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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
[Re: Thumperdart]
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Thank you.
Your car looks great as well and with its shark nose, it cuts wind better than the older models with the recessed mugs.
I have a few interesting old school flicks of home made work done on the 65'car in the course of five years, But I need to have them scanned and made into digital files in order to post on here for the first time. Keep an eye out.
It should start a revolution or maybe a relapse to some recovering lean addicts here. Believe it or not, the F.A.S.T gang are some of the most inventive guys I've met so far this side of legal racing.
ThumperD, as you know, this type of thread has been put up before and read up in many a magazines over the years, but it is the way you worded the title that makes people either invent, suspend or confess. This thread is great because its a cheap way or expensive way to cut ET depending on what side of sanity that one may be on and their pockets. It's not Rocket Science, it's what I call Pocket Science.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
[Re: dvw]
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I'll soon show you'll pictures of my wheels that were a brainchild between a friend (Special K) and I.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
[Re: Thumperdart]
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I always thought centerline originals with 4 bolt on knob/studs painted body color with the appropriate dog dish would be cool. While not completely invisible, stealthly none the less.
Getting old just means you were smarter than some and luckier than others.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
[Re: Big Squeeze]
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I'm with ya, Big!  Just a street driven 'work' car that ran pretty darn good, no way to get a full plant with those tires but it hooked really consistently, even on the street. Getting a mega torque big block a body to hook takes some work, I set the motor back with elephant ears to where the pass side VC would barely clear the firewall. I do think in general the more nose heavy the car, the more rear weight at the very rear helps get the suspension to react in that initial moment.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
[Re: Streetwize]
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01/07/13 02:49 PM
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I'm with ya, Big!
Just a street driven 'work' car that ran pretty darn good, no way to get a full plant with those tires but it hooked really consistently, even on the street. Getting a mega torque big block a body to hook takes some work, I set the motor back with elephant ears to where the pass side VC would barely clear the firewall.
I do think in general the more nose heat the car, the more rear weight at the very rear helps get the suspension to react in that initial moment.
Mine went quicker after bolting a cast iron cylinder head to the tail end of the frame. Now the goal is to remove enough weight off the nose to not need the additional weight on the tail.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
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01/07/13 04:19 PM
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I'm with ya, Big!
Just a street driven 'work' car that ran pretty darn good, no way to get a full plant with those tires but it hooked really consistently, even on the street. Getting a mega torque big block a body to hook takes some work, I set the motor back with elephant ears to where the pass side VC would barely clear the firewall.
I do think in general the more nose heavy the car, the more rear weight at the very rear helps get the suspension to react in that initial moment.
Cool... 
If you can't handle the truth, you're living a lie.......
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
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01/07/13 11:14 PM
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So now that wheels have made their way into this conversation, lets see what is brewing.
Let me disclaim any thoughts that I may be boasting, but I figured that this can help some of us sneak up on those pesky bottle fed X-cars and Blue ovals.
What was relatively an old school two piece rivet/welded Centerline Auto-drag wheel became the closest candidate for a lightweight aluminum steel wheel look-alike. Again just like three Card Monte, what you think you see is not really what it is.
What's behind door #1?
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
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01/07/13 11:31 PM
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From conversations I covertly had with a good friend by the name that I call him by (Special K) he suggested I scratch spin an aluminum hubcap that sealed itself to the inner edges of the rim where the rivets are mounted. Once this hat was in my hands, I measured and remeasured and cut the wheel stud holes and axle center hole once it was placed on the wheel.
What's behind door #2
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
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01/07/13 11:36 PM
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Once all holes are carefully cut and sized, the precision balanced hub itself can be mounted at the same time the wheel is mounted onto the car thus sealing and hiding the tattle tail rivets. A little juggling is needed to pass the hubcap under and behind the air valve stem. This has to be with kid gloves because you do not want to damage the stem and or scratch the paint, thus revealing the alloy underneath.
What you present to the naked eye is the following painted STOCK STEEL wheel. Even many a Mopar guy have seen these and asked why I do not invest in a set of light weight wheels for quicker ET.
Well................
What's behind door #3
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
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01/08/13 07:26 AM
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Once all holes are carefully cut and sized, the precision balanced hub itself can be mounted at the same time the wheel is mounted onto the car thus sealing and hiding the tattle tail rivets. A little juggling is needed to pass the hubcap under and behind the air valve stem. This has to be with kid gloves because you do not want to damage the stem and or scratch the paint, thus revealing the alloy underneath.
What you present to the naked eye is the following painted STOCK STEEL wheel. Even many a Mopar guy have seen these and asked why I do not invest in a set of light weight wheels for quicker ET.
Well................
What's behind door #3
If I need to go to a 12" wheel, now I've found my answer. Since they don't make 200 S in a 12".
Doug
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that sounds like a bandaid for needing to work on the front suspension.... 
