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Tow Vehicles / Re: Trailer build question
« on: January 27, 2020, 09:45:01 AM »
Hi Roger, I apologize for the delayed response. I just sent you a PM. I hope it was helpful. I hope it was in time to be of some use.
Jacin
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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: Fabricated Fuel Injector
« on: September 27, 2019, 03:56:59 PM »
L79 Acadian, Thanks for the kind words!!!!
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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: Fabricated Fuel Injector
« on: August 28, 2019, 08:12:19 PM »
Last weekend at Dradway 42's Rock-n-Race. Much more air than I planned. Landing was a tad harsh. Still sore. :-) Injector working GOOD!!!!
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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: Fabricated Fuel Injector
« on: August 09, 2019, 06:05:01 PM »
Made a couple shakedown runs on the car last week at Dragway 42. Very easy - lots to learn. Injector worked perfectly - I am thrilled.
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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: Burndown breather puke tank
« on: July 24, 2019, 09:30:23 PM »
For you curious guys - here's what I ended up fabbing. Made pretty much everything even the breather because I struck out at the local swapmeets and I'm not a patient person sometimes. "AMF" is a tribute to my buddy Stan that helped me run the car from the beginnng until he passed. "Adios...."
If you look close at the tank you will see the end caps are domed. My press and a PVC CAP was all that was neeed to make those.
Jacin
If you look close at the tank you will see the end caps are domed. My press and a PVC CAP was all that was neeed to make those.
Jacin
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Front Engine Dragsters / Burndown breather puke tank
« on: July 01, 2019, 07:21:09 PM »
Early hemi, please share pics of your puke tank. I need to fab something - it'd be very helpful to see whats been done. Thanks!!!!!!!
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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: Fabricated Fuel Injector
« on: June 18, 2019, 09:18:27 PM »
Thank You Curly1, That was exactly my goals. Vintage flair, modern construction ideas.
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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: new injector (pics added)
« on: June 09, 2019, 05:50:03 AM »
Never thought to calculate the welding footage (until now)...I have right around 6-1/2 ft of weld in mine. Looking forward to seeing more of your pics. I know what you mean about the scratches - I tried to keep those to a minimum, but &^^$ happns sometimes. What I should have done was to weigh all my chips - I had several impressive piles of those I swept up during the process. Thanks for sharing pics of your project. It's always cool to see what people come up with.
Jacin Barnes
Jacin Barnes
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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: new injector (pics added)
« on: June 08, 2019, 01:52:35 PM »
So COOL!!!! Please More PICS ! More PICS!! ...and I thought I did a LOT of welding! Looks great - never seen another one like it!!!
Jacin
Jacin
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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: Fabricated Fuel Injector
« on: May 31, 2019, 02:35:12 PM »
Denverflatheader, Me either (never heat treated anything until NOW). I was vaguely familiar with the process, just no practical experience, now I can say I have "a wee tiny little" practical experience. And NO - I do not mind a bit that you clarified - non-magnetic. Thank You for taking the time to add to that. I appreciate it very much! I'm here to learn - and if I can have others learn along with me - then I figure it's a HOMERUN!!
Jacin
Jacin
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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: Fabricated Fuel Injector
« on: May 30, 2019, 07:51:22 PM »
The SAGA continues!! Today I tried my hand at heat treating! After checking a Hilborn Spool and determining they are around 60-65 Rockwell 'C' - I figured I should shoot for the same. And since I've never really heat treated anything before I figured I'd learn something one way or another.
In short, I made a new Spool from O1 (drill rod) & purposefully left a few thousandths extra on the OD. I took some used motor oil and put it in a coffee can with metal chips on the bottom (so the part would be fully surrounded in oil when I dropped it in there). I next preheated the oil until it just started to smoke a little. I then heated the spool with a neutral flame until it was non magnetic. I purposefully did not heat up the thin shaft near as hot as the larger section because I was afraid of warping it. I also thought it being 'soft' would be a good thing (or at least NOT a bad thing). Got 'er hot and dropped 'er in! After it completely cooled I cleaned the small shaft and stuck it in a collet. Using my rigged up tool post grinder I brought it to about a half thou over. I then polished the last few tenths off. In the pic mine is the LONGER one. So far I think it came out pretty good! Now keep in mind I am NOT saying any of this process was /is the RIGHT way - it' just th way I chose and the reasons why. Just tryin' to learn a little as I go. :-)
In short, I made a new Spool from O1 (drill rod) & purposefully left a few thousandths extra on the OD. I took some used motor oil and put it in a coffee can with metal chips on the bottom (so the part would be fully surrounded in oil when I dropped it in there). I next preheated the oil until it just started to smoke a little. I then heated the spool with a neutral flame until it was non magnetic. I purposefully did not heat up the thin shaft near as hot as the larger section because I was afraid of warping it. I also thought it being 'soft' would be a good thing (or at least NOT a bad thing). Got 'er hot and dropped 'er in! After it completely cooled I cleaned the small shaft and stuck it in a collet. Using my rigged up tool post grinder I brought it to about a half thou over. I then polished the last few tenths off. In the pic mine is the LONGER one. So far I think it came out pretty good! Now keep in mind I am NOT saying any of this process was /is the RIGHT way - it' just th way I chose and the reasons why. Just tryin' to learn a little as I go. :-)
