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Merry Christmas Vic and Kathy... I understand the funds part... After paying the Paterson Racing Bill on "Raymond" and having just a couple of small thing done to it at Chris Carlson's Hot Rods I am pretty much out of Mula And the fact we are starting to Build our house next Year it is unlikely that much will get done on it for 2016...
If you ever decide you want to make a road trip come see us... We have a spare room and a few bottles of Wine and a pretty full stock of liquor and about 10 kinds of Brewskies... MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! |
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About seven years ago, I collaborated with G&G Performance and a good friend in Houston to build that engine for my buddy Smith. He was running in the 305 sprint car class up in central MO and wanted a good bullet, but no one in his immediate neighborhood was into that kind of build. I picked up the engine and took it home with me and proceeded to tear it down and build it back up using forged lightweight parts, a solid lifter cam, low tension Total Seal rings and the best set of stock steel heads allowed by the rules. G&G did the machine work and my buddy Wilson rubbed on the heads (maybe just a smidge more than was allowed back then.) We also accidentally slipped some titanium parts in them and a set of Comp beehive springs. ;) His driver won the local track championship with it the following year. Last I heard some guy from Knoxville bought the complete car for his son to drive. One interesting thing that we did after dyno testing was to build our own velocity stacks for the Hillborn injection. We used larger tubing with Formula style inserts that slip fit into the tubing. I did all the CAD work on the inserts and the flanges that bolted to the manifold base and my buds in Houston at Cryotech did the machine work on their CNCs. Turned out very nice, but I always wished we had made another trip to Ostrich to do a back to back dyno test. By the time we had the velocity tubes in place, it was time to go racing! I still have one of the leftover stack inserts that sits on my toolbox. |
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TRICK! Are those inserts siamesed? I could see that it was a Hillborn setup and wondered why an iron head 305??? All makes sense now and it's cool!
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Well by now, you may know that Maybelline sold at Mecum yesterday. Hammered down at $37K, but I was able to negotiate a $35K payout. The crowd had thinned considerably by the time we ran across the block. Our number was S194, but they inserted 55 ".1" cars in the queue ahead of us. We should have gone across about 4:00 pm, but it was past 5:30 when we hit the carpet thanks to all these stragglers they stuck in front of our '57. I felt like if it had gone thru at 4, we might have gone over $40K, but that's just my opinion.
Mecum staff told us this morning they thought the reason the crowd evaporated was because Trump was holding a rally at The Midland, a few blocks away. Cops were lined up blocking the streets and using pepper spray on some of the protesters. I reckon the car folks wanted to get as far away from all that mess as they could, as fast as they could. Anyway, she's gone to a new home somewhere. Now it's time to make some progress on CRLS. Parting shot... |
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Congrats on the sale, looking forward to more on CRLS
I really enjoyed following along for Maybelline, and really appreciate you taking the time to share it with us. -Sam |
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Well done Victor :clap: Congrats on finishing the project and making good like that. Also, thank you for documenting the ride and sharing with all of us. Look forward to seeing the truck back in the shop!
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Glad to see you got Mabelline sold. Sorry to hear that it didn't bring more for you though, somebody got a wonderful car they will enjoy for many years. Let me know if I can help you out with CRLS.
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Congrats on the sale. Looking forward to what you do with CRLS.
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That was quite the journey Vic! Congrats on the sale!
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Thanks, everyone. It's weird to walk into the workshop and see thin air where the car used to sit. My next move is to get a wrecker over to the house and transfer CRLS to the workshop downstairs. Then I'll begin disassembling everything. I'll report progress on Crusty's thread. Later!
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glad it all worked out for you Vic... I will look forward to the progress on CRLS...
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Hope it all worked out, Vic. AS always, holler if you need extra hands. Looking forward to the 2.0 on this.
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Glad everything worked out for you, can't wait to see more amazing work on the ole truck
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Can someone post the thread on his truck ,I have followed the 57 Ford build and would like to follow the truck build ?
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