**Carlisle 2007 PICS**

Heres a place to post your shots from Carlisle.
SAW Turbo SubyTub. 2.0l If I remember right 217 ft/lbs T and 272 HP
Nice car and fast.

Cory had the Hoopty on the field. What a long way it's come from one year ago. Amazing! We all had a turn for a spin. Even Henry got in on the act. (Maybe a little R&D for a future IM project? :) We all had a blast especially Cory. Talk about the perpetual SEG! You did good, brah!

BD

Couple of shots of Chuck Beck's 904

Hangin out around the tent.

Here's some random shots;

And a few more;

What a great event! Good to see so many folks from years past and make some new acquaintances. The event came off without a hitch, so to speak. Thanks to Gordon, Chris, WB, Alan and others who made it all possible. Looking for more of this next year. Perhaps we'll have four Tubarus next year.
Hoss

To my East Coast SOC bruthas;

Glad to hear that the weather held out and you all had a good time at Carlisle. I don't know about anyone else but I'd like to see more pics and more stories of Speedster glory!!

Now let's work on a National SOC meet somewhere in Mid-America!!

Peace - Out!

Dang!! I have about 160 pictures, but can't seem to geth them to upload withou a major reduction in resolution, even though they're below the 2.5MB limit. I'll post some of 'em on Photobucket.

Ok, here is my Photobucket album. I've included only Speedsters and related cars, but can post all of my non-Speedster pics if folks are interested. Not sure why they're out of order. No doubt it's due to operator headspace. Best viewed as a slideshow.

My camera battery died Saturday (stupid me), so I missed some prime pictures. I'm sure others have it covered, tho'.

http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g43/landerso/Carlisle%202007/

Says that the album is private and needs a username and password. I suspect even if I have one it will still not let me in as you have the folder set to private.

James

Fixed it - you should be able to get in now.

Lane - Cool pics, thanks for sharing. Looked like everyone was having a good time!

What great pix.. looks like you had one heck of a time out there.... Again, I think GOD loves Speedies cause it cleared up for you on Saturday too! Hoopty looks awesome as usual... and Lane I saw the photo bucket pix too, very nice as well. OK here comes the second cry out for a NATIONAL SOC event... mid America.. Can this be done? My Brutha Jimbo thinks it can, and if he says so then it's can be.. All we need is a location, time place to stay and a field to show-off, maybe even a drap-strip.. LOL... and of course some major time off, for those young guns that STILL work! LOL...

Speedster "D" Pack'em and Rack'em

Excellent pics... wish I could have been there with my new (to me) car. Would really like to meet you guys and see all your beautiful cars... I will be there next year with bells on...

James

Here are a couple. Lots more to follow in another thread:

I've got a site for a Mid-America Speedster gathering...


Oklahoma City


We all drive past Jim Ward's house, or past the Hospital so he can see us from the window if he's not yet made it home (God, I hope he has by then).

What'cha think?

Gordon

I-70, here we come!

Route 66 here I come! Wait a minute, does Route 66 go anywhere near Oklahoma City?! Oh well, the drive is the adventure!

I have almost 2 gigs worth of pictures from this weekend, because I was playing with my new digital SLR toy. I'll post a gallery up tonight - with all of the "excitement" on the way home Sunday into Monday, I've been playing catchup, and haven't had a chance to pull them off the laptop.

There are some GREAT cruise shots, along with a bunch of great candid photos. Stay tuned!

BTW:

Don't know if many of you noticed in the pictures up above, but we set up an impromptu service center over on one side of the show field (behind a row of tow vehicles) and Chris and I brought the trailer over to serve as a sort-of lift (great for working on stuff that doesn't need to get a wheel off of the ground and gives you a little clearance to get at what's up under there).

I was watching things at the tent, but wandered over a few times during Saturday morning; the first time we diagnosed a few bad fuses in a new car (they were poorly made glass cartridge fuses and didn't have a good connection between the end caps and the fuse link) and Carey was working on a leaking oil cooler fitting. Next time I got over there, Carey had a portable wheel alignment gizmo (a "Magic String" tool - VERY trick!) set up on Tom DeWalt's car and was just finishing a front end alignment. Just before I got there, Bill Drayer and Chris Nichols diagnosed some dry front torsion tube bearings on Steve Perry's CMC (no grease fittings, either) and Lane was in line to have his squeaking rear brake looked at.

All in all, half a dozen cars were looked at in just over an hour, and everyone went away happy.

Maybe that's where that little Messerschmitt got the "turbo" for that second hill-climbing run!!

