My latest project: 1970 Dodge Dart 512 C.I. Bracket Racer

**Rick** · 07-10-2010, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Diff Whack Daddy

NUFF SAID

Damn, that was some funny shit!!

Cobraguy · 07-12-2010, 09:05 AM

No!!!!! Say it ain't so Rick!!! Vinyl top????

**Rick** · 07-12-2010, 10:23 AM

Yep, vinyl top.

**Rick** · 07-14-2010, 06:43 PM

Frustrating day

Driveshaft came in and it may be 1/4" to long. Well it is, but I'm waiting to find out if 3/4" of slip will be enough.

Put the car on it's wheels, cranked up the torsion bars to ride height and my front tire is hitting one of the header tubes... badly. It looks like I will need to go to 24" tires if I keep these headers. Now I need to make a choice. Buy different headers and deal with the fitment issues of different headers, or go to a smaller tire which probably won't look as good.

As always the path is never straight...

**IZwack** · 07-14-2010, 07:18 PM

Pics? Maybe the headers can be modified / re-routed if the tire is hitting only one of the primary tubes.

**Rick** · 07-14-2010, 08:58 PM

It could be modified to clear, but it would make that tube longer.

*Anime* · 07-14-2010, 09:20 PM

Better to send it back and have it shortened than risk the drivetrain, and all the work you've done so far.

Stock size tires with original wheel width and offset?

Why not just run some narrower ones, or even the super narrow drag-racing kind, since it's a bracket racer?

Surely with narrow tires and wheels with the right offset, it would clear the headers no problem.

**Rick** · 07-14-2010, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Anime

Why not just run some narrower ones, or even the super narrow drag-racing kind, since it's a bracket racer?

Surely with narrow tires and wheels with the right offset, it would clear the headers no problem.

4.5" wide racing tires. Only 25.9" diameter on 3.5" rims. This is just the way it is with these headers. I knew people had problems rubbing tires on them even when everything was right. I took the chance and ran the 26" because a few people said they were running them without any trouble.

I've been on the other boards looking at as many combos as I could and started a thread asking for first hand info. I believe I will be running 24s for awhile. Once I've run it for a season or so I may go with different headers and make the required mods at that time. I'm just ready to run it now... I don't need any more set backs.

**Rick** · 07-16-2010, 06:41 PM

Back on it's tires.

**Rick** · 07-16-2010, 07:04 PM

I forgot to mention that I'm going to the drag strip tonight to buy some racing fuel

Count down is ON!!!

**Maniak** · 07-16-2010, 07:19 PM

Are you going to webcast the inital start? Or at least record it?

~Mark

**Rick** · 07-16-2010, 07:28 PM

I'll definitely video tape it.

**Turdle** · 07-16-2010, 07:46 PM

Schaweet

**Rick** · 07-16-2010, 10:46 PM

Wouldn't ya know... The track was closed because of a little rain. Pathetic... it was 113 degrees today, a bit of storm blew through and they closed the dang track. With the temps as high as they are and the humidity as low as it is, the track could have been dried in a matter of minutes by lapping a few cars around for 20 minutes or so.

We have a 30% chance of rain for tomorrow night too. Hopefully they'll be open.

**FROADER** · 07-16-2010, 11:05 PM

That looks fan-fricken-tastic, Rick. I'm anxious to hear that big block rumble.

Hammer · 07-17-2010, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Rick

Wouldn't ya know... The track was closed because of a little rain. Pathetic... it was 113 degrees today, a bit of storm blew through and they closed the dang track. With the temps as high as they are and the humidity as low as it is, the track could have been dried in a matter of minutes by lapping a few cars around for 20 minutes or so.

We have a 30% chance of rain for tomorrow night too. Hopefully they'll be open.

If that doesnt work out I have two 5 gallon pales of 110 Sunoco. If that is not potent enough I can get whatever you need. We sell it here, come in, I would love to see you.
Car looks fantastic. Makes me want to get my Mustang project going. If I had two nickles to rub together I might. Some day.

