Time to hit the Track.

[Mike Gaines]

Mike,it gets to the point where the big tire will slow the car down.I have seen many cars much faster than me doing it on a 10.5w,,,,,,Doug is also on a 10.5w.

Mike, The BIG tires that are on my new Belvedere are there to handle a 900/950HP motor for low 9's / high 8 second ET's ...which (for the time being) I do NOT have...but like I said, the car is built to go FAST. The car right now weighs 3100 with steel front and rear bumpers, full framework inside the front doors, Steel front and rear bumpers, only fiberglass is the hood and deck lid etc... the car can get down to 2900 lbs with some work...add that with the big motor and HANG ON....LOL
SECOND REASON FOR BIG TIRES....1 of the classes I run uses at 4 tenths PRO TREE. You have to have .025 or less reaction times on that Pro Tree or you are not competitive. The racers who have those reaction times (on that .4 pro tree) put a 5000 chip in their trans brake with really big tires to handle that launch RPM and therefore they get quick reaction times. Quick Reaction times on a Pro Tree are dependent on the CAR moving instantly after popping the trans brake button. Hi RPM chip and BIG TIRES accomplish that. 10.5 tires with a 5000 chip don't work.
All I have to do is order the parts and have my engine builder friend put the motor together for me. With the new motor I would ONLY go with a aluminum Block HEMI and make all the power I need...then install some Wheelie Bars and a Parachute...heck I was running high 9's in my very dangerous 1965 Belvedere Funny Car back in 1968...since I survived that I am not worried about going 8.80's or so at around 160mph.

 

[Tex013]

Malex , you could go the Trick Flow plate . It has a removable centre . I have it on my motor . It does tuck under the head on the TF270 heads , raised port . It sat just shy of the stock port Stealth heads I used to run . I used Andy F's intake wings to seal the gap on the Stealth heads

Tex

 

[67MPRFAN]

A friend of mine who has Victor heads on his 440 is using a indy valley plate and rvt on the edges like you did after 3 1/2 years it started leaking at the edges ... food for thought if you use Indy's valley plate with removable center

 

[Wookie316]

Malex is going to build a second one with a removable center. Due to time constraints this go around, the single piece did the trick.
He fabs most of his own stuff and is real good at it.

 

[glassman]

Mike, The BIG tires that are on my new Belvedere are there to handle a 900/950HP motor for low 9's / high 8 second ET's ...which (for the time being) I do NOT have...but like I said, the car is built to go FAST. The car right now weighs 3100 with steel front and rear bumpers, full framework inside the front doors, Fiberglass front and rear bumpers, etc... the car can get down to 2900 lbs with some work...add that with the big motor and HANG ON....LOL
SECOND REASON FOR BIG TIRES....1 of the classes I run uses at 4 tenths PRO TREE. You have to have .025 or less reaction times on that Pro Tree or you are not competitive. The racers who have those reaction times (on that .4 pro tree) put a 5000 chip in their trans brake with really big tires to handle that launch RPM and therefore they get quick reaction times. Quick Reaction times on a Pro Tree are dependent on the CAR moving instantly after popping the trans brake button. Hi RPM chip and BIG TIRES accomplish that. 10.5 tires with a 5000 chip don't work.
All I have to do is order the parts and have my engine builder friend put the motor together for me. With the new motor I would ONLY go with a aluminum Block HEMI and make all the power I need...then install some Wheelie Bars and a Parachute...heck I was running high 9's in my very dangerous 1965 Belvedere Funny Car back in 1968...since I survived that I am not worried about going 8.80's or so at around 160mph.

Mike, Sounds like you have a keeper there . Call me sometime and we will talk about your weight problem. We have 2 package deals on fiberglass for your car and 2 weights, street and race weight. We supplied the Shadowoods awb car with race weight and they loved it. Call Larry @ Sled City Fiberglass

 

[malex]

Mike, Sounds like you have a keeper there . Call me sometime and we will talk about your weight problem. We have 2 package deals on fiberglass for your car and 2 weights, street and race weight. We supplied the Shadowoods awb car with race weight and they loved it. Call Larry @ Sled City Fiberglass.
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Larry you must have amnesia. I already bought your sales pitch 2 years ago and got royally screwed by you and received the flimsiest, crudest piece of **** ever made that you call a hood.
Remember? Here's a few pics to refresh your memory Larry...

First hood I've ever seen that water puddles form on...

Left rear side exterior corner and rounded corner that was assured show quality? This was your quality hood you shipped me Larry...

Front left corner.. Sled City Quality Fibreglass.

 

[malex]

Malex is going to build a second one with a removable center. Due to time constraints this go around, the single piece did the trick.
He fabs most of his own stuff and is real good at it.

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Thanks Wooks! You're no different than me.

 

[glassman]

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Thanks Wooks! You're no different than me.

