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| | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 2,031 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 2,031 | YEEPEE ~ YAHOO  she runs! about 10 minutes last night. looking for leaks  just one under the dizzie. WE brought another one back to life. I can't turn her off though. I have to recheck the hot side to the coil wire ???. I have to choke it to kill her. The por-20 blistered on the exhaust headers. That was our big smell & my dissapointment in the product. but after 5 years. SHE RUNS, sounds good, I need to ask the builder about cam timing. she sure likes 40 degrees 
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Jim & Caroline
The highway is for gamblers, better use your good sense."
Gooday-that's my 1¢ answer due to the lousy economy ~ cause I ain't got - no . mo . doe
Every Shaver | Now Can Snore | Six More Minutes | Than Before ... | Half A Pound for Half a Dollar | Spread On Thin | Above the Collar || BURMA-SHAVE
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 725 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 725 | Congrats Jim! Thanks also for the clutch help.
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Les | | | | | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 | Great news Jim. It's a brilliant feeling when ya fire up for the first time! I'm a bit surprised about the Por-20 though, I've been running mine for 15/20 mins at a time with no major problems regarding blistering.  That's with tube type headers that get pretty dang hot! I should know...I managed to touch a pipe the other night. DUH!!! BTW That's the first time i've seen  of the 'Vinny'..She's a beauty!! Jock 
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1950 Chevy Advance Design 3100 in ScotlandIn the Stovebolt GalleryMore pix on Flickr. I've definately got this truck thing in my blood ... my DNA sequence has torque settings"Of all the small nations of this earth,perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind" Winston Churchill.
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,464 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,464 | Good job Jim; Beautiful rig, I love those vintage bikes too!!
SO - does a big 292 with headers sound like a 235 with Fentons?
I've never heard one with duals but I'm curious about that. Someone told me they didn't but with the 3+3 and same firing order I don't know why they would sound different.
Looks like you're getting close to putting her on the road. Congrats. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 135 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 135 | Congrats!! You've got a great truck there!! I know that you are lookin ahead to toolin down the road with the windows down and the twin pipes singin!! | | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 2,031 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 2,031 | thanks guys
actually smitty, caroline does
i want to go ride my bikes after this project gets going in top gear.
waldo
l was trying to remember what she sounded like but i was too worried about will it all work, is my wiring harness going to fry, the oil pressure, fan kickin' on when it's supposed to, leaks of all kinds smoke, burning paint the (por20) etc. then she would not turn off in the normal sense..... the key. Let me get her going cause that's one reason I built her this way.
twis the sound.......................
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Jim & Caroline
The highway is for gamblers, better use your good sense."
Gooday-that's my 1¢ answer due to the lousy economy ~ cause I ain't got - no . mo . doe
Every Shaver | Now Can Snore | Six More Minutes | Than Before ... | Half A Pound for Half a Dollar | Spread On Thin | Above the Collar || BURMA-SHAVE
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 637 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 637 | Waldo, a 292 with two exhausts, whether headers or a split manifold has the exact same sound as a 235 with the same exhaust condition. I know, my 292 sounds like that only with the cam it sounds much meaner. My Grandson has a 250 with Clifford headers and it has the same sound. Firing order the same and 3 and 3 exhaust all will sound alike, even a F**d. There is no better music to the ears than a 6 with duals.
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