Thread: I found what blew in my engine!

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Pat, that makes sense. It sure didn't take a lot of time to do it either. That plate was flat when I tore it apart in Daytona and I only had a little bit of driving around on Friday night, Saturday, and then we only got about 5 miles out of town on Sunday before it went.

Steve, and here I thought you were an Olds guy!

Kurt, I can't say anything about the quality of their products, those look pretty good and very complete. My only complaint is how rude and short they are when you call them. I mean, we are neighbors almost, and I was trying to buy some of their products. But all I got were one word answers, no suggestions as to what might work, and the feeling I was really imposing on them.

We finally did buy March pulleys for Don's 302 3 years ago because they were the only game in town, but we had to ship in 3 different sets to get one that we could work with. Luckily, Summit was good about taking back the ones that didn't fit, but it took a lot of research time and phone calls back and forth to figure out a setup. March could have probably cut that way down if they would have just had better customer service.

Don

Don i'm a ford guy deep down, I did my time at JW Automotive, You may remember them as they ran the GT40's that won 1966 LeMan 24hrs when 3 crossed the line abreast, Then they ran the Gulf Mirages and then the Porche 917's.

Cut my teeth on 289 and 427 Fords and had many in my hotrods over the years, this was my favourite, 29A Coupe with a 427 and twin n2o kits reliable 10.6 quarters and used to drive it 80 miles to work each day.







Don't know why the pics wn't show ???

Nice little yellow coupe! I bet she screamed with the 427 puffing no2! Those old lemans cars of the 60's were just about the coolests cars ever made in my opinion. I still love the Steve McQueen movie!

Steve, I think Sue is going to have to cut back on the crumpets she is feeding you. Poor little coupe is sagging a bit on the drivers side! How come every picture of your cars is one where you are pulling 4 G's in a turn? Interesting to hear about the GT 40 thing, bet that was fun.

Nice little coupe there, bet it really was a fun ride.

Don

you cheeky bugger I guess i walked into that one
Those pictures were took on a day one of our Hotrod mags did a shootout thingy for the magazine Don. There were 6 of the UK's top cars there and we had to do a quarter mile run, A 0-100-0, and a slalom course, I was fortunate enough to win which i was really surprised at, I had a feeling i would take the quarter & the 0-100-0 but didn't think i would fare well in the slalom with a 102" wheelbase and pro street rear but i managed to get through 2 seconds quicker than the others maybe they wern't trying

I really miss that car it was a load of fun.

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Steve, I think Sue is going to have to cut back on the crumpets she is feeding you. Poor little coupe is sagging a bit on the drivers side! How come every picture of your cars is one where you are pulling 4 G's in a turn? Interesting to hear about the GT 40 thing, bet that was fun.

Nice little coupe there, bet it really was a fun ride.

Don

Maybe those wheelie bars helped through the turns. Like I've said before, you Brits really drive the wheels off of your cars!

Don