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Offline Dr Goggles

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #3255 on: January 14, 2013, 08:03:11 PM »
you're the one with the glasses
It's sprayed on so unless you let Dik hold the spray gun?
Motor is currently in bits. waiting for the postie with my valves


Valves? ....anyone here read this?

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Ignatius J Reilly had a problem with valves......
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #3256 on: January 14, 2013, 08:44:17 PM »
I was thinking valves like the one you were going to pop on the phone about an hour ago
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Offline Dr Goggles

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #3257 on: January 14, 2013, 08:49:02 PM »
Yeah, fair call..... I was just running through the job-sheet in my head,
install torsen centre
attach BW yoke
don't lose all the parts
charge Motza.

two out of four ain't bad :roll:
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #3258 on: January 14, 2013, 11:05:28 PM »
It may be that he is a crook
In other news, just picked up the little Ducati from Tulla.
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #3259 on: January 15, 2013, 02:02:43 AM »
...there also the possibility he took me as a lightweight, I can do a seamless impression of someone who's got no-idea what they're talking about, it can be useful sometimes. That and a combination of not being interested in what we are doing with this car could well put someone in a "coin-operated" frame of mind. Having a clientele who drag race sedans paid for by meth labs could also cause one to lose perspective a little too, plus If you're not running a nine inch you're just f***** around aren't ya?

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #3260 on: January 15, 2013, 09:07:38 AM »
...there also the possibility he took me as a lightweight, I can do a seamless impression of someone who's got no-idea what they're talking about, it can be useful sometimes. That and a combination of not being interested in what we are doing with this car could well put someone in a "coin-operated" frame of mind. Having a clientele who drag race sedans paid for by meth labs could also cause one to lose perspective a little too, plus If you're not running a nine inch you're just f***** around aren't ya?

There are guys who bolt together race cars, and then there are those who build race cars.  You fall into the latter category. 

The fellow who wanted to fleece you for a $350.00?  Mail him a tea bag and instructions as to how to heat water with an Oxy - Acetylene torch. 

Maybe throw in a Summit Racing catalog.
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #3261 on: January 15, 2013, 12:33:02 PM »
" I can do a seamless impression of someone who's got no-idea what they're talking about, it can be useful sometimes."

My good Dr., we southern boys get to LIVE that everyday we are outside the "South"   we sound so dumb to all but the "educated" --- the "educated" have generally experienced an education  :evil: some where along the line.  :-D
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #3262 on: January 15, 2013, 03:50:19 PM »

Maybe throw in a Summit Racing catalog.


We would have to send out for a Summit catalogue. (Aus Spelling)

Maybe a Rocket Industries catalogue.

This came in the post yesterday, the orange one, not the dirty grey one
and in the background, the current workshop. Even a real estate agents photographer couldn't make that shed look big
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #3263 on: January 15, 2013, 04:05:48 PM »
Sheesh, I thought the grey one was cool, that's like a whole 'nother dimension. :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

It is "yours" isn't it, or was it bought for someone else?........

Now, I can't help but notice what looks to be an engine in that there shed, how's that goin?  :-)
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #3264 on: January 15, 2013, 04:24:34 PM »
Waiting for valves
waiting for valves
waiting for valves
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #3265 on: January 15, 2013, 08:12:30 PM »
Very nice, is it as mechanically good as it looks?

Do the new valves have longer stems to help with the rocker geometry?

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #3266 on: January 15, 2013, 09:07:43 PM »
I had a dog called Ollie who had a special ear for engine sounds. She could identify a friends car or bike minutes before they arrived, she had a special thing for Grumm, and for some reason she had a special thing for that Duke single. Generally if someone we knew was coming over she'd start whining and staring at you like it was tea-time, then she'd bark a few times and finally when they parked out the front she'd bark at the front door......this is long before they knocked, meanwhile cars could be driving past, idling out the front, she wouldn't care. When Graham was arriving on that Duke single she'd get the anxiety shakes and when he pulled up she'd be throwing herself against the door and wailing like something possessed. We could never quite work out whatit was that drove  her so crazy. Although she was a spayed bitch she had something about humping Graham's leg, that's all we can put it down to.

All I can say is that dog had special powers.

She had organ failure in the end, the morning after I had her put to sleep my ex sent me an email from France asking if she was OK as she'd had a dream about her, no she wasn't I said she'd shuffled off right about the time you had that dream.
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #3267 on: January 15, 2013, 09:40:27 PM »
You don't need no valves.  Leave them out and run it as a two stroke.

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #3268 on: January 15, 2013, 11:11:21 PM »
I had a dog called Ollie ... We could never quite work out whatit was that drove  her so crazy. Although she was a spayed bitch she had something about humping Graham's leg, that's all we can put it down to.

All I can say is that dog had special powers.


Hey Doc, a question, his good leg or the other one....  :roll:
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #3269 on: January 15, 2013, 11:45:41 PM »
No. I would have had to get custom valves because of the small diameters.
I'm running 10° valve locs with a fancy shape that holds a lash cap so there is more top and I should be able to get the valves out at the end of the meeting because the ends will not be so hammered.
I also received three http://www.msdignition.com/Products/Coils/Stock_Replacement/8224_-_GM_Coil_Pack,_2_Tower_Style.aspx
which should either burn holes in the pistons or keep the flame alive
Anyhow. I have some yellow wiring to get back to
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