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Thanks OldmanRick! Where are you in S.C.? My folks were from Ninety Six.

Your not a hack! The Webers have stud mounts on the bottom that can be used to support the carbs. I just got some 10 MM bolts, cut some spacers and mounted the plate. Won't make a difference in a Drag Car, but I don't think it will hurt. And if I drop a jet or screw it should hit the plate and...

Built a heat shield to isolate the carbs from the headers.

Don't get me wrong, I love them. But they are a PITA to tune and understand how they do what they do. In the future I will post what I am looking at with them right now. But they look Italian Sexy!

So I drilled and installed a short roll pin. It goes through the steel and a portion of the bushing. It should keep them both happy. Pedal turns like butter now, didn't do that before. I have a couple of spacers for the rod end bearing that should allow everything to be snug. Then the slop...

I spite of my best efforts the insert hot a little hot and changed shape. So after I worked on it for hours I got it back together and it turns on the shaft nice. However now the pedal now can move right or left on the insert. SO I am in a thinking mode to get a good solution to an unexpected...

Small hole where the big hole used to live.

My Lincoln Helmet is giving me trouble. An Auto Darkening Helmet doesn't work consistently, that is not good. But I just used the fuse function and melted it together. I didn't want to feed in any filler because I would just have to grind it off. Not exactly stacking dimes but it will work. Now...

I have been working thru regular maintenance for a couple weeks off and on. Head torque, valve adjust, oil change, etc. I removed the clutch pedal to fix the slop in the master cylinder rod. I threaded the hole, put in a bolt and cut it flush. I will weld one side to keep it from turning. Then...

Killer why do you think the 2 numbers are different? Since there was a different gasket, do you think one was cut?

Yes it does! 11-high 10's. Destroked 300, 2700 lbs car.

Ok, gotcha. I should make a chart of that, do you think that would indicate chamber volume?

I will smoke mine when you smoke yours! Shots Fired!

True dat. I have been slowly increasing air pressure to get a little spin. I started at 14, Sunday I was at 18. The tire patch looks to be around 11 inches now. I spent some time on the phone today with Six Gun Scott. We talked about clutch combinations and other stuff to make it launch. He has...

Excuse my ignorance, O/A?

No, around 10.5 to 10.75. I should have cut the head a few more thousands, but it's at .100 now so I thought was enough right now. When that other head was leaking water, I was pretty disappointed and wanted something I knew to be ok. I am going to get that other head going with a better set of...

@RustyRatRod It does doesn't it! It really started doing what I "thought" the "old" engine should have been doing. I have a good ring seal now, more compression, better head, more cam, etc. It feels good to get this 60 year old piece of cast iron starting to sing. Or at least, clear her throat!

Second run was a 8.47 @ 87.7. Getting there.

@64plymouth Good to hear some back story. It is owned by Curtis Wells now, he lives in Cleburne TX and does quite well with it. It would have been cool to put them on the track at the same time!

I got the last pass uploaded, here is the link. The Colt came up faster than expected into the video frame. But it sounded good.

@weedburner, @19DART66, thanks for those comments. But, last year at MOKAN I took the tamer off because I was having so many issues with the car. The clutch pedal was binding and I was just trying to get in a few runs. I plan to work on that stuff in the next month and then go back with the...

I got out to Xtreme last night, they were PACKED! Best (best?) time last year was a 8.9 @ 77 mph. Both runs last night were better, much better. 1st run was 8.7 @ 85 mph. 2 tenths and 8 miles better. 2nd run was 8.49 @ 87 mph, almost 10 mph better than last years best. Both runs were done with...

One last post tonight. I passed 500 subscribers to my YouTube channel this weekend! It's not much but I thought that was pretty cool!

I started moving engines from my garage to the new shop in the back yard. I was joking with my friend Mark G about Total Seal piston Rings today. I sent him a picture of my "total seal" engine I forgot I had. Looks like 100% seal to me! LOL PS, that is vinegar in a stuck slant!

I sold my old belts to a couple of young hot rodders for their street car. It's been a couple of weeks. I did not tow to MOKAN last week. We had very bad storms from Texas to Missouri last week. I didn't feel comfortable towing with Tornados all a round. I had been working for 5 months to be...

Thanks Les, good to know. I never asked my track, but I will!

Great Job!

I looked up re-certs, after shipping it just was not worth the wait. These cost me about 10 bucks over the re-cert price. Xtreme and MOKAN don't look at them. Deb is happy now.

Damn Lawyers.

I never moved the dist during the head replacement. I was pretty sure it would light off right away. I did something right for a change.