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  1. #1
    You think the primary purpose of wings is to PREVENT flight.

    You take your helmet along when you go to buy new eyeglasses or check out cars.

    You are happiest when your street car's tires are worn to racing depth and the wear bars are showing.

    When something falls off of your car, you wonder how much weight you just saved.

    Your email address refers to your race car rather than to you. (Or license plate)

    You've paid $4.00 a gallon for gas without complaining.

    You bought a race car before buying a house.

    You bought a race car before buying furnityre for your new house.

    You're looking for a tow vehicle and still haven't bought furniture!

    The requirements you give you real estate agent are (in order of importance):

    1.) 8 car climate controlled garage with attached shop.
    2.) Outside parking for 6 cars, a motor home, a crew cab dually, a 28' enclosed trailer and a 34' 5th wheel.
    3.) 3 phase 220V outlets in the garage for your welder.
    4.) A grease pit.
    5.) Deaf neighbors.
    6.) Some sort of house with a working toilet and shower on the property - or - hookups for the motor home.

    You sit in your race car in a dark garage and make noises and shift and practice you heel and toe, while waiting for your motor to get back from the machine shop.

    You have enough spare parts to build another motor/car.

    More than one racer supply store recognizes your voice and greets you by name when you call.

    You think the last line of the Star Spangled Banner is: 'Racers start your engines!'

    People know you by your class, car number and car color.

    Your family brings the couch into the garage to spend time with you.

    A neighbor asks if you have any oil, to which you query, 'Synthetic or organic?' and they reply, 'Vegetable or corn.'

    You enjoy driving in the rain on the way to work.

    You always want to change something on your street car to make it handle better.

    You've tried to convince your wife you needed that flow bench to fix the air filter on her station wagon.

    You save broken car parts as 'mementos'.

    You've found your lawnmower runs pretty good on 108 octane gas.

    The local police and state highway patrol have a picture of your car taped to their dashboard.

    You quote your street tire wear life in weeks rather than miles.

    After you tell your wife where you'd like to go on vacation she answers: 'Why...is there a race there?'

    You understand driving is a way of life, not just a means of transportation.

    You wash your car like it was your firstborn child, you tend to its needs like it was your own body, you protect it like it's your family, then you DRIVE IT LIKE YOU STOLE IT!!!!


    I know most of these apply to me so which ones apply to you??

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    You think the primary purpose of wings is to PREVENT flight.

    You take your helmet along when you go to buy new eyeglasses or check out cars.

    You are happiest when your street car's tires are worn to racing depth and the wear bars are showing.

    When something falls off of your car, you wonder how much weight you just saved.

    Your email address refers to your race car rather than to you. (Or license plate)

    You've paid $4.00 a gallon for gas without complaining.

    You bought a race car before buying a house.

    You bought a race car before buying furnityre for your new house.

    You're looking for a tow vehicle and still haven't bought furniture!

    The requirements you give you real estate agent are (in order of importance):

    1.) 8 car climate controlled garage with attached shop.
    2.) Outside parking for 6 cars, a motor home, a crew cab dually, a 28' enclosed trailer and a 34' 5th wheel.
    3.) 3 phase 220V outlets in the garage for your welder.
    4.) A grease pit.
    5.) Deaf neighbors.
    6.) Some sort of house with a working toilet and shower on the property - or - hookups for the motor home.

    You sit in your race car in a dark garage and make noises and shift and practice you heel and toe, while waiting for your motor to get back from the machine shop.

    You have enough spare parts to build another motor/car.

    More than one racer supply store recognizes your voice and greets you by name when you call.

    You think the last line of the Star Spangled Banner is: 'Racers start your engines!'

    People know you by your class, car number and car color.

    Your family brings the couch into the garage to spend time with you.

    A neighbor asks if you have any oil, to which you query, 'Synthetic or organic?' and they reply, 'Vegetable or corn.'

    You enjoy driving in the rain on the way to work.

    You always want to change something on your street car to make it handle better.

