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

[Teampantera]

Same thing pplies to you Sally...get your pantera finished. Use up some of that negative energy Durango Dave (aka: Da Pope) on fixing OL YELLA

Ps Gonna be polishing engine on Saturday


David in Durango <adin at frontier.net> wrote:

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