I have an electric trunk opener in my 70' Charger and my 70' Challenger for out at the track. After the burnout, I pop the trunk, one of my crew turn on the bottles and closes the trunk before I purge and stage. Also works great for picking up groceries....
Both units were out of mid to late...
I have a a Miller 110 that I can dial way down for the thinnest of sheet metal. Then I also have a Miller 250 that use for thicker stuff like frame rails, trailers, structural steel like I beams and C channel etc.
My buddy half filled his Pontiac 455 to the freeze plugs. It was the coolest running street car I have ever been in. We believe it filled any hot pockets that coolant would get trapped into creating heat. He drove it like this for many years.
Added tail pipes and then even resonators to one car and I am adding tail pipes to another car because they are just getting too loud to drive as much as I do. I must be getting old....
However, my other car with mufflers even is louder than most open header cars. I not changing that car, yet.
Yes, I measure and double check my tubing and sonic check it in various places along the length before I even started cutting the tubing up.
NHRA has changed several bars over the years for a 25.5 (7.50) cert. 3 of my buddies 7.50 re-certs failed due to these changes, but we built mine a little...
I would rather be hot and sweaty then be cold. However, I have had heat in my garage for over 20 years and about 5 years ago installed A/C. I can't believe I didn't do the A/C 15 years before that also. It is nice working on stuff and not dripping sweat everywhere. 70ish in the garage when it's...