- 21. Olds quad four query (score: 1)
- Author: "John Linville" <bellytk@nh.ultranet.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:59:41 -0400
- Did the olds quad four come as a rear wheel drive? If so, what models/years? Appreciate any response. My hot rod sold today, have to deliver it tomorrow. Got to accellerate my Morris Minor woodie str
- /html/land-speed/2000-06/msg00481.html (6,740 bytes)
- 22. Freebie (score: 1)
- Author: "John Linville" <bellytk@nh.ultranet.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 08:09:26 -0400
- Hey list, have I got a deal. My son teaches at local high school votech, welding and power mechanics. Seems GM dispensed a number of throttle body injected Fiero V-6s a few years ago to local tech sc
- /html/land-speed/2000-06/msg00511.html (7,070 bytes)
- 23. Re: Mini Spool (score: 1)
- Author: "John Linville" <bellytk@nh.ultranet.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 06:38:25 -0400
- Hi Phil, we ran a mini-spool nine inch in our injected flathead front engine dragster for years with no problems (11.9 @108 mph) and have one in the 9" in our new flathead Anglia project. I would rec
- /html/land-speed/2000-05/msg00221.html (7,063 bytes)
- 24. Re: Supercharger (score: 1)
- Author: "John Linville" <bellytk@nh.ultranet.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 13:10:46 -0400
- Phil, best setup I have seen is Ron Sangiovanni in Wallingford, CT. He takes the B&M blower, which were made for small block chevys and available at swap meets, and shortens the snout. He puts a thre
- /html/land-speed/2000-04/msg00225.html (7,828 bytes)
- 25. Re: Help with a tubing bender (score: 1)
- Author: "John Linville" <bellytk@nh.ultranet.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:19:54 -0500
- amen to that John. I have a $300 pipe bender up in the garage attic having made that very mistake. Then I bought a Progressive air over hydraulic tubing bender to do the lakester and the Anglia cage
- /html/land-speed/2000-03/msg00453.html (10,347 bytes)
- 26. Re: Flathead question (score: 1)
- Author: "John Linville" <bellytk@nh.ultranet.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 09:11:40 -0500
- No, there is a guy here in New Hampshire, Reg Bernier, who built a 3 1/2 by 4 1/2 flathead a couple of years ago. I believe that was 346" if I remember correctly. He bought the 1/2" stroker crank off
- /html/land-speed/2000-02/msg00464.html (9,788 bytes)
- 27. Re: Honest Charley (score: 1)
- Author: "John Linville" <bellytk@nh.ultranet.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:52:19 -0500
- On a trip to Johnson City, TN to visit my parent's gravesite in the last year or so, I saw a box truck on the interstate with the Honest Charlie logo on the side. Looked like the name may still be ac
- /html/land-speed/2000-01/msg00437.html (8,569 bytes)
- 28. Re: Youngsters (score: 1)
- Author: "John Linville" <bellytk@nh.ultranet.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 07:32:20 -0500
- Good exercise for snowy, cold days to think back to your youth, eh? My dad was a carpenter so when I became interested in hot rods, about age 11 or 12 I think, I was on my own. I would haunt the loca
- /html/land-speed/2000-01/msg00762.html (12,545 bytes)
- 29. Re: Electronics vs. old way (score: 1)
- Author: "John Linville" <bellytk@nh.ultranet.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 06:35:07 -0500
- Like some poet once said, "to thine own self be true". There is a lot to be said for keeping the old ways alive. Hell, we have been running nostalgia drags with a flathead for years before beginning
- /html/land-speed/1999-12/msg00000.html (10,864 bytes)
- 30. Re: Flatheads Etc. (score: 1)
- Author: "John Linville" <bellytk@nh.ultranet.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 11:11:26 -0500
- Well Rich, maybe it is genetic but those of us that still run flatheads in competition are probably spurred on by several forces. Those being keeping the torch alive for the little engine that starte
- /html/land-speed/1999-11/msg00168.html (9,794 bytes)
- 31. hometown (score: 1)
