Carlisle 2006 is now history

Whew! Kim & I got home around midnight. Good trip home, even better yet... I didn't have to push the TC off the trailer!

It was really great seeing old friends (young ones too) and making so many new ones this year. Seems like just about everyone was having TC problems this year, I'm sure as hell glad the show or ride home wasn't a few days later as in tomorrow on 6/6/06... none of us would have made it.

Thanks to EVERYONE who helped make this year another successful event, especially Gary S. for all the planning and a very special thanks to Dan & Dianne for all their hard work and effort feeding the gang. MUCH APPRECIATED BY ALL!

Can hardly wait until next year, especially with the expectation that quite a few newly modified/customized TC's should be, correction... they better be there next year.

Hope everyone made it home safety.

PS. if anyone has any pictures from the show, TC or not, PLEASE send them to me. I'll start to put the Carlisle Pictures Page together in the near future. Mary Ann Baysinger took 8 rolls of film (WooHoo!) so it will be a week or two before I get those in hand so send it whatever you have and I'll get them up for everyone to see. You can email them to any of my email addy's listed anywhere on the website, but I prefer the one of these:

[email protected]

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Got home last night from a very interesting trip. Thanks to everyone for giving us a reason not to stay home. Met a bunch of Nato members, remember some faces to go with the names we read every day.

Carlisle is about 240 miles from home for us. I had the new 3" exhaust finished thursday so this was the shakedown run for that. Lost 3 exhaust outlet bolts on the way down, Thanks Trashline for having the bolts when I needed them!! I took off the intercooler Sat. night to fix the exhaust outlet worked on it till about 11 P.M. went out Sun morn about 6:30 to finish it up, figured might as well put in plugs while the intercooler was off. Had it finished and washed by 8 am sunday.

Going home, while the wife was driving I look over and see she has no gauges. I ask how long since we had gauges, Didn't know. Anyway I jiggle the key thinking if the engine is running and we have no gauges it must be the key?!? within 5 miles the car stops, dead battery. I hook up the portable jumper (combo jumper, compressor 120 V. inverter and the heaviest flashlight I ever used, and one of the best Chistmas presents yet (Thanks Son!)). I goes about 10 miles and we are dead in the water again. After doing this 3 times to get to an exit I McGiver a wire from the alternator directly to the battery, gauges come back and all is well. We drive another 100 miles, now about 40 miles from home I remove the wire and continue home. When I checked the battery voltage at the house it is 12.6 V+/- the alternator output at that time was the same.
Test voltage from an alternator on a fully charged battery won't be high, right?

The regulator was new and the Alternator was a REBUILD installed 2 weeks ago??!!??

I probably wasn't the key, but the low voltage? I won't get to check it out till tomorrow.

Great trip, nice meeting everyone hope to have time to visit next time.

Thanks Again

Mike C and Carol, my wife

Thanks NATO for a great time. Mike I'am glad that you got home safe. I found out were all the oil was coming from. It was mostly coming out where the dipstick tube attaches to the block. Does anyone know if there is supposed to be an O-ring there? We were smelling burning oil all the way home for 5 hours. I'am happy to see some new faces. I was really worth it to stay the whole weekend this time.

Can't wait for Carlisle 2007

Happy B-day and good to see you again Joe, I hope to see JR next year.

Thanks Bob for helping me with the ECC Tuner.

Thanks again Tony for dinner I am glad that your TC turned out to be a simple fix.

Congrats to Glenn for winning the award.

Matt you probably don't have internet connection but, have a safe trip back to Washington (stay out of South Dakota).

Congrats to Nate for winning the best looking TC award.

Much more things to list but it will take me forever.

Trashline I am going to catch up to you on Posts hehehehehe.

Thanks for a great time everyone,
-Kashain

What a great time! It was great to see old friends, and make some new ones too! Cant wait for next year.

Got home Monday morning after a overnight stop....I am getting too old to drive 850+ miles straight thru. TC ran great the whole trip of a little over 1700 miles, and knocked out 29.1 MPG.

Kashain.... no O ring where the tube goes into the block, it is just an interference fit. Pull the tube, clean it and the block around the hole with brake cleaner, and seal it up with RTV.

Originally posted by Jeff K:
What a great time! It was great to see old friends, and make some new ones too! Cant wait for next year.

Got home Monday morning after a overnight stop....I am getting too old to drive 850+ miles straight thru. TC ran great the whole trip of a little over 1700 miles, and knocked out 29.1 MPG.

That's because it is downhill all the way from Milwaukee. That was 1 part of the trip with the bird that I forgot about. 250 miles to get to Carlisle, drive around for 2 days and fill up with 9.3 gallons, gotta luv it.

Glad to see everyone reporting in safe.

Mike C.

We've had a great time meeting everyone this year, especially the new faces, but the time just flew by.
First of all, I would like to thank Dan (Woody) and Diana for inviting us into his home for the Thursday night get together,and also for cooking at the tent. "Great job Woody."
Getting to see Joe and Katie again this year,(Happy B'day) let me see what that alt. looks like after you get it back together.
Matt, I hope we are still square on our math problems.
Nate, Mary Ann will get that film out as soon as she can.
Also I hope we don't have all the car line location trouble next year like we did this year.
I hope everybody had a safe trip home.

Ron

I had a great time at carlisle!So much to see!It was my first one and was quite the experience.I didn't get to meet many of you,talked with Glenn at t-bird show,tony and a few others at the dyno run.Was sick all week with cold or something and some sunburn on sat,missed a couple of spots on forehead...ouch!felt like crap most of the time,but wasn't going to miss carlisle.Looked at about every car in the show.Picked up a new steeda shifter for $150,sweet!put it in on sunday.Looking foreward to next year!

Kashain
Haha, I stuck an old O ring from an Injector on my dipstick end, Im guessing you didnt get any oil out the breather did you? Also Candice wants Amy's email address so if you can PM me or something I can give it to her.

Mike C no problem thats what friends are for, I more then owed you anyway for my late adapter.

Hey Bob (from philly) so was that an SS? j/k nice quick cruise home

dont forget when Kashain gets his new body, subframe weekend party lol.

Yeah we had a great time also. Oanh made it home ok on the plane today..only to discover her house keys are in my car She was able to hook up with the house sitter and get her key in time to get the kid out of doggy jail so it all worked out. I left the Harrisburg airport at 8:30 this morning and got to Milwaukee at 8:30 tonight. Since I reset the tripminder in Wyoming last Monday I've driven 2600 miles and averaged 28.6 mpg and 62.8mph. Not bad at all. Just another 1900 miles to go.
Thanks to everyone who made us feel so welcome. Too many to list.
Also thanks to the Calculator (Ron) LOL!
Kashain, seal up that breather grommet I was talking about if you don't delete the PVC like you were talking...