Sweet
Did the wizard ever get back to you about that brain?????
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??
Denny Villemure
PSSSSSSST!
Vortec 4200 Turbo IROC-Z on 15psi
10.85 @ 126mph
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.
That's the one...that dude was nuts!
Denny Villemure
PSSSSSSST!
Vortec 4200 Turbo IROC-Z on 15psi
10.85 @ 126mph
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!
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.
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.
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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