- Author: "John Linville" <bellytk@nh.ultranet.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 07:39:20 -0500
- Hi from the snowy pine woods of Exeter, New Hampshire. Land of no income tax and no sales tax, we pay for government by building huge liquor stores on our main roads at the border and selling lottery
- /html/land-speed/1999-11/msg00415.html (6,778 bytes)
- 32. Hot Rod TV and Flathead (score: 1)
- Author: "John Linville" <bellytk@nh.ultranet.com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 10:47:19 -0500
- Caught Hot Rod TV on Speedvision this morning while eating my bran flakes. Was just in time to see feature on the Flatfire engine. Lots more angles and shots than in the magazine including showing th
- /html/land-speed/1999-11/msg00467.html (6,598 bytes)
- 33. Re: Progress on roadster (score: 1)
- Author: "John Linville" <bellytk@nh.ultranet.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 14:05:31 -0400
- Hi, is your flathead an 8BA (49-53)? If so we were able to make a reverse template off those blocks and transfer the holes to a small block chevy Lakewood scattershield that we got at a flea market f
- /html/land-speed/1999-09/msg00095.html (8,540 bytes)
- 34. Re: Progress on roadster (score: 1)
- Author: "John Linville" <bellytk@nh.ultranet.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 21:14:55 -0400
- John, we mocked up an 8BA block standing on its nose, the bellhousing and a chevy four speed and aligned everything with the input shaft to the tranny centered on the crank. With this all in place, w
- /html/land-speed/1999-09/msg00101.html (11,048 bytes)
- 35. Re: ArdunDoug's Offer (score: 1)
- Author: "John Linville" <bellytk@nh.ultranet.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:30:29 -0400
- I know exactly what you mean. I have to write a post-it note and put it on my shirt in order to know why I went to the kitchen (however I can remember the best times/speeds of all my race cars since
- /html/land-speed/1999-09/msg00105.html (7,593 bytes)
- 36. Re: Weather readings & event info (score: 1)
- Author: "John Linville" <bellytk@nh.ultranet.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 11:09:19 -0400
- Hey Chuck, we would love a two day September meet. Towing from NH. Being retired I can come down early if you need some extra help to do it. Praying the Anglia is complete and ready to run but I'll t
- /html/land-speed/1999-06/msg00029.html (8,222 bytes)
- 37. Cooling query (score: 1)
- Author: "John Linville" <bellytk@nh.ultranet.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 22:11:49 -0400
- Hi, novice question here. The anglia will run our injected flathead we have campaigned for several years. It runs the quarter in the 11's on just captive water in the block and only gets to about 180
- /html/land-speed/1999-06/msg00213.html (7,095 bytes)
- 38. Camaro Question (score: 1)
- Author: "John Linville" <bellytk@nh.ultranet.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 20:11:09 -0400
- My neighbor is doing a '41 Lincoln with '96 vette front and rear suspension, a 454, and a T-56 trans. He is having clutch problems so I told him I would ask any Camaro guys that are on here. He is us
- /html/land-speed/1999-06/msg00282.html (7,449 bytes)
- 39. Question for those with doorslammer cars (score: 1)
- Author: "John Linville" <bellytk@nh.ultranet.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 14:58:13 -0400
- Getting ready to set the caster on the Anglia project. We used to run 18 degrees on the dragster but that seems a little extreme for an altered sedan. Maybe 12 degrees? Anyone want to share their set
- /html/land-speed/1999-06/msg00289.html (6,969 bytes)
- 40. Re: Ford GAF (score: 1)
- Author: "John Linville" <bellytk@nh.ultranet.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 19:39:04 -0400
- John, I would take the nailhead out of the bellytank and put one of those in without hesitation. Now who could you get to grind cams for that, eh? --Original Message-- From: V4GR@aol.com <V4GR@aol.co
- /html/land-speed/1999-05/msg00118.html (7,873 bytes)
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