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Re: Lakester sees the light of day
« Reply #15 on: December 10, 2014, 09:14:41 AM »
Jeez Ed, the hemlock garage might be the thing that's getting ya! :-D
I'll be keeping an interested eyeball on your progress.
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Re: Lakester sees the light of day
« Reply #16 on: December 10, 2014, 08:46:18 PM »
 Thats one strong chassis the four banger is going to have fun moving it along. Looking forward to seeing it run next year.  :cheers: 
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Re: Lakester sees the light of day
« Reply #17 on: December 11, 2014, 06:24:08 AM »
    Must have been a carry over from the days of big Westcotts, guess we'll have to up the boost a bit to compensate  :-D

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Re: Lakester sees the light of day
« Reply #18 on: December 11, 2014, 07:55:18 AM »
Ronnie
        How is the roadster coming?

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Re: Lakester sees the light of day
« Reply #19 on: December 11, 2014, 04:40:51 PM »
Ronnie
        How is the roadster coming?
Been working on her every day since the last runs in September closing in on it making the changes in a way to not disturb going back to a lakester in the future. If all goes as planed should be at Steves Land Speed Night next month for the first public viewing. Westcotts have come in handy during the modifications used a number of sizes all left over from the railroad days.    :cheers:
Working in the shop I use the 'F' word a lot. No not that word these words Focus and Finish go Fast and Flathead Ford!
 ECTA  XF/BGRMR Record 179.8561
 LTA    XF/BGRMR  Record 200.921 First  Ever Ford Flathead Roadster to hit 200 MPH burning gasoline July 2018
 SCTA  XF/BGRMR Record 205.744  First gas burning Ford flathead powered roadster to top 200 MPH at Bonneville August 7, 2021 top speed 219.717
 SCTA  XXF/BGRMR Record 216.131 plus a Red Hat
"Life Member of the Bonneville 200 MPH Club"

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Re: Lakester sees the light of day
« Reply #20 on: December 12, 2014, 03:08:55 PM »
A little progress. Frame up on rotisserie.

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Re: Lakester sees the light of day
« Reply #21 on: December 12, 2014, 03:12:29 PM »
For you guys in the south and southern California that's a snow blower behind the engine. Slim probably thinks it a 1/4
scale model of a REAL blower.




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Re: Lakester sees the light of day
« Reply #22 on: December 12, 2014, 03:19:46 PM »
We've got three snow blowers, thank you very much.  One is kinda like what is shown in the photo, one is small -- a two-stroke single stage unit I use for clearing the sidewalk from house to garage.  And then there's the big one - not quite four times as big as what's shown, but it is a 72" wide cut.  I'll try to remember to take a photo of it when I get home and show you what a Yooper uses to move snow.

Now back to our regularly scheduled lakester discussion. :-D
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Re: Lakester sees the light of day
« Reply #23 on: December 12, 2014, 04:31:03 PM »
 Putting such a long car in a short garage is going to cause a problem when its time to roll her out for the first time. Your going to need a door in the side of the garage of some big sledge hammers to open up the wall!   :cheers:
Working in the shop I use the 'F' word a lot. No not that word these words Focus and Finish go Fast and Flathead Ford!
 ECTA  XF/BGRMR Record 179.8561
 LTA    XF/BGRMR  Record 200.921 First  Ever Ford Flathead Roadster to hit 200 MPH burning gasoline July 2018
 SCTA  XF/BGRMR Record 205.744  First gas burning Ford flathead powered roadster to top 200 MPH at Bonneville August 7, 2021 top speed 219.717
 SCTA  XXF/BGRMR Record 216.131 plus a Red Hat
"Life Member of the Bonneville 200 MPH Club"

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Re: Lakester sees the light of day
« Reply #24 on: December 12, 2014, 06:06:58 PM »
We have some dollies which I hope will help reduce the problem to a manageable level

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Re: Lakester sees the light of day
« Reply #25 on: December 13, 2014, 12:53:40 AM »
Corner to corner with rollie wheels, thats the way to do it. I have a 40ft car in a 30ft shed, just not with both ends on at the same time. :-D As you can probably tell, I'm not very good with math. :?
I like your little turbo Ford there, your car should be a lot of fun.
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Re: Lakester sees the light of day
« Reply #26 on: December 21, 2014, 11:57:23 AM »
I turbo motor is bone stock but should move the car hopefully fast as I want to go

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Re: Lakester sees the light of day
« Reply #27 on: December 21, 2014, 01:09:26 PM »
Couple or premove photos

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Re: Lakester sees the light of day
« Reply #28 on: December 21, 2014, 01:27:36 PM »
it finally worked so here are a couple more

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Re: Lakester sees the light of day
« Reply #29 on: December 21, 2014, 03:54:55 PM »
I turbo motor is bone stock but should move the car hopefully fast as I want to go
They're no slug in stock form so it sould be point & shoot fun. You might want to delete the EGR.
  Sid.