What did you do to your car/truck today?

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the one going into the late model is roughly a 350 chev. after market block, after market heads, rods, crank, pistons, hell the heads even have different valve spacing. ends up being over 430 inches. but yeah, lots of people get into ovals with a small block chev due to price. we built a ford for a friend 20 odd years ago off a 302 with a lunati crankshaft, got him up close to the 355 he was limited to, but the weight savings was nearly 140 lbs over a chev and about 35 over a 351. it was a good decently reliable engine. Dart heads were avail and with those he could run with just about anything. Ford had some good heads but spendy and hard to find.

I hear you on the Hondas. But my japanese motorcycles for the most part have not grown on me either.
 
snowflake

snowflake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narbona_Pass

Drove it through here. Evidently back in the 70's/80's when my dad was still driving the 63 Mack B-73 and 69 Dodge D900, it was quite a bit more traveled due to timber industry which has since died down, one of his stories is that one night will coming down he lost the brakes in the Dodge with a lumber truck in tow, he kept it on the road long enough to hit a straight and gentle slope to where he could start slowing down, then he got out on the running board and while holding the steering wheel started throwing blocks at the rear wheels to try and hopefully lock one and get the truck stopped.

I always doubted the throwing blocks at the rear wheels part till recently when an older navajo recognized the sign on the service truck and asked if I was the son of the owner, he then revealed that he was a Navajo Nation Cop and that one night he saw some crazy ass hanging out on the running board of a tow truck with a lumber truck in tow throwing blocks at the rear wheels.
 
2strokesteve89

2strokesteve89

snowflake:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narbona_Pass

Drove it through here. Evidently back in the 70's/80's when my dad was still driving the 63 Mack B-73 and 69 Dodge D900, it was quite a bit more traveled due to timber industry which has since died down, one of his stories is that one night will coming down he lost the brakes in the Dodge with a lumber truck in tow, he kept it on the road long enough to hit a straight and gentle slope to where he could start slowing down, then he got out on the running board and while holding the steering wheel started throwing blocks at the rear wheels to try and hopefully lock one and get the truck stopped.

I always doubted the throwing blocks at the rear wheels part till recently when an older navajo recognized the sign on the service truck and asked if I was the son of the owner, he then revealed that he was a Navajo Nation Cop and that one night he saw some crazy ass hanging out on the running board of a tow truck with a lumber truck in tow throwing blocks at the rear wheels.
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That would be hard to forget.
 
AdamRides87

AdamRides87

** not my truck**
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Well after$40,000 in repairs the 6.7 we have been working on is done. Costing around $70,000 on the floor, guess this is about a $110,000 haha. Has 12,000 miles on it. Painted the entire truck but one door. Roof was skinned and replaced as was hood, the whole box and 3 doors. 1 New fender and one repaired. Frame and suspension work. And 24 feet of barb wire removed from the drive line haha
 
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