We are very honoured that you are doing this work for us Don. I can't
wait
to see your set up at home when we pick up the heads. Thanks Don
Cindy
and Jeff
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From: "Don Dulmage" <big-d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 5:47 AM
Subject: Back to it
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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