Milwaukee Midget

[fordboy628]

Maybe it's just me, but I got the impression that the old guy living behind you across the alley, hates everything . . . . . .   except for maybe: beer & barbed wire . . . . .   

No barbed wire, but his stockade fence sure takes a pounding . . . 

Actually, since he quit drinking, he's become a bit grumpier, but the Midget doesn't bother him - he just turns down his hearing aids.

You should meet his younger brother . . .  Just like him, only MORE SO!    

Ah yes, the stockade fence.  Has he upgraded from pressure treated wood to boiler plate yet?   

Or has he just added gun turrets on the corners?

F/B

[Dean Los Angeles]

when I flowed the 38DCOE's for Wiggle-Pin, his USED K&N dropped the flow two cfm, approximately 1%

So you do all that work to squeeze out the last ultimate horsepower out of the BMC iron and then throw it away with the filter?

Good grief, put a bigger filter on it. There should be zero loss through the filter.

[DND]

Throw the damb filter away this is rac'n man, race cars don't have filters

Like Dean says you delete what you have gained, plus it is just a few days a year!!

You can wash off the salt, gas it up and stand on it !!

G Don

[Milwaukee Midget]

when I flowed the 38DCOE's for Wiggle-Pin, his USED K&N dropped the flow two cfm, approximately 1%

So you do all that work to squeeze out the last ultimate horsepower out of the BMC iron and then throw it away with the filter?

Good grief, put a bigger filter on it. There should be zero loss through the filter.

According to Vizard's book, this filter is capable of supplying a 400 hp engine.

As to a bigger filter, this one's already as big as I can go short of mickey-mousing some convoluted air box.  And believe me when I say this is a HUGE improvement over its replacement.

Despite sealing off the inner fender wells, there's still a good possibility of salt getting kicked up, and the carb would be right in the line of fire.  And a carb full of salt doesn't flow as well as a carb breathing through a filter.

As Mark said - if it really is the difference between breaking through, I'll pull it, but those little itty bitty parts in there - they's 'spensive . . .  

[Tman]

Got an email and a call out of the blue from a guy searching Hartwell latches on the net and found our conversation about them. He is installing them in a GT3 Porsche and wanted some advice. Found my number and contact info via here and my website! Which BTW is getting a proper revamp.

[Milwaukee Midget]

This just posted -

The site is ticktickvroom.com, which brings together the more-similar-than-one-might-think worlds of high performance autos and quality time pieces.  I met Nick's dad at the Sussex show last month.  We had a great chat during the interview, and like everybody else, he used to own an MG.

I promised him dinner if he shows up in Beerhaven . . .


http://www.ticktickvroom.com/2013/07/chris-conrad-and-his-milwaukee-midget.html

[Rob]

Nice article Chris, go get 'em!

[gkabbt]

Very good article Chris!
Now "go out and give it hell."   

Gregg

[fordboy628]

Nice article.

Let's just say I'm hoping for more of the "ticktickvroom"  and none of the "ticktick?*!?*, $$$$$$$ . . . . . .

F/B

[Milwaukee Midget]

Fordboy -

The author called you a "guru" . . .


hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[fordboy628]

Fordboy -

The author called you a "guru" . . .


hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Midget,

From the Merriam-Webster Online concise Encyclopedia/Dictionary, definition of guru (noun):
In Hinduism, a personal spiritual teacher. In ancient India, knowledge of the Vedas was transmitted through oral teaching from guru to pupil. The rise of the bhakti movement further increased the importance of gurus, who were often looked on as living embodiments of spiritual truth and were identified with the deity. They prescribed spiritual disciplines to their devotees, who followed their dictates in a tradition of willing service and obedience. Men or women may be gurus, though generally only men have established lineages.

Those who get to know me, might become aware of my lack of "spirituality", especially in my line of work.   Under the circumstances, the label 'guru', seems inappropriate.   However, I have also been called 'Svengoolie' (Tm) and 'Svengali'.   Of the three, I think I prefer 'Svengali', simply for the character's penchant for evil.   There is no denying my Machiavellian preference for the 'dark side'.

I'm not the alchemist/magician who unlocks the doors, I'm the engineer/mechanic who pulls the pins out of the hinges . . . . . . . . .   more effective and more practical if you ask me . . . . . . .     sort of, master of what is obvious . . . . . .

Years ago, a well known competitor of mine called me the "Luckiest f***er in the world".    I prefer to think that I'm more adept at math than he is . . . . .           If his opinion is the truth, how come I haven't won Lotto???

Fordboy

[Milwaukee Midget]

Years ago, a well known competitor of mine called me the "Luckiest f***er in the world".    I prefer to think that I'm more adept at math than he is . . . . .           If his opinion is the truth, how come I haven't won Lotto???

Fordboy

Buying a ticket greatly increases you chances . . . 

I recall the interview going something like this . . .

Interviewer - "So this Mark guy, is he like your engine Guru?"

Me - "Wow, I know for a fact that he absolutely hates being called a Guru."

Interviewer - "Really?"

Me - "Yeah."

. . . long pause . . .

Me - "I think it's spelled  G, u, r, u " . . .  8-)

[SPARKY]

you don't buy tickets 

[Stan Back]

He doesn't win the lotto because it's mathematically too random.

[Milwaukee Midget]

He doesn't win the lotto because it's mathematically too random.

No - he doesn't win the lotto because he's still working on cracking the code.