More Old Stuff...

Cz10 wrote:Painted on one of the bridges at Laguna Seca (sorry, I just can't call it Mazda Raceway @) is something to the effect of "On any weekend, more Mazdas are being raced then any other make". One of my fellow Porsche AX'ers has a hatchback and has run it on the course. Impressive. Go for it Rusty. Just clean out the car before you go. Take ou everything inside and in the trunk. Oh... and if your wipers are on a stalk on the steering column, remove your wiper fuse. Nothing as distracting as having your wipers come on in the middle of your run.

All good advice. I wouldn't have thought about the wipers, thanks.

Man, you guys have some nice rides. I inherited a 69 Chevelle SS from my Dad. It was white with a black vinyl roof til I got hold of it. It was more car than I needed at that time in my life. I graduated to it from a 67 Nova SS with a 283 and a Powerglide tranny.
The Chevelle was comparatively a monster.
Unfortunately it had an automatic. Fortunately the automatic was a Turbo 400.




Seems like I've posted this here before. I think we had a thread last year about this stuff.

Do you still have it?

microflitedude wrote:Do you still have it?

No. An Audi Fox turned left in front of me in an intersection in Atlanta and I t-boned him. I used the insurance money to buy a black '67 Camaro SS with a nicely built 4 bolt 350, and a cowl induction hood, and my first Muncie 4 speed. An m-20. My next Muncie in the white race car was an m-22 Rock Crusher. That's the same engine above that I later rebuilt for the white Camaro race car. I sold that one when I got married and had a child. I then got a Ford Escort station wagon. And another one. Somewhere in there was a stock 70 Camaro RS with very little guts. Got rid of it when Al came along too.

LOL! The '66 Toranado is a photo i found on the web the other day! The '59 supper 88 was my second car when i was 16, the Aurora is my driver. here's my mustangs:

Playing with the scanner some more...

Great stuff! What's going on with that TD .049 in that speed pan? The cylinder looks very peculiar.

Ron

cribbs74 wrote:Great stuff! What's going on with that TD .049 in that speed pan? The cylinder looks very peculiar.

Ron

Got me...maybe one of our veteran circle-turners has an answer or educated speculation. I'll check the text of the article when I get home tonight...

Kim wrote:

cribbs74 wrote:Great stuff! What's going on with that TD .049 in that speed pan? The cylinder looks very peculiar.

Ron

Got me...maybe one of our veteran circle-turners has an answer or educated speculation. I'll check the text of the article when I get home tonight...

Looks a lot like a tall insert type head clamp. Maybe the article is more specific.

Phil

I was lucky to have met Bob Gialdini (see '65 NATS Stunt) years ago when i was flying stunt...we mostly talked about sailboats. He lived somewhere around Milwaukee area, pretty nice guy, he gave my kid a .15 size Sig Twister for him to fly when he got older, we never flew it...yet.

I was common practice to turn the cylinder fins and glowhead down to help retain heat, due to the high nitro fuel they were running, more fuel could burn allowing it to run cooler.

pkrankow wrote:

Kim wrote:

cribbs74 wrote:Great stuff! What's going on with that TD .049 in that speed pan? The cylinder looks very peculiar.

Ron

Got me...maybe one of our veteran circle-turners has an answer or educated speculation. I'll check the text of the article when I get home tonight...

Looks a lot like a tall insert type head clamp. Maybe the article is more specific.

Phil

This is the only note about the engine that I could find. Says it was his own cylinder...

Got myself another batch of old magazines from Ebay. Here's a Cox Ad from 1956:

  My Classic!
81 Z28

Cool advertizement Kim, I wonder what special tank they were talking about in the babe bee writeup?

Reptile, Nice Z28, but why did you post it in this thread?

'Cause it's sort of old, I guess. Nice rumble, Reptile. Now they all have aluminum blocks and sound like crap no matter how much power. I had one of that generation, but it was a Rally Sport. But I have had two '67 Camaros, a '69, and a '69 Chevelle SS with a big block.

Cribbs74 wrote:Cool advertizement Kim, I wonder what special tank they were talking about in the babe bee writeup?

Reptile, Nice Z28, but why did you post it in this thread?

Did you see page 3?

RknRusty wrote:'Cause it's sort of old, I guess. Nice rumble, Reptile. Now they all have aluminum blocks and sound like crap no matter how much power. I had one of that generation, but it was a Rally Sport. But I have had two '67 Camaros, a '69, and a '69 Chevelle SS with a big block.

Thanks I put a ZZ4 GM crate motor in it.
And a full pypes exhaust with X flow unit.

see more here

https://s921.photobucket.com/user/shenlonco/library/My%2081%20Z28

reptile wrote:

Cribbs74 wrote:Cool advertizement Kim, I wonder what special tank they were talking about in the babe bee writeup?

Reptile, Nice Z28, but why did you post it in this thread?

Did you see page 3?

I have now, makes more sense................................. 

Had my scanner cranked up again and going through my latest batch of old magazines. Saw this fellow's novel modification that emulates the other inline cylinder engine whose ad I can't find at the moment (think it was called an Arrow). This with a home-made gearbox.

No article accompanied the photos, so this is all I got:

I just saw your autox pictures. Here's my Elva/Corvair from long ago.

Kim wrote:Had my scanner cranked up again and going through my latest batch of old magazines.  Saw this fellow's novel modification that emulates the other inline cylinder engine whose ad I can't find at the moment (think it was called an Arrow).  This with a home-made gearbox.

Kim,
That would be the Aero .35... check here:  
   http://www.modelenginenews.org/cardfile/aero35.html  

George

Thanks George!

At least I had it phonically correct !!!!