Passed you on the road today Mark. How's the wife? How long before she's due?

Scott

 

I honked at you scott. you saw me at the bottom of my "test hill" it's where i go to test new mods.... i mark where i can hit 60mph... the hill does a great job of loading the turbo. when i first got the 91 it couldn't hit 60 before cresting the hill, now i hit it at the 1st driveway(on the right)! probably sooner if i could keep the rears from spinning.

my wife is doing well, she was in the truck with me when you passed. She's due the 25th by her calculations and the 28th by the doctor's. i am personally hoping she can hold it off till after i dyno on sat LOL selfish i know! She's ready now though, getting to the miserable fase, thankfully she's laster longer than most before hitting it though! you gonna be able to make the dyno day saturday?

 

Mark,

Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. Just got home today from 3 days R&R in Gatlinburg with the family.

No, I can't make it Saturday. Have to work.

60mph by the first drive huh? I'll have to try it and see how I stack up. Is that from a dead stop or rolling start? Better watch it, there's at least one cop that lives there just over the top of the hill.

Good news on the wife. I'm praying for you.

Scott

 

Well time to bump this thing up. Great dyno day. Had fun!!

 

Scott, lol yea there's always like 3 cop cars over the top of the hill... 60mph is from a dead stop and that was with a mis shift and some tire spin so i bet i could beat it... maybe try a 3rd gear launch or something! sorry you missed it today, at least Boz and i are gonna try to make it to bowling green in may got the is it TST thing? not sure, just to watch but there should be some big names there.

sean, you think that 4x4 tubing will work well for the exhaust? on the way home i was thinking of 4x6 so i could run 5inch into the bottom of it...lol always thinking big!
mark

 

Wow!! Found our thread on page three!!! Mark, are you a daddy yet?? I know you said she was close on the dyno day. Those little things sure keep you busy once they arrive.

As far as the 4x4 goes I think it would be alright. Depending on what size pipe you plan on coming out of the bed. It would take some work to mate the round to the square and make it strong enough to ward off any cracking issues. The 4x4 however will not be 4x4 inside, it's gonna be minus whatever the wall thickness is, so .250" wall thickness is 3.750" inside. If you could find it and it would fit, maybe a 5"x5" then you'd have nearly 5" inside. I think what you are talking about would work great. Just would have to mate the elbow to the square and then cut the bed and slide the pipes in and line everything up. You would have to allow for enough room for the bed when it comes up. You could not put the pipes in to far is what I'm getting at I guess. Cause then bed coming up will change the angle and all that which you already know. It would be something where you would need all the basic parts and the better part of a Saturday, hole saw, bolts, welder....lots of time. Oh yeah and something to get the exhaust into the tube.

Best thing to do, what I do, is to grab a notebook and draw it out. Then go outside and measure, get ideas on what you need and make a list. You know,

(1)5'X5" square tube
(2) 90 degree elbows...4"??
(1) your inlet pipe and flexpipe?

So you get the idea. I've built a lot of stuff and find if I plan ahead a bit and draw it out.....even if it don't look great and measure then you have a real good idea and then the idea can be modified as it comes together. My cab rack was supposed to have square tubes across it when first put on paper and as I was welding away...it became what it is now.

Shawn

 

Well, the little one (adam micaiah) arrived on thursday the 22nd. I've been pretty busy with that but managed to sell the 3rd truck which freed up some money. i do however have to pay a chunk of that to the IRS, the beauty of owning my own business i guess. anyways, the exhaust is on hold for a little while but i'll get back to it... about 18 years right?

 

Congrats on the little one man!

 

well, my radiator crapped out last week. Looks like it rubbed through from the shroud. I'm going to try and have it re-cored, but if any of you guys have a good used one let me know.

Thanks,
Jeff

 

Must be why ya didn't make it to Bean's

 

I didnt find out about the thing at Bean's till after it had happened. I woulda been there if id known.

 

I was gonna go to beans but we ended up in nashviller saturday night and got back bout 4 in the mornin so I didn't make it.

Did he have is ford/cummins truck runnin??

 

I dont know. I just saw it posted on another board about the day and the dyno numbers.

 

It's in, but he's got a few bugs in the ECM connections

The showstopper was the 68-69 chevy w/ a 12 valve

 

Bump!
Y'all wake up.