1968 SS Dart in progress

The weather in Arizona is starting to heat up but we are having an unusual break in the 90* weather in favor of some low 80* days! I now have collector car insurance and registered the car with 5 years on the tags. Good until 2020. I installed an auto meter mechanical water temp gauge and sure enough, the temp was getting up to 220 in no time. Turns out the "good" used radiator we installed was clogged. We also discovered that the Pioneer brand harmonic balancer was not assembled correctly which despite our best efforts, meant that the car was ran with a significant amount of retard. I purchased a nice Bosch bore scope to reliably view TDC and the timing mark for TDC on the balancer was clocked 30* off position! The car ran a 12.01 with approximately 15-20* of timing retard! I can't wait to run her again at full potential. We are purchasing a new Fluid Damper unit and a new radiator and I will install them next weekend and hopefully get some reliable street miles on her :-). I should have more pictures as well. Hope all is well with your families and all of your projects. Enjoy Mother's Day :-).