**Rick** · 07-18-2010, 04:00 PM

Just picked up 5 gallons of Sunoco 110 at the new Shell station in our town. It's right by the track, that's why they sell it there. It's stashed in a far corner of the store. Char noticed it the other day

**Turdle** · 07-18-2010, 04:33 PM

I think it goes in the little hole you made ---in that box thingy in the trunk.

*techieman33* · 07-18-2010, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Turdle

I think it goes in the little hole you made ---in that box thingy in the trunk.

And then shortly after that you turn some little metal deal near the steering wheel.

**Rick** · 07-18-2010, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by techieman33

And then shortly after that you turn some little metal deal near the steering wheel.

I don't have one of those

More like a few plastic switches

While I was waiting on the fuel I started installing the Lexan quarter windows. I've got one nearly finished. It will take another day to do the last one. After that I'm ready to go.

07-12-2010, 10:23 AM	#743
Rick Admin Pumpkin Pilot Wayoutin, Aridzona '93 XL Join Date: Feb 1999 Posts: 27,234 Vehicle Specs (Original Poster)	Yep, vinyl top. __________________ Rick Horwitz, AB7FH "Serious Exploration's" Admin Rick's '93/'98 Explorer "The Great Pumpkin" Dodge Dart 512 Resto/Race 10.29 @ 129 2004 Mustang Mach 1 2003 Dodge Ram/Cummins Dually

07-14-2010, 06:43 PM	#744
Rick Admin Pumpkin Pilot Wayoutin, Aridzona '93 XL Join Date: Feb 1999 Posts: 27,234 Vehicle Specs (Original Poster)	Frustrating day Driveshaft came in and it may be 1/4" to long. Well it is, but I'm waiting to find out if 3/4" of slip will be enough. Put the car on it's wheels, cranked up the torsion bars to ride height and my front tire is hitting one of the header tubes... badly. It looks like I will need to go to 24" tires if I keep these headers. Now I need to make a choice. Buy different headers and deal with the fitment issues of different headers, or go to a smaller tire which probably won't look as good. As always the path is never straight... __________________ Rick Horwitz, AB7FH "Serious Exploration's" Admin Rick's '93/'98 Explorer "The Great Pumpkin" Dodge Dart 512 Resto/Race 10.29 @ 129 2004 Mustang Mach 1 2003 Dodge Ram/Cummins Dually

07-14-2010, 07:18 PM	#745
IZwack Germantown, MD Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 22,390 Vehicle Specs	Pics? Maybe the headers can be modified / re-routed if the tire is hitting only one of the primary tubes. __________________ »»»»»...how'd the moon get there, how'd the moon get there?

07-14-2010, 08:58 PM	#746
Rick Admin Pumpkin Pilot Wayoutin, Aridzona '93 XL Join Date: Feb 1999 Posts: 27,234 Vehicle Specs (Original Poster)	It could be modified to clear, but it would make that tube longer. __________________ Rick Horwitz, AB7FH "Serious Exploration's" Admin Rick's '93/'98 Explorer "The Great Pumpkin" Dodge Dart 512 Resto/Race 10.29 @ 129 2004 Mustang Mach 1 2003 Dodge Ram/Cummins Dually

07-14-2010, 09:20 PM	#747
Anime GREEN SCREAM!! Hattiesburg, MS '93 Sport 4x4 Join Date: Nov 2000 Posts: 4,192 Vehicle Specs	Better to send it back and have it shortened than risk the drivetrain, and all the work you've done so far. Stock size tires with original wheel width and offset? Why not just run some narrower ones, or even the super narrow drag-racing kind, since it's a bracket racer? Surely with narrow tires and wheels with the right offset, it would clear the headers no problem. __________________ "I think man has always gone where he has been able to go, and I think that when man stops going where he can go, he will have lost a lot. Man has always been an explorer. To me, there's a fascination in thrusting out and going to new places. It's like going through a door because you find the door in front of you." - Michael Collins

07-16-2010, 06:41 PM	#749
Rick Admin Pumpkin Pilot Wayoutin, Aridzona '93 XL Join Date: Feb 1999 Posts: 27,234 Vehicle Specs (Original Poster)	Back on it's tires. Attached Images __________________ Rick Horwitz, AB7FH "Serious Exploration's" Admin Rick's '93/'98 Explorer "The Great Pumpkin" Dodge Dart 512 Resto/Race 10.29 @ 129 2004 Mustang Mach 1 2003 Dodge Ram/Cummins Dually

