Slant 6 Turbo 68Dart Project
Thanks bill. Still waiting on it to get here, they had an issue shipping it out so It'll be here in the middle of next week. I'm too excited for new stuff to be patient.
The waiting is the hard part, but it helps if you can use that time to accomplish something else that needed doing (and looks like you have!)
It's amazing that we don't just give up, when confronted with the number and sometimes, degree, of problems these mechanical mistresses hand us, seemingly, on an unending basis.:banghead:
I mean, I had waited FIVE YEARS to get my bucket of bolts to a strip with a set of clocks, confident in the assumption that the fresh 904 I'd had built, would likely be the LEAST of my problems..... think again, BOZO....:oops:
Just when you think you have all the bases covered, Murphy slips you a ringer... and manages to throw all your best-laid-plans, into the dumpster.
So, I sit here and wait for the call that says, "Come and get it; we'll try it again..."
It takes a special kind of hard head to deal with that kind of self-abuse. It's no fun at all...
At least Steve Nitti had some measure of self-satisfaction when he twisted that 904's input shaft in two at the MATS race a couple of years ago; that was probably the first time a slant six had done that in the history of the engine...
All I have is the sickening memory of the car wanting to move forward, no matter what position I selected, PARK thru all the others...
I have spent a lot of time on this board, espousing the merits of the 904, confident that I was giving good advice (as far as I knew.) After all, the 904 in my other car had survived 10 years of sporadic, drag strip abuse at the hands of yours truly, seeing how much pereformance I could wring out of a 500+ HP engine (my Vortech Supercharged 360 Magnum,) in a 3,400-pound car with slicks on, yet.
Then, this happens, and my credibility as a source of good information as regards transmisssion choices, goes right out the window.
:wack:
Like I said; it takes a special kind of mindset to live with that sort of embarrassment.
But, it's what I do...
#-o