The official CT Autumn GTG (07 November 2015)

[MustangMike]

And a very loud BTW...

I'm old enough to know how sick it was to shoehorn a 427 side oiler into a 70 boss 302 'stang.

Ford did not make motor mounts for it, I bought 428 mounts, but for the side oiler side of the engine I had to cut a corner off & drill a new hole in the proper location. Also had M/T Aluminum Valve covers on it. They looked great, but would not clear the power brake booster. I cut the corner off the valve cover with a hack saw and used silicon & a piece of aluminum to seal it. It never leaked, and no one ever saw it. Put Silver Hooker Headers on it, but had to tell people they were there because when you popped the hood, you could not see them.

Thanks for the compliment, now, back to saws!

 

[Mastermind]

And we have you to thank for that!
You build some sick saws!!!


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Did they puke on someone........again? Cant take those damn saws anywhere. They get carsick see?

 

[powerking]

....Once again a GREAT time! Wish I didn't have my niece's Bday party to run off to.....would have stayed the entire time! Mattyo, I rebuilt the carb on that David Bradley today and she runs well again!..the boat anchor she is!

 

[Mattyo]

NICE! but, I don't remember commenting on the David Bradley, or being involved with it in any way... did I miss something?

 

[sawfun]

And a very loud BTW...

I'm old enough to know how sick it was to shoehorn a 427 side oiler into a 70 boss 302 'stang.

Ford did not make motor mounts for it, I bought 428 mounts, but for the side oiler side of the engine I had to cut a corner off & drill a new hole in the proper location. Also had M/T Aluminum Valve covers on it. They looked great, but would not clear the power brake booster. I cut the corner off the valve cover with a hack saw and used silicon & a piece of aluminum to seal it. It never leaked, and no one ever saw it. Put Silver Hooker Headers on it, but had to tell people they were there because when you popped the hood, you could not see them.

Thanks for the compliment, now, back to saws!

Sounds like the time I installed a 500 Cadillac engine into my moms Nova. Had to make the mounts and dent that valve cover to clear the brake booster as well. The exhaust was the tricky part. Fun but glad that is in the past.

 

[powerking]

NICE! but, I don't remember commenting on the David Bradley, or being involved with it in any way... did I miss something?

......Very bad with names......Maybe is was Derf?..could be...

 

[Mattyo]

Go back to the pic Malk posted... becomes more obvious who's who... but I'm glad you got it done.... we didn't get to hang out much, i'll catch you on the next GTG!

 

[Mattyo]

oh, and the 262xp that I brought runs fine now... weird. I checked the comp tonight and it was 195 cold. how is it that the compression goes down near 150 at the end of yesterday, yet tonight, cold, its 195, anyone explain that one? I was convinced it needed a new piston...now....I think i'll leave it alone

 

[mels]

...And a good time was had by all...

Thank-you everyone who made the effort to take the day off, come out and make our first GTG what it was. Quite honestly, Dan and I really played a very small part; it was y'all who made the magic happen simply by turning out - and continue to with your pics, vids and sharing your experiences with everyone here on the site. It could've just as easily gone the other way you know, Dan, Cindy and I sitting around the fire just looking at each other and feeling stooopid while the dogs ran around having more fun than us.

Dan and I are casually tossing some ideas around, and as they evolve we'll invite you fellas to weigh in and see where it takes us. If we do this again, it will be because of you, and as such, it will be GOOD.

As a side note, as Dan had mentioned earlier a few pages back, Cindy and I did a quick turn-around and came back out to this neck of the woods early this morning to the neighboring community of Salem to participate in a fundraising event for a 34 year old Mother who 5 years ago was first diagnosed with, and treated for, brain cancer. A beautiful person, Nikki was a nurse at the Connecticut Childrens Medical Center http://www.connecticutchildrens.org/ when this all began. It has been a long painful road for her and her Husband and children, yet in spite of it all and a relatively dark prognosis moving forward, Nikki has the most positive attitude and outgoing personality of anyone I believe I've ever met. Nikki exemplifies the spirit of the word "Alive!". Because of the inoperable nature of what brain cancer she has now, her attitude may very well be the only thing to carry her along.

Gents' between the $185.00 you all contributed yesterday and the efforts of today we all raised a grand total of $4,800.00 every penny of which was counted out and handed directly to Nikki. She was blown-away by your generosity, and made darn sure that we thanked you for her. Fellas, thank-you.

