back home with #6945
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Congrats! If we create your own build area, now that you have your own car, will you join and post pics of your progress for us?
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So I enable the help of my buddy at the pentagon in charge of satellite imagery and came across this from yesterday
Actually, borrowed from FFCo$ra.
Actually, borrowed from FFCo$ra.
Hey, CONGRATS BigLeo, that is very cool!
Keep us posted on your build progress.
Gimme a call if you need any help or want someone to bring the beer! I'd love to help. After putting time in with Scott and Tim, I'm learning bit n pieces as I go.
Keep us posted on your build progress.
Gimme a call if you need any help or want someone to bring the beer! I'd love to help. After putting time in with Scott and Tim, I'm learning bit n pieces as I go.
TOM KEISER
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Congratulations Leo! Glad you didn't see any serious cross winds 
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Roadtrip 6945
cross winds were gusts at 44 mile an hour at times, snow in new york but Mass. was a beautiful state, similar to Mo from a carpenters point of view nicely built homes too.But is was like a dream coming across IN. just east of indy it was dark nothing on the highway then out of the black sky and dark road... along side of us, 'a rumble' and a 'varoommm' a silver w/black striped roadster flew by with a guy wearing a yellow hat and yellow jacket i don't think he saw that he just passed a roadster pushing a f-350 crew cab with a "7.2oops" 7.3 powerstroke, no varoom noise just clik clik clik clik for those who know the noise, but pulls like a frieght train. made it home in 23 hours an hour faster coming home with my car pushing uswell we left at 7pm thursday night drove in rain for probably 90% of the trip got to foxboro, ms and grabbed a room with a view of the rain and we drank ourself to sleep for 6 hrs, up Sat.and headed to FFR got there about 8:45 went on a tour and yes Mike D. that GTM is low to the ground, great leg room but my long legs crawled out didnt like my head touching the headliner not good for anyone my HT... great facility FFR clean and to brighten it up they had the Eagle,Globe and Anchor hanging above the weld shop..i met Cobra302 there he invited us for a breakfast with some of their group but we had to hit the road before we saw more rain
Met DavidCT he took the pic and wanted to post it so i agreed they were all amazed that it fit like a glove on the structural rack.some seemed amazed
complete kit boxes over-relmed me that was what i was concerned about but it fit! i am forever greatful to my nephew and best buddy my neighbor john but who could pass up a free trip we had fun most of the time thru the slapp-happiness
of no sleep and i only spent 700 plus for the whole trip even with a 120 dollar room in MA,but with instructions from my older bro on his truck we only averaged 62 mph the whole trip the power-band at 2000rpm on the deisel gave us about 22mpg up and 18 on return..
stopped to see the east coast near Wareham i was wearing my Cards ensemble the whole trip homego Cards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cross winds were gusts at 44 mile an hour at times, snow in new york but Mass. was a beautiful state, similar to Mo from a carpenters point of view nicely built homes too.But is was like a dream coming across IN. just east of indy it was dark nothing on the highway then out of the black sky and dark road... along side of us, 'a rumble' and a 'varoommm' a silver w/black striped roadster flew by with a guy wearing a yellow hat and yellow jacket i don't think he saw that he just passed a roadster pushing a f-350 crew cab with a "7.2oops" 7.3 powerstroke, no varoom noise just clik clik clik clik for those who know the noise, but pulls like a frieght train. made it home in 23 hours an hour faster coming home with my car pushing us
well we left at 7pm thursday night drove in rain for probably 90% of the trip got to foxboro, ms and grabbed a room with a view of the rain and we drank ourself to sleep for 6 hrs, up Sat.and headed to FFR got there about 8:45 went on a tour and yes Mike D. that GTM is low to the ground, great leg room but my long legs crawled out didnt like my head touching the headliner not good for anyone my HT... great facility FFR clean and to brighten it up they had the Eagle,Globe and Anchor hanging above the weld shop..i met Cobra302 there he invited us for a breakfast with some of their group but we had to hit the road before we saw more rainMet DavidCT he took the pic and wanted to post it so i agreed they were all amazed that it fit like a glove on the structural rack.some seemed amazedcomplete kit boxes over-relmed me that was what i was concerned about but it fit! i am forever greatful to my nephew and best buddy my neighbor john but who could pass up a free trip we had fun most of the time thru the slapp-happinessof no sleep and i only spent 700 plus for the whole trip even with a 120 dollar room in MA,but with instructions from my older bro on his truck we only averaged 62 mph the whole trip the power-band at 2000rpm on the deisel gave us about 22mpg up and 18 on return..
stopped to see the east coast near Wareham i was wearing my Cards ensemble the whole trip home
go Cards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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A Snake
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7.2 power stroke?? did you destroke it or sleeve it.
