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Fri Sep 26, 2014 5:24 am
The anouncer played the crowd with the whole "genuine Yankees, vs. the Southern Boys, routine..."
All in good fun, but the guys on the other team were just thrashing, they had the old 350 out of the car in about 24 min, we were a bit mor methodical, and it was paying off. We were slower taking it out, but we had more prep work done to get the trany mounted quicker along with the headers. We prolly could have won, but what killed us was the driverside motor mount.
We could not get the damn bolt in...prolly lost 30 minutes f*** around with those 2 bolts. In a garage, we would have knocked a bevel on the bolt...greesed it up and hammered it in, but with just hand tools we had to make due.
We each struggled in different areas - we had the mount problem, the hillbillies could not figure out the headers - had to lay them partially in and thread the motor/tranny past them, I also knew to install the o2 sensor ahead of time....little s*** like that kept killing them. I think they finally just used a sledge to, " modify," the headers to get them to fit.
Leason learned - we need ot bring lots of gatorade if we ever go back....and some beveled motor mount bolts.