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Originally Posted by GeorgeLG
(Post 736270)
Les
The videos were fun, sorry your track closed. What type of competitive shooting? I shot conventional (Precision) pistol for a few years. George I collected Milsurp rifles for a while especially Mosins. Went with collector quality (pristine barrel, uncommon variants), not quantity - nothing out of a crate at a gun store. Sold off a dozen or so last year and kept only my very favorites. Wish I had put my retirement money into Mosins back in 2011 - I at least tripled my money on each rifle in 10 years. One guy gave me $5000 for my set of four mint late-date Finnish no-maker M39s. Now those are fairly expensive Mosins - but still not the highly collectable ones that a few people have. My favorite shooter Mosin is a 28/76 Finnish Marksmanship Rifle. It is a rifle that was re-stocked and tweaked for Markmanship training by the Finnish military. Has a biathlon type stock and iron aperture sights. Although some were made from existing M28/30 rifles, my particular rifle barrel/receiver was never issued to troops - only made for competition. Always wanted to try to shoot it long-distance. Probably the most valuable Mosin I have is a legit PU Sniper from WW2. I was always disappointed in the way that it shot - never could figure out a good load for it. |
Yes, Bullseye is what I shot. Smith 41 with a Clark barrel for 22, Smith 52 and 10 for 38 and a Never ending rotation of 45’s all red dot and iron sights. Competed for about two years and then life had other plans. Was just starting to develop my action range/45 skills when I quit. Now I guess we help people fix their trucks.
It was interesting to see your experience with racing, you must have learned a lot doing all those tear downs and mods. Good knowledge base for guiding people on mechanical issues. George |
My history was a GM tech until I figured out that turning wrenches was a good hobby but poor way to make a living. Went back to school full time with a family for 8 years, working in a Cadillac dealership between classes, weekends, and Summers doing mostly engine performance, computer, and misc electrical problems. It was the 80's and dealers were desperate for techs who could fix anything, so they allowed me to work around my schedule, saving the difficult stuff for me and paying me an hourly wage instead of working commission. In 1990 I completed my Masters in Chemistry and started working as a chemist. But never could stomach anyone else working in my vehicles and I kept a 1990 Pontiac I bought new until 2010. So I had pretty much zero experience on 1990+ vehicles until i bought my 2001 Blazer in 2012 (I believe). I joined this forum and.started learning the newer systems..... My Blazer was a real POS at the beginning, so got lots of experience!! I still keep trying to learn each day through others. To me that's the real reason I'm here. I like to learn stuff. Cant do that on facebook!!
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Similar situation. I started fixing cars and motorcycles in the sixties. Got my electrical engineering degree and started working, we manufactured computer chips. Didn’t get back into vehicle repair until I Finished raising my family retired and had time. Needed to get caught up since I left off with a timing light and a dwell meter. It’s been fun learning modern computer managed vehicles.
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Got my exhaust and stock fuel tank on.
Put those 1 3/4" shorties on and had my favorite Mexican exhaust shop (Chucho's) build the exhaust system with my parts. https://www.facebook.com/chuchosmcwThis place is the cleanest and nicest exhaust shop you have ever seen. I pay them cash and don't ask for receipt - they tend to give me great deals! They put my S10 job on their Facebook page. The headers already had the Flowmaster 3" to 2.5" reducers already welded in place of the stupid flange arrangement that always comes loose every 50 miles. I bought a couple 45 mandrel bends, a couple of 90 mandrel bends, 10' of straight pipe, and a Magnaflow dual in/dual out muffler. Re-used some tail pipes that I previously had on the truck a long time ago - they were bent the same for right and left with no factory gas tank, so they came out side-by-side when used with the dual outlet muffler. Everything was welded except where first (45 degree) pipes mates with the 3" to 2.5" reducer welded to the header. Used stainless steel band clamps to hold these slip fit pipes together, anticipating the need to remove headers from engine some day. I have some 3.5mil thick aluminum duct tape and some exhaust pipe cement to seal the seam underneath the band clamps, but that is for another day. With the exhaust running over the the right side, I was able to install my new fuel system. The problem with the factory setup is that the 3/8 OD lines are a bit restrictive for 500 hp. For this level of power, 8AN (3/8 ID) is a minimum. I re-purposed a couple of the tubes on a new sending unit so I could install an aluminum extension on the 5/8" OD fitting used for the "burp tube" in the factory setup and use it to get gas out of the tank. Turns out the factory sock fits a 3/4" fitting and if you watch the wall thickness on 3/4" aluminum from McMaster-Carr, you can buy a foot of aluminum tubing that slides right over the existing 5/8 tube. Whacked it off to the correct length, epoxied it in place with JB Weld, and installed the factory sock. Used some high quality 5/8 ID rubber hose to attach the outer tube to a 5/8" barb to 10AN fitting, and then a 10AN to 8AN adapter which hooked up with my existing 8AN fuel line fittings. So I am really 10AN out of the tank. The 3/8" ID port (which was re-purposed to be the actual burp tube) was connected to the filler neck with a length of high quality rubber hose and a 3/8 to 5/8" adapter. Installed the fuel tank and mounted my Holley Blue pump on two rubber BMW transmission mounts and hooked all up with braided stainless 8AN hose. I cringe a little with it getting dirty behind the front wheel, but it is above the frame level and it is relatively quiet (cannot hear it at all with engine running). Difficult to find a place for it and the big Holley billet filters (100 micron before pump, 10 micron after pump). Probably I need to make some sort of a shield for underneath it to keep the crap off. As a test, I put 10 gallons in the tank and disconnected the line from the carb-mounted fuel pressure regulator - then placed it into an empty 5 gal gas can. On 12V (engine not running) it took 165 seconds to fill the 5 gallon can. This is 33 sec/gal or 1.818gal/min or 109.1 gal/hour. Free flow spec on the pump is 110 gal/hr so that pretty much matches. Flow spec for my pump at 14 psi (my working pressure) is around 85 gal/hour and I do not seem to be restricting it at all. BSFC for natural aspirated engine is about 0.5 lb/hp/hour. This correlates to 44 gal/hour at 500 flywheel horsepower, so I should be good with room to spare. |
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Nice!!! Looks nice and clean!!
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Just went through this thread, nice truck and nice work! Sorry to hear your track shut down on you. The only problem w/ the return to the street is having to resist the urge to go tear @#$ing around the hood. :)
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