Recent content by Krooser

The best I have ever used for racing were from Scott Wires. They custom build to your specs. For 90% of our cars a $30 set of wires is all you need...they are just another shiney object to waste our money on like roller rockers, cheap chrome crap and gear drives. Yes I'm a crabby old b@stard.

When I first started trucking the Ohio city of Elryria was a tough one to figger out. Finally heard the pronunciation on the radio.

That yoke came from a vehicle with a lot of potential suspension travel....maybe a pickup? Travel increases when the suspension is compressed.

My first CB was a 6 channel Johnson . Late 70's I had a Courier 23 channel with another 46 channels added on using a 500 watt kicker. I had 6' heavy duty antennas that I had to swap out because of low bridges coming into Milwaukee.. I used to talk to guys fishing in the Gulf of Mexico and a...

I was in a tiny Pittsburgh bar one Sunday night after I backed my truck into a dock in downtown . Must have been 1972. Walked over to the joint and ordered a Miller...Ha!! No Miller. Only sold Iron City and other local beer. Still got drunk...

Powder bags on the Wisconsin. There is a Navy submarine weapons facility south of Las Vegas. They have large, partially buried storage huts that contain Mark IV 16" powder bags manufactured in the late 193O's.

Great pix... My Dad served aboard the Wisconsin BB-64 at the end of WWII plus took his reserve training on her to Cuba and the Caribbean. He was a gunners mate firing those 16" guns... He said Everytime he boarded her he kissed the teak decks. My wife and I visited the Whisky in 2016. Here's...

I will admit I got suckered into buying crap parts because of price. But I learned. I bought a manual flywheel from CAT about 20 years ago. No one I know could figure out what bolt pattern it was drilled for... I looked at Ford, GM, Jap cars, Studebaker, Hudson...nothing matched. So I bought a...

I bought a push type slave from Speedway Motors which is very close to the Toyota Corona units I used in the early 70's on my dirt cars. $54 as I recall. I will make my own pushrod. I will fab the bracket from a chunk of 1/8" cold rolled steel I have. Use some sort of brake hose mounted to...

Well I have the engine figured out... Reminder...this is a budget build...you have no idea! Bought a used 318 from an un named member here whom I have known for many years. Didn't spin over when I dragged it home but a little Earl down the cylinders got her freed up. $100 well spent. All...

One of the shops I use for machine work sez Mopars don't need tq plates ... that's a Chevy thing because their blocks are about as strong as a beer can. And he's a Chevy guy...

9.5" bellhousing. No stripped threads. $140. Located in central WI Will ship on your dime.

Like new Milodon bronze SBM intermediate shaft. Break-in time only. Switched to cast gear for flat tappet cam. $140 shipped to lower 48. MSD 6400 analog box. $100 shipped to lower 48. Located in Waupaca, WI. Local pickup available.

We did those in car bore jobs at the gas station I worked at in high school...ground cranks in situ, too.