’71 Chevelle
Since we bent our old Chev 12-bolt housing in late August 2011 at Pacific Raceways, we’ll be upgrading to a Ford 9-inch with our spare Strange center section out of the ’57 with new 4.71 large-pinion gears, installing new ladder bars, track locator, etc. Bill Scribner is building the custom housing for Chris.
More on this project including pictures as the work progresses at Project 9″ Ford for our Chevelle
- Bill Scribner Pro Housing nearing completion – Jan 2012
’57 Chev
November 3, 2011: We may get the ’57 back out to the strip in 2012 for a few passes. Much depends on my health situation which pretty much put me on the sidelines for the 2011 season. Only time will tell. – Roger
December 19, 2011 Before taking the ’57 back out, we want to upgrade our fuel pump to a Magnafuel MP-4601. I’ve never been happy with our last BG-280 pump which has been at times seeping from the shaft seal and having cavitation problems on shutdown. Who knows what is happening while going down the strip! The external by-pass should help resolve the cavitation issue.
Jan 7th 2012:
The new fuel system is installed in the ’57 and no leaks!
- New MagnaFuel MP-4601 fuel pump
’66 Tempest
Torri’s Pontiac will get new front shocks that have worn mount bushings, and Chris and Paul replaced the old, badly rusted trunk pan.
Roger, I have rebuild kits for BG280 and BG400. I have correct sized BG5000 fuel filters and BG5000 O-Ring kits in addition to Regulator Diaphram’s
Oh and it is all Ninja Fuel Systems products, he was at Barry Grant and when they closed he opened up his own company. He can rebuild and flow test them if needed too. He selected the manufacturers who made the “good” parts for Barry Grant
Butch, that’s good to know since there are many BG pumps out there that will require service in the future. Our original BG-280 was a good pump, the replacement was a piece of junk!
They are nice parts. I don’t like advertising but I’ll place the link here, if its ok with you?
The e-mail is bandbengines@yahoo.com or anyone can use the web-site that is myself and our partner (Performance parts, engines yada yada)
We should have some more pics up on the web site too very soon, the contact page there will go directly to my e-mail which is the same e-mail I posted above.
http://www.wix.com/bnbracing/precisionraceengines#!
The trunk in the Pontiac turned out well, good job guys!
Yeah, it sure did. It was a pain in some aspects but worth it as the end result turned out good. 🙂
A big improvement!
Quick, make sure you don’t tell Torri about that secret button on the dash… He-He! Anything to get her thinking as we can have fun for days!! 🙂 She is pretty pumped to get some laps in the car, will do just fine.