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- Member since:
- Aug 25, 2008
- Board posts:
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- Age:
- 51 years, 11 months
- Homepage:
- http://RedneckAutoParts.com
- Location:
- Longwood, FL USA
- Occupation:
- Manager/GIS systems - Embarq
- Interests:
- Drag Racing, Karate, Autobody & Painting
JayB43's Bio
Born In Buffalo N.Y., raced mini bikes and motorcycles in middle school, raced snowmobiles for the Sno-Jet team in USSA oval track competition as a teenager, then drag raced various cars in the "street" divison at Lancaster Speedway. I moved my family to Sebring, Florida in 1978, were we built and raced a VW powered sand buggy in Sand drag events in Lakeland and Orlando Speedworld. Later, raced the same car in Mud Drag events (I hated that!). When the Sebring Dragway opened in the late 1980's we built a VW powered dragster for asphalt. During one of the subsquent re-openings, I drove a big block 1966 Chevelle for L&M motors. I purchased the Chevelle from L&M after the track closed and occasionally race at Orlando Dragway. I have a supportive wife and 3 children, Dustin, my middle son, & I will be partnering to build and run the 2008 challenge car, his 2000 Trans Am was in GRM's June issue
JayB43's Challenge Build Diary
Paint Complete Sept. 29
After a long day of sanding & taping, we have both colors on the car, we used only a little more than 2 quarts of paint, Semi flat balck primer for the roof & deck and a re-maroon mix to match the movie car. Even with the lack of fine ... More »
Ready for Paint Sept. 29
Ok, we have finished the bodywork cut the hole in the hood and after final sanding will be ready for paint since we are goin after the "movie car" look, we probably didn't catch every dig & dent, but it will be better that it was More »
Zoomies Build Sept. 21
Ok, no real performance value here... But a cool look, hopefully... See if you can guess what we used for the 90 degree zoomie bends... welded to rusty stock exhaust pipes, of course... More »
Bodywork complete Sept. 21
We fixed a bunch of small dings and dents, all in about 6 hours... we are painting the roof, wing and decklid in black epoxy primer, so fine detal is not necessary... although it will be pretty straight due to my time spendt working in a body shop... More »
Downpipe Bend Sept. 19
As I suspected, the fit of these parts is less than perfect, we had to bend the downpipe up and over to the right about 3 inches, I am not sure what this chrome pipe is made of, but it was harder than hell to bend even after getting it ... More »
Craigslist Turbo Install Sept. 19
We scored a turbo kit from a young guy with too many speeding tickets on Craigslist.. it was pretty complete, but no instructions... This is first time turbo install for us... So we are asking a lot of questions and doing research to hopefully make this run without exploding the ... More »
