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[flabum1017]

Pot rack

[flabum1017]

Real string steering
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Should have used bungee cords instead of rope,,,,,, would have less shock on the stick...........

[Chaz]

Well its got 3 cast plugs on the side sm blk 400 or big blk gen 4 ?

Don't let him fool ya ...
That's the best 396 I gotz .. It's been in over a 100 cars . Door cars , dragsters and alterds . Helped win more than a half a dozen championships . Helped cars go 6.0's / 220 + . Has never blown up . Holds more than 100 cig butts in each bank . Has done mobile chassis set-up work and earned more money than all other motors that I own to date . On it's last return trip home .. ( I really thought the blindfold trick would work ) it got left out in the rain and snow .. well it was cold a day or two ... and now has found a new job as a cup holder / door stop ...

Wanted .... good home for my old door stop ... house broken , eats very little , 6061 x .500 , sharpened only once about 20 years ago .. answers to the name spike .. >

[flabum1017]

Don't let him fool ya ...
That's the best 396 I gotz .. It's been in over a 100 cars . Door cars , dragsters and alterds . Helped win more than a half a dozen championships . Helped cars go 6.0's / 220 + . Has never blown up . Holds more than 100 cig butts in each bank . Has done mobile chassis set-up work and earned more money than all other motors that I own to date . On it's last return trip home .. ( I really thought the blindfold trick would work ) it got left out in the rain and snow .. well it was cold a day or two ... and now has found a new job as a cup holder / door stop ...

Wanted .... good home for my old door stop ... house broken , eats very little , 6061 x .500 , sharpened only once about 20 years ago .. answers to the name spike .. >

We all know you been watching Forged in Fire and are dying to turn that piece of 6061 into a hunting knife!

[Dave Strong]

Don't let him fool ya ...
That's the best 396 I gotz .. It's been in over a 100 cars . Door cars , dragsters and alterds . Helped win more than a half a dozen championships . Helped cars go 6.0's / 220 + . Has never blown up . Holds more than 100 cig butts in each bank . Has done mobile chassis set-up work and earned more money than all other motors that I own to date . On it's last return trip home .. ( I really thought the blindfold trick would work ) it got left out in the rain and snow .. well it was cold a day or two ... and now has found a new job as a cup holder / door stop ...

Wanted .... good home for my old door stop ... house broken , eats very little , 6061 x .500 , sharpened only once about 20 years ago .. answers to the name spike .. >

396 was a great motor! Beat up on one for a few years myself, not as hard as you though.

Dave

[Chaz]

We all know you been watching Forged in Fire and are dying to turn that piece of 6061 into a hunting knife!

Bum , I saw where you say you recommend "dancing in the sun"
Would you happen to be the guy who "owns the Midnight Express" or maybe works for him .. ?

Funny I watched that show once and said *^%$%&* rookies ...
I have a slab of 2" Blanchard ground steel I had plans of making a large precision fixturing table out of some day , if I ever figure out how to lift it again ..

My daughter in law tells me she is afraid to even touch a butter knife in her house . She says my son goes thru five of six steps that ends in a barbers strop ... I have no idea where he would get that from ...

[flabum1017]

I worked for Sundance many years ago (just before Hurricane Andrew), joe was ok to work for, but Andrew called my name and I had a 18 hour a day, 7 days a week job for 1 year, made oodles of cash.............

The Midnight express was launched where I work, they went out for pictures and came back sheepishly.........

as for the Blanchard.... get someone who has a crane with one of those big magnets to come lift it for ya

[Chaz]

I worked for Sundance many years ago (just before Hurricane Andrew), joe was ok to work for, but Andrew called my name and I had a 18 hour a day, 7 days a week job for 1 year, made oodles of cash.............

The Midnight express was launched where I work, they went out for pictures and came back sheepishly.........

as for the Blanchard.... get someone who has a crane with one of those big magnets to come lift it for ya

Back in the day , it seemed that every boat mechanic up this way has either worked for the OMC test center or Mitch or both at one time or other in their careers .
His Midnight was the first boat in Martin county with three 3.0L motors . Actually seeing how they ran , I bought one from him in 1996 . has always treated me fair .

See , I have this problem . I'm not allowed to go to the scrap yard anymore I just can't be trusted . Instead of taking drop's , cut-off's , chips , broken castings , filings , drill curl's , etc , and coming back with cash ..... I usually come back with less money and chunks of aluminum and alloy steels that the engineers and supervisors of our aerospace and defense contractors haphazardly broom out the door ....
The would be table was one of those trips . It came on the back of a roll back truck .. slid off and over against the wall ... covered and never to be seen again .
I guess I could dig the ton of metal out from in front of it . Cut the roof trusses and ceiling off the building far enough back to get the cable down ..... I recon I'll make do with the tables I already gotz ...

[WillySteve]

My dang throttle cable broke on my chevy truck while travelling in the middle of nowhere fl. All I had was some 24oz roving glass in the truck since I was a mobile glass guy. Took a strand from the roving and ran it thru the firewall and tied it to the holley, made a loop for my hand in the cab. It was a challenge since it was a stick shift, but I got home. Ah, those were the daze...

I always just ran the fast idle up and shifted quick!!!
Manual chokes work well too.....give'er the gas, pull the choke hard and let off the gas'n push-it back in....instant fast idle....as long as the choke cable wasn't broke too!!!

[WillySteve]

Just think'a all the stuff we could'a done with duck tape and zip ties instead'a baillin'wire back in the 50's & 60's!!!

[racervboat]

and black tape instead of zip ties.

[James Thompson]

found this on a junkyard engine I just got for the L/U. A bleach bottle cap? Turns out it the dam thing runs good! Had a big grin standing in that huge cloud of blue smoke

[FORBESAUTO]

This is came in the shop today. Had boat launch tickets on dash. That’s when you gotta get to the river in bad kinda way and ain’t got no other options. It’s a wonder he ain’t done lost all his junk! The old sheet metal bumper is flexing a good 6-8 inches

[home made tunnel]

This is came in the shop today. Had boat launch tickets on dash. That’s when you gotta get to the river in bad kinda way and ain’t got no other options. It’s a wonder he ain’t done lost all his junk! The old sheet metal bumper is flexing a good 6-8 inches

I don't see anything wrong with this

[vnemous]

This one is just a general lack of understanding engineering