Projects Dodge This - 1939 Dodge Southeast Gasser Build

looking good

 

Hello !!!!! Anybody home ? UPDATE PLEASE for those that didn't go.

 

Yeah, WTF??????? Seadog has a post with some fine pics, but what about racee results?

 

I see you are still puffing smoke out of the right bank.

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You put on a good show. Still some smoke out the right bank. Car looked good and ran strong.

 

Maybe to much oil in it?

 

Yeah smoking less on the right bank and sometimes not smoking - hmmm will try the Racer-X drain hose next ..... made it to the 2nd round and ol Boogieman got me by .100 on the tree and .100 at the stripe. Tried 4 pill changes and found the fastest pill but to be honest I think its driving through the clutch now with the extra HP. I smelled clutch at the top of each run when I shut down to do plug readings.......

Tom collected good data

 

Very Nice.
Give em Hell Tony

 

New combo new show...I love it....and no stories of parts in a basket.

 

Looks like she is hookin up strong Tony. Good job!

 

Yeah that's the best part+ no parts in a basket.

 

Almost collected a new color

 

That was great!!!

 

Looking good Tony. Great Show !!!

 

I didn't get to see much of it but what I saw was great.

https://tombo.smugmug.com/Southeast-Gassers-at-ShadySide-Dragway-2017/

Ok - made it back safe - no paint traded - the funny story was - the MAGNETO was super cool and all but if the battery is low and you flood it - at all - your screwed - been getting too many golf cart pull starts. So I put in an MSD 6AL box. So simple! Right? I never even cranked it until time to load the trailer. It would pop and spit and the timing light would only fire once in a while. Then it stopped lighting the light at all. the center plug on the cap was firing like a sewing machine so the spark was going somewhere ...... drilled a bigger hole in the fire wall put in a bigger gromet. Tried 3 other caps and rotors. Finally pushed it on the trailer and took all my spare parts and went to the track.

Jimmy Huff - Ford guru walks up and I tell him all the above. He pulls the cap and spins the rotor by hand - you got the wrong size rotor here cuz - I'm like - I have 3 rotors - he says you got 3 wrong size rotors.

So - I had a Ford ready to run dizzy with a 392 adapter shaft but no tach output. We put that in and bam! Away we go. The only crappy thing is a weekend of racing with no tach. But it was a great time. Never sat down once I don't think. Got to meet a lot a folks I've been wanting to see - some guys from Bakersfield - the WAC Axles guy - lots of MOPAR fans.

Still smoking on the passenger side - some - need to add a drain hose I guess. Boogieman took me out in the 2nd round and he went on to win the whole thing. He stole 1/10th on the tree and 1/10th at the stripe. was a good time. Big kudos to Quain Dee and Greg for cat herding - so many cars now that when the last A/G car goes down, the D/G is pulling into the lanes

 

Sounds like your a hares breath away from a win Tony

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X2 Steel In Motion could be the first of many wins!
Fun... thats what it's about and it looks like everyone had a great time. Lots of new cars in the field. Car looks great!

 

Just thinking here....did you remember your crank scraper?

 

Good save.Will see you in Union and we can compare paint colors. Snowman

 

there is no windage tray on the first gen hemis. if you want a scraper it has to be built into the pan.

 

So the first season scraper wouldn't fit the stroker - not even close. I didn't mess with it.

I been looking at how some pro stock pans are made. This flat rail is something I can do - the fingered scraper is a tough deal to make fit the stroker now, maybe on an engine stand ....


Hot heads has this - not sure it will clear the @TR Waters girdle.


If you can't win, pop a wheelie and look cool in the pits as I always say
Lots of pics here :

http://www.competitionplus.com/drag-race/gallery/misc---2017/southeast-gassers---battle-at-shadyside










This is a 2nd gear wheelie and it went left - maybe I need to lower the right bar some ?


And then Miss Kim trying to spook Boogie Man - it almost worked ......

 

I don't know - too much show? We are supposed to pull a 12" wheelie. I can put the bars on the track to try to win ..... just sayin

 

I use a pan built by bob stephans. The windage tray is built into the pan. It can be removed if needed. Dzus fasteners hold it in place. He can make a regular pan or make it with a kick out for use with a titan pump. Its made with a trap door near the pickup area. I can get you his number if you want. They are very reasonable.

 

If you could be persuaded to pull the engine, you could use a contour gauge or 3 to get a profile for making a crank scraper.

 

Yeah shoot me his #

No - I'm not persuaded Good seeing you at the track - was kind of hectic as you could probably tell

 

Yeah it seemed like you had your hands full. Quick and Dirty puts on a good show, it's a favorite among the spectators for sure.

 

Tony, I didn't realize you didn't have a scraper or windage tray in the pan That may explain why this problem of too much oil on right side is happening
If/when you pull pan to cut /weld in bung for oil drain from right head, maybe take a little while to make a cardboard template of an oil scraper that will fit before you replace pan Compare that template with the old scraper you once had in the engine and you may find you can easily modify it to work
Inother words, live up to the name of the car and do it quick and dirty

 

How long till we have some Quick and Dirty T-shirts????

 

Actually planned to go on 99designs tonight and see what someone can come up with, before this weekend we didn't have a lot of photos to go on - but got a ton now. You wear a Medium ?

 

nope 3xl
ethan needs a large or a xl

The Skull Garage guys put this footage up