Milwaukee Midget

[Anvil*]

Ahh, the XL - the perfect cross between a T-bird and an LTD.  I recall you could get one with a 429 and a 4-gear.  Good to see one racing.

Didn't Burt Reynolds drive one in "White Lightning"?

It's OK, it's just from owning things British and the few stints at trying to be a racer I've had some of the oddest things break or fall off. Sort of learning to prep a car through failures.

That XL was slow against the Chevys and Mustangs, running 5th at our best, but dead reliable. We would prep on Sundays so the next Saturday we would could unload, warm up, help pack the track, and then race our heat and the main. The dents would already be pounded out and all the colors from the last race wiped off with lacquer thinner, so it would be clean, white,  and straight each week. Some found this very annoying. 

Though we would wander about the pits helping others thrash to get ready. The small block Camaros always seem to need straight pushrods and a stamped rocker replaced (the pushrod would punch through sometimes).

Burt drove a '71 Galaxie.

[Milwaukee Midget]

Not looking good - I've had just enough pops and farts to give me the smell of burnt racing gas - a motivator for sure - but still not running.

[Captthundarr]

Pops and farts aren't bad. at least there is spark somewheres in there good luck.

[martysmilt]

Hi Chris,
We were at Bonniville till Thursday afternoon.  We fire slotted one of the heads on Monday morning.  Tore it down, found a great head repair shop in Oram Utah.  The guy running the shop used to work for Champion.  Three hours to Oram, Checked out both heads pulled the valves found some warped from heat.  Located and ordered valves from N.C..   Checked the hardness of the aluminum around the damage. Cut out the soft aluminum, welded up the head. Re-CC'd the bad chamber cut both heads 0.14" and got the engine back together Wednesday afternoon.  Thursday we finished with the intake manifold and made one run in the afternoon.  The silicone was not completly set and we had a bit O smoke in the car that afternoon so we packed it in b-4 we blew it to small bits.  John S ran 250.03 or there abouts.  His goal was that elusive AA licence.   He had a bit of car trouble developing so he quit b-4 it became problimatic at the track.  I think that Stan Johnson said he ran up against the max horsepower of the motor and then lost his pan drain plug.  John Rank was fighting a miss fire I don't think he had a good week.  As the saying goes "thats just one of them racing deals".  I was really sorry not to have seen you there.  Hope you get her sorted out.
Marty.

[Milwaukee Midget]

 

Computer readouts - the box is working - getting good signal from the sender.

Monkeyed around with the program;  + 8 degrees, - 8 degrees - something's GOT to at least pop.

I put a timing light on the front of the crank trigger and marked it into 4 quadrants.  180 degrees off?  Can't be - TDC - marked - threw in the stop plug and checked TDC one more time - spot on.

Coil pacs - Instructions say A to 1 and 4, B to 2 and 3 . . .

Wait a minute.

180 degrees out?  

Wasted spark dual output coil pacs?  

The coil pacs are wired opposite of what they're supposed to be!  

Thanks, former owner on E-bay.  

Swap the wires -

Stand back, Jackson - I've got a running engine on my hands!  

If it weren't 9:30 at night, I'd finish the dial in.

For tonight, I'll settle for installing the radiator and the roll cage padding.

Whew . . .  

Oh, and does this little dog have have a big, nasty bark!

[Dr Goggles]

 
Oh, and does this little dog have have a big, nasty bark!

[Milwaukee Midget]

Oh, and does this little dog have have a big, nasty bark!

The hydrocarbon quartet, brother!

[Captthundarr]

Good job

[Milwaukee Midget]

Well, it’s 12:30, and I’ve been at it for 12 hours.  Looks like tune-and-test is a no-go for Sunday.

I’ve been trying to get a wrench on the bleeder valve for the clutch slave.  The new starter is in the way, along with the blow shield.  Looks like the easiest way of making this go will be to remove the slave, gravity bleed it, and then reinstall it.  I still need to dial in an appropriate advance curve, reinstall the top, change tires, top off the radiator.

I don’t have enough time to get it done and then make a one-and-one-half hour round trip to pick up the trailer, and then have any reasonable expectation of making another one hour trip to Union Grove to make some runs before 5:00 PM on Sunday.

Great Lakes Dragaway has one more TNT weekend before the end of the month.  That’s the weekend before Maxton.  I’ll set my sites on that, and if things look good, I’ll load the Midget and see ya’ll on the 28th at Maxton. 

[Peter Jack]

Great to hear it's making Noise MM. Stay safe, have fun, and go really fast!

Pete

[Graham in Aus]

Well Done Chris!

 

[krusty]

      Can you put a line on the clutch slave and make it a remote bleeder (after you've gotten in there in the first place)?  vic

       PS: Dick Leuning has been racing MGBs since the dark ages (the seventies), when I also ran MCSCC in F/P.

[Elmo Rodge]

Chris, sounds like you just made a HUGE leap. It runs. It really really runs.  Wayno

[landsendlynda]

YIPPEE!!!!  IT'S A RACE CAR!!!!       

Good luck,  congratulations,  stay safe, stay facing front, and....GO FAST!!!!

Don't forget to put a pickle in there with you!!

Lynda

[Anvil*]

I've got a running engine on my hands!

Yeah!