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[Forum Boss]

Running a large Forum plus a content site is a huge time sink. And the time required for security battles has increased by an order of magnitude in the last three years.

I will take a day off Saturday to attend the funeral of a close friend. I noted that will just be my second day off since I went through surgery in April. Typical work day is 10+ hours. That's 7 days a week, every day of the month. 1.5 hours/day just on security and background checks.

 

[Bill Norris]

Thank you for all you do Boss.

 

[Tim Singleton]

Hi
The top 50 competitors are listed on the nbrsa.org website. Look under the tab info and rules and scroll down to the world team blog. The results can be found there.

Bill McIntyre

The last letter I recieved from NBRSA was talking again about a revamped website.
We will see I guess
It would be nice to see match results there

 

[AlNyhus]

Al, why don't you call Elmer and see if he'd sell it to you. You'd be the perfect admin for it. Might be speaking out of turn here but I bet he'd give it away to someone that would take it over.

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Mike. And I'd be lying if I said the thought hadn't crossed my mind several times.

For me, the time needed to do it right is the biggest issue. Between work at the race car shop, tinkering with guns and other projects...the time just isn't there. This week is a good example.

Drive line improvements on this one and a RacePak update for better exhaust O2 monitoring:

And this one is getting ready to head out the door:

Next week, there's a SBC 283" Super Stock engine coming in to dyno. On the agenda are three cam swaps, at least one set of heads and before we're done we'll more than likely have the oil pan off...so there's two solid days if there's no parts breakage.

Like Warren Zevon said..."I'll sleep when I'm dead."

 

[gunsandgunsmithing]

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Mike. And I'd be lying if I said the thought hadn't crossed my mind several times.

For me, the time needed to do it right is the biggest issue. Between work at the race car shop, tinkering with guns and other projects...the time just isn't there. This week is a good example.

Drive line improvements on this one and a RacePak update for better exhaust O2 monitoring:

And this one is getting ready to head out the door:

Next week, there's a SBC 283" Super Stock engine coming in to dyno. On the agenda are three cam swaps, at least one set of heads and before we're done we'll more than likely have the oil pan off...so there's two solid days if there's no parts breakage.

Like Warren Zevon said..."I'll sleep when I'm dead."

Not sure why but I was thinking you got out of the race cars and were retired. That stuff is too fun to get completely out of your blood. I was in it for a while too and I still get a "hankerin" at times.

 

[WSnyder]

Al probably figured out it's generally more fun, less stress and way more cost effective (especially if you get paid for it) working on someone else's car

 

[gunsandgunsmithing]

Al probably figured out it's generally more fun, less stress and way more cost effective (especially if you get paid for it) working on someone else's car

Me too! I did some bracket racing for a while but I did the engine building for a couple of cars and a drag boat for a few years. That drag boat is what got me out of it. The open Texas Tunnel boats were unforgiving if you lose power all of a sudden. We were pushing a 408cid way hard with a blower and running with some much bigger engines, using lots of boost. The owner didn't want to spend the money on a new engine as long as he was running good and winning with what he had. I told him either do it or I'm out. I was afraid it'd let go at any time and get him hurt or killed. A couple of months later, he went skipping across the lake and damn near died. Motor blew up. The boat was a total loss and he made it with a short hospital stay and a bruised pride.
This was a jet boat.
He got back into it later in a hydro with a capsule. Nice boat and all good stuff but got airborne and wiped out another boat and damn near died again. The oxygen line somehow got wrapped around his neck in the crash and had no air. The rescue crew is really good in that game but supposedly he was kinda blue and unresponsive when they lifted the capsule from the water, with him in it. I was glad I got out when I did but more glad that he's still on the right side of dirt. He got back into it again...Gotta be a little crazy to drive one of those things, really. He and another good friend raced a lot and did really well at it. A guy named Kelvin Perkins was the other friend. He won just about everything there was to win in his classes and I believe was a multi national champion. He should've died about a thousand times because he was absolutely crazy behind the wheel of anything he was in. Unfortunately though..covid got him last year. We were good friends for a long time. Sure miss that ol boy. He could do just about anything and do it well.

 

[NorCalMikie]

Could be that Elmer doesn't have the time his Dad Wilbur did??

 

[WSnyder]

Could be that Elmer doesn't have the time his Dad Wilbur did??

If I recall Wilbur did the day to day stuff and Elmer took care of the server and software issues and updates. So at one time they both were involved so yeah with no Wilbur it is probably way more work plus the fact that he also lost his dad so you have to give him that too. I’d also bet Elmer has a day job to attend to as well.

 

[butchlambert]

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Mike. And I'd be lying if I said the thought hadn't crossed my mind several times.