    You've tried to convince your wife you needed that flow bench to fix the air filter on her station wagon.

    You save broken car parts as 'mementos'.

    You've found your lawnmower runs pretty good on 108 octane gas.

    The local police and state highway patrol have a picture of your car taped to their dashboard.

    You quote your street tire wear life in weeks rather than miles.

    After you tell your wife where you'd like to go on vacation she answers: 'Why...is there a race there?'

    You understand driving is a way of life, not just a means of transportation.

    You wash your car like it was your firstborn child, you tend to its needs like it was your own body, you protect it like it's your family, then you DRIVE IT LIKE YOU STOLE IT!!!!


    I know most of these apply to me so which ones apply to you??
    "A woman is a lot like a beer, they look good, smell good, and you would run over your own mother to get one." Homer Simpson


  3. #3
    All bar the whole wifey thing. (Me being of the female variety and not gulible enough to not let husband get flow bench he desires...)

    My family over summer, when I get home from uni and SAE is having very MINI break before starting again, have decided to install the couch, TV, Video and Playstation 2 in our 2 car garage due to the fact that I'm rebuilding my Formula Vee 1200 engine, helping to rebuild my sister's mini with 1275(Maybe going a bit bigger...) and looking into building my little brother a MotoKhana mini with 1100 or 1275... Mmmmmm... Can't wait. Holidays @ Oran Park, Eastern Creek and Wakefield Park! It's gunna be the BEST holiday of my life! Ahhhh... Sweet family time...
    MmmmmmmmBrrrrummmmm...

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    "You've found your lawnmower runs pretty good on 108 octane gas."

    I'm pretty close to that one... The spare pushmower will soon receive a homemade supercharger.

    Andris Kanins
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    Are you using the old smog pump trick? I know first hand that that works. Just make sure not to over-rev it.
    "A woman is a lot like a beer, they look good, smell good, and you would run over your own mother to get one." Homer Simpson


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    How did you guys do the supercharger, Blow through or suck through? Right now I have a smog pump off a ford that will support blow through and one of an Isuzu pickup that has an inlet and outlet port.
    I'm planning on using the ford pump and pressurizing the carb and fuel tank now, I just haven't made anything for it yet.
    Aaron Bloch

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    From my experience it is best to put the carb first so you dont accidently push the fuel out of the carb and start blowing air into the tank. Either one will work for this set up because they both should have an inlet and an out let even though they may not be obvious becasue every pump has to have an inlet and outlet. Belt driven boost is so nice!!
    "A woman is a lot like a beer, they look good, smell good, and you would run over your own mother to get one." Homer Simpson


  8. #8
    Provided you warm her up nicely (metho works well), an old Briggs mower goes ballistic running on kerosene. I dont know what this does to gaskets and seals, but it smells pretty.

  9. #9
    my mom threw away the brigs and stratton 3.5 HP old push mower lawn mower i had sitting in the shed...the engine ran great, we got a new pusher and didn't need it...i always wanted to do something with it...
    Adam R. Reinke
    Northern Illinois University FSAE '02 '03 '04
    BorgWarner Turbo Systems '04 - Current

  10. #10
    If you look at it Briggs are some of the simplest engines to work on and they are quite reliable. I am working on building a 16hp V-twin to hope fully around 70 hp. gonna use fuel injection, electronic ignition, Ally fly wheel, billet rods and lighten pistons, oversized valves and one of the biggest port jobs you have ever seen. Hopefully it will be done by next febuary As a lack of funds has it sitting at a near stand still. And before anyone tells me it cant be done Clements racing www.clementsracing.com has already built one simular with 65hp except they used carbs and the stock magneto ignition which is fixed meaning no advance and retard availible. So there is a good chance that I will make more than 65 with EFI and Ignition.

    "A woman is a lot like a beer, they look good, smell good, and you would run over your own mother to get one." Homer Simpson
    "A woman is a lot like a beer, they look good, smell good, and you would run over your own mother to get one." Homer Simpson


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