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500 watts vs 5 watts of power. AM radio uses the ionosphere to " skip" the signal to a much larger area. But the skip doesn't work all the time. At home, on my base station, I could talk 200 miles without the skip...the Moonraker 6 antenna was huge (15' long?) . With the skip running I could...

The best I have ever used for racing were from Scott Wires. They custom build to your specs. For 90% of our cars a $30 set of wires is all you need...they are just another shiney object to waste our money on like roller rockers, cheap chrome crap and gear drives. Yes I'm a crabby old b@stard.

When I first started trucking the Ohio city of Elryria was a tough one to figger out. Finally heard the pronunciation on the radio.

That yoke came from a vehicle with a lot of potential suspension travel....maybe a pickup? Travel increases when the suspension is compressed.

My first CB was a 6 channel Johnson . Late 70's I had a Courier 23 channel with another 46 channels added on using a 500 watt kicker. I had 6' heavy duty antennas that I had to swap out because of low bridges coming into Milwaukee.. I used to talk to guys fishing in the Gulf of Mexico and a...

I was in a tiny Pittsburgh bar one Sunday night after I backed my truck into a dock in downtown . Must have been 1972. Walked over to the joint and ordered a Miller...Ha!! No Miller. Only sold Iron City and other local beer. Still got drunk...

Powder bags on the Wisconsin. There is a Navy submarine weapons facility south of Las Vegas. They have large, partially buried storage huts that contain Mark IV 16" powder bags manufactured in the late 193O's.

Great pix... My Dad served aboard the Wisconsin BB-64 at the end of WWII plus took his reserve training on her to Cuba and the Caribbean. He was a gunners mate firing those 16" guns... He said Everytime he boarded her he kissed the teak decks. My wife and I visited the Whisky in 2016. Here's...

I will admit I got suckered into buying crap parts because of price. But I learned. I bought a manual flywheel from CAT about 20 years ago. No one I know could figure out what bolt pattern it was drilled for... I looked at Ford, GM, Jap cars, Studebaker, Hudson...nothing matched. So I bought a...

I bought a push type slave from Speedway Motors which is very close to the Toyota Corona units I used in the early 70's on my dirt cars. $54 as I recall. I will make my own pushrod. I will fab the bracket from a chunk of 1/8" cold rolled steel I have. Use some sort of brake hose mounted to...

Well I have the engine figured out... Reminder...this is a budget build...you have no idea! Bought a used 318 from an un named member here whom I have known for many years. Didn't spin over when I dragged it home but a little Earl down the cylinders got her freed up. $100 well spent. All...

One of the shops I use for machine work sez Mopars don't need tq plates ... that's a Chevy thing because their blocks are about as strong as a beer can. And he's a Chevy guy...

9.5" bellhousing. No stripped threads. $140. Located in central WI Will ship on your dime.

Like new Milodon bronze SBM intermediate shaft. Break-in time only. Switched to cast gear for flat tappet cam. $140 shipped to lower 48. MSD 6400 analog box. $100 shipped to lower 48. Located in Waupaca, WI. Local pickup available.

We did those in car bore jobs at the gas station I worked at in high school...ground cranks in situ, too.

Didn't expect that. Has 1980's plates. It's nice that all that little stuff is intact...wiring, glass, most if the chrome. All expensive and time consuming. If I was doing a total resto that stuff wouldn't matter so much but to a 75 year old on SS and working a PT job that means a lot. My...

Wiring is intact...dash is untouched...needs parking brake cables...all glass is good...windows roll up and down...vinyl roof looks like it was attacked by badgers.

Liquid molasses works great...

That flipped a record to the B side... So it's been a long while since I have been here (I can hear the sighs of disappointment that I'm back!)... My favorite Mopars have always been '63 - '70 B bodies... mainly Plymouths. Just like their styling. This past September I missed a local Mopar...

Ancient thread but here goes... Camshaft Machine Corp in Michigan is one of the largest suppliers of cam cores in the world and they supply cores to virtually every aftermarket grinder in America (plus every OEM). Look for the CMC cast into your core. Regrinding takes material off more...

I also bought a used Weaver back in '95. Built from 3/4 and 1" steel... 4" diameter hydraulic rams, leaf chain in place of wimpy cables. This thing will lift a crew cab dually without any problem and will out last my great grandkids...

I built my shop in '94...installed a used 9k Weaver lift in '96. My shop floor is 4" six bag mix with fibermesh... no wire or rebar. I have never had a crack in my floor other than two hairline ones on the surface. I do have a good, well drained sandy base.

Just to elaborate... The only FI used in oval track racing are mechanical systems used in open wheel cars. Carbs are used in every other class. The super late model dirt cars can make 900hp with a single 4 bbl.

First I must tell you I will only deliver this engine 300 miles. You are welcome to pick it up in central Wisconsin. 70's vintage 360 block. .040 over. Fresh bore, new deck job and line hone. Block was o-ringed but the grooves are shallow after the machine work. It had Fel-Pro 1008 gaskets...

Never had an issue with running older tires as long as they were in decent shape...except I had 9 blowouts flat towing a '39 Ford back from MN to WI with 50 year old Ford script tires... Oh and my 11 year old tires on my potato trailer liked to pop when 30,000 overloaded. Other than that, no.

I have used many sets of recurved springs on the last 50 years on cars and heavy trucks. They work...

Search "Charles Sanborn oiling mods" on google.

My buddy used to have an antique acetylene generator. Used water and carbide to make the gas. He would fill these giant baloons with the gas, tie off the ballon with a 30 sec fuse then light it off...big explosion. The problem was his shop was one mile from the airport in the flightpath. The...

A blend uses dino base oil and a synthetic additive package. I have been using a blend for years for my dailies made my Amalie and sold by Federated Auto Parts.