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rhipsher · 01-11-2010

This guy comes in the shop and hands me a double roller timing chain gear and hands me a little sketch of what he needs done. He just needs a few diameters turned down. It's to a 428 FE big block thats going into a Cobra kit car. He says he'll bring it by when he's done building it. I jokingly said I'll race you. He says oh yeah? What do you have. I told him. He askes how fast will it get to 200mph? I said I can't get to 200 but I can get to 180+ pretty quick. As light as that Cobra is I know I'd get my butt kicked. So shoot ahead to today. The same guy calls me up and says he just stripped out one of the rocker arm studs. He said when he was tightening the rocker arm down the helicoil started pulling out. He was freaking out and yells "What do I do"?. I wanted to say well man your f*cked. Hehehe! But I just couldn't bare to do it. So I told him we can tig weld the hole back up with aluminum drill it retap and helicoil it. Problem solved. I think he screwed up and set his torque wrench to high or something. So he is bringing it by tommarrow. Those cobra kit cars are freaken awsome. Id love to have one some day.

01-11-2010	#1
rhipsher Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Houston 90 Red ZR-1 Posts: 2,320	Saving a non zr1 guy's azz. This guy comes in the shop and hands me a double roller timing chain gear and hands me a little sketch of what he needs done. He just needs a few diameters turned down. It's to a 428 FE big block thats going into a Cobra kit car. He says he'll bring it by when he's done building it. I jokingly said I'll race you. He says oh yeah? What do you have. I told him. He askes how fast will it get to 200mph? I said I can't get to 200 but I can get to 180+ pretty quick. As light as that Cobra is I know I'd get my butt kicked. So shoot ahead to today. The same guy calls me up and says he just stripped out one of the rocker arm studs. He said when he was tightening the rocker arm down the helicoil started pulling out. He was freaking out and yells "What do I do"?. I wanted to say well man your f*cked. Hehehe! But I just couldn't bare to do it. So I told him we can tig weld the hole back up with aluminum drill it retap and helicoil it. Problem solved. I think he screwed up and set his torque wrench to high or something. So he is bringing it by tommarrow. Those cobra kit cars are freaken awsome. Id love to have one some day.