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Double pneumonia

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Get well soon Patsy!!

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Life gets in the way sometimes. Glad everything is turning out very well for Patsy.

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Patsy is ok to be in the house by herself so my plans are to install the transmission and get it inline with the pinion.

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Dumbo got a package yesterday from Holley we will open it today.

I just can’t believe how much time it takes to do stuff that I don’t usually do.

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Stuck in traffic on I 65. Yesterday was a good day everything lined up well and got the engine , transmission, transmission shields and shifter hooked up. One of the more difficult items to install by yourself is the radiator. It come up from the bottom and the bracket is mounted to each side of the frame. We still have a laundry list of stuff to do.

We are still waiting for a call from F.A.S.T. we called them before Indy on the help line. Still no help. Looks like Fast is dying a slow death.

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Had a good day at the dyno I learned a lot. If I would have thought things through I would have brought more parts to try. Next time for sure. On the way home the the information learned might and probably will create a potential traction problem. Still trying to catch up with the Fords and Chevys, I hope we are getting closer

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To all who build there own stuff, this is what I scraped out of my new manifold for my new engine. The casting sand and the "Dingell Berries" I was able to scrape out with a dowel. I think a stiff wire tooth brush will work to get the rest of the sand out.

So much for quality control.

That junk would have destroyed a set of piston, rings, cylinder walls, valves, and valve seats.

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Somebody's slacking. Not good.

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Kudos to Larry. I have never seen such attention to detail. Wow! Talk about Blueprinting and Balancing as we used to say!

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The old machinist rule: measure twice cut once; and almost right is still wrong!

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Broke a stud off in the intake and had to dig it out. It broke two threads below the surface and damaged those two threads. Straighten the threads with a pocket knife. Got two different ez out kits at Lowe’s that worked very well.

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Larry,
The GEN III HEMI is a bear to work on compared to a RB isn't it.

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It’s real tough when I do stupid stuff

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When will Dumbo first hit the track ?

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When Patsy can go racing in the motor home. I'm hoping we can get the Holley system installed in the car and on the Dyno before we go.

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I’ve been studying the new engine management system from Holley. The first items I’m going to get and test is a backup for every sensor. I would feel very silly to travel 600 to 800 miles to race and have a problem with a $30 sensor.
If two identical air temp sensors vary 3 degrees would I need to change the offset to make the ECU supply the engine with identical A/F and spark of the previous run?

Now that I’ve thought about it a faulty O2 could cause all kind of headaches.

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Larry
How long did it take for you to get your Holley system. I ordered a while ago. Was supposed to ship Monday. Now it reads shipment pending. But if I click on the system I bought. It now reads April 28th ship date. Trying to decide to dyno this thing with the Commander950 Pro system. And make changes if needed. Or wait for my new HP system and harness to get here.

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With my Holley system, I ordered a complete extra harness. Once you get everything installed and wired in the car, you do not want to have to pull it all out to dyno the engine. Plus, if you carry it in the trailer, it may help if you have problems at the track.

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Get the Rife Sensors. Made in the USA and very accurate. They will also make custom sensors for your specific application.

https://www.motionraceworks.com/coll...s/rife-sensors

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Well our team, granddaughter, lost in the finals of the Kentucky girls basketball championship. Her team was very good but the winner was better. For her and most of the team there is next year.

Now I can get back to work on Dumbo. I have to admit it was fun being in Kentucky at tournament time. It made me forget about not getting into the Gators do to not having the correct expectation date on the credit card while using a transfer.

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Pre lubed the engine in the car, what a darn mess.

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LOL, I can relate. I pre lubed my FE on the engine stand a week ago, brand new Milodon pan leaked at the drain plug which was as tight as I thought it should be. Also with valve covers off once oil comes through the rocker shafts it floods the top of the motor even with restrictors and runs out down the sides of the block faster than you can clean it up.
Were you having leaks or just over flow?

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Above the oil filter on the block there are two 3/8 NPT plugged holes. Bottom one goes to the filter and crank driven oil pump and the top one is the passage the the oiling system. I use a three gallon viton seal bug spray to pressurize the system the system. The mess occurres when the hose is disconnected and the plug is installed with my left hand.

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Melling makes a great oil primer. Larry, no matter on fast you are with the pipe plug, it is always a mess, especially the first time before you realize what happens.