07-16-2010, 07:04 PM	#750
Rick Admin Pumpkin Pilot Wayoutin, Aridzona '93 XL Join Date: Feb 1999 Posts: 27,234 Vehicle Specs (Original Poster)	I forgot to mention that I'm going to the drag strip tonight to buy some racing fuel Count down is ON!!! __________________ Rick Horwitz, AB7FH "Serious Exploration's" Admin Rick's '93/'98 Explorer "The Great Pumpkin" Dodge Dart 512 Resto/Race 10.29 @ 129 2004 Mustang Mach 1 2003 Dodge Ram/Cummins Dually

07-16-2010, 07:19 PM	#751
Maniak Moderator-Stock 91-94 Vail, Arizona 1992 XLT 4x4 Join Date: Feb 1999 Posts: 10,720 Vehicle Specs	Are you going to webcast the inital start? Or at least record it? ~Mark __________________ Click HERE to see our Explorer Specs

07-16-2010, 07:28 PM	#752
Rick Admin Pumpkin Pilot Wayoutin, Aridzona '93 XL Join Date: Feb 1999 Posts: 27,234 Vehicle Specs (Original Poster)	I'll definitely video tape it. __________________ Rick Horwitz, AB7FH "Serious Exploration's" Admin Rick's '93/'98 Explorer "The Great Pumpkin" Dodge Dart 512 Resto/Race 10.29 @ 129 2004 Mustang Mach 1 2003 Dodge Ram/Cummins Dually

07-16-2010, 07:46 PM	#753
Turdle Old and in the way Humboldt, Kansas 2000 Mounty Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 23,742 Vehicle Specs	Schaweet __________________ Jon 2000 Mountaineer Turdle-gone Vitamin D Wagon Sold also

07-16-2010, 10:46 PM	#754
Rick Admin Pumpkin Pilot Wayoutin, Aridzona '93 XL Join Date: Feb 1999 Posts: 27,234 Vehicle Specs (Original Poster)	Wouldn't ya know... The track was closed because of a little rain. Pathetic... it was 113 degrees today, a bit of storm blew through and they closed the dang track. With the temps as high as they are and the humidity as low as it is, the track could have been dried in a matter of minutes by lapping a few cars around for 20 minutes or so. We have a 30% chance of rain for tomorrow night too. Hopefully they'll be open. __________________ Rick Horwitz, AB7FH "Serious Exploration's" Admin Rick's '93/'98 Explorer "The Great Pumpkin" Dodge Dart 512 Resto/Race 10.29 @ 129 2004 Mustang Mach 1 2003 Dodge Ram/Cummins Dually

07-16-2010, 11:05 PM	#755
FROADER Moderator Huntington Beach, CA Join Date: Jan 2000 Posts: 20,043 Vehicle Specs	That looks fan-fricken-tastic, Rick. I'm anxious to hear that big block rumble. __________________ COLIN IGNACIO FORUM RULES My 2010 Explorer - Explorer #1 (sold) - Explorer #2 (sold) - My F-150 (sold) - My Ranger (sold) - My Videos

07-18-2010, 04:00 PM	#757
Rick Admin Pumpkin Pilot Wayoutin, Aridzona '93 XL Join Date: Feb 1999 Posts: 27,234 Vehicle Specs (Original Poster)	Just picked up 5 gallons of Sunoco 110 at the new Shell station in our town. It's right by the track, that's why they sell it there. It's stashed in a far corner of the store. Char noticed it the other day __________________ Rick Horwitz, AB7FH "Serious Exploration's" Admin Rick's '93/'98 Explorer "The Great Pumpkin" Dodge Dart 512 Resto/Race 10.29 @ 129 2004 Mustang Mach 1 2003 Dodge Ram/Cummins Dually

07-18-2010, 04:33 PM	#758
Turdle Old and in the way Humboldt, Kansas 2000 Mounty Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 23,742 Vehicle Specs	I think it goes in the little hole you made ---in that box thingy in the trunk. __________________ Jon 2000 Mountaineer Turdle-gone Vitamin D Wagon Sold also