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Old 05-25-2015, 03:39 PM   #121
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Took care of my hood louver 'problem' by having these decals made at local place that does vinyl wraps:

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Old 05-25-2015, 04:46 PM   #122
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How about a wrapped hood minus the hood underneath Alan?
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Old 10-10-2015, 10:08 AM   #123
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I thought this might be a good time for an end of season update.

Midway through the season, I made the decision to change from the Powerglide to a Metric 200. Thanks to Jim Marshall and Billy Lynn for all their help and assistance with this.
There were a couple of glitches, one of which was a nasty leak out of the tail shaft seal. As it turns out, the drive shaft yoke had been machined to work with a different tail shaft bushing, thus the leak. A new yoke and a drive shaft rebalance and we were good to go.



The car ended up going a best of .71 under the NHRA index in G/SA at the test and tune session at the Oahe National Open in Pierre, S.D. We had some mechanical gremlins to deal with through the season...a broken starter at Oahe ended up thrashing the flexplate as well. Thanks to Steve Koppien's spare parts stash and my brother Kevin's assistance, we were able to fix it Saturday afternoon. At Kearney's National Open, I went to start the car in the staging lanes for the third round of the Stock/Super Stock combo and a broken cable strap let the battery cable short out against the header tube......arrrrggghhh.

But all in all, not a bad season.

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Old 10-10-2015, 11:14 AM   #124
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At .71 under you have that Nova working pretty good Alan...great work! That's a massive brace on that metric.

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Old 10-12-2015, 09:47 PM   #125
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i thought this might be a good time for an end of season update.

Midway through the season, i made the decision to change from the powerglide to a metric 200. Thanks to jim marshall and billy lynn for all their help and assistance with this.
there were a couple of glitches, one of which was a nasty leak out of the tail shaft seal. As it turns out, the drive shaft yoke had been machined to work with a different tail shaft bushing, thus the leak. A new yoke and a drive shaft rebalance and we were good to go.



the car ended up going a best of .71 under the nhra index in g/sa at the test and tune session at the oahe national open in pierre, s.d. We had some mechanical gremlins to deal with through the season...a broken starter at oahe ended up thrashing the flexplate as well. Thanks to steve koppien's spare parts stash and my brother kevin's assistance, we were able to fix it saturday afternoon. At kearney's national open, i went to start the car in the staging lanes for the third round of the stock/super stock combo and a broken cable strap let the battery cable short out against the header tube......arrrrggghhh.

but all in all, not a bad season.

tim mcvay photo.
it sounds like b - - s - - - - - - - has been working on the car !
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Old 01-18-2016, 09:38 PM   #126
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Should be going back together in a week or two.

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Old 01-19-2016, 09:17 PM   #127
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Maybe we should go south?
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Old 01-23-2016, 07:54 AM   #128
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Won't work for me this season, Charlie. Several of our locals are headed to Phoenix and Pomona, though.
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Al If I can get my stuff together to go so can you . And drag Charlie and Dave with you. Corky
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Old 03-18-2016, 07:51 AM   #130
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An simple rear shock change turned into a three week project. I wanted to change one thing a little so that meant another thing needed to be redone. This led to that...blah, blah, blah. You guys know the drill, right? Anyway, the rear is back together with new spring bushings, shackles, hard brake line from the master cylinder on back, stainless lines to the wheel cylinders, stainless rear flex line, wheel studs, rear bearing seals and rear brake shoes.

And the new rear shocks that started all this!

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