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Spokane |
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Chumpcar is a direct competitor to the 24 Hours of Lemons we
talked about in our last newsletter. They are both races for $500
cars that you basically have to buy, prep and race a car for under
$500 (not including safety items like cage, brakes, wheels and
tires, etc). The shop got a 1967 Fury donated to us in late 07 and
have been racing it ever since. The car is a 10 race veteran in
both Lemons and Chumpcar and it has seen a lot of hard race
time.
Our last race was a 24 Hour in Spokane, Washington at Spokane
Raceway. We were really looking forward to this race since our car
always does well in 24 hour races and Spokane is a really open
track which helps the big Fury.
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| Click on the photo to see a video of the
fix |
Your intrepid author got the
pole position as the first driver out. It was a very hot day so we
decided to do 1.5 hour stints during the daytime. The car was
running great until with about 10 minutes left in my stint I lost
control of the car and hit the dirt bank on the side of the track.
Yes, I wrecked the car. Nothing like being the first driver in a
24 hour race and thinking that nobody else on the team who paid
good money to race will not be able to get out on the track. I was
not in a good mood to say the least.
Please click on the photo to see how we had to fix the
car. The frame rail was bent up 6 inches but after the
repair we were able to finish the last 21 hours of the race. We
finished in 15th place out of 33 cars which is pretty good
considering we lost almost 2 hours after my wreck and blew another
head gasket overnight.
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| Stop
Drilling That Hole in Your Firewall!!! |
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| The Drill No
Holes ECU Bracket |
Do you want to put Electronic Ignition in your old Mopar? Ever
wondered where to put the box? Well do NOT drill a hole in your
firewall, use this handy bracket!
With this bracket you no longer need to drill holes in your
firewall to mount your electronic ignition box. This bracket simply
mounts to the back of your valley pan sealing bracket and no new
holes are drilled into your car! It uses the existing holes. You
also do not have to lengthen any of the wiring on your car since
where the ECU will now be mounted is about the same distance as the
firewall.
The brackets are normally $20 but if you say you saw it in our
newsletter they are only $15.
Rocket Restorations
360-705-0943
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| Resto
Tip of the Month |
 One of our best sellers here at Rocket is our
sending unit accessories like brass floats and sending unit filters
as well as entire all new sending units. We get asked all the time
what is wrong with my gas gauge? Well here are a few tips to
troubleshoot it from our experience.
If your gas gauge does not work the first thing
you need to do it to make sure the gauge works. This is simple as
all you need to do is ground the sending unit from the gas tank and
see if the gauge goes all the way up. If the gauge goes up this
means your gauge works and you have another problem. The most
common one we see if the brass float not floating anymore and all
you have to do it remove the sending unit and change the float,
pretty easy. The other common area is the sending unit not getting
a good ground. First thing to check is to make sure it has the
sending unit ground strap which is missing a lot of times (which we
also carry). If this is still present then most likely the ground
problem is in the dash. We have had a lot of luck lately being
able to pull the dash and clean the contacts on the circuit board
on the back of the gauge cluster to make everything work. Circuit
boards are now available aftermarket so if you need a new one that
is also an option.
This was just a real quick primer on how to
diagnose a non-working fuel gauge, we will go into a little more
depth in our next newsletter.
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| Update
on Rudy Eden's 1969 Dodge Daytona |
 We
featured this car a couple of months ago but wanted to give
everyone an update. We just found a good nose for it and will be
getting it fit next week. As soon as the nose is fitted we can
finish the bodywork on the front of the car and this car will be in
paint before we know it.
The car is a 440 automatic that is loaded out with 3.55
sure-grip, buckets, console, mag wheel covers, red paint, and many
more options making this one pretty unique.
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Also remember that we take Visa, Discover or Mastercard credit
cards over the phone. Our normal business hours are 9-5 Pacific
Time Monday thru Friday.
Thanks!
Tom Hergert
Rocket Restorations
118 Cherry St NE
Olympia, WA 98501
360-705-0943
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