Mike, you went on a crusade to put me out of business years ago for an order that you should not have pick up at the dock or paid for shipping because of breakage. That was during a time that I had an accident and I could not walk and I had 5 guys that was "HELPING OUT". They have all been fired and sorry about the breakage that you signed for at the dock. Since then I have all new personal, all new products, and have had displays at the largest all Mopar events in America and have had great reviews and people are saying that my products are second to none. I have the most complete collection of molds of any company in the world for the S/S style Mopars, and ship to many countries. Ask Mike Gaines about the trunk lid that I made for his 66 Dodge. He has already stated on this site that it was a good piece and fit very well. Mike Gaines is a good guy, and he will not lie to you about my products. My business has almost tripled and life is good. It is time that we move on from your crusade and if you need another hood I would give you another hood for free if you pay the shipping.

 

[malex]

Mike, you went on a crusade to put me out of business years ago for an order that you should not have pick up at the dock or paid for shipping because of breakage. That was during a time that I had an accident and I could not walk and I had 5 guys that was "HELPING OUT". They have all been fired and sorry about the breakage that you signed for at the dock. Since then I have all new personal, all new products, and have had displays at the largest all Mopar events in America and have had great reviews and people are saying that my products are second to none. I have the most complete collection of molds of any company in the world for the S/S style Mopars, and ship to many countries. Ask Mike Gaines about the trunk lid that I made for his 66 Dodge. He has already stated on this site that it was a good piece and fit very well. Mike Gaines is a good guy, and he will not lie to you about my products. My business has almost tripled and life is good. It is time that we move on from your crusade and if you need another hood I would give you another hood for free if you pay the shipping.
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Larry. Cut the crap about me going on a crusade. The audasity of you to come on this thread with another fibreglass sales pitch and then accuse me of being on a crusade to ruin your business.. It's your bad karma and crooked business habits coming back on you for screwing over a trusting customer and nothing more.

I never mentioned a word about the broken bumper that I received from you. I saw it was broken and I accepted it and repaired it, so quit with that smoke show on breakage.
And save the lies about a bad back, firing guys and the rest. That never happened and you know it, you're merely blowing more smoke and tieing the rip off to some other story or time.

I'm actually shocked that you are at least now admitting that you shipped me a load of garbage. But I have zero confidence that your product is any better now than it was then, remember you assured me it was show quality fiberglass the last go around too. It's just too bad that you couldn't have made this right 2 years ago when you should have.

Larry I have already paid you in full for a hood as well as full shipping costs already. You're telling us all now that business is fantastic, high quality products, second to none, and life is good. If you truly finally want to make this right, you should graciously include ship costs the second time around. There's no way I'll spend another dime to take another chance with you, I'll just call AAR and rest assured knowing that I'll get quality parts in a timely manner.

 

[glassman]

As all the people that I am acquainted with, vendors, racers, promoters, and many many friends from coast to coast they know about my accident and my two busted up feet. I never hurt my back as you say. And yes, I did fire every employee that was working for me. Yes, we changed suppliers of all the materials, and we are putting out orders from 3 days-3 weeks on the more complex orders. You really should not have accepeted that shipment with the broken parts or paid the shipping. YOU chose to do that. Then you chose to go to pay pal to get your money back while having these parts in another country. Then you chose to get on this site to start your crusade to put me out of business. Then you expanded your crusade with another regular from this site to face book and my customers fired back at both of you. It got pretty ugly with a couple of you getting banned from Facebook. You are lucky that I have offered a free hood to you in the other post, but with the attitude that you have , I am taking my offer back and letting you go to my friends at STINGER/AAR. Have a nice race season.

 

[gtxracer]

Not that it matters but, I got my fiberglass from Unlimited Fiberglass. I'm happy with the quality and fit.
Bob

 

[bearman]

Glassman, I really think maybe you should rethink your thought of taken back on the free hood deal. As with this forum it reaches around the world and I don't see it slowing down. Like you said your business is growing and you got new people and product. So that tells me that you were smart enough to see you had problems in the past so good for you and the business. Fast forward to now yep we all have heard of your product on cars and that it fits good etc. Yes you got a client that was unhappy and you tried to save it and was turned down of the fear that he would receive bad product from you again. You can't blame him for having a bad taste in his mouth when nothing was done to correct the problem until now. If you really want to keep him as a client and you say you have friends over at aar/stinger then do this seeing how all you vendors work together at some point why not ask your friends at aar to send him a hood from aar and you pay the bill on it all the way to his door step. This may just help turn things around from him. You taking the bigger step forward and he can feel like he wasn't just used. Let's not forget that he builds and buys plenty of stuff and is finishing a second car. That still needs glass parts but again you may never get another order from him but it will show everyone else you are trying and that might help make a sell for you. I don't know the whole story and there maybe more like him out there that just had your parts repaired and used them anyways. Yes your a business owner and sometimes it doesn't matter what you do once a person gets a bad taste there is nothing you can do to repair it. But not to try repair the damage goods you sent is just wrong. I'll ask why didn't you have him take your product to a repair shop and have it fixed if it could be fixed. Or why didn't you send out new parts as you were just starting out your business to keep a client happy or just give him his money back and let him keep the product or you pay for shipping back to you. Glassman as I see it you dropped the ball. As I ask you a couple of weeks ago about a deck lid for my 64 Dodge your answer was you use a 63 deck and it doesn't have the humps in it. Not what I asked for your answer should have been I don't make that model yet because the demand is to low. Or I can get it for you from one of my suppliers it will cost a little more but I can get you one or even better yet call this vendor tell them you were sent there by the Glassman and get it for the same price. That's just my gut feelings on this issue good luck with your business and thanks for letting me rant.

