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Offline Freud

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #675 on: April 02, 2009, 10:43:50 PM »
Dr GoGGles............did the surplus shirts survive?

We have Muroc Dust but we know u never get rid of that.

What we don't have is a supply of your event shirts.

I think I forgot to tell the fellows: no refunds.

Take what we can get after the dirt bath in the trailer with the bad doors.

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #676 on: April 02, 2009, 11:03:19 PM »
Dr GoGGles............did the surplus shirts survive?
FREUD

iL Contrere!!!......there will be a new run done, order away.....Norm Hardinge, his wife Vicky and likely the Hadfields will be going to Bonneville and they will be ferrying the shirts.... so there'll be ship-loads
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« Reply #677 on: April 03, 2009, 01:14:54 AM »
I have seen dust that fine, yes, it gets everywhere. :x


Right now we have ash that fine, somewhat more abrasive though. :-(

All up, it definetly looks like a good time.
Just happy to be here. :-D

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« Reply #678 on: April 07, 2009, 08:39:54 AM »

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #679 on: April 07, 2009, 09:42:25 AM »
That is one for the mantle... if you have a fireplace... otherwise anywhere in the living room or even in the bedroom if you need a performance enhancer... :-D
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #680 on: April 07, 2009, 09:58:02 AM »
#374 is a real beauty.

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #681 on: April 07, 2009, 07:53:18 PM »
That is one for the mantle... if you have a fireplace... otherwise anywhere in the living room or even in the bedroom if you need a performance enhancer... :-D


Yep, it's a beautiful shot.......I've got what must be somewhere between one and two thousand of 'em, some absolutely sensational stuff. There's some magazine features coming up soon too.....the thing is when I look at some of them I wish i'd spent more than a day painting it :oops:...but you all know the story, you tell someone you spent five years building it and while you're looking down at it right there in front of you there's a piece of bodywork that looks like it was prepped by a five year old
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #682 on: April 07, 2009, 08:54:58 PM »
Looks great, what a shot! :cheers: :cheers:

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #683 on: April 13, 2009, 08:46:05 PM »
That is one for the mantle... if you have a fireplace... otherwise anywhere in the living room or even in the bedroom if you need a performance enhancer... :-D

Mantle - hell, that one deserves a tattoo.

Just stunning!
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #684 on: April 28, 2009, 03:15:52 AM »
For the first time since the meet I saw the Reverend last night .....well, I've had nothing to confess , no guidance has been sought ....so anyway he fronts at the door last night. Great moustache, just right for the first world war.....

We had a cup of tea as I coaxed him toward the shed. I mumbled something about how I want him to model a "hot-rod" style plaque that we can make out of some boiled down cheesium( that's the stuff they make manifolds out of , come on)....so we get out to the shed ..."have you started it yet"?...."na , gave it a crack last week but the pump doesn't sound like it's working..."...... so we gave it a few cranks and sure enough it didn't fire nor did it sound like the fuel pump was working....., so it sat there for a while with the ignition on as we undid the fueltank......just as we started to lift the fuel tank I could feel warmth....." that's weird I thought, has he been hanging onto the fuel line?" ....no , the fuel pump is stuffed , goosed , rooted, kaput, .....it makes heat but she no longer do the pump....... It was brand new about , er , twenty five miles ago.The filter sits between the (new) aluminium tank and the pump but it seems that the detritus from the tank still monstered the pump......it wasn't a cheap one :x :x :x :x

I'm thinking there's a few wise old heads right now saying to themselves " yeah well you'll get that...." and yer right , so out ya come share your fuel pump expertise and tell me should I ditch the alloy tank and make a stainless one? should we have two filters? , how do you stop your pump from cavitating?.............

anyway,the news is that when I spoke to Grumm this afternoon he said " yeah , I've got the video footage from inside the car( which the Rev and I had forgotten about ) it's really nicely framed and captures the whole last run perfectly....the motor dieing , the Rev getting out and nearly breaking off the canopy, then walking off toward the island when he'd got lost and the motor wouldn't start again..." .


....boy am I dieing to see that!!! :wink:
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #685 on: April 28, 2009, 04:17:20 AM »
A co-worker / racer friend of mine was using a submersible Wallbro pump (the 255 LPM one) and I couldn't get it through to him till he locked up a couple that the pick up sock had to be on. :roll:

He wound up whacking the pump about a bit and got it to work again (not reccomended, but might be worth a try) till his replacement got here.

Is there a different pickup sock or prefilter you could run?
Just happy to be here. :-D

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #686 on: April 28, 2009, 05:35:35 AM »
Yep
Fickle things those EFI pumps
No sense of humor when it comes to small particles of Cheesium
It may be a lot of things but it has been found to be not compatible with EFI fuel pumps.
"Cheesium is the fourth element in the Idiotic Table of the Elements, and is an essential building-block for dairy products and moons."


http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Cheesium

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #687 on: April 28, 2009, 02:57:36 PM »
So, Dr. G-

You gonna send that video link to me so I can put it on the website for all to peruse?  I think it'd be dandy if you did. . .

By the way, I got the photobucket link and will see if that's good enough for Darryl.  Thanks.
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #688 on: April 29, 2009, 06:51:31 AM »
So, Dr. G-

You gonna send that video link to me so I can put it on the website for all to peruse?  I think it'd be dandy if you did. . .

By the way, I got the photobucket link and will see if that's good enough for Darryl.  Thanks.

Jon
The hard copy is on the way to your house. I posted it today so you may see it next week
The Video is a bit on the large side, and the funny thing is you will probably see it before Goggles does
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #689 on: April 29, 2009, 10:40:58 PM »
At work I use various lake racer pictures as screensavers.  Folks look at these.  The two belly tanks, the blue and silver one and the red and white job, get lots of favorable comments.  Many of these people have no idea about speed racing. These pill shaped things are good-will ambassadors for our sport.