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

Fri Jul 13 10:19:23 PDT 2012

Yowsa, I work on it daily. Although my days of polishing are numbered!

On Jul 13, 2012, at 9:36 AM, Teampantera <teampantera at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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" ?????
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ----- 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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