Congratulations on the success after all of your hard work. Not only that, posting pictures of those time slips beats the hell out of some of your Walmart pictures. The post title had me kind of worried.
Ok now I’m excited. I didn’t expect that.
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It's funny how that always works, Mopar door cars lined up against dragsters.
there were a ton of Mopar door cars at Keystone, but then again there always all. Pa and Ohio’s full of Mopar guys.
moparstud440
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Good to see you made it back to the track. Car is running good is always a plus.
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Well done! First time back and it went well! Thats a win!
I was curious as to how much I had in this engine so I started figuring it out last night. Many of these parts have been in a couple of builds so that kept cost down because parts were cheaper then and some were bought at great prices and stored on shelves in my shop. I’m up to 5060.00 so far.
RedB.
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Very happy for you John. keep going brother !
Pretty damn good fun for the money
I got some good deals on this build. I’ll list them up during the BS time on Street Outlaws.
lead69
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I was going to say that but I was hoping for some magic lol, oh well, I guess I watch too many real street outlaw shows
I was going to say that but I was hoping for some magic lol, oh well, I guess I watch too many real street outlaw shows
My buddy’s Strattus has gone 4.60’s maybe a hair quicker at Keystone with a 600-13 Indy headed engine. It’s bracket raced weekly and also some fast index racing.
33IMP
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I've got a friend re-doing his pro-mod avenger. Previous owner had a nitroused bb Chevy. Gonna be a tall deck Keith Black solid block hemi, with a procharger.
So you went to race, ran well, didn't break anything and made it home safe. What's not to love? lol
Good job John. Great numbers. Kim
Ok engine cost breakdown
.030 (360) bored, honed, zero deck, new cam bearings, freeze plugs, 600.00 including block
4 inch K1 crank bought from Dan (Performance Only in Fl) 425.00 (bought two)
K1 rods 325.00
Discontinued Wisco Pistons with rings. 400.00
275.00 balance assembly.
400.00 damaged Edelbrock heads
150.00 (2.08 valves)
80.00 open intake seats
275.00 ATI balancer
500.00 carb
300.00 Victor340 intake
150.00 Cosmetic head gaskets
400.00 oil pan, pump, pickup
180.00 geometry kit
150.00 Racer Brown cam ( used but new)
450.00 Bam lifters
Smith Brothers pushrods???????
Harland Sharp Rockers????????
I think I came up with 5060.00 when I quickly added this up the other night. The rockers came on a 340 engine when I bought the car for 7500.00 around 2008.
The pushrods have been on three engines and the geometry kit two engines. Most of this stuff has been on a shelf for 8 plus years and finally put to use.
.030 (360) bored, honed, zero deck, new cam bearings, freeze plugs, 600.00 including block
4 inch K1 crank bought from Dan (Performance Only in Fl) 425.00 (bought two)
K1 rods 325.00
Discontinued Wisco Pistons with rings. 400.00
275.00 balance assembly.
400.00 damaged Edelbrock heads
150.00 (2.08 valves)
80.00 open intake seats
275.00 ATI balancer
500.00 carb
300.00 Victor340 intake
150.00 Cosmetic head gaskets
400.00 oil pan, pump, pickup
180.00 geometry kit
150.00 Racer Brown cam ( used but new)
450.00 Bam lifters
Smith Brothers pushrods???????
Harland Sharp Rockers????????
I think I came up with 5060.00 when I quickly added this up the other night. The rockers came on a 340 engine when I bought the car for 7500.00 around 2008.
The pushrods have been on three engines and the geometry kit two engines. Most of this stuff has been on a shelf for 8 plus years and finally put to use.
You have to add the cost of your porting.
You have to add the cost of your porting.
well when I did these heads I charged my buddy 600.00 to port these heads and an LD340. Then I bought my heads back when he decided to sell them. But they have been on three different engines so do we go fractional or what. Lol
9secRR
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Your car looks awesome with the wheels in the air.
Dale Davies
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About 30 to 35 years ago, Detroit Diesel built some 6V 92T engines for city buses. The diesel engines were inclined and transverse mounted and rated at 277HP.
These experimental bus engines ran methanol injected through larger injectors. The head castings were modified to retain heat and had provision for the glow plugs from the 5.7l diesel. The one they built from an Olds gas engine. Detroit V engines have their turbo mounted on the scavenging blower which is mounted in the V. There was also a glow plug controller, with LEDs for each cylinder. For initial start they all lit up like the dash glow plug timer indicator. Once started they flashed as they were turned on and off in firing order sequence. In the shop they idled like a top fuel or blown alcohol dragster. When they pulled in from doing a run and it was well warmed up it used like the diesels for about 2 minutes. By then it they would cool off and idle like a dragster again.
The methanol has such high latent heat of vaporization that when injected into the cylinders it just absorbed all the heat of the compression. This necessitated the glow plugs. Medicine Hat, Alberta had three methanol production plants with two closed due to economics at the time. The City of Medicine Hat was interested in getting the other two opened again, thus the transit bus interest. They got two methanol buses with federal government grants. Part of the grants was a stipulation to install monitoring instruments in two diesel buses so operating conditions, economy and emissions could be compared. The methanol buses came with this installed.
Initial engine life on methanol was 50,000 miles. The high volume of fuel required washed the cylinder walls down. Additives were tried and got engine life up to 100,000 miles. The diesels were going 350,000 to 400,000 miles in city bus service which involves a lot of stop and go. Good intention but this experiment did not pan out.
Ok a few updates as I finally got a chance to look at data. Some good news is I now know I can run a 6.07 shooting at 6700 as that is where I lowered it to in hopes of babying my old 422 on its 5th year of use. Usually I would have this at 7000 and I may as this sucker was pulling up top. Here’s some pictures of the RacePak data from my second pass (6.10) as I forgot to record my first pass. Your can see the vertical line at my 6700 shift point. It went through the traps (1/8 mile) at 6677
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