For me, the time needed to do it right is the biggest issue. Between work at the race car shop, tinkering with guns and other projects...the time just isn't there. This week is a good example.

Drive line improvements on this one and a RacePak update for better exhaust O2 monitoring:

And this one is getting ready to head out the door:

Next week, there's a SBC 283" Super Stock engine coming in to dyno. On the agenda are three cam swaps, at least one set of heads and before we're done we'll more than likely have the oil pan off...so there's two solid days if there's no parts breakage.

Like Warren Zevon said..."I'll sleep when I'm dead."

Al, It seems as I see a lot of the drag cars with very untidy wiring and the rest of the vehicle is very clean.

 

[Shooter13]

Not sure why but I was thinking you got out of the race cars and were retired. That stuff is too fun to get completely out of your blood. I was in it for a while too and I still get a "hankerin" at times.

Lordy don't get me started on the "want to" again! I watch Outlaw street racing to get a small fix!! LOL

 

[AlNyhus]

Al, It seems as I see a lot of the drag cars with very untidy wiring and the rest of the vehicle is very clean.

Butch, you can always tell a real race car from a poser by the wiring. The real stuff gets worked on and you need slack in the wiring to service the RacePak, download data and make changes in the MSD Power Grid. Then there's the shift timer, fuel pump relays/cutoffs and the ECU activation and arming system. Throw in four sensors on the shocks and it gets busy. Then, all this has to be loose enough so we can strip the panels and dash out of it to service the torque convertor and change the sprag. And all this between rounds, if needed. All that happens when someone is checking valve springs and replacing any that have broken inner springs. If there's 2 intakes with broken inners, all the intake springs get moved to the exhaust valves and it gets 8 new intake springs. This gets checked every round.

The posers color code their zip ties, wipe their brow and talk about how hard it was to get all the stripes on the wires parallel with each other.

I had a guy this year take me to task for not getting all the residue from some stock tape off my gun. I told him it would come off when I Zip Stripped the paint this Winter. He looked like Fred Sanford did when he clutched his heart!

 

[EGBrown]

Hi
The top 50 competitors are listed on the nbrsa.org website. Look under the tab info and rules and scroll down to the world team blog. The results can be found there.

Bill McIntyre

Thanks for info Bill

 

[FNSafari]

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Mike. And I'd be lying if I said the thought hadn't crossed my mind several times.

For me, the time needed to do it right is the biggest issue. Between work at the race car shop, tinkering with guns and other projects...the time just isn't there. This week is a good example.

Drive line improvements on this one and a RacePak update for better exhaust O2 m

Al, “and enjoy every sandwich.”

onitoring:

And this one is getting ready to head out the door:

Next week, there's a SBC 283" Super Stock engine coming in to dyno. On the agenda are three cam swaps, at least one set of heads and before we're done we'll more than likely have the oil pan off...so there's two solid days if there's no parts breakage.

Like Warren Zevon said..."I'll sleep when I'm dead."

 

[madmixerman]

Benchrest working again.

 

[AlNyhus]

Benchrest working again.

 

[NorCalMikie]

Speed costs money! How fast do you want to go??

 

[butchlambert]

The en

Butch, you can always tell a real race car from a poser by the wiring. The real stuff gets worked on and you need slack in the wiring to service the RacePak, download data and make changes in the MSD Power Grid. Then there's the shift timer, fuel pump relays/cutoffs and the ECU activation and arming system. Throw in four sensors on the shocks and it gets busy. Then, all this has to be loose enough so we can strip the panels and dash out of it to service the torque convertor and change the sprag. And all this between rounds, if needed. All that happens when someone is checking valve springs and replacing any that have broken inner springs. If there's 2 intakes with broken inners, all the intake springs get moved to the exhaust valves and it gets 8 new intake springs. This gets checked every round.

The posers color code their zip ties, wipe their brow and talk about how hard it was to get all the stripes on the wires parallel with each other.

I had a guy this year take me to task for not getting all the residue from some stock tape off my gun. I told him it would come off when I Zip Stripped the paint this Winter. He looked like Fred Sanford did when he clutched his heart!

Engine doesn't appear to be a late model aftermarket hemi, what is it?

 

[Shooter13]

Benchrest Central appears to be back online this morning!

 

[AlNyhus]

The engine doesn't appear to be a late model aftermarket hemi, what is it?

Butch, it's not really based on anything. It's a proprietary billet aluminum block with billet aluminum heads designed specifically for use with the ProCharger centrifical super charger. It shares features from the BBC and the Ford FE.....a melding of the best attributes of several designs.

Hope all is well with you! -Al