so waht ya doin today?

[Rally]

Dealing with the foot of snow we got. Still trying to spit some but it's forecast for 45 day time temps the next week. Was just getting used to seeing brown for the two days it was showing! Actually raked up some dried leaves around the wood stove and burned them. Heavy wet snow, enough so it wanted to stick to the auger in the snow blower. Should melt this next week, then the Mississippi will come alive with all this fast run-off. I'm finishing the inside of the wifes shop. Got the ceiling taped and mudded. Installed a 15,ooo watts heater for when she wants to work in it in the winter (rarely). She wants T&G Oak walls (painted white). I have a bunch of it , so no big deal, but rubs me some to paint it. Gotta keep the wife happy!

 

[358156 hp]

Sandbags!!!!

 

[Brad]

Sandbags!!!!

Oh no, not again!

 

[Ian]

Attended to some vehicle maintenance today. The Tahoe got new plugs and wires, oil and filter change, grease job, full checkover, and the driver's door hinge pins ground out and replaced.

 

[fiver]

I'd probably put some sealant on that oak then just keep putting off the paint finish till she gets used to it.

got a little more outside stuff done today if the weather is what it looks like on the radar I'm not gonna be doin too much outdoors till around Friday.
if it is what it usually is this time of year I will probably get some stuff done in between flurry's and rain drops.

 

[Ian]

The wind was gusting to 40 mph all afternoon, glad I got the shop cleaned out last night so I could actually work inside.

 

[L Ross]

Sounds cool, L Ross - reminds me of a favorite song.

It happened on the strip where the road is wide
Two cool shorts standin' side by side
Yeah, my fuel injected Stingray and a 413
We're revvin' up our engines and it sounds real mean
Tach it up, tach it up, buddy gonna shut you down.

Declining numbers at an even rate,
At the count of one we both accelerate,
The Stingray is light, slicks are startin to spin,
But the 413's really diggin' in,

Gotta be cool now, power shift here we go....

Not a lot of 413s still out there, I would imagine. But you got a place in a famous song.

Any pix of the rat rod?

I'll try but it says my files are too big or something.

 

[fiver]

you have to down size the pictures.

 

[Pistolero]

Open the photos in Microsoft Paint, on the tool bar near the left, it has a "resize" button. Switch the
units from percent to pixels and replace the biggest dimension in pixels with about 800 or 1000. Then
click on the top most, left most icon (looks like a page with lines on it) and use SAVE AS (NOT SAVE)
under the to save it to a different name, like, if the original is Hotrod.jpg, save it to something like
Hotrod_small.jpg or Hotrod_emailresized.jpg, whatever. Don't permanently downsize the original
image file by doing a "SAVE", use the "SAVE AS" to save to a different name.

If you are worried about harming the original file, copy the file to a new name like Hotrod_small.jpg
and then load THAT copy into Paint and resize it and just SAVE it. This is safer, for sure, only working
with a copy of the original file.

Also, I grew up in the car culture of the late 60s and had friends with hot cars of various kinds,
but I copied the online lyrics to save typing....and it says "Two cool shorts standing side by side".

I always thought they said "Two cool sharks standing...." I had heard of guys cruising around
looking for a race called "sharks', but no idea what 'shorts' woud refer to. Short wheelbase?
Also, the online lyrics say "Superstock Dodge windin out in low...' I thought I heard "Superstock Dart.."
It also refers to "Ram Induction sitting under his hood...", and there was a Dart in '62 with dual
four barrels with cross ram manifold. I am not sure the Dart engine compartment was wide enough
for the Ram Induction system with two 4 bbl carbs, outboard of the rocker covers, and long crossing
manifolds feeding the head on the other side of the engine.

Maybe poetic license. Or maybe there was Ram Induction in a Dart. Or maybe they said "Dodge",
because they sure had it in the bigger cars.



Ram Induction, sonic tuning with the long runs, to assist in low RPM torque and power.



Very cool old muscle car tech, look at those manifolds!

Bill

 

[Bret4207]

What is it with people wanting to paint over oak, knotty pine or figured woods? The Good Lord made them to be appreciated by the eye and poplar, MDF or plywood for paint! My wife is the same way. We finally got some nice Oak cabinets and every month or so I hear "white paint" mentioned. It's a battle. Myself, I'm a knotty pine fan having grown up in a home with the classic 50's knotty pine living room. Endless variation is good in somethings IMO.

