68 Twin Turbo Dart

A Little update. Last summer we went to Irwindale for match race madness. I had the motor out weeks before because the thrust bearing was toast and the crank was toast as well. I also found a blown head gasket but it looked like it sprung a leak out of one of the cylinders and then sealed back up. Amazing what the Cometic MLS head gaskets can do. Anyways thrashed to get the motor back together and test. On the dyno I made 4 pulls and every pull it wouldn't go past 5200. It would go full lean, the computer was dropping the injector pulse width causing a bad lean condition. So lean in fact that it would just shut off. That was the Wednesday before we were on the schedule to be at Irwindale for Match Race Madness. So I found the distributor was damaged and the phasing was off. I thought that would fix it. It didn't. I made 4 passes at Irwindale trying everything I could to find the problem. Well I never did find it. But I did manage on clean pass for whatever reason. It ran 5.42 at 125 on 11 pounds of boost. Definitely a step in the right direction. When the engine was out I was able to correct a few things and install a bigger camshaft. Now its been 6 months since that race. I took the car apart to fix a bunch of annoying problems.