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BlownMGB-V8
Jim Blackwood
9406 Gunpowder Rd., Florence, KY 41042
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10/23/2007 12:59PM

Main British Car:
1971 MGB Blown,Injected,Intercooled Buick 340/AA80E/JagIRS

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Re: Chump Car racer
Posted by: BlownMGB-V8
Date: March 13, 2014 06:31PM

Todd, that'd be great if you could manage something like that. There's no doubt that under those conditions we'd be crazy to turn it down.

Jim


Todd McCreary
Todd McCreary

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Re: Chump Car racer
Posted by: Todd McCreary
Date: March 14, 2014 02:36PM

Alright. Well, you guys need to tell me what city Fred lives in. I know there's a load on the board right now for Kelowna ( which isn't really west 'coast' ). Anything near Vancouver will probably be pretty easy to get.


Todd McCreary
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Re: Chump Car racer
Posted by: Todd McCreary
Date: March 14, 2014 02:44PM

Crap, I was going to say that I don't often see anything to the northern BC coast but we've got a load for Terrace, BC right now.


DiDueColpi
Fred Key
West coast - Canada
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05/14/2010 03:06AM

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I really thought that I'd be an action figure by now!

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Re: Chump Car racer
Posted by: DiDueColpi
Date: March 14, 2014 02:53PM

Abbotsford B.C. guys.
about 60 miles east of Vancouver.


Todd McCreary
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Re: Chump Car racer
Posted by: Todd McCreary
Date: March 14, 2014 04:10PM

And the trans is ready to go?


DiDueColpi
Fred Key
West coast - Canada
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I really thought that I'd be an action figure by now!

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Re: Chump Car racer
Posted by: DiDueColpi
Date: March 14, 2014 04:51PM

Hey Todd,

Still playing with it.
When do you plan to be in the area?
I can get off my butt and speed it up.

Cheers
Fred


Todd McCreary
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Re: Chump Car racer
Posted by: Todd McCreary
Date: March 14, 2014 06:04PM

I can't actually dispatch for Chilliwack or Terrace right now. We have too many high priority loads in front of them.

Probably ( if I get it ) I can dispatch to you in a week or two.



DiDueColpi
Fred Key
West coast - Canada
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I really thought that I'd be an action figure by now!

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Re: Chump Car racer
Posted by: DiDueColpi
Date: March 14, 2014 06:13PM

No prob.
Thanks Todd.


Todd McCreary
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Re: Chump Car racer
Posted by: Todd McCreary
Date: March 14, 2014 07:04PM

Oh, it's an open bed 1 ton. So we'll probably want to have the trans double or triple bagged with Hefties and duct tape for weather. An old tire would work well for cushioning/mounting.

I've got straps and bungees.


BlownMGB-V8
Jim Blackwood
9406 Gunpowder Rd., Florence, KY 41042
(6468 posts)

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10/23/2007 12:59PM

Main British Car:
1971 MGB Blown,Injected,Intercooled Buick 340/AA80E/JagIRS

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Re: Chump Car racer
Posted by: BlownMGB-V8
Date: March 14, 2014 08:22PM

You guys are great!

Jim


Todd McCreary
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Re: Chump Car racer
Posted by: Todd McCreary
Date: March 16, 2014 07:28PM

Fred, could you check your private messages?


BlownMGB-V8
Jim Blackwood
9406 Gunpowder Rd., Florence, KY 41042
(6468 posts)

Registered:
10/23/2007 12:59PM

Main British Car:
1971 MGB Blown,Injected,Intercooled Buick 340/AA80E/JagIRS

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Re: Chump Car racer
Posted by: BlownMGB-V8
Date: May 18, 2014 09:00PM

This weekend Steve, Dan, and Dave (B) came by to work on the Chump car. We started with a junkyard run to the local pick-n-pull where we rolled an S10 up on it's side and took the starter, bellhousing, flywheel, clutch, pressure plate, clutch fork, throwout bearing, bellhousing dust cover, and center fitting for the oil filter mount. Which cost us all of about $65. We left the S10 WC T-5 which would have cost us $150 because of the tailshaft and gearing.

