re ratrod fj norman

[ek61]

nice work

your not running it on moonshine with all those copper pipes

[ratrod fj]

hi there
whats moonshine ?
grantley

[NoMAD]

hi there
whats moonshine ?
grantley

sort answer illegally distilled alcohol... usually potent!

Cheers
Nathan

[Stygian]

hi there
whats moonshine ?
grantley

If you are in the South of the US, moonshine usually comes out at the end of the party, in a little glass jar with a lid on it. It's illegally distilled whiskey. When I lived there, I found some of the most straightlaced people I knew had contacts who could get it. Very potent stuff, bit not very pleasant to imbibe.

[Devilrod]

hi there
whats moonshine ?
grantley

Try and get your hands on the Robert Mitcham movie Thunder Road. Nascar's roots is said to have sprung from the early moonshine runners getting together and racing. Hence the reference to the good ol' boys. Or so it goes, I could be wrong..wouldn't be the first time

[ratrod fj]

update
worked on car last week and week end front of car back together
ryan worked on car for 6 hours on sat more striping and painted character on fire wall
picking up rad on tues
wiring 90% done
spraying sun visor this week
grantley
ratrod fj

[Thommo]

Pics Grantley,
We love pics

Good to hear its getting so close to done.

[Devilrod]

fark. Curious - what would have been the go in the day without the Gilmer drives?

Twin or triple setups mounting standard width fan belts.

[ratrod fj]

hi there
as norman bible on blowers says the twin belt system needs maintance and can slip and burn the belts
he says that the teeth belts are better but costly set up (eg gilmerbelt )
i wanted the gilmer for the maintance low and the noise and you carnt buy gilmers set up for the greys
grantley

[ek61]

i do like the look of the gilmer set up

but with mine i wanted to keep it old skool and the 3 row belt set up looks just as cool

[ratrod fj]

hi there
good news on the norman front
its running thank god for that

all the hard work in manifold making and the su problems ,linkages,the biggest problem is the belt sizes avlaible in aust
for the gilmer set up
tuned it today but the car will need to go on a dyno
we filed the needles in carbs to make it richer
the noise from the norman is great with the noise from the gilmer set up
i am very happy that the car runs and revs
i will try and take some photos on the next good day
i would like to take it to cora lyn maybe
grantley

[Stygian]

Any chance of filming a YouTube vid of the engine running grantley?

[ratrod fj]

hi there
mate if i knew how i would
grantley

[Thommo]

Congrats Grantley
That had to be a huge moment for you to hear it run.
You'll have to get some pics of its first outing for us

Cheers
Jeff

[parisian62]

u beauty - some video with sound would be even better

Stewart