Australian Belly Tank

[grumm441]

Well it sold, but not to me $6600.00
Probably worth it
Moving on
I might look for something I can pickup myself
After all. Wayno does have a Belly tank to finish, and only about 7 weeks to do it
G

[Dr Goggles]

Just ordered an M21 cluster and new third gear. we go from 1.51:1 down to 1.25:1 which means we hit top at 5600 instead of 4700.

That'll help.

Welded the pumpkin in place yesterday with G supplying humor. I also chased out a gammy weld on the rear bulkhead where two pieces of half inch plate are joined at right angles.that had always annoyed me, a contamination got in when I was laying a third fillet leaving a couple of bubble holes that looked bad, I ground it down yesterday, underneath it was really good, laid another two fillets on top......it's now looks ok.G says blast now, get centre set up after.....I'm thinking once the set up is done I can blast it and paint it without getting the nice clean metal fouled with gear oil.

I'd spent the morning finishing the strip on the car,just as a precautionary measure I ditched the fluid lines.When I replace them I will be covering them in clear tube, (nice idea Bill) as they were quite rusty in several places.

It is now sitting outside the shed for the fifth time in its life, looking a little weary, worse for wear and tear........waiting to get taking to the blasters.

[Milwaukee Midget]

Doc – Grummy - Good to hear you’re moving forward.  It’s easy to wind up in a lull, and then the next thing you know, you’re in a thrash.

It’s not a sport – it’s a discipline.

Stay hydrated.

 

[Moxnix]

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The Working Class Man drinks Bundaberg Ginger Beer. Bundaberg Ginger Beer - naturally brewed to be better.

Speaking of Working Class Man, anyone have an old Jimmy Barnes CD from a flea market to send via whomever's coming to SpeedWeek & drop off at Slim's trailer?  I'll pay.  We could use some ANZAC tunes to audio output.....

[grumm441]

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The Working Class Man drinks Bundaberg Ginger Beer. Bundaberg Ginger Beer - naturally brewed to be better.

Speaking of Working Class Man, anyone have an old Jimmy Barnes CD from a flea market to send via whomever's coming to SpeedWeek & drop off at Slim's trailer?  I'll pay.  We could use some ANZAC tunes to audio output.....

Ginger beer? Bundeberg?

Maybe I could bring one of the 1000 or so CD's that Goggles is on
G

[Dr Goggles]

\\youtube{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSDUcKw-GOk&feature=related     <<<Race Car sounds on Australia's Got Talent.  No flies on him, mate.

The Working Class Man drinks Bundaberg Ginger Beer. Bundaberg Ginger Beer - naturally brewed to be better.

Speaking of Working Class Man, anyone have an old Jimmy Barnes CD from a flea market to send via whomever's coming to SpeedWeek & drop off at Slim's trailer?  I'll pay.  We could use some ANZAC tunes to audio output.....

An old mate Pete Lawler played bass for Barnsey for a while.Pete is a character, there's no two ways about it. He is a musical chameleon who looks like he's spent a life in the mines. Pete has nearly always been a sideman as despite being a show-off doesn't want to be the absolute centre of attention, that comes with too much responsibility. Pete has also gone under various handles but the enduring one has been Pumpy, or Doctor Pump. Being so funny is great, unless you are the frontman and are worried about someone stealing your lime-light....... Pete has left a few bands due to "musical differences" which translates to " stop taking over my band Pete" So anyway Pumpy joins Jimmy Barnes' band....when we heard we thought "hello, how long will this last?" ....you don't join James' Brown's band and declare yourself as "The One".....  So we promptly re-wrote the lyrics to Working Class Man as " Playin' in Dr Pump's band".......

Next time I'll tell you about Pete playing a certain Mr David Bowie at 8 ball, oh yeah and beating "The Edge" by seven balls...............

[Moxnix]

The ginger beer thing was below one of Jimmy's vids on Youtube. 
I'm up for having Dr. G. on the webcast, no question.  Hopefully we'll have at least one listener in AustralAsia @ SpeedWeek.  And, we'll see if we can acguire more music w/ Midget on guitar in Honkytonkitis.  Cheers,

[Elmo Rodge]

If these dorks would show up we could just have some live stuff.  Wayno

[grumm441]

I,ll be there. just look for the guy asleep on Wayno's couch
No seriously, I'l  be easy to find. will be wearing a white shirt and an orange hat.
as for me playing music. I can't string one chord together let alone a whole song
Am playing with a desmo head right at the moment and that's not giving much joy either.
G

[Jack Gifford]

"... welded the pumpkin in place..."

[Dr Goggles]

"... welded the pumpkin in place..."

Well, I was going to stick it with sour cream and nutmeg...... The pumpkin is the diff housing and we have used a ten bolt housing between Ford axle tubes....long story... (http://www.landracing.com/forum/index.php/topic,862.1935.html half way down the page)

So yeah we just had to decide on exactly where we wanted it to be.......... any help?

[Jack Gifford]

I never before heard the term "pumpkin" applied to anything but a removable carrier; thus could not imagine why anyone would change one to non-removable by welding.

[Dr Goggles]

I never before heard the term "pumpkin" applied to anything but a removable carrier; thus could not imagine why anyone would change one to non-removable by welding.

Good point Jack, and I apologise that I was never aware of that distinction. It certainly wasn't a removable one, it was a reluctant participant in the process, removing the axle tubes from it was an ordeal that taught me some stuff about the hardness of nickel alloys.

On another front the new parts for the gearbox arrived at home today, they will be taken to the Colonel for the transplant into our Muncie.

[grumm441]

What? more crap at my place?
Well the car plans have changed
It doesn't matter what it is as long as it has at least three seats and a reversing camera.
G

[Stainless1]

Graham, I think Robfrey has a nice Corvette for sale, a little short on seats but I'll bet he could add a backup camera if you ask him nice.... Would make a great grocery getter back home.