I guess we are just a bunch of old guys...but we're sure having fun !!! God,
this is way better than drag racin'. B-Ville, B-Ville , B-ville !!!
>>> Dick Jurkowski <lsr_man@yahoo.com> 07/26 11:21 AM >>>
Yeah, when I first got the car, it had the stock
stovebolt in it. I stuck on a Sharp dual single
barrel manifold (had to trade my guitar for
that), and a home made split manifold. The
thing sounded like a Stearman crop duster but
didn't run a whole lot faster. It just scared
the other rodders. Then, when I blew the motor,
my dad helped me put in the Jimmy. it looked
stock, and sounded a lot slower (hee hee hee),
and I just told all the guys that my dad wouldn't
let me use the dual carbs and exhausts any more.
(Suckers!)
Those were the days!
Dick J
--- "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
wrote:
> Dick,
> I can identify with your first rod. I had a
> 1946 Chevy pickup that was
> my first tow vehicle. I acquired a 292 cu. in.
> Jimmy that had been
> massaged a bit, which included 9.5-1 pistons
> and a two carb manifold. It
> was hooked up to an Olds 4-speed Hydro. It had
> unbelievable torque. I
> raced cars (and won) from stop signs while
> towing the race car. I later
> changed it out for a 330 cu. in. Olds. The
> Jimmy was ever bit as strong
> as the Olds in the torque category.
> Tom (19 days 'til Speedweek)
>
> Dick Jurkowski wrote:
> >
> > My first car was a 1949 Chev that my dad
> helped
> > me put a 302 Jimmy in. It was a gas engine
> > though. Is this the same motor you guys are
> > talking about? If so, that was the true
> stealth
> > weapon of the 40s and 50s. It just took a
> little
> > sledge hammer work, and moving the radiator
> > forwar a little to get it in. Dad hogged out
> the
> > intake manifold and put some kind of 2-bbl
> carb
> > on it - I think it came from a straight 8
> Buick
> > or something. Most guys thought the motor was
> > just a plaine jane chevy, but I chewed up
> every
> > flathead rod in town. Even when the Chev v8
> came
> > out in 55, it was two years before anybody
> around
> > town did enough soup-up to any of them to
> take my
> > jimmy-powered chev. As a mater of fact, the
> > first car ever to beat me was a 57 chev with
> a
> > paxton blower on it. That jimmy had some
> kind of
> > torque!!
> > Dick J
> >
> >
>
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