Friday, March 15, 2013

Boogity Boogity Boogity!

My buddy Ray ask if I wanted to go to the track, and I said 'Hell yeah!'



This was my first time at the Orlando Speedway.  Had never even been a spectator there before.
Ray is a seasoned Racer with his Buick WE4 (Just like a Grand National). I would have been lost without his presence.  Its intimating know knowing the do's and don't's of the track.  But its not as difficult as I thought. All racers were eager to help.


 Ray sat in with me for the first couple runs. We noticed the car fell flat around 4000 RPM.  I remembered the Rev Limiter was set to 4000 RPM. I borrowed some tools from another racer and bumped it up to 6k.

Here's a shot of the proof I was doing burn outs!
 The car looked good under the lights. I had lots of complements.
 People even asking to take pictures of the car.  The announcer in the tower even made comments that it was a beautiful car.
 This is a shot in the burn out box just before a race.













And finally, here's a video of my best run.  15.05 at 91.89 MPH




So whats next?
The guys on V8Buick.com seem to think that timing and practice will easily put me in the 14's.
Plus I have some goodies to throw on the car, like a set of Stage 1 heads and headers.  And a Magnaflow 2.5" stainless cross over system.  

Monday, March 4, 2013

Alternator and Lower Alternator Bracket

One of my Buick buddies noted my alternator was 'clocked' wrong and the electrical connections would interfere with the installation of the AC compressor.  Easy fix. Just remove the 4 bolts holding the half's together and pull apart just enough to twist.  I moved mine 90°

Here's the old lower AC bracket. Its of the 71-72 vintage.  70 brackets were aluminum
And here's the 70 bracket in place.  Bolted in exactly like the previous bracket except I had to find a longer bolt for the bottom.  The steel bracket is only the thickness of the steel.  The aluminum bracket was almost 1 1/2" think at that part.  I t was no problem though, I went though my 'back of tricks' which is full of bolts from a 75 Lesaber I scrapped and found a perfect bolt.

Here it is all back together.  Ive been sizing up the mounting for the compressor, and it should be all good.