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In St Louis for the national event and due to rain we get one shot at the track at 8:00 am and first round at 10:am.Im glad I got all my work done yesterday

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If y?all want to see Dumbo?s time slip and the rest of who is racing get the
World Wide Technology app and watch, it show?s all the numbers.

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You need to put St Louis on your list to race at in the future. We are having a great time even though we lost first round.

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Thanks for your help Randy

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Our season is almost over. It is time to be our granddaughter?s number fan for volleyball and basketball.

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Well it?s a fact that Dumbo is smarter than I. So my next move to be better is to follow some good advice and attend the Holley EFI school. I found some dates that do not conflict with volleyball or basketball games of our granddaughters teams.

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Larry there is an old saying "Knowledge is power", you have learned alot this year. Excited for you next year as are figuring the car out, fun to watch your success.

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Larry,
In case you missed this from the Dutch Classic.

1) Victor Cagnazzi, Mooresville, N.C., '23 Copo, FS/D, 9.078 seconds, -1.522 (under index)

I'm not rubbing it in, earlier this year you were correct to say Vic's COPO was bad fast.

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Frank I can tell you where he is quicker and how much faster than Dumbo is all the way down the track. On paper the engine spec are real close the COPO is ten cubic inches bigger.
Just finished the first Holley school. It is a little embarrassing to be be so computer illiterate. School restarts with second part today.

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Holley school ?

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Yes. I just have to get better. I am down a full tenth. Got to pick the runs apart the get what we can to help close the gap. And you know the competition is working hard to stay in front.

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The time spent at the school for me was well spent. The emphasis was on all things, wiring do?s and don?t, fuel system plumbing and monitoring, how to protect the systems from the elements and unseen but very real threats to the system. The flexibility of the system to do a host of other things in the street rod world from intermittent wipers that come on automatically to controlling the A/C. Tuning the engine.
Mr Tom the instructor was just great at explaining how the magic worked and how to apply it all with a sense humor. He made me think with a little smile on my face.
And the food was good.
I don?t know if we will be any faster but I will have more confidence in my quest for performance.

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When you wake up in the middle of deep sleep and have been dreaming about adjusting the fuel I believe there was a no hope for me.

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When I had my Max Wedge car I used to wake up in the middle of the night thinking about perfectly sealing the intake manifold.
If you have ever raced a Wedge you know what I'm saying!

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Well Dumbo is having to take a backseat to family matters. So this winter will be spent being grandparents and helping our son recover from a broken leg. Years ago we planned and constructed for wheelchair accessible ramps and lavatories. Having to press them into service took a little bit of rearranging but it has payed off.
So y?all have a good off season with a good Thanksgiving and a Merry Christmas

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We have the house just about broken leg friendly. Between a walker, a wheelchair, and a little help everything seems to be working out. We have been to two basketball games so far and have dined out once. He works every day a little longer to keep the business going. We installed some anti slip treads on the wheelchair ramp to give it more traction. Still have to make a transition pieces for a couple of places. Things are looking up for us.

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Big improvement in mobility for Chris this week. The last wheelchair access will be improved this morning. Basketball game for granddaughter tonight at home, after game travel to Bowling Green for the last course in Holley EFI. Im still not very good but getting better, I just about have all of my head out of the sand. Finish the corse Sunday and then off to the PRI Show to see new things and old friends and foes

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Another day of Holley FI class. With all the help Chris gave me I was able to follow along and almost keep up. My class mates jumped in to help when I got lost. One of the benefits of the class is the discounts the classes gets on the products Holley sells. By the time I get some more stuff for Dumbo it will deeply offset the price of the school. Lunch time is long enough to take a spin around a virtual road corse at the Corvette museum where the class is being taught.
If your thinking about taking the course do not drag your feet I am sure they will fill up fast. Day two is tomorrow it should be entertaining.
And the food is good for breakfast and lunch.

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The PRI show gave me access to some of the people that could supply me with some answers. Questions about rods, rings, FI, blocks, and just a bunch of other stuff I needed to know about. Now if I could just remember.

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The seat of my pants is not good enough to help with the performance of the car in the first 60 feet. So Santa please bring some shock sensors and some new rear shocks.