 

[malex]

Not that it matters but, I got my fiberglass from Unlimited Fiberglass. I'm happy with the quality and fit.
Bob

Bob, Here's a few pictures you should like. I did this GTX back in 2007. We took it to a car show today, 300+ cars, the old girl brought home best of show. This is what you have to look forward to.

And then the army shows up..lol

I wish he would put the correct air cleaner back on it... something to do with orange.

 

[malex]

Glassman, I really think maybe you should rethink your thought of taken back on the free hood deal. As with this forum it reaches around the world and I don't see it slowing down. Like you said your business is growing and you got new people and product. So that tells me that you were smart enough to see you had problems in the past so good for you and the business. Fast forward to now yep we all have heard of your product on cars and that it fits good etc. Yes you got a client that was unhappy and you tried to save it and was turned down of the fear that he would receive bad product from you again. You can't blame him for having a bad taste in his mouth when nothing was done to correct the problem until now. If you really want to keep him as a client and you say you have friends over at aar/stinger then do this seeing how all you vendors work together at some point why not ask your friends at aar to send him a hood from aar and you pay the bill on it all the way to his door step. This may just help turn things around from him. You taking the bigger step forward and he can feel like he wasn't just used. Let's not forget that he builds and buys plenty of stuff and is finishing a second car. That still needs glass parts but again you may never get another order from him but it will show everyone else you are trying and that might help make a sell for you. I don't know the whole story and there maybe more like him out there that just had your parts repaired and used them anyways. Yes your a business owner and sometimes it doesn't matter what you do once a person gets a bad taste there is nothing you can do to repair it. But not to try repair the damage goods you sent is just wrong. I'll ask why didn't you have him take your product to a repair shop and have it fixed if it could be fixed. Or why didn't you send out new parts as you were just starting out your business to keep a client happy or just give him his money back and let him keep the product or you pay for shipping back to you. Glassman as I see it you dropped the ball. As I ask you a couple of weeks ago about a deck lid for my 64 Dodge your answer was you use a 63 deck and it doesn't have the humps in it. Not what I asked for your answer should have been I don't make that model yet because the demand is to low. Or I can get it for you from one of my suppliers it will cost a little more but I can get you one or even better yet call this vendor tell them you were sent there by the Glassman and get it for the same price. That's just my gut feelings on this issue good luck with your business and thanks for letting me rant.

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Bearman, thanks for the input. Not worth it though. I knew the hood offer would dry up as fast as he wrote it. Actually funny how quick he reeled that back in. LOL. The fact is that the only thing honest about Larry is the pictures of the Quality hood he sent me. Unlike him, pictures do not lie. I want nothing from that person, besides, him and his junk is not worthy.

 

[glassman]

Glassman, I really think maybe you should rethink your thought of taken back on the free hood deal. As with this forum it reaches around the world and I don't see it slowing down. Like you said your business is growing and you got new people and product. So that tells me that you were smart enough to see you had problems in the past so good for you and the business. Fast forward to now yep we all have heard of your product on cars and that it fits good etc. Yes you got a client that was unhappy and you tried to save it and was turned down of the fear that he would receive bad product from you again. You can't blame him for having a bad taste in his mouth when nothing was done to correct the problem until now. If you really want to keep him as a client and you say you have friends over at aar/stinger then do this seeing how all you vendors work together at some point why not ask your friends at aar to send him a hood from aar and you pay the bill on it all the way to his door step. This may just help turn things around from him. You taking the bigger step forward and he can feel like he wasn't just used. Let's not forget that he builds and buys plenty of stuff and is finishing a second car. That still needs glass parts but again you may never get another order from him but it will show everyone else you are trying and that might help make a sell for you. I don't know the whole story and there maybe more like him out there that just had your parts repaired and used them anyways. Yes your a business owner and sometimes it doesn't matter what you do once a person gets a bad taste there is nothing you can do to repair it. But not to try repair the damage goods you sent is just wrong. I'll ask why didn't you have him take your product to a repair shop and have it fixed if it could be fixed. Or why didn't you send out new parts as you were just starting out your business to keep a client happy or just give him his money back and let him keep the product or you pay for shipping back to you. Glassman as I see it you dropped the ball. As I ask you a couple of weeks ago about a deck lid for my 64 Dodge your answer was you use a 63 deck and it doesn't have the humps in it. Not what I asked for your answer should have been I don't make that model yet because the demand is to low. Or I can get it for you from one of my suppliers it will cost a little more but I can get you one or even better yet call this vendor tell them you were sent there by the Glassman and get it for the same price. That's just my gut feelings on this issue good luck with your business and thanks for letting me rant.

