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« Last post by tauruck on Today at 01:16:29 AM »
Locally I count 4 guys as true friends.
I'm dead serious when I call you all my best friends. North America and I have this thing.
Call it a spiritual home if you will. I get you guys and by the look of it you all get me.
Maybe I was meant to join this forum just to meet you guys?.
Thousands of posts and not one negative comment. That says more about you than me.
The generosity, advice and motivation is overwhelming. God Bless you all.
I got into this because of a "coke head" rich guy who commissioned me to build Carbon body work for his gazillion HP BMW land speed car.
He was at fault but blamed me. I was so angry I told my crew I'd chop my Ranchero's roof and rake it to smoke the fool. One kid smirked so I showed them.
He never came back to work on Monday!!!!.
I was going with a NA truck and some fat slicks on Aero NASCAR wheels. They mention fools in the Bible. Pick me. Then you all taught me about tire width.
That never panned out because Goodyear SA reneged on the tire deal. Totally my fault for not getting it in writing.
Someone suggested a liner because MT would come on board with the rubber. I dived right in.
I'm that kid who sat in a hockey changeroom with men and heard "if your sport interferes with your job then leave your job". A joke but to me it was gospel.
I just played hockey until the army got me. There they bent us all out of shape in basic training. No disrespect to any other countries but our basic was close to spec forces.
Then they wanted volunteers for even crazier stuff. None of it was for glory. I was testing me. I'm the most knowledge hungry guy you'll ever meet.
This has been a steep learning curve for 2 reasons. I'm a one hundred percenter. I get into something and I get tunnel vision to the point that I neglect important things.
Second, I was making good money when I started out and the economy took a dive along with the exchange rate.
All the advice here is so appreciated and absorbed.
I can build this liner on my own. Finances are the killer in racing. The head of Mercedes AMG said even if he had enough money it still wasn't enough.
I have normally aspirated engine components in boxes I can't use. Some rare Cleveland stuff like TRW unfinished pop up pistons. Guys here tell me to
sell everything. Who wants it?. Even if it was SBC stuff they'll come like vultures and offer peanuts because "you're desperate" and it's common in South Africa.
When I asked the local experts on EFI and turbo they said get 8 x 2200cc Bosch injectors. Bosch obliged. Now I NEED 16!!!!. The Fueltech FT350 is inadequate because it doesn't have EGT sensors. Stuff like this. I built a steering wheel from Carbon for the ECU. All wrong because the FT500 is larger.
No faith in these guys.
In the time I told Tom and Sid I was done things were still in the works and Scott Bader has come on board with 35 gallons of high performance resin.
Spanjaard is an automotive and industrial supplier of lubricants, degreaser, copper compound and marking blue to name a few. They're ready to bring cases of products
I need. Honingcraft is busy making the full spool, the direct drive collar and a bunch of parts I need. I had a problem there though. My so called go to guy belittled me big time
because of my pencil drawings. That was the last straw. I don't have huge micrometres and verniers to measure. The CAD guy I know couldn't draw because I couldn't give dimensions.
It all came to a head. Even last year I might have reacted badly to the insult and got into a bind. I said God Bless you brother and ran to the car.
Been watching a lot of YouTube content. Darin Morgan in particular. Richard Holdener, David Vizard, Billy Goldbold and others.
The Australians are bosses on the Cleveland and it has a crank oiling timing problem and they found out it's at 120* when it should be 180*. Their Band-Aid is fully grooved bearings.
If I add the things I need up it comes to crank, cam, roller lifters, springs, pushrods and a tranny. The block needs partial filling too.
The upside is I have two awesome turbos. I could risk it and run with what I have but we all know it will grenade.
It's been said before here that I should build it to the point that it rolls and has a body so that the inexperienced will jump on it. All I can say is that before I got to breaking point
every rep that came and saw bought in.
I feel a lot better after reading all your comments. There's this loyalty thing where I took materials and products from companies. I can't do like some others and throw in the towel.
In my country people will rip you and sleep better than before.
I'll figure a way.
This isn't over.
God Bless you all. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻✝✝✝✝
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