Re: Back to it
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Re: Back to it
- From: Don Dulmage <big-d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:14:55 -0400
Still takes me about 10 times longer to do stuff then it used to. But that
is life.
Glad I can still remeber the ol days
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Kinsley" <rlkinsley@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 7:06 PM
Subject: RE: Back to it
Don, I imagine that you can do in 3 or 4 hours what it takes me 3 or 4
months! Or not at all.
Rich Kinsley '64 Dodge Polara 4 dr 318poly w/goodies
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Don Dulmage wrote:
I have been doing a lot in conjunction with my friend Harry. I worked
for Harry in the machine shop business as a teenager and he taught me my
machining skills. He is a bowtie and flathead guy but a racer no less.
Now we live a couple of miles apart and when he restated his career he
used my shop equipment for over a year. Now we are doing a lot together.
My biggest problem is fading eyesight and a severely busted side caused
by falling on a 440 block while carrying another 440 block with a
friend. I buried the sharpe square piece below the starter deep into my
back from about 4 inches above my belt to just below my wing. If i work
to long now I begin to swell so there isnt much i can do about that. It
hasnt improved now in 14 years so it isnt gonna. Since Harry and I do
things very similar and snce we respect each other we get along well.
Right now we are doing a 426 Hemi conversion for a 68 RR . We are making
a tamer more reliable but powerful version for a customer. It will be
period correct all iron motor and heads but hydraulic cam and better
pistons. I want it to be a 426 hemi power wise but with 440 manners and
reliabilty.I believe this is now quite possible.
I am also porting a set of 360 heads for Harry for a Dart with a 360
going in in place of its 318. I have done quite few 360s over the years.
Great motors i think. It just happens to be for the guy who is making
the aluminum body for my HEmi jeEP project so i am suckholing big time
for a deal. So far I have spent 30 hours and am a little over 1/2 done.
I do them like they were for me personally.
Also have a set of 440 Police/RV 452 heads on the go for Cindy and Jeff
from the list.
And I am currently finishing up a BB bowtie for a friend who managed to
buy an alcohol RED with a 540 RHS motor. He as more car then gold and
since a freshening is very expensive asked if I would help him do it
here. We work on it saturdays and he does what i ask and buys what i say
without question and buys me lunch so I am almost done with that. He
bought this car with the money he got from selling his t bucket with the
300 ford six I built for him. That engine is still running even though I
screwed it together in 1993. (Runs 10.40s ) He helped me with the 2x4
manfilfold top i made for the Wiend SS manifold years ago so we work
well together. His eyes are much better than mine.
I finshed my 482 experimental engine for Wager and it is sitting here on
the stand awaiting his gold. It is a 440 , 080 over with a poured block
and 3.96 stroke. Has hemi rods and hand made pistons . I offered to get
custom ones made to replace my experimental handmade ones but he wanted
these so there it is. Sure wish I had the gold though. I need it!
I have to get working on the 1962 slant six soon in my senior dragster.
I need to remove the street grind and have a custom race cam made. I
also need to overhaul the trans since I never have yet. Now that it has
been on The Speed Channel (Gearz TV) I need to make sure it is "cookin"
when i take it to the track. I may even twist Frank Lupos arm for a REAL
converter.
And in between all that there is my current heart throb the HE-EP
project. It is turning out far better then I ever could have hoped for.
The chassis is almost done except for the finish welding and paint, The
body is being built as we speak. People , old friends and racers are
giving me stuff for it that would have cost me $$ like wheels to tires,
spindles , race seat. Fuel injection TBdys . I have amost all the engine
parts (5.7 Hemi)except for a front timing cover. It is stack injection
like hilborn only "Don born" but will be EFI. I am working on the
manifold in my "spare" time.
So you see I aint dead yet. Just slowin down. Also am making a pan for a
41 Willys/early hemi project for a friend.
Meanwhile in the side of the garage where the machine shop stuff used to
sit the 63 MAx Wedge sits paitently waiting for a spring fling. It
almost happened yesterday, in fact if Wager's stroker hadnt been in the
way it would have. So yes i have quit but not completely. It is now a
hobby , not a business and as long as there is fair exchange going on
and I am not just someones lakey i guess it is OK. Still 3 or 4 hours
now is about all i can handle.
Don
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Rich Kinsley '64 Dodge Polara 4dr 318poly w/goodies
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