"diagnosed some dry front torsion tube bearings"

What are the symptoms of that? The VW front end on my 356 is VERY stiff, even without any shocks bolted in. I'm about ready to take it out, but perhaps it just needs some lube.

My car sorta clunks or rattles when hitting bumps. I give the beam about 15 pumps into each fitting and it clunks no more. It makes things quieter. Don't ask me but seems to work.

Couple of shots of Barry Crones CMC Flared. One of the nicest CMC's I've seen in a while. Every door gap is perfect as is the paint. Someone spent a lot of time prepping this one. Nice ride, Barry!

Hoss and Steve O'Brian sneaking a siesta on the field.



OK... They're checking out the business end of the Turbo SubyTub.
This baby is sick fast!

Here is what the nav. system recorded on the way back from Carlisle.
1050 miles from Carlisle to Des Moines IA,and then another 180 miles to KC. It was a LOOOOOONG day for me.

Wow. I wish my Magellan would record that kind of data. Max speed, especially. Holy smokes!
And 1900 miles. Did you see a massage therapist yet?

TC et al:

A dry front end typically gets really stiff, and often rattles as if you've got a loose shock mount. In fact, during a drive with Steve, that's what I thought it was (a loose shock mount on one side) til our crack service team looked closely at it and discovered that all the front end grease fittings were missing. I told him to pull the trailing arms off and look at the needle bearings to see if they're toast. If they are, then discard the needle bearings and put in some Neoprene sleeves, BUT drill through the sleeves for grease fittings and shoot'em with 10 - 15 grease gun shots to lube'em up. If you buy the kind of Neoprene sleeves that you can't use grease fittings with, then you may be stuck pulling the trailing arms off and packing them with grease every other year or so. Not a big deal, just a minor PITA.

If the needle bearings look OK, just dry, then soak them in Kerosene overnight to get the crud out of them, then pack them with grease like a wheel bearing and reassemble, then put in the grease fittings on the torsion tubes and squirt 10 - 15 shots from a grease gun into each fitting and you're good for the rest of the season.

Wait a minute! You should know this stuff already!!!!!

gn

Cory
To be honest it wasn't that bad,the seats were very comfortable.
The max speed was recorded just before we got to Des Moines.

The top was down for the last 8 hours, but when the sun was hitting us and it was 90, I just about went into a comma!! We were switching off a lot at that point.

Steven,what comma? you did very good!!

Don't you mean a "coma" or were you just slouched over napping in the shape of a "comma?" Inquiring minds want to know. BTW, both Lane and I had our tops up for the entire trip. The temperatures varied from jackets on chilly to hot enough for air, but frankly, I didn't want the sun and wind to do a number on me.
Hoss
sun and wind burn free

The last couple of hours toward Charleston got kinda hot with temps around 90. That was exacerbated by heater boxes whose flaps didn't completely close. I was "toasty" when I got home, but had no aches and pains from the seats. They're suprisingly comfy on such a long trip. Musta gotten used to them over the course of the week.

Being slouched in a 'comma' position because of a heat induced 'coma' would create a pain similar to having an 'exclamation point' shoved up your 'asterick' clear up to your 'semi-colon'! This similar situation in females may puncture their 'hyphen' which may endanger their child-bearing and lessen the possibility of becoming 'parenthesis'.

I hate when that happens, 'period'!

Cory, this one's for you. Had a ball just watching you grin all weekend. Fireman's joke also for you.
A FIREMAN came home from work one day and
Told his wife, "You know, we have a wonderful
System at the fire station:

BELL 1 rings and we all put on our jackets,
BELL 2 rings and we all slide down the pole,
BELL 3 rings and we're on the fire truck ready to go.

"From now on when I say BELL 1, I want you to strip naked.
When say BELL 2, I want you to jump in bed.
And when I say BELL 3, we are going to make love all night."

The next night he came home from work and yelled,
"BELL 1!" The wife promptly took all her clothes off.
When he yelled "BELL 2!", the wife jumped into bed.
When he yelled "BELL 3!", they began making love.

After a few minutes the wife yelled "BELL 4!"

"What the hell is BELL 4?" asked the husband?

"ROLL OUT MORE HOSE," she replied,
"YOU'RE NOWHERE NEAR THE FIRE

MUSBJIM: Do you write comedy for a living? If you don't, you could. I am falling out of my chair.

Jeff/Cory: That is THE BEST Hoopty portrait yet seen. That is the one to go on the wall. Very well done.