Recent content by LemonWedge

That is awesome, Doug! Building cars and competing with your son is a win all by itself. Then going to the track and each bringing home hardware…. Priceless! Congrats on a great start to the season! We’re still a few weeks away here in the rainy Pacific Northwest.

I run pretty big mufflers. These are Flowmaster FlowFX straight through. They don’t do much muffling. Although it is a dedicated race car, I have been known to roll it downtown on cruise nights now & then, which I wouldn’t do with fully open exhaust. These are 3”. One of the items on the...

I still need to jettison some weight. But last year it went 40’s in good air; was a mid-high 50’s car through the summer. If I can chop 2-tenths off that with this years updates, that’d put me in the 20’s & 30’s respectively. I’d be ecstatic with that. Really, Im just super hopeful that the...

I’ve been working diligently to get LemonWedge ready to go. New transmission appears to be ready to go. Can’t wait to see the results with the new converter. Swapped the stock seat setup for poly race seats and a 55-lb savings. Also got my belts updated; Pretty close to ready. Want to get...

This is great news!

Never thought of, nor heard of anyone doing this….. but it makes sense. I may check with John Cope to make sure he sees no problems here with the solenoid powering every time you click through the gears. but I like it. Brilliant as always, Doug.

I did not bring it up on the 2step (currently set at 3K) and let it go. But I did apply the brake, bring the RPMs up to about 2k and let it go just to verify it was working as it’s supposed to. Everything seemed correct. Thanks; hoping to have better luck than the past 2 seasons. Current...

Project complete! Got the car started today and took it around the block for a test drive. Initial response is that it feels very good. The new converter from A-1 appears to be noticeably looser at idle, yet feels somehow more connected. When you shift into gear, the feel is much more...

update: Install has been slowed by work and life…. But it is in and done. Now focused on getting the car on the ground, valve adjustment & oil change. Should be test driving it real soon.

Benchracing every topic possible is what this forum is all about. But we just may be overthinking this one a touch, FMJ. It makes sense to me that deeper the pan is, and the more oil it carries, the further away from the bottom of the pan the pickup can safely be. The extra 1/8” also gives...

Thought I had run into a snag when I air-checked the assembly and thought I was getting a leak. I had been told that an exhaust hole drilled in the front drum would essentially be a leak. But I just wasn’t willing to trust it. Pulled it all back apart and air-checked it again with just the...

Made some progress yesterday, hoping to have this thing buttoned up today. HUGE shout out to DVW, who took a few minutes away from his own project to talk through a few questions with the assembly and make me feel more confident with what I was seeing. This is my first solo assembly, so a few...

For a wedge, not a Hemi; but I just made this last weekend starting from a stock stamped steel rocker arm….

Interested in all opinions & hardware FMJ, especially yours. I did notice from pictures in the “Elephant” thread that it looked as though you were shifting one of the worlds baddest 65 Dodges with a column shifter, and found myself musing at the irony. The reason I really asked was that that...

Left side of the wheel?….. interesting. Are you left handed?