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6th

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Who owns this car, with the peace sign, mag wheels, and four on the floor?
Charlie Daniels

I spent a better part of a day looking for some body parts that I put up to keep dust off of them. I tore the car apart after Indy and just now putting it back together. Sometimes I forget where I put stuff, just another stupid old man trick. I will not get much done this weekend 'cause it March Madness! Its the best of college sports on TV.


I got a lot done today. If everything goes well we should be smelling smoke latter this week. As y'all can see I till have a lot of cleanup to do on getting the wires looking better. It's a real pain to get the valve cover off on the passenger's side just to check valve lash. Headers have to go on in an assigned order. Believe it or not I can get 10 O2's on the car and only have to install one in the pipe before installing the pipe on engine.

I took a picture of the oil filer base with the two plugs that make a mess when I fumble them. Me and the air inlet almost look eye to eye

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Larry, I expect you to get many things done this week since your Favorite college BB team lost Sunday. Perhaps DUMBO will be out soon .? :)

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Indy Pts race end of April. Maybe in FSS/F, it makes the tires think they’re bigger.

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Larry don't forget the 2 coil drivers, our's went bad after 3 years and we replaced every sensor before replacing the coil drivers which fixed the hot misfire and no start problem. Main harness also developed an open which would shut the engine off at the hit.

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Dave how long did it take to find the broke wire in the harness. I carry a coil pack or two, two old Hemi spark plugs boots to check timing, plugs, trans and converter. Spare tires and wheels.

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I bought a complete extra wiring harness for my Holley system. That way you do not have to disassemble half the car to dyno an engine and you also have a spare to carry in the trailer.

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Six days of testing at the track. We could not duplicate the problem unless we were launching at a prepped track. As the coil drivers got worse, the engine would not start after the drivers warmed up, so we had to find and fix that issue before we could trace down the harness issue. When multiple electronic issues appear at the same time, diagnosis gets complicated. We now carry a known good spare for every sensor and an extra set of coil drivers. We are getting the original harness repaired and will carry that as well.

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I checked out two coil pack harness's and an injector harness for continuity. All of them checked good and were from the FAST system. To get the harness to fit the Holley system I just have to re-pin to the Holley stile plugs for the main harness.

I need help in what company makes good tools to re-pin and or repair wiring harness's. Also a good source of the plugs for the harness.

We should smell smoke today.

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I’m thinking Todd G. In the 8.50 build down a couple of post is using what you would need ( Deutsch connectors) see pg 17 & 18 of his build.

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Thanks Mike I will check it out.
Did not get to smell smoke yesterday. Since we will be going to a chasse dyno I had to hookup my trans temp sender, I don't want to fry the trans. Did another Stupid Old Man Trick. I had the shifter in park and the trans in reverse. I found that out when I went to tighten the rear wheels they kept on spinning. The recipe for disaster involves the neutral safety switch located on the shifter. The switch closed allowed the starter to engage with the trans in reverse. It could have been a new garage door and a return trip to the body shop. To adjust the shifter I had to remove the collector, tether, and part of the trans shield. Got it adjusted and put back together.

Trans temp sending unit goes in the pipe bung in the pan. I was able to install without too much of a mess. Then it was a one year old birthday party and NCAA Basketball men's quarter finals.

Another Good Day!

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Well I did not smell smoke or even got close. Three of the smaller wires that go straight to the positive post had fallen behind the battery and were not connected. I spent most of Sunday afternoon trying to figure out what was wrong. Monday morning I spent rereading the FAST info and checking the simple stuff. Monday afternoon we spent celebrating our 53rd anniversary, my mother-in-law gave us less than a year. Today we start on # 54. Our honey moon car was $400 57 Chevy TwoTen 2 dr post 265 2 barrel three speed manual radio delete purchased from a retired spinster school teacher.

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Happy Anniversary!

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After I got all the wires in the correct place the car started like it had been turned off 5 minutes ago. I had some new sensors to try some worked and some did not work. On the cam sensor the ones with a different polarity N/S did not work and the car would not start. Crank sensor only one OEM part number would work.
We did get to smell smoke on our anniversary we were both happy!

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Spent this afternoon figuring out what sensor work and what sensors a dealership hooked me on. Some of the Hemi stuff is getting a little hard to find from non support.