67 Dart 270...Project Old School
I ended up missing the Champaign stop for Power Tour....sort of... I have a good friend in Champaign who was packing up his house in preparations for a move to a new home. I ended up driving my truck over with my two sons and helped him pack up his house. We did take some time to head over to Parkland college and check out the Power Tour cars rolling into town.
I did make it to the stop at Gateway Motorsports Park since it was in my backyard. I got to walk around and check out the myriad of cars, trucks, and some,....well they were hard to describe.
This was the Dart parked on the oval in between two very nice cars. It is funny how small the Dart looks in that photo.
They were offering free "Fun Runs" on the drag strip, so I headed over to take advantage of that. The weather was hot and muggy.
I did manage to get three passes in, but discovered the shifter was off by one detent. It took me two passes to figure it out. First pass the tach bounced of 6700 before I let completely out of it. I had to hit the shifter a second time for second gear to engage. The second pass the tach hit 6300 before I got out of it and hit the shifter a second time to engage second gear. The third time I shifted into second on the shifter before I staged. It turns out all the detents were off one position which makes me wonder how I ever found PARK. I will have to spend some time re-indexing the shifter to make sure it is correct.
I will have to get the shifter sorted out before I can really compare the A500 performance versus the A904 performance. Let's just say in either case I would be no match for the Challenger Hellcats turning 11.00s at 125+ MPH.
I ended up missing the Champaign stop for Power Tour....sort of... I have a good friend in Champaign who was packing up his house in preparations for a move to a new home. I ended up driving my truck over with my two sons and helped him pack up his house. We did take some time to head over to Parkland college and check out the Power Tour cars rolling into town.
I did make it to the stop at Gateway Motorsports Park since it was in my backyard. I got to walk around and check out the myriad of cars, trucks, and some,....well they were hard to describe.
This was the Dart parked on the oval in between two very nice cars. It is funny how small the Dart looks in that photo.
They were offering free "Fun Runs" on the drag strip, so I headed over to take advantage of that. The weather was hot and muggy.
I did manage to get three passes in, but discovered the shifter was off by one detent. It took me two passes to figure it out. First pass the tach bounced of 6700 before I let completely out of it. I had to hit the shifter a second time for second gear to engage. The second pass the tach hit 6300 before I got out of it and hit the shifter a second time to engage second gear. The third time I shifted into second on the shifter before I staged. It turns out all the detents were off one position which makes me wonder how I ever found PARK. I will have to spend some time re-indexing the shifter to make sure it is correct.
I will have to get the shifter sorted out before I can really compare the A500 performance versus the A904 performance. Let's just say in either case I would be no match for the Challenger Hellcats turning 11.00s at 125+ MPH.
