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Thanks for that explanation, very informative. I knew someone had the answer.

I wish we could get Sunoco 110 at the pump around here, I have to drive 15 miles to the drag strip to get it.

That's what my thoughts were, I've been building street cars for so long under the constraints of crappy fuel that my mind set has just moved away from high compression. I think for now I'm going with the 11.7 combo and if I want more later I have a set of 58cc W2's that would bump me up a...

A bracket car running race gas

My other option is a set of W2 heads with 72cc chambers which would put compression around 10.2 but I figured with the aluminum heads you could get away with a little more compression. I know the old Direct Connection Racing packages about 11.to 1 compression in the 11 second bracket.i assume...

Way back when in the 1970's I had a 1963 Dart that was literally stripped out, it had a 340 that was .060 over with TRW 12.5 to one domed Pistons, a Crane Zip 518 solid cam with 518 lift and I can't remember the advertised duration but I do remember it was [email protected] so plenty of duration. Here's...

No doubt

im building this 408 for a car that will probably end up getting raced more than anything, mostly just trying to use up all the parts laying around my garage. The short block is all forged, Scat crank, Eagle rods and Probe flat top Pistons with valve notches. They have a zero deck. I have a...

AMC's usually have a pretty wide engine bay, when I was a teenager there were a couple of guys drag racing in Louisville with a 426 Hemi in a Gremlin so there must be a little room in there. I remember watching that thing carry a the front wheels almost the entire eighth mile, they would only...

Pour lead in the back bumper

My sons car,(the red one) funny how you can buy a car like that and you have instant street cred, I stand there next to him at a car show with a vast array of knowledge and everyone loves his car and they look at me like I'm an idiot!

Tubtar, I'm with you, I like a nice consistant car that runs in the 7's somewhere without lots of maintenance. I sold all my big blocks and hemi's a while back so it will be small block or nothing. After the barracuda fell through I am considering just selling all my junk and buying a Viper...

I was wondering about running e85 in race cars. What special equipment is required? What is the octane rating? What compression ratio will E85 support,and what other considerations are involved?

I went out to pick the barracuda up and after looking it over real good there was very little left to build. It had severe frame rust and turned out being a bad starting point. I have a buddy with a 70 Dart he wants to sell cheap so I guess I will have to check it out.

mopardude318 those Magnum valve covers were some oddballs, made out of magnesium, listed for over $700 a pair. I don't really want to sell them because I always like to have something under the hood that makes everybody go WTF. I like that internal rail on the small block valve covers because it...

Back in the 80's I had a 1963 Dart that I bought from a guy who was trying to build a race car (until being married got in his way) It was pretty much gutted except for 2 bucket seats out of a chevy luv truck.It had a .060 340 with 13.5 to one TRW forged pistons with a set of 273 closed chamber...

I know about the difference in the cam snouts but its not an issue because I will be using the early timing cover. I'll call Hughs and see what they can help me out with. Thanks to everybody for their suggestions and help.

pettybluedart, seems like I jacked my own thread. I was talking to my Canadian buddies at the Indy meet and they have been trying to get me to come to Moparfest for a while so I hatched a plan to take my Sons Viper and go to Chryslers at Carlile and when we leave there go to Detroit for the...

Sounds good, I will go ahead and cage it. I don't see it ever making a 9.99 run so a basic cage should suffice. I am going shopping to find some Magnum style heads because I have 2 sets of roller rockers for those and that short block is already assembled. Only thing I will be lacking will be...

Here heres a couple of photos of the junk laying around my shop

Cage isn't a real problem, 2 of my good friends build race cars for a living and I have a Miller 35 mig welder so even welding it myself would be OK. Do you have to have a cage certified if your running those times? Hey pettybluedart, do you race at Grand Bend? I have a buddy named Brighton who...

Oh, I forgot to mention, big blocks pretty much out of the question. I sold most of my BB and Hemi stuff so I'm left with a crapload of SB parts. Buying more stuff would defeat my purpose of cleaning out the garage!

I'm retired and my budget is pretty much only limited by the fact I like to build stuff cheap. The car is going to be gutted so like you said I can lose weight with some fiberglass. I'm really only doing this to clean out the garage, tired of all these things sitting around. I like to race but...

I've been messing with Mopars for about 40 years now and have had a multitude of performance cars over that time(from 2.2's to Hemi's) but for the last few years I have been mostly buying and selling parts. I found a 1968 Barracuda sitting in a guys yard, been sitting there for years, and I...