Event Coverage The Official 2014 Meltdown Drags #5 thread, vintage drag meet, July 18,19&20 Byron IL

Welcome Rocky!!! WOW another California car! Your gonna love it.

 

A little work needs to be done to try to get around you Paul!

 

The freekin' "Evil Twin"!?!?! This is going to be epic.

 

Saw you out there last year don't think we ran together, as long as you can cut a light you may have a chance

 

Sounds good, Iwill let him know.

Meltdown Drags July 18-20 2014

 

Welcome Rocky,

It is nice to have another California car coming out for the Meltdown. I can't wait to see the Evil Twin run.

 

These videos are as close to real 60s dragracing as you can get. The tire smoke the look of the car and the sound of the engine when the tires hooked up on the big end. I was there in the 60s but just a kid, I can't wait until the meltdowns so I can be a kid again.

 

Is there any New Updates to Motel availability in the area?

I've been watching your website.....

 

You've got that right!

 

Thanks Quain, I built the car to live an era I missed, your quote sums it up and I'm using it

 

Rockford, IL has hotels and rooms.....my brother can post a hotel alot of car guys will be staying at.....I think Rochelle is pretty booked already.

 

BTW - Thank you Neighborhoodwillyskid.....he took that epic kick ass pic of the staging lanes......Kade hope your ready for another group of epic shots in 2014...

 

Falfa,

I was just checking my Meltdown calendar and it is only 154 days until I light you up like a Christmas tree. You better get pounding on that field car.

 

I booked in at the Alpine Inn & Suites Rockford, got great reviews on Trip Advisor and reasonably priced too.

 

Yea you can pretty much forget Rochelle....I called at the end of December and it was all full. You might luck out and somebody cancels, but you might as well count on staying in Rockford.

 

I took my ansen scattersheild and an old Lakewood to a metalurgists and had them tested for quality because someone stated the Ansen was cast iron. He said the Lakewood is ductile steel and the Ansen is cast steel. Both are very strong and he remarked the Ansen is way overkill because of its thickness but neither should weaken by age. I have Hot Rod magazines from the 60s and the material that was advertised is correct. He said both should easily contain an explosion but the Lakewood would be more likely to distort because it is not as thick as the Ansen but should contain all the pieces. I have ran the ansen since the 60s and wasn't ready to part with it but I have always ran quality clutches and alum. flywheels. The process he used to check for cracks was dye penetrant and wet mag.

 

Danny G - AWESOME!! Keep in mind you can't sell new scattershields with all those old 'unsafe' ones out there LOL.....great to hear what the expert said.....I ran one in my 56 and wasn't afraid of it.....at the end of the day containing the explosion is all that matters....I am sure alot of guys will appreciate hearing this!

 

Cool info, thanks for sharing.

 

I got a call last week, and there was a white flag waving on the screen of my cell phone..,it was one of the Koopie Bros. He said he was gonna be in town "for work", and could he come pay a "friendly visit"? THEN..,couple days later, I get an email from another Kooperton, says he's gonna be in town first of next month.., he wants an audience with me too! Now my daddy didn't raise no fool!, I see what's going on here..,a garsh dang Koopinflinger cohort conspiracy thats what! The thought of Yesterdays Child headed their way in mere months, has got em and the rest of them Yankee scoundrels crapping in their boots, crouched in corners rocking back n forth mumbling regretful multi dog dare recountenances to themselves!!! What's really going on, is they've pooled together to send the Kooped-up-minors out my way for some California competition recon, and this dude ain't drinking their Koopelade! Instead, I had to put all my top secret go fast parts away. Then I had a bunch of good for nuth'n junk "speed equipment" imported from the Northern Territory. Now I'm spreading it all around my place, so them boys will think I got the same used up, weak suck, no talent, clapped out thrift store crap as them! Those silly suckers ain't gonna know what hit em in July!, he he he.
,Ssshhhhhhhhh.

 

Lots of talk here about flywheel and clutch explosions. Thats good.
Lets not leave out the automatic crowd. You get the same violent explosion with the added danger of very flamable atf. Ask me how i know. For the mopar guys a bolt in spag; alum drum; steel planetery;scatter shield are a good idea along with coolant lines that bolt on. No hose clamps. A functioning vent is a must. With out one the dipstick tube becomes the vent. I had a great fire years back when my trans guy forgot to put one on the tailhousing.

 

Perhaps you're getting a visit from one of the the Koopsters to make sure you are going to make good on all your double-triple-dog-dares??? Ya know, to make sure you guys don't try'n back out to avoid gettin a whoopin... LOL...

 

Ric-

I don't understand....I just offered to take you to Tijuana for a fun night out...

On a serious note, looking forward to meeting to you.

Jeff

 

Ya, I'm looking forward to it too, but I aint going south of the border with you man! I can smell that booby trap.., You'll just try to get me jacked up on Mexican Tequila with worms doing the back stroke in it, so all the bad voices come out, and make me do bad things and get thrown in "el bote" (the can) to rot. Then you won't have to worry about us Panneton's, and that crusty crimson ole lady com'n

up there and laying the hurt on you!

 

NEWS FLASH NEW FLASH QUAIN STOTT MAKES LAST MINUTE COLOR SCHEME CHANGE TO "THE EXECUTIONER"!!! He made me promise not to tell, but I'm so giddy with excitement, I cant take it any longer! He will have custom shirts made, that will be for sale. He's calling it the,
"Hi, I'm Quain Stott, over the hill for the third year in a row (53),Ex Pro Mod Champ, Patriotic Super Collectors Edition, Herbie on Steroids Tour! Sorry buddy for outing you on the new look, hope you can for give me!

 

Ric.....you caught me....the Northern Alliance offered $100 for any and all Reb updates.....so I figured I would cash in on it....

 

GENE CROMER UPDATE: - We met our Goal with some extra for Gene!!!!

THANK YOU GUYS!!!

 

We have a new Meltdown Attendee with a 55...trying to find 15x8 rear wheels with a
4 inch or less backspacing and
4 4/4 - gm bolt pattern.....if someone has something...PM me with your phone number and I will pass it on.

He wants Americans, Radars, or something unusual......Thank you!!

 

This is good to hear. The Lakewood in my 55 is from about 1971.

By the way, would anyone have a suggestion on what materials to use, and how to make a scattershield for a 331 Caddy V8? I've been slowly building my 34 Chevy and really want to have a scattershield in it. It has an extended bellhousing style 1954 Caddy V8 with a Bendtsens adapter for a Muncie 4 speed. I'll be using a new steel flywheel.

 

Make a doghouse that outlines the scatter shield, I don't think I have a pic of one from one of my 55's...but it gets bolted or welded to the frame.....go heavy gauge on the drivers side.....

 

speaking of scatter shields