Just placed add looking for BlueThunder B port heads.
July 26 2005 at 5:04 PM
(Login TRUKPULR) Reddog's Friends from IP address 67.48.231.194
in the 385 message board Classifieds, I Lunched my motor over the weekend and Junked out one Head .. I'm looking for a replacement for it.
I guess if all else fails I'll be chatting with Scott J. AKA the Mad porter !!! , Charlie Evans or Lem Evans on the phone soon.
Have to be up and running by next weekend.
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Man I don't know how you get away with it ,with your wife, she must be a good lady. When I started pulling my wife said when I blow the engine up ,I was done. So before I blew it up I built another.
I'm almost certain that I seen a set of those Blue Thunder heads on Ebay the other night but I'll be damm'ed if I can find em again. It surprised me when I seen them because I thought Blue Thunder only did FE engine stuff. I'll keep looking.
Found one set but they were sold. Those babies are expensive! $2000.00 They were not the ones I found the other night. This is bugging me that I can't find them.
trkpuller (no login) 63.18.149.135
Re: Just placed add looking for BlueThunder B port heads.
OK I had a few good pulls with my new motor before this last weekends pull.I took 1 3rd and 2 2nd with it and just started to get a hold of my gearing, when this last weekends pull came to a complete hult at 3/4 track.
The Tracks name was Shakey Lakes AKA the sand pit .. It has a Sandy clay mix that the county fair uses for Horse pulling and they let use use it for Truck Pulling too.
It was a Hot Sunny Day 98 Dreg. in the shade if you could find some. Moving Shazam from the trailer to staging which was only 75 Ft. took the engine temp to 140 dreg's.
All day there was the nagging thought of which gear to use.
The day before at Coolind I pulled on a really good tight track with a 800 gear and turned 6200 RPM's, I like to turn my motor around 7400 RPM's so I should have geared down to a 600 gear. So I know at shakey lakes there's really no Traction so you just spin the motor too your chip and hope you get father then your competitors.
Well I was the 5th puller in my class and I hooked to the sled with a 800 Gear still in the gearbox. Figuring that it would help hold down the R's some, Well when I left the line I eased it out to about the 75' mark and put the go fast peddle to the floor and watch the Tach go to 7400 RPM's and hold there. At the 120' mark I was going about 30 MPH and hauling Butt. At mid track I had build a really good head of steam, When I heard it stumble once then dropped to 5000 RPM's and then it quit. I was in 1st place at that time, but knowing I just lunched my motor didn't let me enjoy it much.
Well on Disection of the motor I found number 7 Cylinder Dropped a Valve and holed the piston, Cracked the Cylinder and made the head junk, Knocking the valve seat out of the intake side and bent the exhaust valve.
So I sit hear with a Cracked Block and Junked head and Holed piston and am trying to get it back together for next weeks pull.
There is no head rule in the two clubs I run in but there is a no C head rule in the P.I. Club. So I figure the TFS A-460 heads are a good choice for me.
This message has been edited by TRUKPULR from IP address 67.48.231.194 on Aug 9, 2005 8:35 AM
Reddog (no login) 66.38.27.172
You are so right
August 9 2005, 11:00 PM
thats the route i would go with a rule like that, alot more experience out there when it comes to the A's, and My KY nabor is one of the good ones with em.
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