What did you do on your Altered TODAY?

[Nightmare AA/FA]

A big thanks to Matt Robison at Merc9 speed for helping us out with a great deal on a couple of aluminum blocks. And a special thanks to the guy who set us up with the deal. 
We appreciate it a lot.

http://highflowdynamics.com/

http://merc9.com/

[Nightmare AA/FA]

Got my side project cert'd to 6.0 last night.

[Nightmare AA/FA]

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[Nightmare AA/FA]

Long day of finishing up some changes, test fired the motor and packed up to make a couple of test passes at the Patch first thing in the morning. Should be North bound on the 5 by 4 am.

Van, Bob, and Nitro Jim thrashed for 3 days to get is ready for the last test of the year, I can't thank them enough for their hard work.

[hotrodharley]

I finished mounting new steering box and removed king pins and cleaned/lubricated/reinstall..now starting on repacking front wheel bearings

[Nightmare AA/FA]

Dropped the 1934 Ford grill off for custom paint work.

[Nightmare AA/FA]

I spent the afternoon with a red Scotch Bright pad and WD40 scrubbing the chassis and fine tuning the tin work.  Nothing like an afternoon with old Diamond P VHS tapes playing in the garage.

[Nightmare AA/FA]

We spent today building intake manifolds and distributors for the nitro program. 

[GlennLever]

I sure wish more people would post here, I now there ate other members with Altereds on here.

You sure are busy.

[hotrodharley]

not much going on with the "DARK SIDE" fuel altered;;drained and cleaned out all fuel lines and backed off the valves for the winter;;trying to figure out what to do with my rear helmet bars;;when my chassis builder[welder]put the new cage on he leaned the 2 rear bars back instead ot straight up like most is done..when I took it out for it's shake down pass ..it thow my head back against bar so I couldn't see front of car and had to let off throttle;;when i'm sitting in car with no padding on cage and helmet on there is 4 1/2" between helmet and cage;;trying to figure out how maybe to build maybe a headrest to take up this space that won't look so gaddy[like xxxx]haven't found any pics of any altered that has a headrest to get ideal from;;I didn't have chine strap on helmet or any type neck support or hans device at that test hit but I did put chinstrap on helmet;;;;;with a chinstrap on helmet and a hans device or a simple neck color solve my issue with the cage gap?what i'm asking is should my head be against the cage before I take off or does the chinstrap and neck support is enough to keep head from snapping back against cage

[Nightmare AA/FA]

You can order pads from ISP in almost and depth. Maybe have a deep pad built to help.

Any idea of what you're going to do about a paint job?

[Draw 3D]

To add my .02¢ worth, last week, I took my altered out and am half way thru my licensing, this weekend, I'm repairing the crack in the body I got during my blindfold test, stepped in the wrong spot 'cause I couldn't see, fixing a few stress cracks and also getting the body ready for paint.

[Nightmare AA/FA]

That sucks, but at least fiberglass is fairly easy to fix.

[SullivanAAFA]

Harley, the HANS will address that situation and it's probably a good idea to have one anyway. I've never needed a chin strap, the HANS by itself worked for me in both A/F and with the AA/FA. From what I have been told if your head is getting back against the cage it can actually rattle your vision, but I can't speak from experience on that.

[hotrodharley]

Harley, the HANS will address that situation and it's probably a good idea to have one anyway. I've never needed a chin strap, the HANS by itself worked for me in both A/F and with the AA/FA. From what I have been told if your head is getting back against the cage it can actually rattle your vision, but I can't speak from experience on that.

so what you saying is don't want my head[helmet]rest against the roll bar[or padding]then?maybe I should put this in the tech part of this fourm;;