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Old 01-11-2008, 08:36 PM
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davis419b
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Johnracer ...... My last post did not have your name on it. It was for those that choose to run alcohol and does not call for help from the word go. Instead they fight it and cant make it work. Then they pull it off and badmouth it from then on. Thats were the horror stories come from. I started my racing career on alcohol 15 years ago and have never ran anything else. I helped a friend for 10 years before that as crew at a outlaw track we raced at. He was a very good friend but what i never could understand when it seemed to be working ok, they just wouldnt leave it alone. They kept changing the barrel valve and the pills all the time. On Saturday night the more beer they drank the more they changed it. Hell by the next day they couldnt figure out why it didnt run like it did the day before. But them guys had alot of fun and so did I. When I first started racing I bought a complete Barry Grant carb, belt driven and bypass from them, put on my 377 Front Engine Dragster and went racing. It puked the oil everytime i went to the track. Bary Grants guys, everybody at the track, my engine builder nor my self could ever fix it. That winter when we freshened it, we put it on the dyno and had the same problem. The guy who put the engine together was stumped. He started looking at the bypass, they had taken a holley bypass and drilled and tapped one end to regulate the fuel pressure at the bowls by screwing different jets in. The jet was drilled into the wrong end of the bypass so i was regulating pressure to the pressure gauge only, but nobody ever knew it. We turned it around and it worked from then on, but i never gave up. Three years later i went to a terminator and it was easy from then on with absolutely no problems. Only when the weather is cold did you need to use a little gas to start first thing of the day. Thats the only draw back. Don
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