Joking.
I have a 7.3 in an F350 dually crew cap and love it....4" straight thru exhaust, Super chip, PSE intake. Runs like a bandit.
with 4.10 gears I get about 20 bobtail and 15 pulling my 28' box trailer.
Congrates on beginning your "journey".
Wife and I are in process of installing new carpet my snake...about 1/2 done.
Gotta get it done in time for the Hot Rod Power Tour this year.
Joking.
I have a 7.3 in an F350 dually crew cap and love it....4" straight thru exhaust, Super chip, PSE intake. Runs like a bandit.
with 4.10 gears I get about 20 bobtail and 15 pulling my 28' box trailer.
Congrates on beginning your "journey".
Wife and I are in process of installing new carpet my snake...about 1/2 done.
Gotta get it done in time for the Hot Rod Power Tour this year.
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ur right maybe that is about a 7.3 still braindead from the trip
me i am a gas engine man ain't quite up on the strokers, except some good info for u ever been to the deisel guy in Greysummit mo i am in awe of them since i had to drop off my brothers 96 there thursday at 11am to work on the fuel leak,, they changed out i believe the pump talk about last minute i'm leaving in less than 8 hrs and i was nervous as a whore in church but done and picked up before 4pm they also have a nice deisel dragster in their show room... i highly recommend them for ur deisel work and addsseems like a clean shop too for deisel work
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6945 on site
i believe i did this correctly here are some pics of the pick-up & unloading party and about 1/2 of my nephews that showed to help drink my beer and eat my Imo'sits a gift to have a big family my son's job was to get them all together to help me after the long trip, 5 were not able to make it
2 of which are in the Corps bustin chops and kickn sand in Afgan land but the plan is when i am done with the build all my beautiful neices will be there to help me wash itand there are plenty of them too.......
i believe i did this correctly here are some pics of the pick-up & unloading party and about 1/2 of my nephews that showed to help drink my beer and eat my Imo's
its a gift to have a big family my son's job was to get them all together to help me after the long trip, 5 were not able to make it2 of which are in the Corps bustin chops and kickn sand in Afgan land but the plan is when i am done with the build all my beautiful neices will be there to help me wash it
and there are plenty of them too.......
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Tim
but little do u know it is pretty possible to get a pic like thatthat is what a "?" member does for the airforce a true computer geek for our security and freedom, that pic was done by David out of CT nice guy met some good people there u know that my car has been on the road from the east coast already 7 states total and i hardly got wet
So I enable the help of my buddy at the pentagon in charge of satellite imagery and came across this from yesterday
Actually, borrowed from FFCo$ra.
but little do u know it is pretty possible to get a pic like that
that is what a "?" member does for the airforce a true computer geek for our security and freedom, that pic was done by David out of CT nice guy met some good people there u know that my car has been on the road from the east coast already 7 states total and i hardly got wet
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That is an awesome idea for carrying the body on the truck. Still suprised all the boxes fit. Now, get off here and get to inventory (or to opening day, like me )
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That is an awesome idea for carrying the body on the truck. Still suprised all the boxes fit.
FFR flip flopped me on my ass-end i ordered a 3.55 and they gave me 3.73 that will change my top-end which sort of bothers me, can't believe i overlooked it, just was busy loading before the weather got crappy, GOD gave us a little repreave on the weather... well FFR ears will be ringing now
oh here is my Mascot for the roadtrip my daughter gave it to me to keep us safe on the road i got pics of it everywhere for her
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STL-Scott
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They actually shipped your rear axle with your kit? That's news. Most everyone for the last year (including me) had to wait 8-12 weeks to get these drop shipped from HTC.
A Snake
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Leo...I have a 9" 3.50 posi if you are interested...also have 3.73 with the mini spool for straight line guys.
