- 1. Specialized engine building equip (score: 1)
- Author: "Chris R Harris" <yesford@clear.net.nz>
- Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:03:33 +1300
- If its confession time with regard to the use of household appliances and fittings for engine building, the best place to wash a crank before use is in the bath. Just lay a clean section of ply-wood
- /html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00455.html (11,175 bytes)
- 2. Re: Specialized engine building equip (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 17:24:56 -0600
- You guys have some understanding wifes... I used the oven to crinkle paint a Part on Miss Kathy's bugeye and still haven't heard the last of it.... Let alone oiling her down... I did get a hand stick
- /html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00456.html (12,606 bytes)
- 3. Re: Specialized engine building equip (score: 1)
- Author: FastmetalBDF@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 20:55:52 EST
- Chris, while I' ve never washed any really big parts in my tub or my house ( NOT so sure about my boys when I used to be at work and they were teenagers ! ), I did wash my first smallblock ..... a fr
- /html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00459.html (9,367 bytes)
- 4. Specialized engine building equip (score: 1)
- Author: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 06:28:01 -0800 (PST)
- Okay, let's all fess up to the "bravest" thing we ever did (mechanically speaking) in the house, and see who got away with the most. I'll admit to building a 1954 Harley in the spare bedroom one wint
- /html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00465.html (8,561 bytes)
- 5. Re: Specialized engine building equip (score: 1)
- Author: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:39:31 EST
- This doesn't come under the heading of engine building, but several years ago my wife (still the same one after 35 years) took a trip to Norway to visit relatives and her "roots". While she was gone
- /html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00471.html (8,445 bytes)
- 6. Re: Specialized engine building equip (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Dincau" <jdincau@qnet.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:20:06 -0800
- Nolan White has a picture window in his living room that looks into the shop where the streamliner is on the trailer. Jim years Motocycle "roller". probably King
- /html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00476.html (9,010 bytes)
- 7. Re: Specialized engine building equip (score: 1)
- Author: Cris Shearer <cshearer@tacisp.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 21:45:38 -0700
- Good story Doug. Is this kind of like the "leg lamp" in the Christmas Story. I've got to meet your wife. I don't think she would like you telling this story to the world. Did she cover it with a doil
- /html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00500.html (8,844 bytes)
- 8. Re: Specialized engine building equip (score: 1)
- Author: chad labno <clab@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 12:26:14 -0800
- Before I tell my story let me introduce myself. I'm Chad and ran at Maxton the first time at the last meet of the year. I was running a '93 Corvette in c/gss and will be back! The story: I was betwee
- /html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00508.html (9,826 bytes)
- 9. Re: Specialized engine building equip (score: 1)
- Author: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:22:35 -0800 (PST)
- Hey Chad, I was pitted almost across from you with the ugly Camaro in C/GRS. I'm curious. How do you get those engines out of the house? I know they are too heavy to roll on a skate board - - I tried
- /html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00509.html (11,432 bytes)
- 10. Re: Specialized engine building equip (score: 1)
- Author: chad labno <clab@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 13:50:40 -0800
- I don't like engine stands, we take great pains to "pre-distort" our blocks by torqueing on thick steel plated before honing then we hang the block off 4 bolts, anyway, I use a steel frame bolted to
- /html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00510.html (12,454 bytes)
- 11. Re: Specialized engine building equip (score: 1)
- Author: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:04:59 -0800 (PST)
- Well, it's not ugly to me. Some others have said it was ugly though. Hell, it set the record! That makes it really beautiful to me. It's a gray-primered (over dings) 1968 that had the number "729" an
- /html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00512.html (14,397 bytes)
- 12. RE: Specialized engine building equip (score: 1)
- Author: "Smith, Simon-Pierre" <Simon-Pierre.Smith@PSS.Boeing.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 13:20:56 -0800
- These "engine in the house" tales remind me of 2 stories. First is when my brother got a Fantic trials bike. These things were made for going slowly but over rocks, logs, waterfalls, whatever. I come
- /html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00513.html (8,640 bytes)
- 13. Re: Specialized engine building equip (score: 1)
- Author: Cris Shearer <cshearer@tacisp.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 15:59:58 -0700
- Ah, great stories. Keep it up. cris
- /html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00514.html (8,710 bytes)
- 14. Re: Specialized engine building equip (score: 1)
- Author: Joe Amo <jkamo@rapidnet.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 22:22:57 -0700
- ......yes it was love after the the first sleep over, "got this hear engine to rebuild for the bike".....she says " I got a spare bedroom here"......motor gets built in her apartment......the two of
- /html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00550.html (9,212 bytes)
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