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  1. jerry clayton
    Bill Davis---- Sorry I was not able to show up there---------being a retired United pilot riding on a pass used to be easy-----now they only fly 60 passenger airplanes between Chicago and Salt Lake and I couldn't get on------maybe someday soon-------- Jerry
  2. jerry clayton
    Maybe Bill can post pics of the winner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats----do wish I could of been there----------- Jerry
  3. jerry clayton
    I want to be the first on here to congradulate Bill for his outstanding work on this model----I have received word that he won his class, got best engine, best detail, peoples choice and GRAND CHAMPION!!!!!!!!!!!!! then when I got home and opened my emails, found a message from him also--- Congrats Bill, and your display pics you emailed me are going to get printed for my collection--- Jerry
  4. jerry clayton
    Man-----I am just honored as hell that you would even want to build a model of the car---------------
  5. jerry clayton
    Sorry if any one took it that John had used a KIT to build the car--Revell never did and kits of our funnys , but some like John built up there models to be more accurate than the kits were and used lots of resin parts and Slikk decals---must be a lot of you guys doing some now as I just got the biggest royalty check from Slikk ever-----while it won't fill my fuel tank, it does show that a lot of people want them to stick around---
  6. jerry clayton
    W 409 Thats the car the model was of----- Jerry Clayton
  7. jerry clayton
    Bill---yes I am working on coming to the show---it will be an honor to meet somebody such as you who have devoted so much time, energy and love of what they are doing to make a oiece such as this to honor something that I had---in fact I feel very honored about all the people who have built these models and kits of my car---hope to be able to get there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  8. jerry clayton
    So --------------when and where is this model show?????????????????????? And can I get my picture taken with you and this model???
  9. jerry clayton
    I hope this works
  10. jerry clayton
    well the wings lifted the side air up toward where the zoomie headers blew it on up and back over the tire--much more aero as now pretty much all the air infront of the tire was lifted/blown over it instead of just the top part---the wings also added a great deal of downforce/traction so we could be a little more aggressive with the clutch for midtrack--- the added distance engine/rear axle I believe took weight off the rear tires which allowed a little more growth as our speeds went up a lot--also the front end stayed on the ground for better control course about that time every body went toward rear engine cars but as a side note-the snake came back to a front engine car from his streamlined rear engine one -------
  11. jerry clayton
    Bill--when we were putting the wings on, I wanted to lengthen the wb some--had Ramsey set in the car, I wedged a 4x6 piece of wood between his parts and the diff cover---so----5 inches it was moved---performance??? we held the NHRA National record and the record at OCIR ( Orange County) at 6.61 et and before the night was over with the visable side wings and the invisable longer wb(really the distance the engine was from rear axle) we lowered the record to 6.41---fastest time ever at that time----within a couple weeks almost everybody was putting side wings on or going to rear engine----
  12. jerry clayton
    Bill---- stuff looks good , but a couple of comments---what is that I see in the rear center of the rear end???? And you will probably want to remove that brake line? across the top of the housing--- Remember that the driver sat behind that and his legs went over the top of the axle tubes--was really tight after we moved the rear back 5 inches at the same time we added the side wings----people only noticed the wings--didn't spoat that we had also lengthened the wheel base---
  13. jerry clayton
    I might have a pic of Jim's car racing at Union Grove back around 1981-82--but I'm not home this week so it'll be probably Monday before I can look for it Jerry
  14. jerry clayton
    that lower diagram is correct-- lines to/from remote filter and the feed and 3 lines for the center mains, and external sump line
  15. jerry clayton
    the drawing is not correct--on the late model hemi(426) there was an adapter to allow dual inlets for the oil pump and one was an external line going to the sump--also, it had provisions for the remote filters and they fed oil to the three center mains via hollow bolts that allowed oil pressure thru the side of the main caps-- You can see some of these pieces online in Milodon cataloques or Moroso
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    Ted--- as for the oil system diagram you posted---I believe that was probably an attempt to show the systems used on the 426 late model hemi---the pump was mounted external at the forward lower left corner of the engine and oil went forward to external filters and then back to the block--this was via an adapter that replaced the filter mount on the pump bottom--the two lines to the side of the block above the pan are probably a sorta copy of the three lines that attached to the 3 center main bearing cap cross bolts via hollow bolts that fed an extra amount of oil to the center main bearings--this was necessary because each of those mains fed two rods were as the front and rear main only fed one rod each-- Jerry
  17. jerry clayton
    on the FED we ran an Aviaid oil pan and just a plate over the two oil ports at the rt rear corner of the block--we used a wet sump and NO FILTERS---later , on the funny car we ran filters because we got a sponsership from Lee Filters----and then the rear engine car we had a dry sump system with filters mounted directly on the back of the oil tank which fit behind the seat at an angle---
  18. jerry clayton
    It will be a couple more years ---first I'm thinking I can take my Firebird out there and see what everything is about--like you got to step up in speed, theres rules/etique??? do this, not that--I can probably get the Fbird up to 250 area as it will be easier to do that than with the Cobra body---It already has cage, parachute,some aero work----Cobra is a concete block compared to it---
  19. jerry clayton
    Robert we really enjoyed that trip--all you guys were great to put up with us on a day when your having a Christmas party-- also stopped at Garlits Museum and they kept us there for quite a while including the parking lot after they closed---finally got up to my brothers near Live Oak late Christmas dinner for us was at a truck stop buffet up in Georgia. Still not done with the Cobra--planning to run at Bonneville Salt Flats for speed record for Cobra bodied car---
  20. jerry clayton
    well actually in n effort to be funny I did it backwards-----reason I had to build the rear engine car instead of the model of the front engine car--- RED sold for $61 + shipping ---now there's another on at $140 buy it now??????????????????????
  21. jerry clayton
    I hope you realize that 1/4 wide would be a 1/12 scale, not 1/16----- and they were 57 inches long, and to get the ratios we wanted when the 8mm teeth came out we had to machine our own pullies as they(Crager) had only done the ratios for the elephant engines---it took 7 different cuts on each side of every tooth( 14 per tooth) to get the shape done--the profile and pitch diameter was secret/pattened---and we had to work out the shape , and then the pitch line---lots of very small chips---but it was worth it because we had nothing but trouble with the old 1/2 pitch square tooth belts--usually about every other run one would cme apart and fill the engine with all that fine steel cable that was the core ply of the belts.
  22. jerry clayton
    Too Old Bob was that when we were down there at Christmas time picking up the Cobra body?
  23. jerry clayton
    too bad that guy is doing air bus--if it was a B777, I'd fly it down so I could go too
  24. jerry clayton
    the scoop on the injectors in those photos was from after we had set an altitude record with the supercharger the first night we ran the side wings--so those pics were later on in the year 1971 or possibly early 1972--- and after reading my post about the rivets, I hope it didn't come across wrong--I was trying to be funny concerning Bill's awsome detail work--- And speaking of details---Bill, which end of the barrel valve linkage do you have the left hand threads on??????????
  25. jerry clayton
    make ###### sure that the rivets are in the correct direction!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! really, looking good and I am flattered that all you guys work so hard to make these things like they were----I was happy that Revell made these cars as it sorta captured the history of the art work in the body work and paint jobs----but that wasn't good enough for many who have worked so hard to do it exact scale to the original sizes---Revell had came to me about the wheel base---they wanted to just some of the same stuff for both our car and Tony Nancy's car but they weren't the same wheel base----I told them it was such an honor that they would do our car it was fine to alter the wb. Tony must have said the same thing---I remember seeing Tony's car at the JC Penney cataloque outlet store for $6-------
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