2022 Challenge Progress

We pulled in at mid night.  Work on 2022 is underway.

For you guys who are serious.....  Saturday 10/30 is Maple Grove flea marketand is drag car part rich.  Saturday 11/06 is the Racer Flea Market that was at the Harrisburg Farm Show and is now at Carlisle.  These 2 FMs will yield huge amounts of Challenge friendly pieces.  

Man you guys and Matt digging in right away is impressive. 

Ian calls this period the "challenge hangover" where you're burnt out on your own thrash and have a zillion ideas you want to employ from other cars you saw. 

Net result is a month or so of not much progress.

In reply to wheels777 :

I need one centerline skinny with GM bolt pattern, would take a pair if I had to. I can PayPal you $$$ in advance if you're willing to help a brother out. I got 1 for $40 the other day on FB MarketPlace.

Robbie (Forum Supporter) said:

Man you guys and Matt digging in right away is impressive. 

Ian calls this period the "challenge hangover" where you're burnt out on your own thrash and have a zillion ideas you want to employ from other cars you saw. 

Net result is a month or so of not much progress.

Challenge hangover is gone by Georgia.  Parts were being located bt South Carolina.  Engine in bay this morning.

In reply to AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) :

I have the two spare tire rims that Patrick included with Nader.

In reply to wheels777 :

Any way i can have yall loom for a stupid cheap sbc bellhousing and four speed? Theres no way i can get to Pennsylvania for the swap meets, and neither of those are ever available around here for challenge money. I will happily send money and come get them another weekend. 

Dusterbd13-michael said:

In reply to wheels777 :

Any way i can have yall loom for a stupid cheap sbc bellhousing and four speed? Theres no way i can get to Pennsylvania for the swap meets, and neither of those are ever available around here for challenge money. I will happily send money and come get them another weekend. 

 

I have (2) 4-speeds I am about to put on FBMP.  What are you looking for?

Dusterbd13-michael said:

In reply to wheels777 :

Any way i can have yall loom for a stupid cheap sbc bellhousing and four speed? Theres no way i can get to Pennsylvania for the swap meets, and neither of those are ever available around here for challenge money. I will happily send money and come get them another weekend. 

 

Define "stupid cheap"

Marketplace - Saginaw 4 speed with Chevy bell housing | Facebook

In reply to DeadSkunk (Warren) :

That!!

Is that local to you?

In reply to Dusterbd13-michael :

90-100 miles away. Did you also see Andrew's response?

wheels777 said:

Dusterbd13-michael said:

In reply to wheels777 :

Any way i can have yall loom for a stupid cheap sbc bellhousing and four speed? Theres no way i can get to Pennsylvania for the swap meets, and neither of those are ever available around here for challenge money. I will happily send money and come get them another weekend. 

 

I have (2) 4-speeds I am about to put on FBMP.  What are you looking for?

Cheap. Its going behind a 4.8 for a challenge car, then onto life as a hpde/hillclimb car. Hopefully utcc as well.

Im fine with Saginaw or t10. No real preference on any particulars. I know muncie is WAY out of challenge budget these days.

Good looking out, but I am way ahead of you... since I couldnt make it to the challenge this year I am already done my build for next year!  I could spend and afternoon checking nuts and bolts but soon enough it will get covered up, go on casters and be shoved into a corner for a while.

Seriously, I am about maxed on budget and recoup and don't really need to do much shopping.

I DO need to do more than a basic street tune still. Hit me up when you head to the strip in the spring? I could use some test & tune to dial in the launch control, nos timing, etc. in a safer environment than my picket-fence suburbia street.

In reply to Stampie :

Let's talk!

I just need to mount my drag slicks and skinnies and top off the coolant after i put a legit overflow bottle on.  Maybe nitrous maybe not who knows 

I bought a car Sunday for next year, that has to count for something.

In reply to pimpm3 (Forum Supporter) :

me too!

Robbie (Forum Supporter) said:

Ian calls this period the "challenge hangover" where you're burnt out on your own thrash and have a zillion ideas you want to employ from other cars you saw. 

I think it's also the dreamer faze. Buy parts and cars we have no ability to complete because we saw Andrew do it. 
 

All said, I may text Andrew this week to see what parts I may need. 

Serious question. do you have like a massive data base for all these finds? I know you are constantly attending swap meets and picking up bargains, probably more than you'll use on challenge builds and I gotta guess somethings you buy a thing with intent to use it on one project one year and it doesn't get used until years later on a different project. I just figure as detail oriented as you are there must be a master database. just wondering what that looks like.

In reply to evildky :

I dunno how Andrew does it, but I just keep everything in a gmail folder. usually screenshot of ad or receipt, selling price, and any additional details get sent in an email from myself to myself. Then I can find it from my folder and add it to a budget sheet pretty easy. Works for parts sold too.

In reply to evildky :

Buying it. Mark it.  List it.  Enter into electronic file.  Take pictures and date code the file name.  60% of the items are in electric files I can locate with find option.  If you noticed a number of items have dates  on them.  Simple process. I had the folder in the car when it was in the pavilion.  A number of people looked at what was in it.

Robbie (Forum Supporter) said:

In reply to evildky :

I dunno how Andrew does it, but I just keep everything in a gmail folder. usually screenshot of ad or receipt, selling price, and any additional details get sent in an email from myself to myself. Then I can find it from my folder and add it to a budget sheet pretty easy. Works for parts sold too.

But Andrew does it on the scale of amazon.

I was wondering if you had a purchase order system. When making a purchase from FB marketplace or eBay putting in the notes, PO #9.06151

That was one of the biggest things i was impressed with this year was your build book. The level of organization is fantastic. Takes discipline but makes like so much easier. Personally, i took a lot of notes from your book this year and have started my own photo folder for this build and waste no time in documenting purchases immediately so i dont get behind. I can only hope to have a book half as impressive as yours next year.