Fabrication Nova Nova Fiberglass Dash March 9, 2016 / March 9, 2016 by John Heard Chris & I wrapped up the fitment of the new Glasstek fiberglass dash last night. Only had to take it in and out a thousand times to get all the cage bar slots put in it, but finally got it done. Read more » Fiberglass Dash
Fabrication New Nitrous Bottle Water Heater April 16, 2015 / January 4, 2016 by John Heard fter many years of loading and unloading my home made Igloo Nitrous Bottle Heater from the truck bed at the track, I finally decided to make a new one that mounts permanently in the trailer. I didn’t have enough room for the bigger igloo setup so this narrower aluminum one will be really nice to have. Kurt Riffle from Riffle Motorsports had an old tank he had laying around since he used to run Nitrous and I talked him into modifying it a little for what I was wanting to do. He added some additional drain bungs, and a pad to mount a snap action safety temperature switch to the side. That safety switch is something I’ve been wanting after witnessing a controller malfunction due to a bad sensor and stay on causing the bath to get too hot, obviously that would be a very bad situation with nitrous bottles that we want to avoid. Read more » Bottle Heater Nitrous Water Tank
Fabrication Racing Equipment Converter Bypass Plumbing January 10, 2015 / January 10, 2015 by John Heard | 2 Comments on Converter Bypass Plumbing Here's the latest project been wrapping up here during the off-season, while I've got the engine out I had the opportunity to clean up the plumbing on the transmission. Last year after the transmission freshen up, the changes made to the trans resulted in higher converter charge pressure. Well the converter didn't like that, the higher pressure tightened it up a bit too... Read more » Bypass Lines Cooler Lines Line Pressure Torque Converter
