I start this thread twice a year. At season' end and again just after the off season .
It's informative sometimes but always very entertaining.
The only "rule" you must add the following at the end of you post.
It seems to add something when reading the replies.
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When you add new brackets to get more adjustment
out of your seat position seat make sure you check to find out if you still fit when fully suited up.
Double check to see if you can get your helmet on when you are still in the shop.

Don't wait until you are at the track and find you can't fit in the cage now.
Because now your seat is higher and you can't get your helmet on your head when in the cage.
So you have to go home to re-do it all.

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NEXT

build a set of 2"primary underchassie/all tubes above centerlink headers for a duster with a smallblock and powersteering/powerbrakes just to find out the edelbrock heads on the real motor are diferent from the 318heads used for mocking the headers up in the car and that it screws up the whole thing


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EXCELLENT

THANKS FOR SHARING

When you let a well known chivy engine builder order a custom set of pistions, make sure you stress the fact to him that W2 head is not the same as a standard head. Other wise you will end up installing the crank,rods,and pistons to mock it all up, and the find out that the heads pop off the motor because the domes are not cut for the heads.

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If you find yourself laying under a car with a ratchet, breaker bar or torque wrench above your head, keep your hand on end of the ratchet, breaker bar, or torque wrench vs. holding it by the extension and socket as the two could separate allowing the ratchet, breaker bar or torque wrench to drop and pop you in the mouth maybe even breaking or chipping a tooth...

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And 6 months later...don't go stripping wires with your teeth as you just might pop the cap on that repaired tooth

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dont put gas in a mt dew bottle

When using a 3/16 steel plate for a work bench that is sitting on top of a garbage fender make sure you have it clamped down before you pull a big part, that you were working on, off toward you. DON"T ASK ME HOW I KNOW!

When jacking up the right rear corner of a Plymouth Duster using a bumper jack, make sure you use wheel chocks on the front tires or else the car will roll forward projecting the jack mast right through the tail light.
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When using a temporary mount satellite dish on top of your race trailer at the races, remember to take it down before you pack up and drive home.

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as you can see this has always been fun I am making sure to save this thread.
I forgot about doing that with the ones in the past.
That way it can be read again when new ones are added.

When you send your seat belts out for recertification
make sure you install them before going to the track
and didn't leave them at home on your tool box.


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When you finally get a car put together after a long winter,don't get too excited and while unloading the car,"whip" the hook off of the tie down to release it from the car.It might go into the radiator and keep you from even unloading the car any further.
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When racing against the class champion who has always been 3 seconds faster than you, don't forget you have your other car and are almost heads-up. That way when he leaves right after you and paces you all the way down, you don't think you're late and breaking out a ton and give the stripe back. DAMHIK

It's always a good idea to at least take a peek at the trailer ramps before backing the car off, especially if you've been distracted and only 1 ramp is down...

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Never ask how to set pinion angle around here!

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If at some point in time in your life you require the use of a rented storage unit for working on your car because you don't have a garage and you had to walk to get there cause maybe at that point in life it was your only vehicle and they hadn't invented cell phones yet, make sure you at least know where the nearest convenient store is for those sudden and unexpected urges to have a movement (if you know what I mean).

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When asking Moparts members about "Double Bulbing" on the starting line or sportman staging Think Again!!

Don't leave anything that can be considered spare parts at home. Don't ask me how we know

when you've modified the plenum on your new Indy intake manifold & got it looking absolutely immaculate, don't send it off for coating before checking the faces seal up against the head, just because it arrived from ICH with a nice machined surface doesn't mean it's perfectly flat & is going to seal. ask me how i know?

while lying on your back under the column shift steering column..and you unbolt all of the bolts/nuts holding the column..and lower it down.
dont forget that lowering the column moves the shifter linkage..causing the car to come out of park...and will cause the car to roll down the driveway...
and definately dont do this just as you 5yr old child comes over and stands at the open drivers door..to see whats up...
but if you do..this...quickly slam the column back up into position this will return it to park and stop the car from rolling backwards...
almost rendering you fatherless..

definately chock the wheels first..

dont ask me how i know this....shweeeew...

cheapst.