Month: September 2008

Glend McDonald, BMRT Honorary Member, past Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer, and who was a valuable member in good standing of Bracket Masters for eight years, passed away on Monday, Sept. 29, 2008, after having a motorcycle accident. Funeral Services will he held at Hall Davis & Sons Funeral Service, 9348 Scenic Highway, Baton Rouge, LA.,11:00 […]

He had a best time of 9.59 sec.. The best to date had been, 9.67 sec.. I expect this engine to go much quicker. It made more horses and torque than my 540 on the dyno, and that was before the new CNC heads that we just installed.

I dropped in on the painter, unannounced, today. The car is sanded but not ready to paint. The painter is not working on the car at all. He is doing a very large, non-automotive, project and has put everything else on the back burner (turned down real low). I started back to work on the […]

It ran real good. Silas Jr. red-lighted in the second round and ran 9.92 on a 9.98 dial-in. Took my own advice and purchased some stock before the market opened Friday, it went up 6 points today! Maybe I should be like the guy in the auction commercial, and sell it now!

We have had several good things happen since getting our power back. The insurance adjustor came and did his assessment. We are waiting on the results. They will replace the whole roof, along with all of the sheet rock that was wet and the insulation in the attic that got wet. We got a FEMA […]

Last night hurricane Ike hit the Gulf Coast of East Texas and Western Louisiana. There is massive flooding and some loss of life. I also heard about a train wreck in California, also with loss of many lives, and there are still people trapped in some of the train cars. Please Pray For All Of […]

I have toyed with the thought of changing pistons and cam to make this a pump gas engine. But after thinking about it for an instant, I decided to keep it like it is and make a few 8 second passes. I can always build a cheap pump gas 468 BBC and go bracket racing […]

We had a lot of wind damage to the roof of our home, and got some water into several of the rooms on the front part of the house. We have the infamous “Blue Tarp” on the top, and we are waiting on the FEMA “Blue Roof Program” to install a temp. roof on the […]