Well, won’t be racing anytime soon

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I don’t care if you’re twenty five or looking at retirement paying for a race car can be challenging, but it ultimately comes down to how much time are you willing to spend making the coin to go do something you love. It doesn’t matter if it’s travel, fishing biking, camping everything is expensive so it might as well be racing. Before I retired I built a new engine for one of my projects and refreshed both of my race motors. I spent over twenty grand on the three over the the three years before I retired. We literally finished my last 440 the last month I worked and put it on the dyno a couple months after that. While the mopar is waiting on my grandson to turn 16 I’ve been working on my Ford project’s suspension brakes and new transmission and rear axle assembly replacement. Sure retirement means buying new parts takes more time but I’m still working on my cars and making plans for the grandson, I can have him running mid 11s with the parts I have and for the price of a converter mid 10s.
Sure it may take more time to put a motor together now that you’re retired but it’s not the end all.
 

Cloyes chain, double roller
Crank looks great, rod and main bearings, oil pump, timing chain, gaskets, etc.
Hope to put it back together in a few days with any luck.
Anybody know specs on scat h beam rods with the 8740 cap screw bolts regards torque, and torque on main as well

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B3422w5 said:
Cloyes chain, double roller
Crank looks great, rod and main bearings, oil pump, timing chain, gaskets, etc.
Hope to put it back together in a few days with any luck.
Anybody know specs on scat h beam rods with the 8740 cap screw bolts regards torque, and torque on main as well

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That’s good news! Happy your fixing it
 
B3422w5 said:
I love to race. My issue is literally getting everything around to go, it’s become harder on me. Once at the track I am fine. I will be 70 this summer. Arthritis bothers me a bunch.
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Yeah. I was 60 back in March, but man. My body is at least ten years older than I am. All those years of getting up and down under alignment racks has taken its toll. My lower back screams when I get up in the morning and if I don't keep going once I get up, I almost lock up. You have my sympathy. Have you tried a good chiropractor? We're very fortunate. We have a really good one in town.
 
B3422w5 said:
Cloyes chain, double roller
Crank looks great, rod and main bearings, oil pump, timing chain, gaskets, etc.
Hope to put it back together in a few days with any luck.
Anybody know specs on scat h beam rods with the 8740 cap screw bolts regards torque, and torque on main as well

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That's good man. Maybe it's not as bad as you thought. I'm glad.
 
Well at least you have good parts and things are not messed up to bad . Good luck getting it all together . Car is to nice to quit and sell . ish I could find a 68 0r 69 in that condition to put one of my 3 engines in
 
33IMP said:
What in the hell are you talking about?
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I think he is talking about Taxifornia or how ever you spelled it. I feel for you.

We have high taxes here too.
It's the reason my car's down. Just paying normal bills leaves almost nothing for extra things like old cars.
Home, and Flood insurance. Property Tax to parish and city. Car insurance one of the highest in the country. Sales tax is almost 10% and we also pay it on mail orders. Member's helped me a few times with Summit codes.
Us old guys also have medical bills.
It is going to take me into the 8th month, of 2025 to brake even. And have car funds.
You racers really spend some dough.
I am always thankful when someone passes me a coupon. Or I find a deal.

Like the OP the heat is a killer.
It's not political it just life.
I see many moving to places with less living expenses.
AZ. Not sure i could donthe heat. Tennessee looks like good choice and friendly people too.
 
340six said:
I think he is talking about Taxifornia or how ever you spelled it. I feel for you.

We have high taxes here too.
It's the reason my car's down. Just paying normal bills leaves almost nothing for extra things like old cars.
Home, and Flood insurance. Property Tax to parish and city. Car insurance one of the highest in the country. Sales tax is almost 10% and we also pay it on mail orders. Member's helped me a few times with Summit codes.
Us old guys also have medical bills.
It is going to take me into the 8th month, of 2025 to brake even. And have car funds.
You racers really spend some dough.
I am always thankful when someone passes me a coupon. Or I find a deal.

Like the OP the heat is a killer.
It's not political it just life.
I see many moving to places with less living expenses.
AZ. Not sure i could donthe heat. Tennessee looks like good choice and friendly people too.
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I just quit out in the garage in AZ for a few hours. 100+f inside (11 am local). I've got a giant swamp cooler, but sometimes it's just easier to go inside and relax than keep slugging away. Then if something goes a little wrong.....(just rounded off a carb fitting that's gonna be a nightmare) it gets a lot easier to say screw it for a while.

Edit: went and did other stuff. Checked something else in the garage, then looked at temp. 117°f at 4:30 pm.
Further carb work starts tomorrow.......morning..... early......VERY early.
 
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At 4am it was 98 in my garage. Opened it up let some cool with in. Now 12 noon news says 92 but with New Orleans humidity feels like 102. It's a wet heat lol
It said 100 on the gauge it's 100
 
aaronk785 said:
I’m only 62 and I had a plan and built a street/strip car I could drive to the track, race and drive home. Then both tracks close to me shut down so I’m back to trailering my car to the closest track which is about 3 hrs away. So much for that.
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If you've lived around Manhattan long enough, you may remember a mom and pop drag strip west of Manhattan on the opposite side of the hwy from the airport. I raced there a few times when I was stationed at Fort Riley.
 
Got all the parts here except oil and distilled water.
Hoping to get the motor back together today with any luck, and back in the car and running tomorrow.
Maybe a little optimistic, might take an extra day, we will see. Fingers crossed all goes well.
Took me an hour and a half last night just to get the oil pan cleaned and old gasket material off of it. Stuff takes more time than you think it will.
 
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