Wow, I love it.
Kind of like my Wilwood ultralights. I filled in the wilwood logo with JB
Weld, painted them scabby, orange peeled silver, and ran them for years
until the head tech inspector for HMSA (who's last name will return to my
feeble memory as soon as I press SEND) looked me in the eye and said "Cute.
But I don't want to see those next time. By the way, Wilwood is about our
age--he would have been 12 when your car was built, so don't even start."
Steve is way too smart. It's very irritating.
I was being inspected at Monterey about a year later, and Steve walked about
a hundred yards to look at my calipers and smirk at me. Don't you just hate
people with that kind of memory.
Bill Babcock
Babcock & Jenkins
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On Behalf
Of wgrosenbach@juno.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 12:26 PM
To: gkbyrne@optushome.com.au
Cc: Roadandtrack2@hypermax.net.au; fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: alloy head, for 6 cylinder
So you take a stock iron head and paint it with aluminum paint. Watch
everyone flail about, screaming and kicking, sort of like when Chevrolet
announced they were going to race their Lumina in NASCAR and had folks
running around whining about folks showing up in 'luminum' cars that would
be so light no one could touch them.
After all the fraccus cools down, agree to refit the iron head.
Paint the new alloy head with Briggs & Stratton Cast Iron paint and go
racing.
People have done worse things.
Just a thought. . .
Bill
'70 GT-6+
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