Freightrain

Gotta love that back drop manifold.....

Sad to see it get scrapped.  Wish I was 2000 miles closer.

Sounds good!

Speaking of batteries in series, cut open a 9 volt battery and find all the little batteries inside making up the 9 volts.

Didn't someone steal a mixer in like the second Beverly Hills cop??

5 hours ago, mowerman said:

I was wondering if it was the one I saw watched a movie about 25 years ago where a DM 800 went over a cliff… bob

Another Steven Segal flick.  DM chasing that ol Chevy pickup and he couldn't get away....lol.

Fire Down Below.

I need to uncover it and look at it again.  I know both are bottom mounted, but there is something different about their operation.  I think one was reversible?

The old boxes have that shuttle pump also.  I cleaned mine up in my Triplex.  There was an eccentric in the front bearing retainer.  It was fed oil from the cup cast in the passenger side of the main case, fed through a hole into input area and then down the main shaft to oil the gear bushings all the way into the compound.

My 107 has two PTOs mounted on it.  One is different then the other?

My sister has a white convert, 5.0 6 spd.  She's a gear head.

4 hours ago, Joseph Cummings said:

Got to love a supercharger. My girlfriend got given a Buick Regal by her cousin. It was a nice looking car and comfortable but I figured it was going to be a slug. Then I drove it and heard the blower. Boy that thing woke up that little 3.8

Ya, those turbo Regals were quick for their day.  The Grand National was top, then there were a few other variants(Regal T type) that weren't as flashy as a GN but same motor.

That 3.8 was a weird one.  The crank journals were all offset(rods didn't share a journal).  Wondered how that thing stayed together with power they made.  Mom had a 76 Century with 3.8 and it was a dead slug.  Gutless beyond any belief.  It would run 65 on the highway but if you leaned into it and it downshifted, it started slowing down and made a whole lot of fan noise. How they turned them around in 20 yrs.

My 390 makes near 700 HP with 7# of boost.  It will be a handful to drive if you don't pay attention.

With the crab cap you can still get the cap off with the blower on it.  The spacer under the blower gives a bit of room.

You can buy an offset distributor for $1k but this way works just fine.

A short wheelbase doesn't get much help with air ride.  When I lengthened mine 5 ft, it really took the short, bucky ride out of it.  With no trailer, mine still rides rough with no weight over the rear.

9 hours ago, Mark T said:

🤔 I wonder if Freight train has one of those and he's not say'n.

Lol....sorry, no Linda Vaughn around me.

She had air ride..... 😲

Ya, Google ads is taking half of my screen ??  Pita.  Have to chase the "x" to close it up every time you change pages.

What happened?  I just get random shit, nothing special.

I have two of those shiftera under the bench.  Ran them for year with 4 spds.

Same basic shifter for the Nash 5 spd I used to run.  Reverse was back from 5th gear so no extra handle needed like in a 4 spd.

Those 600s didn't have any issues.  It has 650 DP on it now and they have the tapered floats meant for round round racing.  No problems.

Nothing wrong with that and a Lenco is very forgiving on the street.  Plus the cool shifter look inside.

I plan on doing a drag and drive this fall with the wagon.  Will take some finesse to street drive it but I am competent it won't be a problem.  It I will not stay in gear on decel, except 5th and it is mainly back roads traveling.  No highway.  Like Bandit said.."I can drive any forkin thing".

If things don't work out, I will take my black car or lil blue truck.  Hell, thought about running the Mack if I had to.  😂. I'm running in a stick shift class.

19 hours ago, Joey Mack said:

I enjoy reading your postings.. impressive stuff..

I put three 1/2 hr videos on YouTube 

Considering that they are just 3 planetarys hooked together?  I would assume they would have more losses then a gear transmission.  There is no converter slip, but still has a pump in each, etc.  My opinion, they are for 1000+ HP cars.  We have a few running with our stick group.  To each their own.

I'm sure you can pick them up cheaper then a Liberty?  Mine was $9500 brand new.  But it is the most bad ass transmission you can buy(My .02).

Lencos are okay, but for a light, lower power car they rob too much power.

Btw, I know the Willy's, he's local to me.  SLER racing is four friends, using first letter of last name for SLER.  Stump, ?, Ellison, Rodenhaven.  The "L" has the Willy's.  If CRS was so bad these days I would remember his name.  Been racing with them for 20+ yrs.

If you look at their channel from last fall, I was running Scott Stump's Comet.  Scott has been loosing his eyesight and is legally blind now.  He wants me to run his comet.  272ci (300 six), Doug Nash.  I got it going hi 10, and still more in it.  I'm 100# lighter, he only got lo 11 from it.

Don't know the name or car.  Badass looking for sure.

Three pedals makes any car badass though!

My three part video shows how a single CS transmission is assembled.

Bushings are splined onto main shaft, then the gears are bushed and ride on that.

2 hours ago, Mark T said:

One countershaft miss'n from a Maxitorque ??  on highway, somewhat low power ??  never miss it and probably a little easier to shift.

20-30# less rotating mass(one less CS) will more then likely make it quicker to shift.