[TPR] Fluidyne is now CRAP as far as I'm concerned

[David in Durango]

I think you mispelled a word.  Shouldn't it be "Il Douche" ?????



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Teampantera" <teampantera at yahoo.com>
To: "Asa Jay Laughton" <asajay at asajay.com>; <tpr at teampanteraracing.com>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: [TPR] Fluidyne is now CRAP as far as I'm concerned


> Rookie (aka: Rad)
> Well you wanted a TPR bad boy nick name so now yous gots one! ;-)
>
> Rad...dang I love how that sounds.....Rad, pick up the phone and call 
> Quella and get the proper Ron Davis RAD Rad! HAHAHAHA
>
> Okay Rad get to hammering on finishing that engine..get Little RAD's (aka: 
> Sam) slacker ass out to the garage with you to hand you tools which is my 
> job when JB is working on ItBWild....then turn on some Led Zepplin or 
> Doobie Brothers on your boom box and get to gettin on finishing your ride.
>
> Okay, you can do it Rookie Rad..the whole world is watching.....dont let 
> us down.
>
> MD! IL duce
>
>
>
> Asa Jay Laughton <asajay at asajay.com> wrote:
>
>>So with this latest debacle... I'm this close to skipping the effort to
>>even -try- for SSCC anymore.  I am -sooo- out of sorts now.
>>
>>I just returned from my recent trip to Charlotte, NC.  The new Fluidyne
>>radiator had showed up and they took the other new one that was all
>>horked up in shipping.  The first thing Shelley tells me before I even
>>look at the box, is that there is a hole in it.  So I look at the box.
>>
>>http://www.teampanteraracing.com/index.php?option=com_g2bridge&view=gallery&Itemid=57&g2_itemId=5351
>>
>>Sure as shit.  This time the petcock hammered it's way out and got all
>>bent up.  That's probably alright, I can probably deal with that if it
>>hasn't caused anymore damage.  So I open the box.  It's no longer sure
>>as shit, but rather HOLY SHIT!
>>
>>This one has hammered around inside the box even more than the first,
>>just not breaking entirely through the outside box.  The tabs are bent,
>>one pin is bent, one inlet is bent, the threads in the sender holes are
>>rough (galled?) and on further inspection... the holes in the tank where
>>the pipe connections are welded, are smaller than the inlet pipes.
>>WTF!  Nothing like a smaller hole to give you a little restriction in
>>coolant flow.  What am I talking about?  Apparently, they drill a hole,
>>let's say an inch and a quarter, in the tank.  Then they weld an inch
>>and three-quarter pipe connection on it.  Big pipe, small hole.  Oh, and
>>they bent one before they shipped it.
>>
>>There are also bent fins, which I can probably get over.  But there are
>>also rows , actually most of them, where the fins don't even go up to
>>the tanks.  There's upward of half an inch of air gap between the tank
>>and the fins.  Maybe that's the new way to do them, but compared to what
>>I got 10 years ago, this radiator looks like CRAP!
>>
>>Their new shipping method doesn't work with a Pantera radiator.  They
>>take a piece of cardboard and wrap the radiator to it with plastic.
>>There are some folds in the cardboard to help it center in the box, but
>>it's not a tight fit and with all the pointy stuff sticking out on a
>>Pantera radiator, it doesn't work.
>>
>>I'm highly unamused and still don't have a radiator.  I'm not happy.
>>I'll now have to work with some other vendor and create the specs for
>>the radiator to produce.  Or, I need to go to a Pantera vendor and buy
>>one of theirs.  Ron Davis makes them for Pantera Performance, so they
>>won't sell one directly to me.  I could ask for a slightly different
>>design, but I imagine it's going to cost about the same as what I'd pay
>>Dennis Quella.  I like his radiator by the way.
>>
>>meanwhile......
>>The heads are done and I have to go pick them up.  Shelley also got a
>>call the block and crank were done, so I need to call everyone back
>>tomorrow and find out how much money I'm out for those parts.
>>
>>The new rings arrived too.  I've not finished buying the rod bearings
>>until I get the crank back and re-mic it.  I might have to go with more
>>than 0.010 over bearings.  Something I hadn't thought about until
>>earlier this week.
>>
>>Did I mention I wasn't happy about the radiator?
>>
>>Oh, but I did have a safe trip home from Charlotte, I'm now back with
>>Shelley and Sam and that's enough to make me happy.  Just don't get me
>>started on radiators.
>>
>>Asa Jay
>>
>>-- 
>>Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
>>&  Shelley Marie
>>Spokane, WA
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