a-body gasser ?

This weekend, we are going to try and fire off the 318 that sits in my '64. Some of the Mosher's gang said they'd pitch in to get it running, so we can shake down the suspension before we drop in a Max Wedge. But I figure if that 318 runs good, we'll stab a cam in it, and I'll buld a real cool set of spaghetti fenderwell headers for it. Run it, shake the car down, then pull it, detail the engine bay get ready for paint and the real deal.
Bob Mosher has been keeping an eye on my car. After all, he built an AWB car many years back, and swore he'd never do one again, it was that hard. But, secretly, I think he has a liking to mine, maybe due to the fact it reminds him of his. Who knows. But, if we can get it running, we'll drive it onto the Fall Fling. If not, we'll trailer it as well as Steve's. Can't wait to show everyone. I love the rollcage I built for mine. Ain't no room for a back seat!!

As far as front suspension- I deviated from how I built Steve's, by putting my steering cross link in front of the straightaxle. What??? Well, hold on a sec. Let me explain the reason-

Alot of these cars crashed due to early racers taking the easy way out by using "near steering", meaning the went straight from the steering box to the driver side . Scary wheel shake and terrible handling will be a result. Steve's is cross steer, with the link in back of the axle, Mine has it out front, and its distance out is the same as the distance back from the cross steer link. In my case, I found there to be no binding, jounce testing provided zero deflection in the steering wheel, and the leverage makes it feel like power steering. The downside is that yo do not get as sharp a turning raduis as before, even though you can still turn the wheel lock to lock. Oh well, so it takes an extra shot to get it into that 7-11 parking lot! By the way, our idea of jounce testing was to jack the front end of the car up about two feet, then dropping out the jack and letting it hit the ground!! The wheels stayed straight and the steering wheel did not shimmy. So I think it'll fly, but obviously we'll know when it gets its first tires up launch!

Dale