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Done racing for the year...
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08/29/12 07:21 PM
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Last time out, my starter in the GTX was taking a dive... Just barely got the thing to turn over on the last pass. Got the car in the garage now, and looking it over it also blew out a header gasket, and my right ladder bar is bent.  Has about 3/4" bow front to rear. Chassis Engineering has since changed their ladder bar design, but I can get a older style to replace mine. The starter is a MP lightweight, and the second one I have had to replace. Thinking about going to a Meziere starter. Anyone used one of these yet? Worth buying? Jeff
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Re: Done racing for the year...
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08/29/12 08:18 PM
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It would be interesting to see a picture of the ladderbar. 
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Re: Done racing for the year...
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08/29/12 08:57 PM
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Re: Done racing for the year...
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08/29/12 09:45 PM
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Wow Jeff that sucks to see. Interesting in how that bent, not how I was thinking it would have.
You might try the cheap $50 mini starters on eBay. I'm using one on my 12.5:1 BB. Thing doesn't seem to miss a bit. I've got a spare you can borrow, just pm your address if you need.
Good luck man.
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64' Savoy (4 speed)
65' Satellite (girl tranny)
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Re: Done racing for the year...
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08/29/12 09:49 PM
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I'm the only one that has jacked the car up in the last 21 years. Never had a jack under the ladder bar. It's bent front to rear, not up and down. Already emailed Chassis Engineering, and I can get a new bar in this style. Comes in bare metal, but I can have it powder coated at work for free. It's strange, car drove fine down track, and had a best 60' of 1.39. Has not been in the 30's in years. Normally it has run 1.40-41 in the 60'. This is on 6 year old slicks BTW.  And I'm not complaining, I know it's part of the game. Have not really done a thing on the car in 9 years since the combo in it now was put together.
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Re: Done racing for the year...
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08/29/12 10:31 PM
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I'm the only one that has jacked the car up in the last 21 years. Never had a jack under the ladder bar. It's bent front to rear, not up and down.
Already emailed Chassis Engineering, and I can get a new bar in this style. Comes in bare metal, but I can have it powder coated at work for free.
It's strange, car drove fine down track, and had a best 60' of 1.39. Has not been in the 30's in years. Normally it has run 1.40-41 in the 60'. This is on 6 year old slicks BTW.
And I'm not complaining, I know it's part of the game. Have not really done a thing on the car in 9 years since the combo in it now was put together.
Are those mild steel bars... all the ones I make are
moly tubing.... I never had one bend even in a crash
(slid into a curb... did break a wheel)
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Re: Done racing for the year...
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08/29/12 11:39 PM
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Never saw a bar bend like that. I collapsed the mounting bracket on the rear end once and had to gusset it. I would not imagine that it would bend sideways. Guess you need to dial back the horsepower. Is this the bar design?  Wonder if it will match these spec.? Made from 1" diameter/.156" wall DOM tubing
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Re: Done racing for the year...
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08/30/12 09:02 AM
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Jeff..For not going out too much,you were sure hittin the tree!!  Sure hope your luck rubs off on me!! Sorry to see that bar bent like that...Any clue as to what caused it? I am using a mini starter from a 95 v-8 dakota,spins the 512 over pretty good! 25.00 from the junkyard...If the rains hold off,I may go to Tri-State saturday..Good luck,buddy!
Need your rear end checked out? Contact Grizzly!!
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I hope everything else is good 