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my neighbor might be interested for his rat-rod we had a posi set up in it but she squeeelled like a pig, they were used gears the only thing that it could of been was the guy sold him un-matched gears thats what we concluded. the 3.50 would be good for him he is running the old 727 with the same year 392 Hemi and it wraps high rpm's on the hi-way with the gears he is running now.. 3.27 is more of his liking but i believe the 3.50 would do him justice...... e-mail me some pics and a price of both big brother only runs 4.11 on up to 5.86 in his broncos he is the proud owner of the 7.2+1 powerstroker
sorry i wish i had the 9" going in mine but its set-up 8.8 3 link will do just fine. Leo- Thread starter
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and to think its one of the main components to start with, with the B/O parts i should of got a rebate
the other thing is they got it as a t-5 transmount and i am going with a TKO-600 i did check my inventory and it is a 31 spline setup on the driveshaft just don't know if the t-5 and tko mounts are different? but soon to find out!!!
lets see if i built a building and forgot the foundation u think i would get paid? kind of like Morse-deisel building a court-house with no roof and they are drywalling...a nice % check of the work to be completed would work for me lets see 31 B/O items and i ordered it dec 31. they should try to get all the parts together to save on their shipping and drop shipping costs dahhhhhhow does that engine respond of yours Scott is she pretty...u ought to take her out in the weather ..mine was already there snow rain wind and lots of it
STL-Scott
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Not sure what your talking about...I had mine out in the snow today under it's own power there Boss. Stop posting and start building. 
31 items is nothing. You have over 40 aluminum panels you can start fitting and drilling. oh yeah, hope you bought a good supply of drill bits and cleco's.
Seriously, if you haven't heard a DOHC rev up with straight headers...it's sweet. I watched the IMRC solenoids open up today (didn't do that last week when I started it up)...all I can say is it got a lot louder! If you are not familiar with these, on my series DOHC, there are butterfly valves that keep two of the intake runners closed until the engine gets above a certain RPM (I think it is 3,200) and then all 8 of the intake valves are feeding the engine. I guess it was the new school (in 97) equivalancy to a 4 bbl secondary.
31 items is nothing. You have over 40 aluminum panels you can start fitting and drilling. oh yeah, hope you bought a good supply of drill bits and cleco's.Seriously, if you haven't heard a DOHC rev up with straight headers...it's sweet. I watched the IMRC solenoids open up today (didn't do that last week when I started it up)...all I can say is it got a lot louder! If you are not familiar with these, on my series DOHC, there are butterfly valves that keep two of the intake runners closed until the engine gets above a certain RPM (I think it is 3,200) and then all 8 of the intake valves are feeding the engine. I guess it was the new school (in 97) equivalancy to a 4 bbl secondary.
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Hey BigLeo,
I bought Scott's pneumatic riveter last month. Since I won't be needing it for awhile, you're more than welcome to borrow it. (besides that, it gives me a good excuse to check out your new ride!)
Let me know. Mark
I bought Scott's pneumatic riveter last month. Since I won't be needing it for awhile, you're more than welcome to borrow it. (besides that, it gives me a good excuse to check out your new ride!)
Let me know. Mark
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rivets i may be having my brother n law do all that he rivets fighter jets he can rivet a roadster for a ridethats a nice engine Scott my nephew had a 97 cobra and was suppose to let me know when he was going to get rid of it but a UE truck wiped out the car on a city street he is the one in the pic at home with a croutch problem and i am going to bust his balls for screwing up my del. pic, all i wanted was the engine but its gone. the car is being massaged as we speak mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm she likes it too.. i am going to set up the chassis 1st but of course the left out parts that impedes my plan...so i will regroup and probably clean up the ass end and give it some paint along with any other parts on the suspension, i may take u up on the riveter MP though but not right now chassis first
thats a nice engine Scott my nephew had a 97 cobra and was suppose to let me know when he was going to get rid of it but a UE truck wiped out the car on a city street he is the one in the pic at home with a croutch problem and i am going to bust his balls for screwing up my del. pic, all i wanted was the engine but its gone. the car is being massaged as we speak mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm she likes it too.. i am going to set up the chassis 1st but of course the left out parts that impedes my plan...so i will regroup and probably clean up the ass end and give it some paint along with any other parts on the suspension, i may take u up on the riveter MP though but not right now chassis first
no problem, no hurry, just let me know.