Damn, it's been awhile! Almost 3 months since I scattered the bottom end in my old motor...

My ARE 346 solid roller motor is complete and shipping out to me today. I should see it early next week, and hope to have the car running again by next weekend if all goes well. There will be a bit of tuning required, and still a tiny bit of fabrication that I haven't been able to finish without the engine in the car (fuel lines & spark plug wires).

Hopefully I'll be racing again very soon. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />

 

I can't wait to hear about it man!

My only hope will be to catch ya on spray <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />

 

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by NASSTY:
<strong>I can't wait to hear about it man!

My only hope will be to catch ya on spray <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I may be sneaking a little shot of N2O on the car myself... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />

I'm just gonna take things easy and see how they work out...

 

Glad to hear it George. Let me know when you are going to head down this way to run the beast. <img border="0" alt="[Camaro]" title="" src="graemlins/camaro.gif" />

 

SWEET!!! i hope all goes well on the initial startup!

How's everything else on the clean-up side of things?

Chris

 

Glad to hear its all back in order, can't wait to see how it performs, are you still sticking with the JW converter?

 

Would love to see that beast run... Let us know when ur gonna get that beast to the track..

 

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Glad to hear it George. Let me know when you are going to head down this way to run the beast. <img border="0" alt="[Camaro]" title="" src="graemlins/camaro.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I will likely be down that way very soon after getting the car back together... How crowded have the TNT nights been lately?

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>How's everything else on the clean-up side of things?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">All that has been finished for quite awhile now, and I've been waiting for the engine to get finished up and shipped to me. I ended up repainting a good bit of the car, as well as all the fire damage underneath. Everything came out fairly well. I still need to trim the rear bumpre cover a little more for tire clearance, but it's OK for now.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Glad to hear its all back in order, can't wait to see how it performs, are you still sticking with the JW converter? </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I'll be using the JW converter for now, but I don't think it will be optimal for the new setup. I'm probably gonna have to drop some $$$ on a custom built 8" race converter to optimize the new combination. I won't be changing the converter for awhile though... Hopefully it will work "OK."

 

George I was there to spectate last Fri. night and it wasn't too bad. If I hadn't broken a valve spring earlier on that day I would have had the quickest car there.

Lanes 1&2 only had about 6 cars and the street car lanes had the usual flock or ricers and amateur idiots. Maybe 100 cars total.

Keep me posted. Let me know if you need a crew chief <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />
I can get you a reference if you need one <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />

 

What did you do with your old heads? Have you sold them? Just curious if your plan of two motors is still in the works <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />
Chris

 

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Chris ARE 360:
<strong>What did you do with your old heads? Have you sold them? Just curious if your plan of two motors is still in the works <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />
Chris</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I traded them in for the new ones from Nick, since I had at least one bent valve, and needed to swap to centerbolt heads for the solid roller cam anyway.

I'm still planning a very mild spare motor, but it won't be done anytime soon. Hopefully I can keep this one together for awhile. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />

 

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Richie Carbone:
<strong>Keep me posted. Let me know if you need a crew chief <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />
I can get you a reference if you need one <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sure thing, but only if you bring the plastic wire ties! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />

I'll probably head down there in the next couple of weeks, assuming all goes as planned with the engine install next week.

 

George you swapped from SLP/TTS headers to the Dynatechs right?

 

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Terry Burger:
<strong>George you swapped from SLP/TTS headers to the Dynatechs right?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No. I had MAC headers on the car up until early October of last year, and swapped them out for Dynatech 1.75" headers. I picked up a solid .1-.15 sec or so with them.

I may look into a 1 7/8 header (not a stepped design) w/ 3.5" collectors in the near future though.

 

Wire ties are like my AMEX card....I don't leave home without them!

I should have my car back up and running by the end of next week if my heads show up by Friday. I installed the new cam today and buttoned up the front of the motor. All I need now are the heads. I hope UPFuckin'S doesn't lose them like they did last time. <img border="0" alt="[guns]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_guns.gif" /> UPS