I say a little prayer every day for the brothers and their cars.

By the silence I can only imagine that the final thrash is in full swing.

No doubt there will be stories. Hope all goes well and the group makes Tulsa on Sunday. See you there!

Scott

Best of luck to ya Billy! looking forward to some results.

Love his threads.

Had a rough trip to tulsa...caught the marker light cicuit on fire under the dash in the middle of New Mexico, just had to park and wait til daylight. Then spent 90 minutes sitting in the middle of I-40 waiting for an accident to clear up.

Yeah, we are thrashing hard..it's not pretty, thanks so much for the kind words!!

Keep up the hard work, it will pay off!

J-body,
93 1-Ton 12 valve.

Dom,
Someday one of them Frams may give us trouble, but it's not happened yet. Actually he's got a remote oil filter adapter and oil cooler (filled block) that haven't made it on the truck.

He swears the d-shaft is fine, sez it just looks bad with out the rubber boot on the seal...I don't know, he's the tranny guy

Boone, Dale, and Darren are still thrashing, and since none of them will concede, and help the other one, they may very well go 0 for 3!!

Cool...........man, good luck again and I swear someday I too will join you guys on drag week...............peace.

Best of luck Billy! Look forward to hearing about the trip.

I stopped in last night and helped Dale wire the Boone's Barn Yard Viper for a few hours.

It didn't have a single wire on it yesterday at 5pm.... Lol

No plumbing other than brake line but not sure if it's been bled yet.

Motor and tranny ae in but that's about it, here is a list of what I saw left to do:
Plumb, water, fuel and tranny
Wireing in the cab - switches, ignition, turn signals, head lights , fuel pump, etc
Dual carb linkage
Throttle pedal and rod/linkage to carbs
Rear fenders
Hood
Doors
Seats
Headers
Mufflers
Shifter and linkage
Finish roll cage, need to weld in rear bars and truck bed plate (for looks because it will be welded to the frame)
Dash
Steering column
Fuel cell
Fuel pump, regulator and 1 way valve so it can run off them mechanical pump on street and Aeromotive 2000 on the strip
Belts for drive and passenger
Plug wires
Mount new aluminum radiator and then go to town to find hoses that will work
Mount tranny cooler
Put grill and hood on
Fire up the new motor for the first time and st timing, etc.... Then drive to track tech in and drive 1,5000 miles. Lol

Now for the list form the Gremlin that Dales it taking:

Rewrite with new painless wiring kit
Mount and wire turn signals onto the fiberglass front end....
Built custom 2 1/4 headers (he said he would have them done by late after noon, not pretty but functional)
Plumb fuel line and radiator hoses
Install plug wires
Mount and install new steering wheel and custom made column
Oh and he only has a5 gallon fuel cell, so he'll need to fill it at least 40 times this next week. I suggested he put 2 fuel jugs in the passenger space and manually pump fuel from them onto the fuel cell as he drives down the road with one of those fist/squeeze hand pumps... Lol
I know I'm forgetting 20 things...

The Belvadere that Billy's daughter is flying in to drive:
He was in the middle of swapping out the stock spring and installing Hemi springs so it can act as their pack mule for supplies. He almost had the spring off when we quit around mid-night last night so this one will be finished and ready by noon today.

Darren had his car at his house installing the full exhaust with x pipe and everyone at dale's was telling him just ditch the x pipe and exhaust and install the motor.... Lol

And they still ALL believe they will all make it for Sunday check in....

WOW.Thanks for the update.

If the truck makes it we need to pitch in and buy all involved some kind of ridiculous trophy.

They decided to focus on the other cars first and it there is time left they will work on the truck but I think they are accepting that its probably not going to make it.

It sounds like a crazy thrash. But, man, that sounds like a blast and something a lot of memories will be made out of. (Would be for me, anyway.)

Yeah,
The thrash has been intense, but enjoyable, and help from buddies like Wade, and Darryl is great, and appreciated.

I've still got a healhty list for the Valiant, but it's been hard to concentrate on it with my brothers being so far away from complete.

Thursday morning, I took the Valiant to Sams Alignment and Brakes, here in Tulsa. He was reccomended by my brother as being "A top notch Mopar guy". He set the car up on the Hunter 4 wheel, and told me the rearend was 3/8" crooked in the car, and I had 1 1/2 inches of toe-in !! So I apologize to Goodyear for bad-mouthing thier Drag radials last year!
So he set me all up, then refused to take a dime! His quote was "It's a cool old Mopar, I'll make it up on the next chevy guy that comes in.." Then he gave a quick look over towards the lowered C-5 yalla Vette with the blown stroker motor that was next to go on the rack....

Wade's lists are pretty accurate, so here's whats left on the Valiant
Brake Lights
Water Temp Guage (I broke the mech one removing the engine)
4 headlights on bright, none on dims.
remount and wire horn
rewire the temp job we did last year on the n20, transbrake, linelock switchs...

I'm sure there is more, but my brain is fried...

Jim SAMs does great work and he for sure knows his mopars.

I lack a few things on my car and I will be ready for drag week. Look forward to jetting you.