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Very nice Mopar fastfish! Wow if I was in the USofA I would snap her up! Unfortunately I am a Limey in the UK...:BangHead: I had my 66 belvedere project stolen from outside my farm unit and was never found...:soapbox:

Thanks Kimmer! Its a lot of work changing out drums if they don't work! I've been converting my transmissions to wide band 71'onwards DRUMs due to ring seal failures (and worse). I've also been using the same input shafts but noticed an extra oil-hole in the pre 71 shafts? Will this have any...

Good thread guys! (bad pun lol) The less thread sticking out, THE BETTER! The further you go out/down, the more RATIO you are losing... Sometimes you burn up adjusters and can't see the problem? Oil in the cup and they still wear out? Change them for another set and the problem goes away...

Nice reply Rumble. Back in the day (1990's) just running a ten was my mission. Running a mid ten felt very fast at first, but like beer you get used to it! But life and money stopped me in my tracks and twenty years has rolled past, you get to thinking of nines. Most of the guys then were...

Hi A-bods, I would love to boast about my NINES but 'cash and weight' probably stopped me...:BangHead: I was told, 'back in the day' that I could run a NINE without NOS and an IRON 440ci motor. My car was approx 2800lbs and was tagged to run EIGHTS, so well capable. (did run 8.20@180 on street...

Thanx for the reply Charlie. How do you know if your VB is 'low-band' apply in Manual first? According to all the books I've read, that's a stock configuration. That's why you don't BURNOUT in DRIVE. Does the 'VB drilling' done in the B&M transkit, transco etc. render this 'inoperative'? If so...

Hi A-bods, Old thread I know but I'm also looking for 'lip seal' info. I've seen you can fit 71-up lip seals into pre 70 front drums. Is this correct? As I have a pile of 71-up rebuild stuff and very little earlier parts. Best wishes from John

Wanted please a 727 billet steel front-drum. New or used is fine with or without internals. many thanx from John

Hi inertia, B&M VB upgrades show the drilling of the VB body for the 1st gear 'free-wheeling'. I still don't understand what this is actually for after all my years of drag racing lol...:lol: At the end of the strip , I just let the throttle of 'real slowly' and apply the brakes 'real gentle'...

Hi Neil and Andy, I've had a few RHD barracuda's over the years the best being my first mopar a convertible notch! Sold it to Nigel Cooper in Fulham the Facel Vega restorer. His wife drove it around London town for a while but I lost track of it. It had an ex-jensen 383ci motor and 727 in there...

Nice article and clears up some 'old wives tales'! I have sometimes shifted 'third again' (3/4 strip) if the engine sounds like its 'over revving' on the track. If it wasn't a reverse pattern 727 then the motor would have gone! When you circuit race (like me) you change gear mainly on engine...

Nice workmanship KMA. Seen a few guys have made their own flowbenches, thats well cool! I have a friend in California who is from Finland, he used to live and work in Sweden and now in the US of A. He has incredible skills when doing sheetmetal and has restored many Mopars, to the top level. Not...

Nice list of Bearings there Fishy68! Loving the 'any parts store' quote, here in the UK ''if it ain't metric, don't ask'' lol... Best wishes from the UK

Good article on Art Pollard! What a crazy year 1969 turned out to bee with the Petty-Ford story. Shame the 320ci Weslake engine wasn't more successful then Mother Mopar may have carried on with the Indy cars? The 305ci engine was just a crazy in 71 and just a bit more luck and smallblock Nascar...

From what I can gather, the D5 heads were cast by Weslake's to improve on the iron heads in 1970 for the PS guys? So a radical re-think was done to 'totally change' the design and it was a complete 'white elephant'... Tiny round ports with re-angled valve alignment making the heads sit wider on...

We always thought the 1970 TA head was the only ones drilled for 'offset pushrods'. But we now know that the 69 X-head had the same treatment the year before... Hemi re-sized valves with 5/16 stems and raised stands, how TRICK! How many were done like this???

Great info Kenny! Much Kudos to your wonderful father, doing all the work and only getting the credit 50 year later... Its Weslake without the 'T' lol. I'm not sure why, with 'KB', 'Pete H, your dad on board, why all the Oval-port and D5 heads were cast/sent to Weslake UK? So who were the...

Ball stud hemi valve arrangement, so close to the Poly, its uncanny...:poke: 600hp ovalport small-block Poly's, how mad is that in the 21st century...:realcrazy: Ovalports are the future...

Loving the 'ball-stud hemi engine'! A poorman's hemi, yeah right lol...:thumbsup: Mother Mopar lost a small fortune on every hemi they sold and the crazy guys were wrecking them most weekends at a drag-strip! The replacement 'warranty engines' must have had the Mopar bean counters having...

This 1969 ultra rare 'Sand-Cast' Dominator now resides on the #88 record breaking 200mph car with it correct restrictor rings fitted.

The Larry Schrieb book was written in the 80's and the Weslakes engine were still in the UK along with other hemi engines and a pile of D5 stuff too. Obviously without the Weslake research paperwork or the engines to study, he couldn't write about them. 2020 could be the year when an UPDATED...

Weslake STR next to an M1

Modified valley tray for the BB W2 and Epoxied runners in the STR.

There was no intake for the W2 BB heads so one had to be converted to work. I suppose using an adapted STR was probably a bad choice as it has several known faults! The Weslake STR was painted 'orange' and it got polished for a street car set-up back in the 80's here in the UK. With a 1969 only...

Nice articles there fella's! Harry Weslake did wonderful things with DUFF heads in the UK. Late sixties Mopar 'wedge heads' were good but obviously could be much better. Why they didn't just re-invent the Max-wedge head, God only knows???:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: What work Harry did with...

Weirdest part about the 'W2' BigBlock Weslake heads are? An EXHAUST crossover...:drama: Must have been designed for a STREET car...:wtf:

Heads are very similar to the ones in the Mopar Performance book by Larry Schrieb, page 92 and 93 with conventional chambers and extra COOLING waterways too. (like late Motorhomes) 2.250 intakes and 1.81 exhausts. Lovely 'D' port exhausts! All the rage now lol.:thankyou:

No Carillo rods in my 440ci Nascar engine , just shortened 426 hemi rods? The hemi rod in the foreground is a stock length 6.860 and the Weslake rods are of course, 6.760 440 length! No obvious signs of reworking just hemi rods at the 440 sizing...:thumbsup: No forged pistons either just plain...

Hi Brian, Loving the pre Weslake X heads you have there! I have a few Mopar Weslake heads here too, a pair of 340 J heads and a complete 440ci engine with W2 style ported heads. The Big Block W2's are not modified standard castings but unique heads cast from scratch! Seems that Harry must have...

Hi Brian, My name is John Hatchard and I live in Kent UK and researching Harry Weslake with Mopar connections. Just seen your X-head feature and its very interesting indeed! I have some Weslake 'J' heads also and a pair of Weslake 'W2' port Bigblock heads here. Just building a sixpack for my 71...