve springs are the same height and diameter as the dodge springs just heavier. plus the diesels springs have over 100,000 miles on them so there not so stiff and they work good.
anyway yes i am! i have a few engines that i have built that amazing enough are still on the road. to include some big rig engines.
PREP, if sat down wrote about every engine or vehicle that i've worked on or built on this forum i'll bet i could write my own page and that would page 81 lol! NOT TO BE A SMART BUTT OR ANYTING! or an expert not by any stretch of the imagination, but yes in my day i'd like to think that. i don't limit myself as to what i work on or build. and you know what, i'm not good with carburetors never have been!
jack
it comes from me working in the salvage yard thats really how i learned.
have to reserect a engine that has been wrecked or what not is a challenge. i figuerd out that the early 7.3 valve springs are the same height and diameter as the dodge springs just heavier. plus the diesels springs have over 100,000 miles on them so there not so stiff and they work good.
anyway yes i am! i have a few engines that i have built that amazing enough are still on the road. to include some big rig engines.
PREP, if sat down wrote about every engine or vehicle that i've worked on or built on this forum i'll bet i could write my own page and that would page 81 lol! NOT TO BE A SMART BUTT OR ANYTING! or an expert not by any stretch of the imagination, but yes in my day i'd like to think that. i don't limit myself as to what i work on or build. and you know what, i'm not good with carburetors never have been!
jack
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From: Eccles, WV
Jack;
Dont worry about a long post. As long as it is interesting to read, no one will complain.
I do miss the old air breathers. Nothing like having someone bring you a sick one, and you sit there with that long screwdriver and ear and balance it, then hook up a tack and fine tune it. My racing buddy calls me from time to time to come up and set the carbs for his race cars. I ususally will do ten or so over the period of a day. I know everybody swears by Holley, but the best one if nascar would approve it would be the old thermoquad that Chrysler used in the late 70's. It had it problems, but if you did a tune on it using propane, you could find unbelievable horsepower and great fuel mileage for a 4 bble that you could drop a beer bottle through the ports.
Dont worry about a long post. As long as it is interesting to read, no one will complain.
I do miss the old air breathers. Nothing like having someone bring you a sick one, and you sit there with that long screwdriver and ear and balance it, then hook up a tack and fine tune it. My racing buddy calls me from time to time to come up and set the carbs for his race cars. I ususally will do ten or so over the period of a day. I know everybody swears by Holley, but the best one if nascar would approve it would be the old thermoquad that Chrysler used in the late 70's. It had it problems, but if you did a tune on it using propane, you could find unbelievable horsepower and great fuel mileage for a 4 bble that you could drop a beer bottle through the ports.