Waking up the beast

[bobtile]

This

 

[HEMI-ITIS]

No leak down before teardown?????

 

[68 HEMI GTS]

This

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l ski

That'll have a negative affect on performance. Head ok?

 

[bobtile]

No leak down before teardown?????

Compression test showed 175 in #1
And 50 in #3
That was enough for me to tear into it.

 

[bobtile]

l ski

That'll have a negative affect on performance. Head ok?

Head is fine.
Got it all back together and running.

 

[bobtile]

Going to test all cylinders again tomorrow and adjust the valves.
Hopefully all is good and still head down to MIR.

 

[bobtile]

Ugg!

 

[Gpuller]

Ugg!

Other head gasket blow now?

 

[bobtile]

Guess Im done for the year.
I tried.....

 

[HEMI-ITIS]

Guess Im done for the year.
I tried.....

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OUCH! If your not upgrading the heads at least that can be repaired.

 

[bobtile]

Thanks to Ray Barton, Im not done yet.

 

[bobtile]

Back at it on the other side.
All this for one race.
Its getting torn down at the end of November.
I must be nuts.

 

[HEMI-ITIS]

Yup

 

[68 HEMI GTS]

Hope they welded it before they milled it, looked pretty deep..

 

[HEMI-ITIS]

Bob is a grout EXPERT!!

 

[Budnicks]

Guess Im done for the year.
I tried.....

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Ouch, BUT;
that can be welded & machined pretty easily...

Sucks, sorry to see that Bobby...

 

[Budnicks]

Thanks to Ray Barton, Im not done yet.

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Looks pretty good...

 

[Budnicks]

Try doing that almost every weekend, or between every round,
maybe not that bad always, but tearing stuff apart
checking bearing, rings, pistons, valves etc.
& getting ready for the next race, pull the valve covers,
checking springs & running your valves
& checking compression or more so a leak down testing does really help
to catch some stuff before it's catastrophic...

I figure your on-top of most this stuff regularly

Some people never check anything & some people get really lucky
& get away with not checking too...

I figure in racing I made my own luck,
don't take or leave anything for chance or chalk it up to luck...

I'm the type that wants to "better to know now, than not know",
better to be safe than sorry...
I work hard of my $$$, I'm sure you do too,
I hated replacing hard parts mid or even late season,
maybe you need to start a regular procedure,
checks to stave off such things....

If your not doing so already, if so, score that one up to racing is racing,
parts is parts & **** happens !!,
how long do you want to go fast ?,
how much do you want to spend ?
spend a little now or spend a whole bunch more of it later !!

Go get em' Bobby, good luck, I hope you go rounds

 

[bobtile]

Try doing that almost every weekend, or between every round,
maybe not that bad always, but tearing stuff apart
checking bearing, rings, pistons, valves etc.
& getting ready for the next race, pull the valve covers,
checking springs & running your valves
& checking compression or more so a leak down testing does really help
to catch some stuff before it's catastrophic...

I figure your on-top of most this stuff regularly

Some people never check anything & some people get really lucky
& get away with not checking too...

I figure in racing I made my own luck,
don't take or leave anything for chance or chalk it up to luck...

I'm the type that wants to "better to know now, than not know",
better to be safe than sorry...
I work hard of my $$$, I'm sure you do too,
I hated replacing hard parts mid or even late season,
maybe you need to start a regular procedure,
checks to stave off such things....

If your not doing so already, if so, score that one up to racing is racing,
parts is parts & **** happens !!,
how long do you want to go fast ?,
how much do you want to spend ?
spend a little now or spend a whole bunch more of it later !!

Go get em' Bobby, good luck, I hope you go rounds

I feel like I was just scolded.

 

[bobtile]

Well, I'm loaded and ready to roll.
Car sounds a lot better for some reason

Let's see what she does.