Crank Trigger

[1320racer]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

he is a bracket racer that doesn't even build his own engines

you really think you're special. Newsflash, it's the year 2013 not 1963!

Over the next 4 months, Tilburg's, Gulius's, Watters's, Patterson's, Bischoff's and other's engine shops phones will be ringing off the wall and their shops full of the engines for and from the biggest and winingest names in class racing just as will Sunset's, Reher Morrison's, Par's, Shafiroff's, Schimdt's and others with their shops full of and building engines for the who's who of super comp, gas, street and bracket racing and you think you're special cause your "build" your own. Too ****** funny!

The truth is YOU buy your engine parts just like I do and the vast majority of class and bracket racers do, you pay a machine shop to do your machine work just like I do and the vast majority of class and bracket racers do...

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Starting on my last engine... Just getting too old for this *****.
Hauled the new Bowtie block up to Patterson's today for machining , and ordered pistons & rings.
Going to lighten the crank a tad.

you pay to have your engine dyno'd just like I do and the vast majority of class and bracket racers do so If your claim to fame is that you clean your parts, apply some assembly lube, check/set a few clearances, gap rings and torque a few bolts have it, all so you can attempt to impress the naive and clueless that you "build" your own engines...

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

When the heads show up I can check valve-to-piston clearance. Then put it together.

don't worry, I won't tell anyone the truth!.

Further, last I checked when reading National Dragster, the NHRA doesn't award Wins, Wally's or $$ for those who's claim to fame is they built their engine! Fletcher along with the biggest names in NHRA Sportsman racing don't build their own engines but somehow, he just managed to win his 84th and 85th Wally.

Oh and btw, the vast majority of class and serious bracket racers don't build their cars, carbs, transmissions, converters and headers and neither do you!

What I KNOW is what works on the track, showing on the time slip and what just lightens your wallet!