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Propylene oxide was once used as a racing fuel, but that usage is now prohibited under the US NHRA rules for safety reasons. It has also been used in glow fuel for model aircraft and surface vehicles, typically combined in small percentages of around 2% as an additive to the typical methanol...

I ran one for years on the strip along with Pete Jackson gear drive, the timing dont budge from where you set it, never. Makes it kinda hard to start unless you get the motor to spinning over then flip on ignition switch.

Yeah, they had been on a noise curfew for years, there are even 2 (two) dirt tracks straight across the street from it all within the city limits. They want new houses there, nice big expensive ones and its all right next to the local landfill so the new home owners can move in and then *****...

Our local drag strip in Fort Worth, Texas is closing the end of this year due to local politics. Hell its been operating non stop for like 50 years and has turned out some of the best bracket racers in the country.

I like both the GM and BBM, have always said that if you put some shaft rockers on the chevy then you got something to work with so to me motors is motors pretty much, they all do the same thing. I have a host of chevy parts on my BBM already including the trans.

With just a SWB PU I would take of course the car and 16 ft trailer LOL, in the bed of the poor overloaded truck I would have---10X10 EZ UP pop up tent, Honda Spree pit bike, coleman 5HP generator, Two 5 gallon jugs one with fuel and one with water and a one gallon for the generator, Two Ice...

Thanks Bob, I just knew deep down that surely I couldnt possibly be the first with this idea LOL, I should be able to make the top mounts easy enuff as well !!!

Excellent info fellas, just what I wanted to see and hear, my car has the slant 6 torssion bars (for racing) so I am putting it back on the street and was hopping to go coil overs on the front also and not have to change the Tbars.

Anybody running coil overs on the front with just the stock suspension, I see no reason as of yet why not as long as the coil diameter fits thru the hole in stock upper A arm and it looks like it will. If not the just open it up a little then brace it back up, I already have the shock towers...

An old racing buddy (he is not old) has 9 or more wallys, the family, him, brother and dad have over 20, once they start coming home with ya they just keep coming.

I use an aftermarket external oil cooler and run Penzoil Hydrastatic Tractor Fluid in the trans, never once worried nor even wandered what the fluid temp was, dont even have a temp guage. Sometimes the bands wear out and need a minor tweaking, have seen my trans builder adjust one less than 1/4...

Mine would never creep in over hundreds of passes, always have heard if its creeping its the band adjustment. I use the Transking electic shift valve body.

I spent 6 months restoring my first real race car, a 23T Altered and take it to the track for its maiden voyage.....oops lost the steering wheel on the way there.......

Might could find something out on their web sites, maybe even Jegs or Summit would have some specs listed.

We have never had any problems using the Holley blue pump on motors up to 700 HP with the pressure set at 6-6 1/2 PSI. I kinda scrolled thru fast and didnt catch what intake, the rpms sound like a dual plane intake.

When racing I was running two cars, ordered lots of parts from lots of people, sometimes without even having time to shop around for the best prices BUT if you are like me and trying to save from having to pay taxes via buying online make sure whom ever doesnt have a warehouse in your State, if...

oh and also a small flash light for doing the slicks in the staging lanes at night, my guage has a built in light.

Yes one guage for the slicks (low pressure) and one for front tires (high pressure) and I always screwed my slicks on just for cheap insurance.

I carried everything in the back of a SWB truck included a pit bike and 10X10 EZ up, dont forget some sunglasses if the sun is still up and the track points straight into it.

and lawn chairs, air tank, tire pressure guages/ one high pressure and one low pressure if your running slicks. Dont forget ink pen to fill out tech card and KNOW the track rules....dont forget the helmet. Hell I showed up one time without the steering wheel...long story but somebody found it...

I have a 5 gallon cell and only keep about 2 gallons in it, I took a stick and put a mark on it to drop down in the tank to refill back to the same exact amount after each pass.

damn that sucks, I hit a swarm of grasshoppers @ 160 MPH in an open wheel roadster, had on full face helmet and it was loud

fab something up from the motor mounts on the block down to the frame going to the rear of the car and that will hold the motor in place. get some spacers and cut to length between the tabs on the block, bolt em in place and get some one inch square tubing or round tubing and cut to length and...

Not only that but you can put a line loc on front and back then hook em to a delay box and avoid the cost of a transbrake.

My car here in Texas would run a mid 6.60 @ 101 MPH on several different tracks, I think one time it ran 102 (tire spin due to bad burn out), thats the only way I can see your running 4-5 MPH faster unless my tune was way off.

nice chassis set up and torque converter, dont think that oil pan held up too good though.

I would put some front shocks back on it. dont need the front suspension flopping in the breeze on the top end......then I would go out there and be having some fun.

I gotta wonder just why the spectator (fence hanger) is wearing a helmet?

Looks like your 1/8th time is showing some tire spin to get the MPH up that high, mine runs 6.60s at 101 MPH