Maybe someday I’ll get that plasma cutter I want from Eastwood.Rear “kicker bars”. Florescent lights play tricks on your eyes, especially cheap shop lights ($10). 2A+B will be the length you want to cut you tubing for the main hoop – plus maybe an extra six inches.Make a test 90 degree bent on a piece of tubing. On it mark where the bend starts and stops (the edge of the die on the back side, and the back of the securing strap on the front), and mark them with a sharpie. If you are careful, and pay attention closely to the wiring, you will be able to put the instrument cluster back in. Boy was he motivated to help!!! I learned a lot doing this.Shannon wasn’t likely to come back to racing, so I offered her $1,000.00 cash for the car and she accepted. © 2020 World Racing Group | All Rights Reserved,HILE-DRIVER: Family Tradition Powers Chris Hile’s 6-Race DIRTcar OktoberFAST Effort,Super DIRTcar Series Big Block Modifieds Volusia Speedway Park February 15th, 2020 | HIGHLIGHTS,Super DIRTcar Series Big Block Modifieds Volusia Speedway Park February 14th, 2020 | HIGHLIGHTS,Super DIRTcar Series Big Block Modifieds Volusia Speedway Park February 13th, 2020 | HIGHLIGHTS,DIRTcar OktoberFAST Boasts $300,000 Purse,BIG BLOCKS IN OCTOBER: DIRTcar OktoberFAST presented by DIRTVision Features Six Nights of Racing on Six Historic DIRTcar Tracks,Hoosier Racing Tire Weekly Championship Extended Beyond Labor Day,Airborne and Ransomville Super DIRTcar Series Dates Fall to COVID-19 Restrictions,COVID-19 Restrictions Postpone Super DIRTcar Series at Thunder Mountain and Land of Legends,Bridgeport Crowns Friesen ‘King of the Big Blocks’,COVID-19 Restrictions Force Cancelation of Super DIRTcar Series ‘Battle on the Midway’ at Orange County Fair Speedway,BRIDGEPORT CONFIRMED: Super DIRTcar Series Returns to Premier New Jersey Speedway,WEEDSPORT CANCELED: COVID-19 forces cancellation of Super DIRTcar Series Hall of Fame event at Weedsport,RANSOMVILLE RESCHEDULE: Summer Nationals for Super DIRTcar Series Moved to Monday, August 24. It was equipped with a 2.0 liter SOHC (single over head camshaft) engine and a 5 speed manual transmission. We don’t need titles! Yes it can happen, and you can be ready for it.on Pure Stock or IMCA Hobby Stock car, I ran across an old photo and figured I’d write about it a bit.on So you want to race? Plus keep in mind where you head (with helmet on-helmets are big) will be. The front suspension also got QA1 shocks from the Camaro.The results were amazing. Too bad he got stolen… A fantastic deal from: https://www.speedwaymotors.com/3rd-Gen-Hydraulic-Round-Tubing-Bender-and-1-Die-Set,6614.html.I’ve been searching for a better deal for years now, and for a non-production shop, this thing can’t be beaten. He had a effective program keeping cost down. I flat refused to work on the car without her present. But basically complete.Get a service manual, it will be quite helpful. As before, I saved all the nuts, bolts, and screws. September 11, 2020 Event News. This is a product called.More support bars added to the main hoop. That’s due to building the cage to be out of the drivers view as much as possible. This was the closest we could get to Navy blue from the paint chips at the Elko Napa store where Jim and I both worked.All in all, it took about $400 more to get the car to this state:Well that’s all for now.

The relative safety we enjoy is due to the requirement of personal safety equipment, and equipment built into, and/or installed in the cars we race. It was part of the Team Napa project I did for 2012, where I put 14 different co-workers and customers in two race cars. Example: Old rules allowed for stagger, IMCA – not so much – so I ran stagger; Old rules was open differential, new allowed locked diffs, so I locked the differential. Two people took me up on the offer, Wade and Jim. Mostly because I want to believe these things can be avoided.This is also from a different type of auto racing, and I don’t know how much of the stock (flammable) interior was left in the car. He didn’t have a clue as to what he was doing, couldn’t fit into the car and never drove it, and didn’t establish a racing-language to communicate with his daughter, and just didn’t ask for her input. Cast iron intake and exhaust manifolds, 2bbl carburetor, stock suspension, stock replacement shocks, 7″ wide street tires with open differentials.With the few improvements we did and a fresh carburetor a good friend built me (I loaned this part to her) from his private stash, Shannon started running at least mid pack.

She really had the reputation, but it wasn’t true or her fault. Not all bad… Another advantage of this car is the 180hp engine. We had women who were quite small, and some guys over 6 feet tall who needed to be comfortable in this car.

So a nylon ratchet strap was put to work temporarily.

We didn’t need any of that in this project.Here is what I started with, cheap and ugly. That’s what friends are for!The first job was to clean it up, and knock some dents out.Then a coat of dark blue paint. I cost me roughly $300 in trade for another car. As a mechanical person, I want to know that. Yes, I got the racing bug bad.