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some progress pics of my racer, gearing up for race daySrpt 23-24 at Wakefield Park 2 hours south of Sydney . 28 Special pics
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Looks like a fun project.
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Yes been a long time coming I built the timber work 15 years ago! Going to fit dual SU carbies to her this week, Ray
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Pics of today's progress, shaping the scuttle seats installed, 4 weeks to race day! Raycycled
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Hi Raycycled
Can I have your permission to put a posting of you 28 special on my blog
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Ray
Some say "Street is neat". I prefer "1928 is great" I have documented my 45 years with a 1928 Chev Tourer, from 1973 to 2018, and regulary add other items that I hope are of interest to others. Your comments are most welcome.The story of the Red Chev can be viewed at http://my28chev.blogspot.com/
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Morning Ray , absolutely , and if you can make it up to Goulburn it's a great weekend, send me a private message and I'll send you some better resolution pics, and that goes for any one else. Ray E
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Well two days till race day and Murphy struck with a vengeance! In the last 3 days I've had to replace the rear main bearing with engine in car as I can't use my hoist! All day job . Then apon getting the gear box out found my needle roller universal joint conversion was slipping. Back to the original sloppy version, then on reassembly couldn't crank it over , my mind went nuts, it would only start or crank over with Clutch depressed, much like its owner at this point, turned out the bush where the top gear box shaft fits in to the spline shaft had decided to cease mear minutes before,! so gear box back out again, throw the bell housing and uni on to a old gear box and reassemble for the 3rd time in as many days, fired her up an hour ago and picked up the kids from school , so far so good. Not got the twin SU carbies right just yet but that was another day operation getting the needles and main jets somewhere close even to get it to start, More pics to come . ![[Linked Image from shop.raycycled.com]](http://www.shop.raycycled.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/IMG_4251.jpg)
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Well success and failure! Practice run this morning my NEW Carby links snapped. On first lap. Jerry rigged it back together with fuel line and hose clamps. Got up to 30 deg Celsius closer to 45 on the track. 3 hours later our first race pre 1939 cars, including a Frontenac T ford a couple of MG's, Amilcar, Armstrong Siddley and a Bugatti. So no pressure. Got of well then on Lap 3 of 5 started loosing power I pushed on but at lap 4 I gave up load thumping from motor. Turns out front pulls cam off lost water pump over heated and threw a bearing. I had a put a retainer bolt on the pulley . So will pull it down and see what needs to be made stronger and work on the next race. Thanks for all the advice and encouragement everyone. Ray ![[Linked Image from shop.raycycled.com]](http://www.shop.raycycled.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/IMG_4259.jpg)
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Well good news big ends ok rear bearing not great but the Big Bang was the flywheel bolt rattling around in the clutch ![[Linked Image from shop.raycycled.com]](http://www.shop.raycycled.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/IMG_4278.jpg)
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maybe stake or locktite the flywheel screws.
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Had lock nuts still came loose, though I suspect with the increase in revs we were getting , we need to reassess balancing the motor to modern standards. I've had those cap screw in for over 2 years so I could run a modern sprung Clutch plate, makes it much easier on the gear box and tail shaft. Ray
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Hi Ray,
How fast were you going.
Regards
Ray
Some say "Street is neat". I prefer "1928 is great" I have documented my 45 years with a 1928 Chev Tourer, from 1973 to 2018, and regulary add other items that I hope are of interest to others. Your comments are most welcome.The story of the Red Chev can be viewed at http://my28chev.blogspot.com/
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