I like that Bu! Did you make that mess in the street under the car....
It's just water. Had JUST washed the car and backed her out in the cul-de-sac.
Very nice car - why such a small cam? I have a 79 that's backhalfed looking to build a 540 with an ATI F2 blower
Thanks!! Small cam? No, most people over-cam and over-carb. I am running my times on a small cam and 950HP carb, which wet flows 830 cfm, with Edel RPM heads. Many said I couldn't even run 10's, and best to date is 10.57@125mph, 1.46 60'. Less is more. I fully intend to run a 10.3x this year with the updates.
Hope you post up some pics of your 79!!!
2 hot rods Sean? My Police Dept. needs to up their pay to keep up with you boys.
Hey, brutha. I'm 40, single, never married. That's my secret. :wink: That, and I'm up to my arse in hock. I'm robbing peter to pay paul!!
Here's the car I sold to pay for the Bu and the GN....
Featured Chevelle - February 2003
Just got home from Woodburn and it was typical Willamette Valley weather. Cloudy as all heck and always the threat of rain. In fact we had sprinkles of rain three times, and three times they stopped the racing. The temp was around 48* and obviously the precip/humidity hovered at 100% most of the day. They did VHT the track a bit at the beginning but it was pretty grizzly. A lot of cars were spinning at the beginning of the day. The sun finally peeked out at around 1400, and we were able to get some quicker passes in.
The transbrake is a drug! I started at 3200 rpm's and ended up coming out of the hole at 4600 rpms, and still wasn't blowing the tires off. M/T 28x10.5 ET's. The best pass of the day was oddly the same as my best pass ever, but with a higher mph, and a worse 60' time. All of that on a CRAPPY day. This tells me I'm going to lay down a good number this year as soon as I get the new converter, transbrake, launch rpm optimized. Here was the best pass:
60': 1.479
330': 4.310
660': 6.704
660mph: 102.33
1000 et: 8.796
1/4': 10.577
1/4mph: 126.22
My previous best was in mineshaft air conditions in May, and was a 10.57@ 125, with a 1.46 60' time.
We got video of almost every pass, both in car and outside the car, and I will post that as soon as I have a chance to decompress. I did note the car doesn't 'hop' at the launch, where it will pop up in the air about 12" and then back down, but will now rise up and carry the tires out a ways, and then slowly lower down. It's a really nice, smooth launch and the car doesn't do anything funny on launch. The car launches at 4600rpm's, flashes to 5700, and takes off like a rocket.
There is plenty more in the combo, and plenty of tuning yet to do. All in all I would say I fully expect to see a 10.3x this year, as I had hoped!
I'll get video up asap, so you can see what I'm talking about.
As always, if you guys have some good suggestions for me I am always learning. Thank you very much!
