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Just got an email telling me I won't be getting an insurance card this year. Unless I jump through hoops on their website and create a user name and password and specifically request one. F'ing cheapskate SOB's
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Going out of town Saturday. Show gets out around 10pm an hour and a half from home. Pondering if I should plan on staying over night. Have to work till 9am or later Saturday and might be able to get some sleep before I have to leave but probably won't. I have driven in the past when I shouldn't have and it could have gone very badly.
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Originally posted by corvettedad View PostI'm still trying to figure out how I ended up in a group of all these smart people. I'm just a redneck hot rodder.
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Originally posted by cstmwgn View PostAndrew
If this is a mechanical roller and you would like to consider another vendor for your lifters, I would like to suggest looking into BAM lifters. They have a DLC coated lifter that has proven to be very reliable in my combination. I have tried COMP, MOREL, CROWER and have found the BAM's to be more durable in street applications (high mileage with moderately aggressive spring pressures).
But I have clear memories of the joy of recovering from sub-standard machine work and engine assembly! I hope you have found a good shop to help you get all this straightened out. A lot of shops don't appreciate how much clearance a 3" main likes to have.
Good Luck
My old set is going to get mounted in a display to honor the World's fastest Indian..."Donations to the god of Speed"
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Originally posted by BluLightning View PostHey Andrew, your car is only about an hour away from us.
Just got news the short block is coming back together. I swear I will do a burnout in Detroit as long as the streets are dry once this thing is back together! And also crack open two PBR's and christen the ground in honor of my departed stepdad being as he's one of the guys that seems to keep pushing me forward at times in spirit to get this car back together.
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I'm still trying to figure out how I ended up in a group of all these smart people. I'm just a redneck hot rodder.
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Originally posted by Dave the Bartender View PostThings I am pondering . . . Cstmwgn sure is a smart guy . . . with too much experience.
Cheers DTB
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Things I am pondering . . . Cstmwgn sure is a smart guy . . . with too much experience.
Cheers DTB
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Andrew
If this is a mechanical roller and you would like to consider another vendor for your lifters, I would like to suggest looking into BAM lifters. They have a DLC coated lifter that has proven to be very reliable in my combination. I have tried COMP, MOREL, CROWER and have found the BAM's to be more durable in street applications (high mileage with moderately aggressive spring pressures).
But I have clear memories of the joy of recovering from sub-standard machine work and engine assembly! I hope you have found a good shop to help you get all this straightened out. A lot of shops don't appreciate how much clearance a 3" main likes to have.
Good Luck
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Originally posted by Eliteman76 View Post
my car currently, sitting at a shop in Detroit.
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Originally posted by cstmwgn View Post
Been there - done that?
But I do have questions.
1. Are you contributing failure to VR1?
2. Who's lifters were you running?
3. What kind of spring pressures?
Morel lifters. Specifically states on their website if engine failure occurs, the set should be trashed. Current shop carefully opened one off the lifters up and it was packed full of metal.
Engine was not machined correctly, every single main bearing ate itself from 1/2 of the required clearances.
Too many other issues with machine work and things not being done, or not being done properly.
Engine guy slapped things together and mistakes were made.
Spring pressures were stock Edelbrock springs, that came with the Edelbrock Performer RPM heads. I'd have to check pressures but all my notes are with my car currently, sitting at a shop in Detroit.
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Originally posted by Eliteman76 View Post... I really wonder why I am broke after two full scale 351C rebuilds in one year.
(Cries 20W50 VR1 and ponders losses in $1300 worth of roller lifter failure and trusting the wrong machine shop and engine guy)
But I do have questions.
1. Are you contributing failure to VR1?
2. Who's lifters were you running?
3. What kind of spring pressures?
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*dragging myself from the Bangshift shop loft*
[move]THUD[/move]
I really wonder why I am broke after two full scale 351C rebuilds in one year.
(Cries 20W50 VR1 and ponders losses in $1300 worth of roller lifter failure and trusting the wrong machine shop and engine guy)
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Originally posted by oletrux4evr View Post'Georgia' is next year's version of 'Motoring In The Mitten'.
Not even sure I can HRPT this summer. One graduating HS on June 1st & another headed to Japan for a 6 month Study Abroad program in August is eating up a ton of funds.
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oh yeah, the bong. I wasn.t sure if anyone was left in Georgia or Florida after Bowl Selection day. Roll Tide & Hook 'Em Horns.
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