Got the church seating moved. A local Synagogue was closing down and donated the theater type seating to our new building. Very heavy, cast steel/iron frames. A real bear to move. Must have had close to 20 people show up on a beautiful spring morning to help move 6 or so of the connected seats consisting of 3 or 4 chairs. Job was done in no time. Wish they had all been there to help load and unload the whole lot the first time. I think 4or 5 of us did the job on 30 or so sets and I was the youngest man there at 59! The rest come out when the carpet is down in the new church next door. The old building dates from probably the 1900-1920 era and is in rough shape. It will still get used for dinners but the new building will be much, much brighter, accessible for seniors and bit larger.

Went and got all 200 of the fence posts. The F350 was loaded down good with 100 posts per trip. For those interested, a 7 foot long Red Cedar fence post that's at least 5" on the small end and green has got to weigh at least 15lbs each. The larger and greener they are the heavier they are, with a few that were pushing a good 40 lbs. I should have made up some stakes for the side pockets but would have left me with nothing to hook the strap hooks into. A flatbed would really have shined in this case. The F350 handled the weight fine, it was the goat path county road and frost heaves and dips that were the problem. I passed one Amish guy in a buggy just before a real rough area and I'm pretty sure 45 seconds later he was thinking about passing me as I tried to negotiate the potholes in the bomb range lookalike pavement so as not to rip a hook out of the sheet metal stake pockets. We got them home alright and stacked them for drying. 200 posts doesn't make a real impressive pile considering the amount I really need and what they cost. But it's a start.

 

[L Ross]

Open the photos in Microsoft Paint, on the tool bar near the left, it has a "resize" button. Switch the
units from percent to pixels and replace the biggest dimension in pixels with about 800 or 1000. Then
click on the top most, left most icon (looks like a page with lines on it) and use SAVE AS (NOT SAVE)
under the to save it to a different name, like, if the original is Hotrod.jpg, save it to something like
Hotrod_small.jpg or Hotrod_emailresized.jpg, whatever. Don't permanently downsize the original
image file by doing a "SAVE", use the "SAVE AS" to save to a different name.

If you are worried about harming the original file, copy the file to a new name like Hotrod_small.jpg
and then load THAT copy into Paint and resize it and just SAVE it. This is safer, for sure, only working
with a copy of the original file.

Also, I grew up in the car culture of the late 60s and had friends with hot cars of various kinds,
but I copied the online lyrics to save typing....and it says "Two cool shorts standing side by side".

I always thought they said "Two cool sharks standing...." I had heard of guys cruising around
looking for a race called "sharks', but no idea what 'shorts' woud refer to. Short wheelbase?
Also, the online lyrics say "Superstock Dodge windin out in low...' I thought I heard "Superstock Dart.."
It also refers to "Ram Induction sitting under his hood...", and there was a Dart in '62 with dual
four barrels with cross ram manifold. I am not sure the Dart engine compartment was wide enough
for the Ram Induction system with two 4 bbl carbs, outboard of the rocker covers, and long crossing
manifolds feeding the head on the other side of the engine.

Maybe poetic license. Or maybe there was Ram Induction in a Dart. Or maybe they said "Dodge",
because they sure had it in the bigger cars.

View attachment 9025

Ram Induction, sonic tuning with the long runs, to assist in low RPM torque and power.

View attachment 9026

Very cool old muscle car tech, look at those manifolds!

Bill

What is this Micro Soft of which you write?
My 413 just came out of an Imperial and just has a Carter AFB. Of course the Imperial weighed like 4,700 lbs, the little hot rod, while heavier than a go kart, doesn't weigh very much. The entire frame has been fabbed up from scratch. This car was the "baby" of an older mechanic up in NE WI who worked on it for over 12 years, had 850 miles on it and needed to sell it for health bills. The mechanic, (Lloyd), built a pretty cool little car. Ive got a couple issues to work out yet, but we put close to 3k miles on it last year. I was just a kid when the big 3 were battling over drag racing's crown. I can pretty much guess that unlike the song, that tricked out 413 would blow a fuel injected Stingray into the weeds.

