Mid-Tenn Chapter Roundtable

[Piston Slapper]

Wade, you gotta a B-1? I thought you had a Quadzilla.



We gotta pull the motor. Strip'r down past the bed sheets and get it bored and honed. Melted pistons will scratch you cylinder walls! We can have a motor pulling party. The joys of going fast... :{

 

[JMcFerrin]

Is anyone going to the chappel hill pull friday night? I never can get around to meeting up with yall because of work. But I got friday night off.

 

[Cumminsman]

did you figure out the cause of the melted pistons gap?

 

[Got Smoke?]

mark,

i am glad to see you are getting back on the horse.

way to go wade the last time he rode with me i did not think he would ever go for another high performance ride again, maybe its the fact that he didn't want to get sideways again.

joe

Joe you know my truck has more power than yours right?!? :-laf



It just takes it a little longer to get up there cause I'm rowwing a DD! :{



If I had known about Dave Goerend last year I would have bought a Auto and had a transmission for quite less than I "thought" they (3 letter companies ) went for.

 

[AndyMan]

did you figure out the cause of the melted pistons gap?

Hey Nick, I think it was just the brutal load of the dyno... It just worked her too hard. I think he said the turbo topped out a wireless pyrometer at 2500

degrees a minute or two after it exploded.



That's just what I "THINK"... I don't really "KNOW" anything. I think you are probably after more detailed information, like an injector hung open and turned into a blowtorch or something... I dunno, it's late and I had a bunch of beers over in the shop...







JMcferrin... I think maybe Hans is going to Chapel Hill. . I'd like to, but I'm out...

 

[Got Smoke?]

Hey Nick, I think it was just the brutal load of the dyno... It just worked her too hard. I think he said the turbo topped out a wireless pyrometer at 2500

degrees a minute or two after it exploded.



That's just what I "THINK"... I don't really "KNOW" anything. I think you are probably after more detailed information, like an injector hung open and turned into a blowtorch or something... I dunno, it's late and I had a bunch of beers over in the shop...



JMcferrin... I think maybe Hans is going to Chapel Hill. . I'd like to, but I'm out...

Where's the pics?!?!? I know you guys own & know how to operate digi cam's!



JMcferrin... ... . they have to much alternate fueled tractors/trucks and not enough correctly (diesel) fueled tractors/trucks for me! Sorry

 

[Piston Slapper]

It was just excessive heat. You can see where the fuel was burning on top of the pistons vs in the bowl. The operator of the dyno was trying to get the torque reading sensor to work and was just sitting there with the throttle on the floor. Daddy stops them after about a minute and says "let me drive ya'll gonna tear up my truck". He then gets in, and as they start increasing the level of loads, the turbo starts squeeling. We know the damage is done, and just go ahead and run it cause the numbers are jumping around 626-672-618-650 and we was trying to atleast get a HP number. Turbo goes boom, side cover blows off the motor(later too learn this is when pistons blowed by) and truck quit. Started it back up after we got the cover back on and it was missing. Thought it was just the turbo causing it. Nick, you know that dyno, it is hard on a little truck. We was just being Arringtons and pushed it too hard. Like Andy said, we hit the turbo with a laser temp gauge and it and the manifold was pegging it at 2500 degrees.



I still gotta get pics. We got to pull the whole motor out. Tear it completely down and get the block bored. Lots of work to do. My digital camera is messing up. Pisses me off too. Sony digital that takes the mini CDs. Stores the pictures on them vs a memory card. The screen is on the frits and blinks in and out and fuzzes likethe ol antenna TV days when there was a thunder storm.

 

[HeavyHauler]

Joe - I believe it was Mark (Got Smoke?) that wanted the prices on tires. I'm Hans.



Jim - I'll be at Chapel Hill on Saturday night. Will you be going then or just tonight? I gotta go to a wedding tonight - supposed to meet the bride's good-looking cousin. :-laf

 

[AndyMan]

"Bride's good-looking cousin" - Heck, if she was good lookin', she'd be the one getting hitched. Unless she's rowdy and took Paul's advice on marriage.



Give 'Ol LadyKiller Arrington a call for advice on picking up chicks. We wuz discussing womens yesterdee. I bet he could reel 'em in back in the day.

 

[Piston Slapper]

Sweet! (Napolean Dynomite)



You can pick up chicks at a wedding. They are all warm and fussy wishing they was getting married. They looking for love! Pauls rules override all of this!! Paul is the Man!



We, 90% Joe, got the VP44 on last night . Fired right up Oo. ! Joe says hit the throttle, you couldn't before it'd die. I did and it jumped to 1500rpm with any throttle pressure. Bought broke my neck. He had it in 4Lo to idle it into the shop cause it wouldn't take throttle before. I thought it was awful touchy. I put it in neutral and any throttle would jump to 1500 rpm and you could floor it, but it'd only do 1500rpm. Took the Puck off and it ran like a champ. Called up customer and told him puck was fried too. Told him we did have an EZ on the self though that'd fit right on it. He said "Good"! Hook it up.



