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Re: [Land-speed] Hood Scoops and Working on Race Cars

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Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Hood Scoops and Working on Race Cars
From: adin@frontier.net
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:01:33 -0700
Currently, no electricy or phone (snow storm) and, since I sold my
Toyota pickup to fund fun & games on the salt, barely able to get
around town (these cruel bastards still expect me to work - go figure).

I am thinking and dog-earing catologs at an alarming pace.

best to all!

David in Durango







Quoting Mike Lackey <mike_lackey@yahoo.com>:

> The only ones?  Nope, the rest of us just aren't flapping our jaws
> so much about it.  :)
>
> I'm slowly making progress on mine (it will barely qualify as a race
>  car, I'm building an I/GC that probably won't top 130mph), but
> there's not much to report yet.  I'm just starting on the engine
> swap and I gotta work on the honey-do list while I'm at it.
>
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
> To: lsr list autox <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, January 6, 2008 3:59:38 PM
> Subject: [Land-speed] Hood Scoops and Working on Race Cars
>
> Are Mayf and I the only ones working on our cars in the off-season?
>   Nobody is saying much this year.  I changed from a 4150 Holley to
> a  Quickfuel Dominator and had no idea it would domino so many
> changes.   After making new linkage and routing new fuel lines, I
> find that I  have to change the hood scoop.  Since I will no longer
> have the  luxury of a built-in air pan on the carburetor that the
> Trans Am  shaker provided, I've spent the last week cutting pieces
> of aluminum  and riveting them together to make what amounts to an
> oversize paint  roller pan with a hole in the middle.
>
>  DickJ
> In East Texas
>
>
>
>
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