 

[358156 hp]

"He's hot with ram induction but it's understood, I got a fuel injected engine sittin' under my hood".

A laughable line to be certain. The early Corvette fuelies weren't that fast. The reason so few still exist is because most guys ended up replacing the fuel injection with carburetion for the sake of reliability & better performance. Corvettes always got the short end of the stick wherever fuel injection was involved until the late C4s and the C5s. Even then fuel injection Corvette performance was nothing special until the Z06 was introduced, which also had other significant changes & upgrades. I won't even address the Cross-Fire (Crease-Fire) engines. 80-86 were especiallydark years for Corvette performance, with 1983 being the worst, there were zero production Corvettes produced for the 1983 model year. The first production run was essentially destroyed, and sales didn't resume until Febr 2013 as revised, early release 1984 models.

 

[L Ross]

"He's hot with ram induction but it's understood, I got a fuel injected engine sittin' under my hood".

A laughable line to be certain. The early Corvette fuelies weren't that fast. The reason so few still exist is because most guys ended up replacing the fuel injection with carburetion for the sake of reliability & better performance. Corvettes always got the short end of the stick wherever fuel injection was involved until the late C4s and the C5s. Even then fuel injection Corvette performance was nothing special until the Z06 was introduced, which also had other significant changes & upgrades. I won't even address the Cross-Fire (Crease-Fire) engines. 80-86 were especiallydark years for Corvette performance, with 1983 being the worst, there were zero production Corvettes produced for the 1983 model year. The first production run was essentially destroyed, and sales didn't resume until Febr 2013 as revised, early release 1984 models.

Ya know, the rhyme and the song might have won out over reality.

 

[Ian]

200 posts isn't much for 350 acres but it's a lot more than you had. Should help a lot with repairs.

 

[Intheshop]

Bret,speaking of pine and fine furniture.....

Late 18th century, eastern shore Va,and N.E. coastal N.C saw a reasonably well represented amount of pine raised panel pieces being produced. I'd say it lasted until probably 1820,starting around 1750 or so.

 

[popper]

IIRC the 300C was first with those long intake tubes. Dart slant 6 also had the tuned intake. Old Imperial had the 'globe' speedo unit. First vette FI was almost a joke but again, IIRC it was somebody pretty famous that pushed it onto chevy. Was watching MT yesterday, 50 Chrysler had FI & disk brakes as well as ther fluid clutch. Friend had a Desoto with it, really weird to drive. With the old 'Y' shifter.

 

[RBHarter]

FI made the 283/283 a thing in 57' then came the 283/283 dual quad . A friend of Dad's had a fuely 283 in a 55' he said it had a lot of diesel after run in it ever time he shut it off unless he killed it with the clutch .

Our local museum had a Silver state rally (sanctioned version of the Gumball Rally) car that had the Cross Ram 426 Hemi , gear head , I want to say 68' Charger .

Ford built a 425 HP 390 in 69 along with a 475/428 SCJ , they did it with 11-1 compression , dual quads and cams that had smooth idle about 1800 rpm . A friend of ours had a Tiger with a 3-2 intake SCJ . Basically it was 1 of the cute little Sunbeams (MG class) with an FE and 4 speed .

 

[Bret4207]

200 posts isn't much for 350 acres but it's a lot more than you had. Should help a lot with repairs.

These are just for a goat pasture of maybe 12 acres. Still gonna need more, but it's a start. We had planned on starting to tear out old fence after church but the rain came on about 11AM, so we stayed for an engagement party and pot luck dinner. Good decision! Yum!

 

[fiver]

that cross ram was available on the Chryslers in 58 for sure.
it was an option on the 300's [same car as Christine from the movie]

been just warm enough to rain up here all day, it was just wind and threats down in the valley.
[probably switch to snow just after dark]

the wind was playing havoc with the targets today making things a little more fun.[until I missed one]
almost snagged a browning BT 100 plus with the 32" barrel for 500$, but another guy had first dibs and decided to take it and see if he could get the couple of pieces it needed to get it back to 100%.
the bad part is I have one of them and would have eliminated the other anyway.
I might have a chance at it still, just have to wait and see.

 

[popper]

Tiger was monster but very poor driver. Stud with the monster mother was terrible too. Heilbronn did the FI for the first vette, then D modified it.