Merrill's 4G64 DOHC.

[BradMph]

Wish I could weld like that...never did much welding in my life. My welds would look like the torch took a series of dumps along the trail, lol. I Need to get me a wire feed maybe and just practice with the entire roll of wire until I get the feel of it. Or continuing using Super Glue.

[Merrill]

Wish I could weld like that...never did much welding in my life. My welds would look like the torch took a series of dumps along the trail, lol. I Need to get me a wire feed maybe and just practice with the entire roll of wire until I get the feel of it. Or continuing using Super Glue.

Practice makes perfect... Everyone has to start somewhere. I don't even own a MIG (wire feed) anymore, only TIG. I think I've been welding consistently (more than hobby/occasionally) since 2001. I'm still learning and perfecting it every time I pick up the torch. I usually tell people to grab a decent "hobby welder" like a Lincoln MIG from Home Depot or a good Miller to practice with. Crappy welders work, but they end up teaching you how to correct the inferior product result rather than how to weld properly. Proper instruction and understanding of Metallurgy helps as well. Above all, practice makes perfect.



On that note, I did some more welding to my headers. I had to correct one of the primary tubes, then another.... then I ran out of tubes
More are on the way now along with lug nuts, front pads for the VR-4 calipers, and new lug nuts (for the third time) to fit my third set of wheels.

Here is a shot of the header as it stands now
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Since the engine build and swap is still a little ways away, I just work on parts in my spare time. It's not really part of the immediate build schedule.

On the plus side - the Ford 8.8 is now completely ready to drop in. I had to remake the brake line since I narrowed the axle. Just waiting on the calipers to show so I can swap the whole chassis at once. At the moment I have no shop, so its a mess trying to work in here, but whatever... this is how it looks (sadly - this isn't all my stuff - some is still in SoCal). Either way, here is a crappy pic ..

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I had a mild scare last night as well. Some friends and I were gearing up to start racing again, so I decided to join. We were out in the middle of nowhere playing on some new roads (part of a new development) where there is no traffic at all. I can to a traffic circle, dropped to 2nd, got loose, pulled it around into a drift, made it about 3/4 of the way through until I ran out of usable power. Once I pulled out of it, I slid into third to roll out and suddenly - there was nothing there..... where second used to be is now 4th, where first was is now 3rd and I didn't have any other gear

I know these transmissions are kinda built like glass, but here was the problem

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Not entirely sure how it happened, but it's going to happen again at some point, so I need to be more careful until I get the new trans in.

These last bits of parts should be in mid next week, and I will have to find the time to make this swap happen. Until then - questions or comments are accepted, and appreciated!