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Roo Man's Room / Re: slip joint fed

« on: February 08, 2013, 12:02:05 PM »

You can still wrap the upper and lower tubes around the front axle without hammering the tubes down. My way takes more time and effort. Excuses

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Roo Man's Room / Re: Chassis question

« on: February 07, 2013, 08:15:13 PM »

Let a professional chassis builder do it. Remember your life is worth every penny spent. Just ask your friends and family.

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Roo Man's Room / Re: slip joint fed

« on: February 07, 2013, 07:45:59 PM »

I make slip joint cars. The reason I do it is so I can control the amount of upward movement by how far I slip one tube inside another. I can make the car stiff in some spots and more flexy in others. .058 is the wall thickness I use for doing slip joint cars. Make sure you rosette weld the tubes that slip into one another. Randy Wilson's "Cox and Wilson" Top Fueler is done the same way and it works perfect. Understanding how a chassis works gives you all the advantages you need to make the chassis work. Also the angle of uprights and where they are placed is the key to a car that works. Slip jointing the tubing gives the chassis some style. Also the attachment of the front axle receptacle looks better with 1 1/4" than a bigger piece that really doesn't fit right. Alot of dorks hammer the ends of the tubes to make them fit on to the receptacle, ignorant!
I've been doin slip joint cars for 22yrs and have never had any problems.

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Roo Man's Room / Re: FED Steering question?

« on: February 07, 2013, 07:17:54 PM »

Go with the Strange box. It's for fed/ funny cars. They will make the shaft length custom if you want. Don't run those old junky boxes off of old cars, bad taste.

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: What did you do on your Front Engine Dragster TODAY?

« on: February 05, 2013, 09:16:08 AM »

Nice car Spud!!

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: What did you do on your Front Engine Dragster TODAY?

« on: February 02, 2013, 12:16:36 PM »

Killer engine wideopen231!!!!
Run that a** engine brother!

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Altereds / Re: A few pics of my mentors ride from the 60'S

« on: February 01, 2013, 07:29:55 PM »

Killer pics!!

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Rear Engine Dragsters / Re: What did you do on your Rear Engine Dragster TODAY?

« on: February 01, 2013, 06:50:33 PM »

Im in the process of restoring a Buddy Warren 1974 R.E.D that is a 230inch car. It last ran in 1986 with Max Kern as the shoe. Tubes were bent up on the rear section so I put that bad boy on the jig table and back halved it. The tubing was .049 wall so I stepped it up to .058. After rebuilding the rear, I added helmet bars to the cage and put a rack up front.

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: What did you do on your Front Engine Dragster TODAY?

« on: February 01, 2013, 06:28:12 PM »

Glenn, your car looks awesome! Im trying to make the Auto Rama in Dallas,TX Feb 15-17. Going to put a couple of dragster chassis's and suspension items in there too. Should be fun, its a 5A show so there will be tons of people attending. Im tryin to get Randy Wilson to enter his Top Fuel FED in the show, but Im not sure he'll make it.

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: What did you do on your Front Engine Dragster TODAY?

« on: February 01, 2013, 06:06:48 PM »

To see down the track with blown front engine cars, I pick a part of the wall and line it up with the hat and try to stay there. These cars move towards the side with less traction, so staying in the groove can be challenging. I love when my cars swerve, that gives me a nano second to see down the track. Night racing really gets your heart pumpin! A little tire haze is where its at, fun stuff for sure!

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: FEDs Forever!

« on: February 01, 2013, 05:56:54 PM »

I second that motion!