71 Duster 360 (new project)

No...we did not have a good time...LOL........Hot and lousy air..

Dart blew a head gasket....as checking valves..ignition..fuel.....I had a compression gauge with us...number 2 cylinder made a whooping 30 psi after 3 rotation on the starter...but there was no water in the oil at that point...so we ran it on Saturday where it ran best of 10.61 on 7 cylinders.... a full 3 tenths slower then last time we were there...Sunday morning..the dipstick showed water...parked it...and fixed one of the tow vehicle so we could all get home..one of tow vehicles had started running like crap just outside Bakersfield on the way there.

Out west we have some pretty good grades to climb...Mountain Pass...Baker grade is a killer in the heat..and the Tehachapi mountains..


Tired as I am working night shift...got off work Friday morning 4 am and drove to Bakersfield ..320 miles...over some beautiful roads only Kalifornia can provide...Hwy 58...on way home one of the tail lights rattled off the trailer on that highway...

did not get to sleep until 10 pm Saturday evening..fell asleep in grandstands with nitro cars running......at that time I realized I had been wearing the same underwear for a day and a half.....

1st pass Fuster ran a new best by .01...10.641 @ 124.17...it ran great all day Friday in the heat with several 10.66s and 10.65s....by Sunday it had slowed down to a 11.08 @122....60 ft times went from 1.418 to a turd of 1.60 on the last run....

We seem to have a problem....went it ran fast. you could hear the engine banging on the two step....went it slowed down...there was no banging..launched like a turd...

Outside of that ....I had a wonderful time...LOL