Dick
Wire it up in your garage and the neighbors won't know when you fire up the
open headered noisy race car. Or have a garage sale and sell the kid stuff.
Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dick J" <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 10:08 AM
Subject: Door Slammer Race Cars
>I know many of you have purpose-built racers, but I'm in the midst of
>converting my fourth door slammer into a race car. This newer generation
>never ceases to amaze me. Back in my high school days, when I built my
>first couple of cars, priority went to dual carbs, dual exhausts, maybe
>high compression heads and a cam. Now days, the very first thing that gets
>done has to ba a sound "system".
>
> I bought this 1975 Pontiac Firebird and am in the process of stripping out
> the interior and removing the "system" so that I'll have room for a cage,
> racing seat and harness. I have never seen so many cables. The
> amplifier, mounted in the trunk, had it's own cooling fan! When I got
> everything from the "system" disconnected, the electric fuel pump stopped
> working. A thorough tracing of the "system's" wiring revealed that a
> couple of "lesser circuits" were add-ons to the primary "system" harness.
> The fuel pump, and the primary alternator wire, fell into these "lesser
> add-on" secondary harnesses.
>
> But man, that system could vibrate acorns off the big oak tree through
> it's eight speakers and 400 bazillion watt amplifier!
>
> Dick J
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