Luck is not on my side. After putting the bull horns on we put it on the chassis dyno to get a good tune. First pull popping and farting like it did in the beginning. I was like damn, this problem won't go away no matter how much electronics I change out. But during the run noticed my horn were shooting out water. Dammit, pulled a plug and turn the car over and there goes the water. Did a leak down test and all my cylinders are good to go. Yanked the head in hopes of this only being a head gasket problem. Well, wrong again. Everyone of my intake runners are cracked to the water jacket. I find this less than a week of being there and heading to Drag Week. So obviously, I have to bow out again... Getting with the company that did the port work in hope they will make this right or help me out. It is clear that there was too much material taken out and made this area weak. So to all the Drag Week'ers, I'll see you next year. If I can't make Monster Mopar, I'll be at Mopar @ the Park for sure...
DJ
DJ, I'm sorry to hear about the cracks, but to a certain extent, I have to agree with some of Ray's comments. If you had discovered the cracks while at Drag Week, you'd either A:) throw a can of Barr's Stop Leak in there, and keep going until the finish, or when the replacement heads came in, or B:) throw your hands up and quit. I know which answer Mr. Miller would have chosen. If you're going to wait until every square inch of your car is 1,000% perfect, then you may never go to DW. Mr. Miller was running on like 5 cylinders toward the end of DW. I think Ray's point was, you've got to have no quit in you in order to persevere in DW, and work through whatever is thrown your way.
Gone to the dark side with an LS3 powered '57 Chevy 210
