Nitro Madness AA/FA

Mike-Casella · Postby **Mike-Casella** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:07 pm

Hmmmm, kind of reminds me of a race car.

Billy Mac · Postby **Billy Mac** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:14 pm

hmmph....you just HAD to go and confuse me with the facts!!!

Rapid Randy Baker · Postby **Rapid Randy Baker** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 1:05 am

All race cars are reasonably priced and affordable,,,just ask and husband who owns a race-car and is married!!!

Gator · Postby **Gator** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:00 am

And that is for the "entry level" models. We love driving by that place. Just incredible stuff sitting in there. One of these days we are going to stop in there and take a tour of one of the $1M+ estates, just to see why.

Like John Bleakley's Rv (many choices)
I like the Bluebirds.

Rapid Randy Baker · Postby **Rapid Randy Baker** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:09 pm

I don't know if I mentioned it before but the Lencodrive comes with an aluminum bellhousing. Scott nor I were a big fan of it. It does have a liner, but being alum,,,I think the safety factor was not up there.

So we decided to get a new Browell can for the car this year. We called him, ordered what we wanted, and the big brown truck brought it to us.

In doing some measuring, it was about .100 short. It is a whole nother involved story but the measurement from the converter to the trans is critical. To get it correct we had to have some special pieces made adapting the converter to the crank. Including some real expensive hard to machine bolts. True to form, we have 2-of all of this stuff as it is all custom made.

Well, now it is .100 off. Scott was ready to have some new machining done, and I came up with the idea of having spacer built from Browell. He already had the specs and spacing/tooling set up. So that is what we did. That part worked real slick!

Now we have had the converter freshened, the trans freshened. So everything should drop right back into place,,,,right???

All four of us took turns trying to get the converter to drop back into the trans the proper distance. NO LUCK!

Since it is a trick to put everything in the car and make the trans fit, you have to put the trans in, slide it back as far as you can. Then slide the bellhousing down from the top, and bolt the trans to the bellhousing, then lift the converter up in, and get it engaged. Then you slide the whole deal forward to bolt the bellhousing to the block, and the converter to the flywheel.

Simple, not a problem, been there done that a number of times.

Last nite the converter would not go into place!

Since it is a bolt together, we took it apart and slide it piece by piece into place. Yep,,,it all fits like it is supposed to. Re-assemble the converter, once again, it will not drop into place!!!

So now we take a light, and inspect the front of the trans, and finally see the front pump is settled a little. This is what keeps the converter from making it in all the way. A little adjustment with a small screwdriver, and I slipped the converter right into place! Only spent a couple hours to install 1-little converter

Now racing is a month away, so no biggie right. All the time in the world you say,,,,Except we are putting the car on display for the World of Wheels show here in Des Moines next weekend.

If everything else goes as smoothly as the trans re-install. I should be able to be racing in Aug!

pro70z28 · Postby **pro70z28** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:20 pm

So I guess I'm not the only 1 that runs into these little problems HUH???

Good to here it went together ...............

Rapid Randy Baker · Postby **Rapid Randy Baker** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:34 pm

Just got the call. The heads are done. We will get them picked up tomorrow so we can spend the weekend putting the engine/car together for the show next weekend.

Gator · Postby **Gator** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:35 pm

Engine to Engine swaps made me crazy...
subtile differences......
like the .100 thingy Rapid !
I used to ask "is this our first rodeo" ?

Billy Mac · Postby **Billy Mac** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:06 pm

I often wonder how companies can advertise stuff as "bolt on".......because it rarely if EVER goes right in without some kind of modification...(and a lot of cussing!!!)

Rapid Randy Baker · Postby **Rapid Randy Baker** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:20 pm

Right On Gator,,,

Billy it is important to be able to understand Hot Rod Parts manufacturing lingo.

Bolt on = Approx 40-hours of labor to modify part to attach to your car.

Some Modification Required = You will have to do a body off deal to ever make this thing fit.

Minor Fabrication Skills Required = You can buy this part, but it isn't ever going to work on your car until you build a new one around our part!

See, it is really simple!

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