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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: Fabricated Fuel Injector
« on: May 30, 2019, 02:44:14 PM »
Alan, yep absolutely! Funny you should mention having your first car from high school - so do I. Mine was also my Dad's. It was a little Rambler American with a straight 6. My dad blew it up and told me that IF I could fix it - I coud have it. Which I did by buying a junk Rambler Classic with a seized motor. A couple weeks of ATF down the cylinders and a breaker bar and it was spinning again. I was 15. The novelty of that whooping 196 cid engine quickly faded and when I was 16 I swapped in a 327 and a powerglide. I couldn't get the nut off the rear end to remove the drive shaft (AMC used a weird shaft with a tapered thread and a nut to lock onto a splined shaft) anyways I ended up cutting the driveshaft and welding a GM shaft to mate to the PG. Surprisingly it worked PERFECT no vibration whatsoever! Unfortunately the reality was at 16 I really couldn't weld for crap and whiile showing off doing a burnout in front of friends my lack of welding skills became evident as the driveshaft weld let go and I was suddenly all noise and NO movement!!! So once I drug it home I got a second chance to practice my welding skills! However this time I wasn't so lucky on the alignment and now I had a slight vibration around 60mph. But !!!! I was young and dumb and MOBILE again so away I went!! Eventually I broke that drive shaft and put a "real" one in (with a 9") so I could actually go racing. Some years later I removed the little small block and put a 392 hemi in there with you guessed it another cast iron PushButton trans. Dated in that car...Got married in that car...have wedding pictures with that car...drove my kids to games in that car. Somewhere along the line I made the front end tilt with a still functioning hood. All steel (It's not like you were gonna find anythng glass for such an oddball). Still have it and drive it occassionally. Ironically it's my sons favorite. It was always fun to drive with the Detroit Locker - I think that's alot of the reason my son likes it so much.
Jacin
Jacin
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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: Fabricated Fuel Injector
« on: May 29, 2019, 11:46:15 AM »
Denverflatheader, The trailer was a fun challenge to design. My original plan was to just find a kick butt design and just copy it. After searching the net to find the slickest open FED trailer we were disappointed in what we found. Just not many guys building these. So my buddy Stan (RIP) and I grabbed some crayons and napkins, and sketched out a couple concepts. From there I did a layout on Cad to figure the pivots, CG, and bag forces. It worked out way better than I had ever imagined. Stan was a construction equipmet mechanic and insisted that i use certain components - he and I both spoke OVERKILL. On his insistence I installed a semi trailer cord - and as ridiculous as it might sound - it has been flawless! Also on his insistence I used TruckLite junction boxes - again they have been flawless. Stan knew his xxxx! I miss him everyday. I digress. It was alot of work, I didn't save a penny (over buying one), but it is EXACTLY how I wanted it - that's what you are really paying for.
As for the truck - it was built by my friends Dad (Carl Lemonen - RIP) in the mid 60's. Thru a twist of fate I ended up with it. I've kept it exaactly the same except for some upgrades to make it tow better. Modern Driveshaft, 9" rear, disc brakes, power steering - still has the original I-beam and of course the 392 that Carl installed. I first saw this truck when I was a little kid - it looked "funny" even then (it being so old) so I asked my friend Gary about it. He told me it was his Dad's "Hot Rod and it had a Hemi " - I didn't know what ANY of that meant back then - not sure my buddy did either, but hey in our defense - we were maybe10 years old!
WRT Greg, he is definitely a BAD influence - in the BEST way possible!!!
I've Rambled on too much.
Jacin Barnes
As for the truck - it was built by my friends Dad (Carl Lemonen - RIP) in the mid 60's. Thru a twist of fate I ended up with it. I've kept it exaactly the same except for some upgrades to make it tow better. Modern Driveshaft, 9" rear, disc brakes, power steering - still has the original I-beam and of course the 392 that Carl installed. I first saw this truck when I was a little kid - it looked "funny" even then (it being so old) so I asked my friend Gary about it. He told me it was his Dad's "Hot Rod and it had a Hemi " - I didn't know what ANY of that meant back then - not sure my buddy did either, but hey in our defense - we were maybe10 years old!
WRT Greg, he is definitely a BAD influence - in the BEST way possible!!!
I've Rambled on too much.
Jacin Barnes
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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: Fabricated Fuel Injector
« on: May 28, 2019, 06:03:53 PM »
Here's my dragster and truck ('47 Ford -392, Iron T-flite, 9-in rear)
Old video but shows the trailer pretty good.
Old video but shows the trailer pretty good.
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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: Fabricated Fuel Injector
« on: May 27, 2019, 06:55:34 PM »
Thank You Paul, I've always thought the same thing!!!! I used to also think, "How cool would it be to build my own distributor too...":-)
I need to redo that video and add some of it running in my Tow Vehicle!
jacin
I need to redo that video and add some of it running in my Tow Vehicle!
jacin