Racer X

So don't tune in to your news source of choice then, eh?

I love the ad copy: [quote] . . . . . . . . that was lovingly restored by myself and a good friend. She was originally a hideous greenish yellow color, but was stripped down and redone . . . . . . . . [/quote] Must not have had a shower for a while, eh?

Yes.

The head doesn’t need to be removed to change the valve stem seals. We covered this before.

Looks like the shop floor at the end of shift at The Big Shed.

That stuff was made with lead when I was a kid.

Looks like Ginger (Tina Louise). I preferred Mary Ann (Dawn Wells, RIP)

No more difficult than changing any of other ones. The only limitation would be the mechanical skill and aptitude of the person doing the work.

Pretty sure they switch it on before the injection.

Yeah, I know. But I can still hope it takes the younger ones too, before they have reproduced.

Something routine, or otherwise?

Well not a Z directly, I use the Dodge to pull the trailer the race Z goes in, and my race Z, the brown 72, the multi colored series 1 low number Z and the others looked on while I worked. The Ram is 20 years old. Last year the tailpipe rusted off the muffler outlet. The muffler is nearly rusted through. Since the OEM 3” system is obsolete and NLA, I opted for a 4” stainless turbo to tailpipe with no muffler. This is the first startup. Mrs. Racer thinks it is too loud. Yesterday I stopped at a garage sale and found an unused 30” stainless muffler for &20. Gonna install it and see if it makes her happy.

Mrs. Racer 2.0 lived there for a while when married to her second husband. She told me about this the other day. The way I see it, situations like this will result in natural selection. All the idiots who ignore the cautionary protocols will infect each other, and hopefully they will all be removed from the gene pool.

You’re welcome. Blame it on COVID, eh?

I just tried the number and it works here in Washington state.

I would try Motorsport Auto.

A 50 series tire will be slightly taller than a 45 series, but not by much. I went with the 45 series as I don’t want to have clearance issues on the street car (which is currently at stock height). The race car is lowered a few inches, the front fender lips have been removed and the rears rolled. It has plenty of clearance.

I run 225/50/14 Hoosier Street TD bias plus on 14x7” on the race car. I have a set of 225/45/15 BF Goodrich G Force Rivals going on a set of 15x7” Panasports for my 72 street Z. Just right.

Gotta wash them every now and then Cliff. You don't wear the same skivvies everyday do you?

That isn’t coolant. It is oil that has escaped from the crank seal has gotten dirt on it.

That looks like dirt, collected on a minor bit of engine oil that has weeped out somewhere on the front of the engine. Unless there is a wet, runny stream of oil leaking out I wouldn’t get concerned about it. You can spray some Simple Green on it and wash off fairly easily. A small stiff bristle brush will help to break up the dirt and grime.

I can’t see anything in the pictures, so cannot comment on you particular situation. Coolant can leak from the water pump shaft, when the seal gives up. That may be what you are seeing there. As for the possible head gasket leak, pull the spark plugs. If coolant is leaking from a coolant passage to a cylinder at the head gasket, the plug for that cylinder will be clean. As coolant escapes into the combustion chamber, it scours the chamber clean, along with the plug. Checking cylinder head bolts for tightness is part of routine maintenance on an L series engine. I check mine every time I adjust the valve clearances. The pan gasket leak and gear lube leak at the differential are easily corrected. Simply drain, remove, clean, install new gasket and refill. I usually wait until the leaks are leaving puddles before addressing them.

Very few reasons to watch television. Here are a few. Stock cars. Talladega. 200+ miles an hour.

I think this one should do well. A nice, clean, fresh, numbers matching original car. The crankcase was finished with Glyptal, something I do to every engine I build. A rotisserie build, every detail addressed. I like the "BBS" look wheels, but prefer the gold centers, and they could be an inch wider, with 225-50 series tires.

We drove the grandson's car to North Carolina and flew back recently. All the way down every place we went in to eat it was like that. Of course we only dined in at two places, breakfast at Big Springs, Nebraska, Saturday morning, and dinner at Fawcett, Missouri. It felt dumb. At Fayetteville we ate out 3 times, once at a Sushi place, then lunch and dinner at a Caribbean place next to the hotel. All 3 times the places weren't very busy, and we pretty much had the place to ourselves. The owner of the Caribbean place talked our ear off both times, none of us wearing masks. Again, a dumb feeling. On the flights back everyone has to have masks, or face federal penalties, so everyone was masked up all the time. When we changed planes at Dallas/Fort Worth, had time to eat and it was lunchtime. We had a burger and a beer at TGI Fridays. As soon as people sat down most immediately unmasked. This place was packed. None of that pesky 50% stuff, and no threat of time at Leavenworth if you didn't have it on. That felt even more dumb.