VP44s are aggrevating but not too bad. Joe did it by hisself in 3hrs. You go boy

 

[WadePatton]

Wade, you gotta a B-1? I thought you had a Quadzilla.



The joys of going fast... :{

Nothing "Quad" about it. I have a DodgeZilla from City Diesel on the 24v.



I have a B1-2 from the TDR classifieds on the Green Machine.



Bored it out for more HP!-- Yall keep on now. Oo.

 

[Underwood Tire]

"Bride's good-looking cousin" - Heck, if she was good lookin', she'd be the one getting hitched. Unless she's rowdy and took Paul's advice on marriage.



Give 'Ol LadyKiller Arrington a call for advice on picking up chicks. We wuz discussing womens yesterdee. I bet he could reel 'em in back in the day.

please remember when gap's wife met him she was nice to him only because she thought he was retarded. this is a fact, the only thing he can teach you about picking up women is how to be retarded :-laf :-laf :-laf

get er done

 

[ProspectorTim]

Ouch!

that had to hurt.

 

[AndyMan]

please remember when gap's wife met him she was nice to him only because she thought he was retarded.

MAN, that's what I thought at first too!!! laugh laugh laugh...



He was namecalling me in e-mail this morning... so I'm gonna give him a little grief now.

 

[Piston Slapper]

Have I told ya'll how much I like ya'll lately..... (__|__) You know what to do! She'll fell for my corky syndrome. The accent!

 

[AndyMan]

DANGIT!!!!!!!! Welp, ol Karma caught up with me... . That's what I get for running my mouth off at Gap's expense.



There I was, driving Feger's 2001 home, the RPM's dropped to about 500. Engine still running smooth, but it wouldn't accelerate. I put it in neutral, no change, mashed the pedal, no change. I was like "what the @#$%???". Then it just flat died. I pulled it over to the side of the interstate just outside of Joelton. I started thinking MAN, how do I tell Feger his truck died while it was in my posession. Evidently, he NEGLECTED to tell me that the fuel level sender was on the fritz. Knowing how anal he is, I found it odd that the trip odo said 570mi, and the fuel gauge needle was at 1/2 tank. I thought surely it's not out of fuel, and surely he didn't forget to set the trip odo at his last fuel stop... Yada yada, I put 5 gal of diesel in it (he carries a 5 gal container in his truckbox), and tried to prime/start it (After talking to Gap... and after letting him chuckle at my prediciment. )... no go. By that time, Feger showed up, grabbed a wrench from the box and started cracking lines. Cracked 4 or 5 of them to get it primed... about 20 mins and she was on the road. But MAN that HOUR I stood in the blistering heat on the side of the road was BRUTAL!!



yada yada... always remember... what goes around comes around. I'll go back to my little hole now.

 

[Got Smoke?]

yada yada... always remember... what goes around comes around. I'll go back to my little hole now.

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That line right there is priceless! :-laf



Anyways I don't wanna hear about standing outside in the heat for an hour my job is in the heat now..... I look like this guy but with an ever better tan! ---> :-laf



Oh well it'll all be worth it when payday roles around next week. #ad
I got like 42. 75 hours this week after having lunches taken out... ... would have had 43. 5hrs if Taco Hell hadn't taken FOREVER on Wed! #@$%!

 

[WadePatton]

OMFG, who carries a fuel jug around--oh, wait that's the guy who doesn't call Corn-- "Corn" right?



So two words for you Mark--"pack lunch".



See, (my Dave Ramsey side appears) if you take the cost of fast food lunch each day, plus the lost wages. AND subtract what homespun bag lunch would cost, THEN invest the difference in GSMF for 50 years---you'd have about $351,000 extra to retire on.



enjoy the taco.

 

[Got Smoke?]

OMFG, who carries a fuel jug around--oh, wait that's the guy who doesn't call Corn-- "Corn" right?



So two words for you Mark--"pack lunch".



See, (my Dave Ramsey side appears) if you take the cost of fast food lunch each day, plus the lost wages. AND subtract what homespun bag lunch would cost, THEN invest the difference in GSMF for 50 years---you'd have about $351,000 extra to retire on.



enjoy the taco.

It was actually a quesadilla (sp?). However I get 30 mins taken out each day reguardless of if I take them or not. :{ :-laf



Although home brought lunch is starting to sound better time wise each day.

 

[Cumminsman]

eat a homemade lunch time ='s 10min. rest and relax for 20min, get ur a** back to work. that's my routine. taking lunch = $15-20 a week. eating out everyday = $50-60 a week. mike and i went to a lil pull in bardwell, ky last nite. nick 285 mike 282.