So, on behalf of me lovely Bride Cindy and myself, thank-you for making this one weekend for the books. Honored to have met you, proud to know you. Looking forward to seeing you all again, soon.

 

[MustangMike]

Sounds like the time I installed a 500 Cadillac engine into my moms Nova. Had to make the mounts and dent that valve cover to clear the brake booster as well. The exhaust was the tricky part. Fun but glad that is in the past.

Putting an FE into a Mustang is a lot of work, the headers alone take all day, but what you did was real work! You had to do more than just modify a few parts.

How did it turn out? Any pics???

 

[sawfun]

Putting an FE into a Mustang is a lot of work, the headers alone take all day, but what you did was real work! You had to do more than just modify a few parts.

How did it turn out? Any pics???

Well my mom sure liked driving it better than the warmer than stock LS6 with 4k converter. The Cad was only a second slower but much better street manors with a smooth idle at 500 rpm and big engines make big vacuum. Plus 20 mpg hwy vs 4 mpg for the big Chevy. I will have to look for pictures but the engine now resides in my, formerly hers, 1975 GMC pickup. Funny, it was harder to install in the truck than the Nova due to the firewall distance.

Back in the 80's we converted a ton of small block & 6 cylinder midsize and compact cars to big blocks from doner Impala's, LTD's, and a nice Imperial gave up her 440 one lovely day. The big cars were cheap & undesirable getting scrapped so most of the 396's & 429/460's got a cam, freshened up and strait to the drag strip.

 

[Derf]

...And a good time was had by all...

Dan and I are casually tossing some ideas around, and as they evolve we'll invite you fellas to weigh in and see where it takes us. If we do this again, it will be because of you, and as such, it will be GOOD.

I'm very happy to have been a part of it. I said something to drf255 today, and I'm repeating it here now. Unlike some other GTGs where the wood is scrounged up for play, it was cool that we were doing real work to help ParagonBuilder out (at least in the second half of the day)- almost like the charity cuts that SVK organizes. With Dan's serious wood burning needs, he may end up with another pile of wood sooner than next fall. If that be the case, why wait another year until next fall to do this again - we could do another event in the spring? There aren't a lot of other GTG events (Spike60?) in the area, and sometimes you can't make it, so having one more to look forward to would be welcome. Just something to think about.


Also, I'm glad that Nikki was able to receive such support! Kudos to her, her family and her friends.

 

[Mattyo]

To add to that, with as many guys as we had, wouldn't have taken much to get is split and stacked too. Improvements for next time.... agenda... cut split stack... more timed cuts or at least video'd cuts (Malk got some of them on video, but different operators and not all saws were caught on vid) ... hmm what else.

Things that DON'T need to change: food, type of wood, location/venue, caliber of people and saws that showed up

 

[malk315]

I have the identical splitter that Dan has. I'm close enough I could easily tow it with me. Doing our 8 or so cords of pine for sugaring we would get 3 splitters and a bunch of people and bam.

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[drf255]

Sounds like the time I installed a 500 Cadillac engine into my moms Nova. Had to make the mounts and dent that valve cover to clear the brake booster as well. The exhaust was the tricky part. Fun but glad that is in the past.

Putting an FE into a Mustang is a lot of work, the headers alone take all day, but what you did was real work! You had to do more than just modify a few parts.

How did it turn out? Any pics???

We Would dump the motor in and stick weld the frame side mounts right to the frame.

 

[ri chevy]

I am trying to figure out how to get my oil/fuel mixture to 40%. I use the 2.5 gallon oil bottles of 2 stroke oil. Is there a chart that converts the 50:1 mixture to 40:1?
In other words, how much fuel should I add to get to a 40:1 ratio?

 

[MarkEagleUSA]

I am trying to figure out how to get my oil/fuel mixture to 40%. I use the 2.5 gallon oil bottles of 2 stroke oil. Is there a chart that converts the 50:1 mixture to 40:1?
In other words, how much fuel should I add to get to a 40:1 ratio?

That's 6.4 oz per 2.5 gal @ 50:1. 6.4 oz into 2 gal of gas = 40:1.

 

[ri chevy]

Excellent. So I add the same oil bottle but only add 2 gallons of fuel instead of 2.5 to get 40:1?

 

[Paragon Builder]

Excellent. So I add the same oil bottle but only add 2 gallons of fuel instead of 2.5 to get 40:1?

You got it!


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[ri chevy]

Thank you!