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    Quote Originally Posted by black88coupe View Post
    That’s awesome Joe. Where did you scale it?
    I got peoples

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    Sweet

    Did the wizard ever get back to you about that brain?????

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    Beautiful. Is this the car that would always wheelie at Milan in the radial class? Driver would carry the wheelie by feathering the WOT switch on the bottle??
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    Thanks Denny. You may be thinking of Marty Merilatt's old blue car? It was fun to watch back in the day, but it got balled up real good finally.

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    That's the one...that dude was nuts!
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    Quote Originally Posted by JoeP. View Post
    Yet to be determined, but it sure won't be light enough lol!
    SB NOS minimum weight for drag radial is now 2300 lbs w/driver, and there is NO WAY I'll be close to that. It weighed about 2815 lbs with me in it before, and I'm really not sure how much it weighs now. I didn't get nearly as serious as Johnny Quick did with his old coupe, but I'm hoping it sits around 2450-2500 lbs race ready. It has no carbon other than the new wing, and my SBF is chunky with the 200 lb Dart iron block, 30+ lb CHI cast intake, dry sump oiling, etc. I'm really just giving what I had a makeover.

    Speaking of, HOLEY SEAT!
    I got carried away with the Greenlee knockout punch set and a 12 pack of Bud Light, but lost over 3.25 lbs from the Kirkey seat. It's still plenty solid when mounted in the cage. There's more in it, but I think I'll stop before I go too far. It will still have a cover snapped over it.

    [IMG] 20180529_111436 by Joe Pinsoneault, on Flickr[url=[/IMG]
    Do you think this could be achieved with hole saws? I'm not sure what a Greenlee knockout punch is. Thanks.

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    I had the pleasure of hanging with Marty in his shop a few times. He was a riot to be around, good guy for sure!

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    Quote Originally Posted by camaromann View Post
    Do you think this could be achieved with hole saws? I'm not sure what a Greenlee knockout punch is. Thanks.
    Sure, holesaws would work but just need more time filing rough edges after the cut. The punches are 2 pieces tightened together with a threaded mandrel which punch a clean hole through the metal.
    Several of the smaller holes were drilled with a stepped uni-bit which also leaves cleaner edges.

    Edit: after some thought, I bet the aluminum will load up in the teeth of a holesaw quickly, and you'll spend alot of time cleaning it out after every cut. This is some tough material, you may be better off finding a punch set to borrow.
    Last edited by JoeP.; 08-09-2018 at 09:45 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by red347lx View Post
    I had the pleasure of hanging with Marty in his shop a few times. He was a riot to be around, good guy for sure!
    Years ago Marty had a fully ported and polished super victor intake for sale on Milan's old board. I called him to verify what he had and that it was still available, then drove an hour down to his shop to buy it.
    When I got there he handed me a dirty super victor with only mild port matching done. I said that it's not what he described, and he says "oh, you want one like my buddy has" as he points to his friend there, who is tightening down a fully ported/polished intake on his engine with fresh silicone smeared all over... Hooked up his buddy before I got there, thanks alot.
    At least they offered me to help myself to a 12 pack of Bud Light they had sitting there, so I made sure I finished it off before leaving lol.

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    I found another 2.63 lbs by swapping out the 3" long rear wheel drive studs for 2", along with the 5/16" wheel spacers it took so the old lug nut spacers would tighten down on the thin wheel center.

    [IMG]20180809_105215 by Joe Pinsoneault, on Flickr[/IMG]

    [IMG]20180809_105233 by Joe Pinsoneault, on Flickr[/IMG]
    Last edited by JoeP.; 08-09-2018 at 10:11 AM.

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