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Re: "The Beast" is back.....
wookee #562377 May 14th 2012 4:20 pm
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Looks good Joe!


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Re: "The Beast" is back.....
wookee #562384 May 14th 2012 4:39 pm
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NICE!

Re: "The Beast" is back.....
wookee #562488 May 15th 2012 12:16 am
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There is a certain stretch of road that that gave the "Beast" a black eye with a sucker punch...
Early Chevy Forced Air induction......
I think this and a couple of other minor tricks and it will be time for we to give her another shot at that stretch of road.......

......Wookee


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Re: "The Beast" is back.....
wookee #562496 May 15th 2012 12:49 am
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Looks cool! Tell us more about this stretch of road?


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Re: "The Beast" is back.....
wookee #562504 May 15th 2012 1:09 am
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after the beast has another go at it I will let you know all of the details.
Even as hot as she was running (230 degrees) the valves did not rattle and when we shut her down for fuel it did not puke out and internal fluids.Running regular gas.fired right up each time I shut the engine off...
Lets just say I had to run her easier than a really wanted to be running her......It was a 65-70 run.

here is a picture of the scoop hanging

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......Wookee

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Re: "The Beast" is back.....
wookee #562528 May 15th 2012 8:01 am
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The Dodge's have a similar issue sometimes.

Brian also adds a scoop to the belly pan and he'll cut a tunnel to the front of the doghouse.

Funny thing is though I had an A-108 with a slant six. I had the radiator recored by a local shop here in Elkridge. The fellow said that while they couldn't offer a 4 row core and still retain the top tank, he offered up a 2 row with capacity of a 4 row. That van never got hot and we didn't have to modify the belly pan or cut in a tunnel.


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scoop looks good. hope it solves your problems.


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Re: "The Beast" is back.....
wookee #562600 May 15th 2012 3:55 pm
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That scoop should take care of things... I enjoyed the transformation pics as well... Keep at 'er...


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Re: "The Beast" is back.....
wookee #562862 May 16th 2012 9:39 pm
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Rad has been completely record.
Just pulling those long mountain grades on Rt 68 where the only time I have really had and temp problems in 7 years.

.....Wookee


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