<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Mad Dog Antenucci <teampantera@yahoo.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> David <adin@frontier.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, July 13, 2012 10:23 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [TPR] Fluidyne is now CRAP as far as I'm concerned<br> </font> </div> <br>
<meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="off"><div id="yiv47215007"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div><span>Man I hear ya....if I NEVER have to polish another piece of polished aluminum it will be a good day. Planning to have campy cloned wheels and valve covers and FI throttle bodies etc all powder coated this winter. </span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div style="font-family: times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> David <adin@frontier.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> Teampantera <teampantera@yahoo.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</span></b> Asa Jay Laughton <asajay@asajay.com>;
"tpr@teampanteraracing.com" <tpr@teampanteraracing.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, July 13, 2012 10:19 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [TPR] Fluidyne is now CRAP as far as I'm concerned<br> </font> </div> <br>
Yowsa, I work on it daily. Although my days of polishing are numbered!<br><br>On Jul 13, 2012, at 9:36 AM, Teampantera <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:teampantera@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:teampantera@yahoo.com">teampantera@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> 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<br>> <br>> Ps Gonna be polishing engine on Saturday<br>> <br>> <br>> David in Durango <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:adin@frontier.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:adin@frontier.net">adin@frontier.net</a>> wrote:<br>> <br>>> I think you mispelled a word. Shouldn't it be "Il Douche" ?????<br>>> <br>>> <br>>> <br>>> ----- Original Message ----- <br>>> From: "Teampantera" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:teampantera@yahoo.com" target="_blank"
href="mailto:teampantera@yahoo.com">teampantera@yahoo.com</a>><br>>> To: "Asa Jay Laughton" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:asajay@asajay.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:asajay@asajay.com">asajay@asajay.com</a>>; <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:tpr@teampanteraracing.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:tpr@teampanteraracing.com">tpr@teampanteraracing.com</a>><br>>> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 9:11 AM<br>>> Subject: Re: [TPR] Fluidyne is now CRAP as far as I'm concerned<br>>> <br>>> <br>>>> Rookie (aka: Rad)<br>>>> Well you wanted a TPR bad boy nick name so now yous gots one! ;-)<br>>>> <br>>>> Rad...dang I love how that sounds.....Rad, pick up the phone and call <br>>>> Quella and get the proper Ron Davis RAD Rad! HAHAHAHA<br>>>> <br>>>> Okay Rad get to hammering on finishing that engine..get Little RAD's (aka: <br>>>> Sam) slacker
ass out to the garage with you to hand you tools which is my <br>>>> job when JB is working on ItBWild....then turn on some Led Zepplin or <br>>>> Doobie
Brothers on your boom box and get to gettin on finishing your ride.<br>>>> <br>>>> Okay, you can do it Rookie Rad..the whole world is watching.....dont let <br>>>> us down.<br>>>> <br>>>> MD! IL duce<br>>>> <br>>>> <br>>>> <br>>>> Asa Jay Laughton <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:asajay@asajay.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:asajay@asajay.com">asajay@asajay.com</a>> wrote:<br>>>> <br>>>>> So with this latest debacle... I'm this close to skipping the effort to<br>>>>> even -try- for SSCC anymore. I am -sooo- out of sorts now.<br>>>>> <br>>>>> I just returned from my recent trip to Charlotte, NC. The new Fluidyne<br>>>>> radiator had showed up and they took the other new one that was all<br>>>>> horked up in shipping. The first thing Shelley tells me before I
even<br>>>>> look at the
box, is that there is a hole in it. So I look at the box.<br>>>>> <br>>>>> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.teampanteraracing.com/index.php?option=com_g2bridge&view=gallery&Itemid=57&g2_itemId=5351">http://www.teampanteraracing.com/index.php?option=com_g2bridge&view=gallery&Itemid=57&g2_itemId=5351</a><br>>>>> <br>>>>> Sure as shit. This time the petcock hammered it's way out and got all<br>>>>> bent up. That's probably alright, I can probably deal with that if it<br>>>>> hasn't caused anymore damage. So I open the box. It's no longer sure<br>>>>> as shit, but rather HOLY SHIT!<br>>>>> <br>>>>> This one has hammered around inside the box even more than the first,<br>>>>> just not breaking entirely through the outside box. The tabs are
bent,<br>>>>> one pin is
bent, one inlet is bent, the threads in the sender holes are<br>>>>> rough (galled?) and on further inspection... the holes in the tank where<br>>>>> the pipe connections are welded, are smaller than the inlet pipes.<br>>>>> WTF! Nothing like a smaller hole to give you a little restriction in<br>>>>> coolant flow. What am I talking about? Apparently, they drill a hole,<br>>>>> let's say an inch and a quarter, in the tank. Then they weld an inch<br>>>>> and three-quarter pipe connection on it. Big pipe, small hole. Oh, and<br>>>>> they bent one before they shipped it.<br>>>>> <br>>>>> There are also bent fins, which I can probably get over. But there are<br>>>>> also rows , actually most of them, where the fins don't even go up to<br>>>>> the tanks. There's upward of half an
inch of air gap between the tank<br>>>>> and the fins. Maybe that's the new way to do them, but compared to what<br>>>>> I got 10 years ago, this radiator looks like CRAP!<br>>>>> <br>>>>> Their new shipping method doesn't work with a Pantera radiator. They<br>>>>> take a piece of cardboard and wrap the radiator to it with plastic.<br>>>>> There are some folds in the cardboard to help it center in the box, but<br>>>>> it's not a tight fit and with all the pointy stuff sticking out on a<br>>>>> Pantera radiator, it doesn't work.<br>>>>> <br>>>>> I'm highly unamused and still don't have a radiator. I'm not happy.<br>>>>> I'll now have to work with some other vendor and create the specs for<br>>>>> the radiator to produce. Or, I need to go to a Pantera vendor and buy<br>>>>> one
of theirs. Ron Davis makes them for Pantera Performance, so they<br>>>>> won't sell one directly to me. I could ask for a slightly different<br>>>>> design, but I imagine it's going to cost about the same as what I'd pay<br>>>>> Dennis Quella. I like his radiator by the way.<br>>>>> <br>>>>> meanwhile......<br>>>>> The heads are done and I have to go pick them up. Shelley also got a<br>>>>> call the block and crank were done, so I need to call everyone back<br>>>>> tomorrow and find out how much money I'm out for those parts.<br>>>>> <br>>>>> The new rings arrived too. I've not finished buying the rod bearings<br>>>>> until I get the crank back and re-mic it. I might have to go with more<br>>>>> than 0.010 over bearings. Something I hadn't thought about
until<br>>>>> earlier this week.<br>>>>> <br>>>>> Did I mention I wasn't happy about the radiator?<br>>>>> <br>>>>> Oh, but I did have a safe trip home from Charlotte, I'm now back with<br>>>>> Shelley and Sam and that's enough to make me happy. Just don't get me<br>>>>> started on radiators.<br>>>>> <br>>>>> Asa Jay<br>>>>> <br>>>>> -- <br>>>>> Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired<br>>>>> & Shelley Marie<br>>>>> Spokane, WA<br>>>>> ******************************<br>>>>> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.racingagainstautism.com/">http://www.racingagainstautism.com</a><br>>>>> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.teampanteraracing.com/">http://www.teampanteraracing.com</a><br>>>>> <a
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