Smells like racecar

[Martin0660]

New steering column set up. Tabs on column are to retain key switch and turn signal with plastic... love the Strange quick disconnect.

we will see how in works out.

[Martin0660]

And the current power plant situation, out with the old ...

[yeahloh95]

nice steering shaft who makes it ?

[Martin0660]

Midwest Chassis ... they are the only one I’ve found that has tabs to mount the street car stuff

https://midwestchassis.com/products/...teering-column

[yeahloh95]

cool thanks looks like a nice piece

[roush08]

How much weight does the lightweight steering column save ? I had considered this as well but hadn't found a company that you could retain the street car stuff with - nice find

[Martin0660]

I guess weight savings depends on the starting combo ... I've seen from 4# to 25# across the internet, lol. My car has a tilt column, and what is by comparison to whats going in, a heavy steering wheel. We will see in the end, I will weigh it as I go.

The reality, I'll take 5# at this point. I am converting to manual brakes and will have the column out to pull the pedal box so I figured now was the best time to make the change. As much as anything, this was driven by some "wants" rather than function. I wanted a removable wheel with that Strange Hub, and have had fuzzy steering wheel envy since my buddy got a Cobra Jet wheel.

If I can get 20# out of the car with manual brakes, column, and misc stuff under the dash in that area I'll call it a win.

[Pure Stock]

I'll get you the info on the bottle brackets you were interested in last time you saw my brackets.

[Martin0660]

Nice, part numbers for the big pills too please

[Pure Stock]

Sure!! Glad I could help!!

That's a nice set up. More parts for that 9 sec. pass.

[Martin0660]

When your transmission is bigger than your short block

[Martin0660]

There’s a hole in my plan ....

[Martin0660]

It sure don’t look hurt, lol

[Ares]

When your transmission is bigger than your short block

Ok that made me laugh.

[TooFast98Cobra]

Blah blah . Trade me lol

[Pure Stock]

3.17 1st

[pwtmxracing]

Blah blah . Trade me lol

I love how clean that car is.

[Martin0660]

Ok that made me laugh.

If we cant laugh, there's no point, lol ... Small displacement junk

Blah blah . Trade me lol

It's a roller now so an easier sell without the 2.3 stuff ;) With the demise of Renegade Racing, I might need to step my game way up to run that Maryland Speed Street car stuff

3.17 1st

good zoom, my junk likes 1st gear and I was able to swap from a 4.30 gear to a 4.10 now ... lets me run 1/8th mile in third gear and still picked up a touch of launch ration (2.92 + 4.30 versus 3.17 +4.10)

[Martin0660]

My winter pace has been slooooowwwwww this year. New short block is at the machine shop so I’m on that schedule. It’s all going the right way, good work is worth waiting on.

[Martin0660]

And to close out what the hell was going on .... when I tore down the short block we found the issue. The top ring on all 4 holes was stuck .... 2nd ring on 2 holes was stuck... oil rings on 2 holes was stuck (lined up with 1&3 that showed oil on the plugs) ... the rest of the bullet, skirts, bearings, everything looked really good for 5 seasons, 100’s of passes, and 1,000’s of Street miles.

what was really odd is ring grooves was really clean, it just crushed the rings in the grooves.

new bullet well under way. I can’t wait to see what the thing might do with some ring seal after what it was doing with not much of that, lol