Norwood

[Vince@Meanstreets]

come on Scott, its still waiting for you.....

[Sieg]

Originally Posted by Vince@MSperfab

come on Scott, its still waiting for you.....

Waving it in my face like a good Hooker.

[Vince@Meanstreets]

Originally Posted by Sieg

Waving it in my face like a good Hooker.

ROFL.....hayyyyy

[Sieg]

New tool added to the collection!



This 40 amp plasma cutter could be trouble in so many ways.

Set at 25 amps it cuts through 16 ga. about as fast as running a scoring line!

[Vince@Meanstreets]

lets see new plasma, new welder and leather shoes... just what you need to make a nice fab table.

[Sieg]

In the words of Jim Carrey in Liar Liar - I've had better.......late night rides.

Pictures are worth a thousand words.......












No, this wasn't close to big enough for an oil fire.......


The perfect storm...... I've been making float adjustments to minimize braking induced stalling, had it pretty close last night. Tonight I made a quick 1/8 turn adjustment to front and rears, fired it and it was running rich, shut it down and noticed the front float appeared stuck. Losened the adjuster and rotated CCW & CW 1/4 turn fired it and it seemed ok. Headed down the road started smelling fuel, shut it down and had fuel building up in the manifold. Realized I'd accidentally left the adjusting wrench and screw driver on the work bench at home so I tapped the float bowl hard a few times with another screw driver hoping to free it and fired it up, hoping to get it home (1 mile) I hammered the throttle hard in first gear thinking it may clear any debrie in the needle seat and once the car straightened up from the drift I saw the dreaded orange glow in the cowl, shut it down grabbed the extingusher, depleated it, still burning grabbed a towel from the trunk and tried to smoother it and then realized I had a oil fueled fire also. Thankfully two different passer-byes pulled over, one with another larger towel since mine wasn't enough and another with a flat of bottled water, the three of us finally managed to get it out. Can't thank those people enough, it wouldn't have been pretty without their assistance.

At this time I'm not sure where the oil came from. Possibly (hopefully) a blown oil filter seal or lose filter. Definitely interested in locating the source. Looks like the short Oregon summer is over for this hot rod.

Irrational PS - Don't ask me how I feel about Barry Grant's Speed Demon carbs right now. I've fought that POS since day one and now this the final and expensive straw. I know, any 4150 can get debrie in the needle, but for some reason beating a dead horse makes me feel little better right now.

[Ron in SoCal]

Nightmare scenario when your car's on fire. I feel sorry for you dude...

[FETorino]

That sucks.

I'm just glad you saved the car and didn't hurt yourself.

[Sieg]

Originally Posted by Ron in SoCal

Nightmare scenario when your car's on fire. I feel sorry for you dude...

Originally Posted by FETorino

That sucks.

I'm just glad you saved the car and didn't hurt yourself.

Thanks and appreciated Gentlemen.

Always entertaining to test your emergency response preparation.........I failed in the equipment department but am satisfied otherwise. Only a couple minor burns on the right hand/arm. Really makes me fear a house fire.

In the words of a 2-stroker ATV rider...........damn, it was running REAL hard right before it blew up.

[Flash68]

Wow Scott. So sorry. I have been thru that and when it's all happening right in front of you it's surreal eh? Glad you're ok and it was not worse.