Loading ramps?

Carl, you know there's never enough time for such serious stuff like that!

You bringing the Oban Rich?

 

Hoss, remind Carl of that. I know what's on my to do list and it isn't climbing under cars on a ramp.

Carl:

 

Pretty sure the Gallos will be trailering there (if his car is back running) and for a couple of Shmirnof Ice's would probably load anything.

 

Besides, there are always a few trailers kicking around with enough room to scootch under for a look-see.

Carl, I hope to have my car there w/trailer....but wouldn't we rather go for a drive?

 

I would rather drive my reliable car 500 miles to Carlisle, but I've become very fond of my wife and her rather touchy spine.

 

nuff said

They don't ride like a Cadillac Escalade do they Al.  Sarah has ridden in the Red Man to Carlisle twice, once straight through (about 550 miles one way) and has resisted going again due to the cramped quarters, engine noise and general lack of creature comforts.  This year, the still untested plan is for her to drive alone in her Mustang convertible and have wheels to do other things in the area besides looking at and drooling over cars.  We'll see how that one plays out in a few months.  

 

Backs are important!  Take it from a guy that has had two spinal surgeries in as many years.  

Hoss

Hey John, perhaps you should just do what most members of Congress have done and have your spine completely removed.

 

See you in Christiansburg, if not before!

I've tried unsuccessfully to locate a tool/equipment rental in the Mechanicsburg area that would rent something like an EZV-JACK for the Carlisle weekend. This EZV is the cat's whiskers of a hydraulic jack. It collapses to 5", has two adjustable swing arms with chassis support pads, rolls about on locking caster wheels, and will lift to a height of about 20" Perfect for hoisting either end of a car for suspension, brake, muffler work...OR...crawling about underneath with a camera photo documenting how clever people have accomplished clever modifications!

 

There'll be a wealth of 'cleverness' in that Marriott parking lot and it would be a shame not to take advantage of it. Couple of years ago Lane whipped out a screwdriver and showed me how he used a Coca-Cola can to fabricate housings for his LED tail lights!

 

This would be a once a year opportunity to see first hand the radiator and plumbing of PeterV's, MartyG's, and DavidS's Soobys...RichD's exhaust, and other neat things to dream about.  

You forgot to mention my Dr. Evil mimi-me bobble head

John, I've got a great...but long...story about back pain/operations/recovery.

Remind me at Carlisle to tell you. 

OK Carl, if I remember to ask.  Look me up and we'll talk....suds too!

How about a prehistoric floor jack and a couple of stands....I hear they have been using these things for some time with reasonable success :~)

The Illinois country solution:

1. Get out the Cat/John Deere backhoe and dig a big trench narrower than a Speedster.

 

2. Get in it. (Bring a flashlight and beverage(s).)

 

3. Have somebody drive the car over the trench and stop it in the middle.

 

4. Look up while hoping the sides of the trench don't collapse.

 

5. Take pictures, make drawings, take notes.

 

6. Repeat

 

Voila! We are sophistimicated here in the middle of the middle.

Al,

 

Simply not quick enough & not high enough!

 

I want to be under and out again in a flash...then on to the next one!!

Bob,

Those concrete standing room pits, that all auto shops had when you were a kid' have been illegal in Connecticut for decades... unless they were 'grandfathered'

 

There's one oil changing pit still in operation in town only because it's been in business for 40 years!

 

Hmmm...I wonder if an EZV-JACK sales rep could be talked into demonstrating his neat product at the Marriott parking lot?...I'd point out the cars to practice on...Hell, I'll even help him wheel it about!!

Carl, tell him we might all buy one...

That would be really funny. 15 speedsters all lined up.

 

"Now do mine... vrrrrrt! (up goes the car, Carl crawls under it. Carl crawls out.) Pssssht... down comes the car... next car... Carl goes under again.  Repeat.

 

I wonder how long it would take before the rep caught on?

 

Ted

After the second one Carl is gonna wish he had a creeper to roll on.  I was a suspension and undercarriage judge for the British Car Show in Memphis waaay back, and I was dead after crawling under 100+ cars.  Could hardly move the next couple of days.

They might have something & the Carlisle show-field that could accomodate.

Tom, they do. They have a mobile dyno that you drive up on. $60 or $70 for two pulls, maybe a little more than that. We can get some of the money back by charging Carl an "undercarriage observation fee"!

I was just gonna say.

 

But were they there last year? I don't recall hearing that thing.

 

This year I want to test mine (if I actually finish the engine swap, that is). 

Ed, I think this is the company, they have been there for years. They either weren't there last year or maybe they moved the location. I don't remember hearing them or seeing them either in 2013.

 

http://www.axceleratedmotorsports.com/Services.cfm

 

 

Carlisle split the "Performance & Style" (aka riceburner) group off into a seperate show on May 10-11 and I think the dyno went with it.