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Matt Shaff's Engine Shop / Re: Torque converter question, maybe the wrong room?

« on: May 16, 2013, 07:28:22 AM »

Just be careful because some race converters already have that thickness added to the converter mounts.

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Your Builds / Photo Gallery / Re: Glenn's dragster thread

« on: May 14, 2013, 06:18:27 PM »

Cool stuff, thanks for the info Glenn.

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: 1st passes, finally!

« on: May 13, 2013, 05:59:57 PM »

Congratulations... nice story... good luck and keep us posted!

I liked the "...straight as an arrow...". My car was handful on my first pass, perhaps straight as a boomerang on crosswinds (no, NOT related to Rooman!).

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Altereds / Re: What did you do on your Altered TODAY?

« on: May 12, 2013, 09:32:16 AM »

Thanks for the updates Flyingdutchmanfc. I know the pain of being a one-man-band. Your setup looks very cool, including the garage. That's a healthy mouse you've got there.

Nice sounding motor, I wish my alarm clock could play that in the mornings.

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Your Builds / Photo Gallery / Re: Glenn's dragster thread

« on: May 09, 2013, 10:21:52 PM »

Glenn - That's a nice looking blower... say more please.

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Your Builds / Photo Gallery / Re: Engine fitment

« on: May 04, 2013, 09:00:36 AM »

Without too much hope, I have used J-B Weld on block repairs like this, so far so good.

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Your Builds / Photo Gallery / Re: Trial fit of new motor

« on: April 27, 2013, 03:39:52 PM »

It looks seriously awesome. That's a tall powerhouse, a periscope may help seeing the track!

Can't wait to hear it and see it in action.

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Your Builds / Photo Gallery / Re: Sand drag pics 'n videos

« on: April 24, 2013, 09:07:27 PM »

That's awesome! I miss so much when asphalt dragsters would smoke the 1/4 mile. I hate VHT!

Just curious... does the sand track need to be plowed after every pass?

Thanks for the info, pics and vids!

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Your Builds / Photo Gallery / Re: The" Fugitive Dragster" build

« on: April 22, 2013, 08:47:03 PM »

Sweet lookind FED. What's the tranmission?

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Your Builds / Photo Gallery / Re: Sand drag pics 'n videos

« on: April 22, 2013, 12:03:32 PM »

This is WILD! Your FED looks great. Is that red RED a sidewinder??

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Roo Man's Room / Re: Moving Engine Forward

« on: March 29, 2013, 05:36:28 AM »

What's the wheelbase? Looks like to be in the ballpark of my 173" FED. Are you fighting motivated (and unintentional) wheelstands? Instead of moving the motor, have you considered lengthening the chassis?

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Matt Shaff's Engine Shop / Re: Spark Plug indexing

« on: March 24, 2013, 11:03:13 PM »

On the South West Junior Fuel Association website, Jon Hansen posted some interesting thoughts on engine temperature for Jr Fuel engines. The posting was a while back but you may want to go check that out. Sounds like you have a pretty honking 355 there George. What is your car weight?

I found the article (posted almost 2 years ago)
. Very interesting! Thanks. George

George - Could you please post the link?

Thanks

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: times and combos

« on: March 22, 2013, 07:42:55 PM »

Marc - Nice looking motor... and fast!

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Matt Shaff's Engine Shop / Re: Spark Plug indexing

« on: March 21, 2013, 07:54:02 PM »

Thank's Ricardo This forum is a great place for us to share information with each other . Most of the other forum's like Bracket Talk and Yellow Bullet are not really geared for what we do . Racing a F.E.D. is much different than a R.E.D. After seeing what George is going on his 60ft's I am thinking about going back to those 12x31 Goodyear's if I can get a set.

Thank you Bill and everybody else here for sharing precious knowledge with FED rookies like me.

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Matt Shaff's Engine Shop / Re: Spark Plug indexing

« on: March 20, 2013, 08:11:01 PM »

Great discussions guys!