Bearman, I have had some customers call me and confide that they understand the situation that is going on here. Then they order. Because of it I have had a lot of people actually come to my shop like never before to pick up their pieces. Why? Because of the crusades of Mike Alexander to belittle my company over the past 2-3 years. What is happening is the people come look at their orders and they order right then and there for other cars that they are doing. I seen on this post that Mike was going to get another hood and seeing that we have all new molds I thought I would kick out a free hood for him. But he declined the only offer that I could give him. That's all there is to that .
As for the 63 Dodge trunk being used on the 64, the racers like the 63 trunk because it is flat and their signage from sponsors looks better. I have never in 25 years had a customer not buy a 63 trunk . My next set of fenders molds will be the 64 Dodge fenders and if you actually need a 64 trunk, I will make that mold also. I will be traveling 8 hours one way to get these fenders to mold from and I will pick up a trunk also. If your heart is set on a true 64 Dodge trunk, let me know .

 

[malex]

It's too bad that we have to deal with a crook like Larry trolling around making trouble. No wonder other sites have booted him for this exact thing.

What is this world coming to when a person makes a purchase like I did with Larry, then when the product is junk and the Cusotmer requests restitution it becomes the Customers fault..

Is there a moderator in the house that can remove Glassman from this thread please.
Thank you.

 

[bearman]

Glassman,thanks but no thanks. I'll pick the deck lid from other suppliers.

 

[glassman]

It's too bad that we have to deal with a crook like Larry trolling around making trouble. No wonder other sites have booted him for this exact thing.

What is this world coming to when a person makes a purchase like I did with Larry, then when the product is junk and the Cusotmer requests restitution it becomes the Customers fault..

Is there a moderator in the house that can remove Glassman from this thread please.
Thank you.

Mike, you had a choice at the dock to accept or not to accept. You chose to accept the broken and bad parts from the shipping company and take it to a different country. Yes it is your fault. You should have left it on the dock and I would have reimburse you and then I would have made a claim with Old Dominion Freight Line. It is your fault that you have been crying about it on every thread you get on. You made a stink on facebook and my customers went to bat for me. Sorry Mike , I offered you another hood from our new process and you acted in a way that my customers expected you to. I have customers in Canada that know you and are not surprised about your actions.

 

[glassman]

Glassman,thanks but no thanks. I'll pick the deck lid from other suppliers.

No problem Bearman, I am shipping a package to Prescott tomorrow for a 66 Plymouth. A lot of the cruizers out there in Phoenix have my hood scoops too. Try Glasstek for that trunk, or maybe u.s.body source in Florida

 

[malex]

1. Mike, you had a choice at the dock to accept or not to accept. You chose to accept the broken and bad parts from the shipping company and take it to a different country. Yes it is your fault. You should have left it on the dock and I would have reimburse you and then I would have made a claim with Old Dominion Freight Line. It is your fault that you have been crying about it on every thread you get on. You made a stink on facebook and my customers went to bat for me. Sorry Mike , I offered you another hood from our new process and you acted in a way that my customers expected you to. I have customers in Canada that know you and are not surprised about your actions.
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   And here we have this big shot businessman Larry of Sled City Fiberglass carrying on like this. I actually feel sorry for you Larry, because you are like one of those crooks on an episode of COPS winging imbecile lies and too dumb to realize that none of it adds up.
   
   Now you are attacking my character. Larry, I am not famous, I have only been racing 2 years and only at 1 small track. But there is a fellow FBBO member here that races at the same track that you could check with about my character. Wookie 316. Check me out right here on FBBO
   
   You scammed me good Larry, start to finish. So be it. I'm over it. It happens to the best of us by your type. And perhaps you are making better products now, that is good and I hope that I may have been a part in getting you to pull up your socks. The thing is though that like the old saying goes, a tiger never changes his stripes.... I'm not the first to get Junk shipped by you, that's easy to see with a simple search on Sled City Reviews or BBB check and odds are good that I won't be the last.
   
   Now please go away Larry, get a life, we are all very tired of you.