Back at the Lab, Dave and Steve finished stripping the car while I put worked on mating the engine and transmission and Dan helped out wherever he was needed while also working on his TR7/Lexus swap, and by the time we finished we had the engine/tranny (4 speed) sitting in the car with a strap holding up the tailshaft and I have a couple of photos to prove it:

Engine.JPG

Engine1.JPG


MGBV8
Carl Floyd
Kingsport, TN
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10/23/2007 11:32PM

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1979 MGB Buick 215

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Re: Chump Car racer
Posted by: MGBV8
Date: May 21, 2014 11:40AM

Sorry I couldn't be there to help. On the bright side, Piper's baseball team did knock off the only undefeated team left. :)


BlownMGB-V8
Jim Blackwood
9406 Gunpowder Rd., Florence, KY 41042
(6468 posts)

Registered:
10/23/2007 12:59PM

Main British Car:
1971 MGB Blown,Injected,Intercooled Buick 340/AA80E/JagIRS

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Re: Chump Car racer
Posted by: BlownMGB-V8
Date: May 22, 2014 04:07PM

Cool!


Todd McCreary
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Re: Chump Car racer
Posted by: Todd McCreary
Date: June 06, 2014 11:46AM

Alright, dispatching for Abbotsford, will probably be there Monday.

Fred, could you check your pm's?



BlownMGB-V8
Jim Blackwood
9406 Gunpowder Rd., Florence, KY 41042
(6468 posts)

Registered:
10/23/2007 12:59PM

Main British Car:
1971 MGB Blown,Injected,Intercooled Buick 340/AA80E/JagIRS

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Re: Chump Car racer
Posted by: BlownMGB-V8
Date: June 22, 2014 09:40PM

Thursday evening Todd came by with the transmission, I have some photos:

IMG_0002.JPG

IMG_0004.JPG

IMG_0005.JPG

Don't know if the numbers are visible in the shots.
Anyway, I stood it up on end in case any water got in during transit but it didn't look like any drained out.

Thanks again to both Fred and Bob... uh, I mean Todd. That's a wonderful thing you guys did. Maybe we can put your names on the race car or something! :-)

Jim


MGBV8
Carl Floyd
Kingsport, TN
(4511 posts)

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10/23/2007 11:32PM

Main British Car:
1979 MGB Buick 215

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Re: Chump Car racer
Posted by: MGBV8
Date: June 23, 2014 08:37AM

We can put Fred Bobby on the door as driver. :)


Todd McCreary
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Re: Chump Car racer
Posted by: Todd McCreary
Date: June 23, 2014 10:13AM

We can put Fred Bobby on the door as driver. :)


That needs to be "Freddy Bobby" if you're making a Talladega Nights reference.

[en.wikipedia.org]

Which, come to think of it, might be a good theme for the car.

Just, uh, don't be kissing any French drivers on the mouth. 'Kay?

[www.youtube.com]


BlownMGB-V8
Jim Blackwood
9406 Gunpowder Rd., Florence, KY 41042
(6468 posts)

Registered:
10/23/2007 12:59PM

Main British Car:
1971 MGB Blown,Injected,Intercooled Buick 340/AA80E/JagIRS

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Re: Chump Car racer
Posted by: BlownMGB-V8
Date: June 23, 2014 12:25PM

Maybe we name the car Freddy Bobby.

Jim


MGBV8
Carl Floyd
Kingsport, TN
(4511 posts)

Registered:
10/23/2007 11:32PM

Main British Car:
1979 MGB Buick 215

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Re: Chump Car racer
Posted by: MGBV8
Date: June 26, 2014 10:01PM

Oops, sorry. Yeah, that's what I meant. I couldn't actually torture myself to watch the movie.
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