Good to have you aboard Roland!Guys, you will find Roland a "living" time capsule of knowledge and experience of these great Racers and Mopar racing program peoples as you can see from his post below. Roland's Chrysler Power Magazine is the epitome of how a magazine should present itself and if you have seen or read it you know the value of which I am speaking; excellent no-bull articles, no pandering to advertisers, superb photography...and when thumbing through the pages you know you're handling a magazine and not flyweight paper like other mags I used to subscribe to.
That being said, I know from our conversations that he will be creating a Poly specific "community" and you will see an enlargement of this one facet of our hobby. So look forward to great things happening in the future for our "Polyheads" and Mopar enthusiasts in total!
Gary Pavlovich-----Original Message----- From: Roland Osborne
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2014 8:35 AM To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Poly update 9-7-2014I'm 'fresh' here guys so bear with me as I learn the ropes... It's an honor to be part of your group-I've had everything from an original 62 MaxWedge Sport Fury 4speed that I let my son drive to high school in the early 90's to a '65 426 Street Wedge 4speed Sport Fury I gave to Dan Lewandowski at Direct Connection in the early 80's plus about 50 more fun things I've been blessed to be a part of... Bruce Caldwell from Car Craft and I sold Pete Haldiman the Dick Landy car that he has today in 1977... All that said, we'd love to have YOUR stories for Chrysler Power-cool pictures and your story of the headaches and heartaches, trials and triumphs of creating your own special vehicle-pride & joy... also would like to keep our readers informed on any activities as Jeff Johnson and I plus a number of the originals are attempting to bring back a lot of the 'way it was' before the greed and feeding frenzy of the 90's+ soured the original vision of family friendly Mopar activites for the fun of it-(if you know what we mean?)...
Thanks, Roland -----Original Message-----From: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John deVries
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2014 2:12 AM To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Poly update 9-7-2014Welcome Roland. I wish to again thank you for helping me with my 66 Charger project in the 90's. I was stationed in England and need a set of heads for the 440. You were so kind to ship them to the APO when no one else would saving me well over $300. I know you also sold them to me at your cost. They have been on the engine for 24 years now and have been trouble free.
Sent from John
On Sep 7, 2014, at 20:36, "Gary H." <62to65mopar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi all,I'm posting this for Roland. He is now a member of the 62-65 Mopar mail list and will himself post future updates.Thanks, Gary H.-------Original Message------- From: Roland Osborne...To briefly recap, Tuesday we hit the ground running, porting and ‘cleaning’ 15 manifolds, prepped and ready for the wheelabrator (shot peen)… (Javier did a 4 year porting apprenticeship with Joe Mondello!)… Wednesday was my birthday and we finished off the 15 and shipped to wheelabrator then went to the beach for dinner…Thursday we loaded 16 manifolds back from wheelabrator, had breakfast withMarty and then headed to ‘the Valley’ to the machine shop… We’ve really hit a home run guys… Javier is ‘the king’ in this industry with customers like Enderle, Donovan, Stage V, Shelby, Arias, Chrysler Power, BDS and on and on… The machine shop was doing Arias and Donovan Hemi heads when we pulled up… From there we went by our old NHOA first warehouse shop in Reseda and did videos of our corner where The Balance Shop, Hogans Heads, Jim Shewbert/Ed Pink all started life with us… See them (like and share) on our Chrysler Power fb page… Then we sat in traffic on the way back;o(… Schlepping parts to the machine shop 35 miles away is a full day project!…Yesterday we took my primary laptop to the Geek Squad to save from totalcrash-the entire next issue of the magazine is on there… We shoppedshipping boxes for the manifolds and valve covers and finally got the bestservice from our local Staples (same parking lot as Best Buy)… we ordered 50 boxes and enough bubble wrap to wrap Marty’s BFG HemiCuda5 times! From there we went to the bolt place and got a supply of bolts for the first 20 manifolds-we finally settled on a black anodized/oiled socket head-much like the ARP we REALLY like and also ordered hex stockwhich will have to go with the bolt kit… We’ll cut the hexstock to length so the manifold installer will have everything he needs tosuccessfully install the manifold… for as most of us know, the water passages on the first 15 don’t allow much room for a drive socket let alone the bolt… The hex stock WILL fit as its smaller than the bolt and can be driven by a simple six point 7/16-3/8 socket… Even withthe new improved water passages I believe that this install system willcontinue to be ideal… Also ordered a batch of intake and valve cover gaskets from Rocky as these guys MUST use our gaskets and bolts to be successful… After all our shopping, Javier and I played with the valve cover install… Those rubber gaskets suck and while a lot more expensive, the cork composite gaskets are the ticket… I also believe we shouldprovide a stud kit for the valve covers for easy install-the covers aretaller so the stock bolts won’t work and trying to find the hole while holding the cover with gasket in place is rather frustrating… I also think we need a third (center) hole drill and tap kit with instructions…And the coup de gras was when the machine shop guy (very sharp) asked ifwe’d installed any of these manifolds and I said I guess I din’t think so and Javier confirmed that no one has installed one on a motor that has head gaskets and with our intake gaskets… I thought this sure is a Rube Goldberg operation… so before the machine shop final machines the 16 we delivered, we’ve got to make a day trip backto the Vallery, pick up the only other finished sample-(Gary has the first one)-also the completed valve cover samples, and install them on the motorJavier has here after we install a set of head gaskets… Then we’ll know most assuredly we’ve got a product of the highest caliber!!!And Bruce, bless his heart, has rallied to get a running Poly motor and install a manifold on it to verify that it not only fits, but it RUNS andRUNS EXTREMELY WELL!!!Its Saturday morning at 7:30 and the foundry is pouring 7 more manifolds,12 of the huge Enderle top fuel bird (pterodactyl) catchers, 4 of Dave’s new Hemi blocks and more!!! Stay tuned! More to come! We’re planning a ‘coming out’ party in about 2 weeks for anyone who would like to join us in CA… Thanks, Roland-- -- --Please address private email -- email of interest to only one person -- directly to that person. That is, email your parts/car transactions and negotiations, as well as other personal messages, only to the intended recipient. Do not just press "reply" and send your email to everyone using the general '62-'65 Clubhouse public email address. This practice will protect your privacy, reduce the total volume of mail and fine-tune the content signal to Mopar topic. 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