Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
[Re: fullmetaljacket]
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02/24/18 01:35 AM
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Man, life is good within white picket fence lines and paper boyz flicking the morning paper at the front door. LOL. Ha! Funny thing about that picture of my old hood, not so white-pickety fency as you would think. The drug addicts from the halfway house on Jericho used to steal stuff out of my car in my driveway at night. You could hear every fart can racer or rice rocket on Jericho from 110 to Round Swamp Road all day, every day. One of my neighbors was 'connected' and got pinched right before we moved. Plus, we were right in the flight path to BOTH airports, it was pretty constant, almost felt like you could reach up and touch the planes. CT is much quieter, Long Island is a friggin' zoo. BTW, my paper never made it to my front door either, usually wound up under one of our cars or in a bush. Since we moved it doesn't even make it to my driveway anymore, it gets thrown across the street. The Ram is nice and will definitely pull the mail and the mailbox. If I remember correctly, you've got a 400 BB with a stick in the older truck. Am I correct? The Ram does the job, it's a nice truck. Got the towing package thing. Very comfortable. But, it's a REALLY heavy vehicle, you can feel how substantial it is. I wish the car companies would try to make cars lighter. Miles of wiring and enough creature comforts to make you feel like you're in a living room... There is so much extra weight in these things and people wonder why it only gets 17 mpg on the highway. Next time you see him maybe lean on your friend Ralph about that. Light is might! Correct on the green truck, lo-po 400 and a granny-tranny 4 speed. Not as comfortable as the Ram and gets less MPG but not by much. I guess you are closer to a track nowadays compared to us city boyz now. New England and Lebanon are good choices for you I guess? Back in the day, it was really close for us to drive 20 minutes to our local city track; The Conduit. LoL. Not much closer now than when I lived in Suffolk County. LVD is like 2 1/2 hours? Never been to NE Dragway, that's a pretty far drive all the way to New Hampshire. Island is probably closer. Atco is pretty far but it was from LI too.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
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02/24/18 03:01 AM
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Get the autonomous version. It saves weight. LOL. If that column is greenish/blue in color, it's my old one I gave Special K. 64' and 65' columns are the same. Bondo Bob on here made me an awesome CM steering shaft to go with any wheel. I chose the stock type since my car is all stock. LOL. Wow! that lightning strike was pretty close just now. LOL.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
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02/24/18 04:05 AM
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
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02/24/18 01:18 PM
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I'm gunna lay some glue down on Jericho and see If I can walk it out without blowing the tires off! Knock yourself out, I can't hear you from CT. But I'm sure you'll get plenty of approval from the guidos in their Hummers. What are you planning with the steering column? Should be pretty straight forward, no? I really believe your life would be made easier with some sort of tubular front end but yes, they are generally expensive and perhaps not as NY street friendly as the OE stuff.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
[Re: Thumperdart]
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02/24/18 01:56 PM
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The reality of my HEMI_ITIS is that I can reach my legal limit with what I have now without removing another ounce,,,,,,,of weight. It is the voices I hear 24 hours a day whispering in my ear............
HEMI-ITIS has no cure. My condition is fully BLOWN!!
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
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02/24/18 02:15 PM
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I still need the car to stand up to the streets of New York............
HEMI-ITIS has no cure. My condition is fully BLOWN!!
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
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02/24/18 02:24 PM
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The reality of my HEMI_ITIS is that I can reach my legal limit with what I have now without removing another ounce,,,,,,,of weight. It is the voices I hear 24 hours a day whispering in my ear............ Of course you don't need to do it that way but it could help with 1) room/access 2) engine setback 3) lowering and ultimately weight distribution. I know you moved the motor back a little with the mid plate but it still sits pretty high in the chassis. Not trying to spend your money there Chumley but I think starting with a clean slate in the boiler room could help get the ET down more consistently. Just like I'm always on ya to put a 'proper' rear suspension under that thing...[i][/i]
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
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02/25/18 01:48 PM
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Exactly. Now mind you, most people will start off with a naturally light weight car by design such as a Colt or Cricket, but some if not most of the time, starting with a bigger heavier car gives you many options to distribute weight throughout the chassis for some control. And I'm not even mentioning wheelbase yet. If I were into those rockets, of course naturally it would be fantastic to stuff the biggest engine package and go racing, but strangely enough I probably would choose a 360 small block which in doing so would make the car even lighter, but not all in one place. A big block and or a Hemi probably made those cars so nose heavy that once it gets drunk out on the track, it becomes a boomerang tossed in all directions. I saw many a Starlets, RX3's, and even Pinto's with Rotary 12's and 13's go dizzy on the street. Of course, they were all sticks. The most stable cars I ever saw were Electra 225's and 66' Chevelles in lightweight form, but with some wheelbase real estate to stabilize the whole package.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
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02/28/18 03:56 PM
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Wow! Lets see how the new and improved Keith Black aluminum water block proves its colors with both customer satisfaction as far as delivery and of course performance. I could see an easy 100+Lbs drop from the nose bleed section of any car with that. Sounds inviting, but I still have Iron in my veins.
Pardon the borrowed image Wedgefed. This is a special order non water jacketed block, but that BEST engine stand is probably heavier then that block. LOL.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
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03/20/18 01:24 AM
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Wow so very cool. That looks like the turn of the last century give or take a few years.
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