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Merry Christmas y?all and have a fun and prosperous New Years!

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Started the year off on a good note. I worked all day on racing , it felt good.

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Now that Chris is walking with a boot on things are starting to get back to some resemblance of normal. Now it doctors appointments and basketball games. Life is good but I am falling behind at a blistering rate.

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That’s a classic Larry, see you and Patsy at Gainesville or BG…

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Most of the honey does and got to does are caught up enough to get back to my ignored Dumbo. Im trying to follow what was taught in school. Information rich and sensor poor. I am in process of installing shock sensors on the car, it sounds easy enough, but it seems there is alway a catch. I have to know ride height, full extension of front and rear suspension, full compress distance of front and rear suspension, figure travel and add a fudge factor so as not to destroy the sensors.
While I am doing this I will send the shocks of to be checked. So the first thing to do is four wheel scales. Measure compressed height on shocks. I found a tape measure the reads in .10 of an inch it makes it easier to interpret .050 or .025. Remove coils off of shocks and remove springs. Measure travel. Back to work.

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I got the scale information at all four corners and front to rear percentage. Now I have to make those same numbers appear with me not in the driver seat. It?s a good thing I still have a few BBC heads leftover from my short lived 1968 Corvette 427/400 project to put in the seat to replace my weight distribution. Do some measuring and take it apart.

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I have saved and saved and saved I will be going to the dyno with 10 O2s and a spare if one folds and stops working.

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When do you think Dumbos first outing will be ?

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My guess and it is just a guess it will be at one of the Combo races at Beach Bend. With all the new stuff I hope it will be a smooth transition. Plus Joel is doing his magic on the trans. I still have a lot of balls in the air.

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When you get old you have time to solve a make believe problem. So I took the time to check the intake area of the oil filters I use. One has six larger holes the other filter has eight holes that are visible smaller but not small. So after I did the math one filter has aver 14 percent more intake area. Now on to the next mystery

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Packing up to go to the dyno is a lot of work.

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We are learning what works and what does not. I got to see the new aluminum block for us and all I have to do now is Save Up!

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The dyno was a success, I lost ten + pounds. We tested so much my race engine thought it was a dyno mule. We tested plugs, timing, coil packs, valve adjustments (thanks George), fuel map, rolled the cam around (thanks Charlie for a great product), worked on air fuel ratio, intake manifolds, and headers.

It was great to here it sing it’s song over and over again!

Many thanks to Jeff Taylor Performance for their help, professionalism, and guidance to help me make my time at the dyno productive.

Now we need to apply it to the track.

It was a lot of work and a lot of fun.

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Before we ever put the engine on the dyno we had a quick meeting on what we wanted to accomplish, items to be evaluated, and in what order. My test plugs were all gaped and antiseezed, brought my degree wheel, steel plate, dial indicator, extra gaskets that were not used, and the little special tools that work in tight places. The meter is running how much is done in a day is up to me. If I needed help all I had to do was ask.

After it was over we went over the sheets and decided what if any changes need to be made to the car to take advantage of what we found. I did order a few parts. The rest of the time will be spent cleaning and trying to improve the car to be more user friendly.

Plus it is tournament time for basketball both High School and college. Reporting will be a little slower the big things will be wiring the O2’s in and a few other things.

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This would be an interesting You-Tube video. You need someone filming to follow you around from garage to race track. There's a tall guy in down in Florida doing pretty well.

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Mike I don?t have a pretty face so it would difficult and I talk slow. Who would be the tall person in Florida that does You Tube. I would like to see him.
Today was send shocks off to Penske but Mr Snow Flake but a stop to that for a few days.
So today it will be clean and put back stuff.

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Google Cleetus

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Thanks

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I got just what I did not need, sick with a cold. Better now and back to work. some of the new parts have arrived.

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How old is Dumbo? Seems like a lot of new parts and hard work. I finished my car and whatever I can tune it to is where it will stay for a long time. I would like to try out a dyno and see if my tune up is accurate, but I may have to wait until my other options are exhausted. My next upgrade is radial tires, but I only have 12 passes on the current tires and my wife says, "what's wrong with them" LOL