would like to change the morris to Mopar its all painted on. Paint looks great for 25 year old paint job

Thats the plan as of now but ya never know
whats gonna happen

Need to figure out the seats for dragweek. Need something more comfy and a passenger seat.

Anyone use summit brand seats?

https://www.summitracing.com/parts/sum-g1130r/overview/


Any recommendations?

I am still looking at putting in those seats..
they look nice and might be comfortable ... I
just havent pulled the trigger on them yet.. I
have a few other things I'm working on
EDIT
I like the 2 holes in the back.. they will keep my
belts in proper location

Leave the seat and put some granny house cushions on them. If I didn't see it in person I wouldn't of believed it!

i have thought of that also but was looking for a little adjustment when going down the road. after a hour figure it would get uncomfortable

I'm still running the factory seats but I want
something better shaped

those look comfy from what I can see.

They are but they dont have the bolster to hold me in
like the sport seats

No need for bolster if you keep it straight

I like the idea of bolsters also. Wonder what summit ones really weigh

I looked at the web site that makes those seats
and it showed the weight but I dont recall what
it was.. it wasnt bad at all... but if you think
of it this way.. a light seat doesnt have a lot
of cushion to it but a heavier one MIGHT have more
but also the material that is used now days tends
to be lighter weight and they tend to use foam as
the item to give it shape(which is light)
EDIT
the seats are made by Pro car/Scat and weight
ranges from 25#-30#

I thought about making my own seats but figured
I could buy a nice set cheaper.. I use to make
seats for some of my toys... I did the interior
for my boat and a couple other boats.. I made all
the bags on my hoover craft.. I own my own industrial
sewing machine and I like playing with it.. but I dont
have the time anymore

Seat weight not bad. Trying to keep the car light figure its a 11 flat car, ran 6.9 in 1/8. So need to change the gear and add weight, Kim is 100 lighter so hope to run same times in drag week form.

I'm not that talented to make seats

I am a little late to the party, but figured I'd drop my $0.02 after my first drag week attempt last year.

If I can sum it up, it would be to keep it simple, and bring a proven combo(maybe not an option since you just picked up the car...haha).

I was in the 11.50 and up category who ran a class, but knew I wouldn't be competitive.

I was going to run 4.10's with 28's at the track and 30's on the street, but I decided that I didn't want to swap tires every day, plus space was limited as the trunk has a 22 gallon fuel cell and a battery in it. I only have 10" wide rims for the back, and it is surprisingly difficult to find 30" tall tires that will fit a 10" rim that aren't super swampers. So I ran my 3.55's and 28" drag radials with a rain friendly tread. As EFI Dart stated, most of the roads have slower speeds anyway.

I added V-band dumps to my headpipes that I would uncork at the track, I would empty the trunk, remove the hitch carrier, adjust the tire pressure and make a pass. Let it cool, load everything up and hit the road.

DF likes to joke that DragWeek is the largest group of cars that weren't running the week before, but avoid this if you can. I logged ~3k miles and 30 passes on my car last year prior to drag week. Not a lot if you are a weekend points racer or have a daily driver...or live somewhere that snow doesn't exist, but the car was proven. The only issues I had all week were a melted zip tie on the plug wires and dealing with mid-western cuisine, but I am used to that by now.

Also, I tried to eliminate aftermarket parts where possible. I replaced my Barry Grant pump with in-tank walbros that you can get at the parts store (actually, I have 2 pumps in tank, so if one fails, I flip a switch). Anything aftermarket or specific to your car, carry spares. If you have an LS, chances are someone will have what you need, but the same cannot be said for a BBM.

Also, I run the plastic bucket seats with vinyl covers. They aren't super comfy, but fine for me...

Summit seats set tall!, with the brackets provided or sold by Summit...... You will go boald rubbing your head against the roof.........

I wont be using Summit brackets.. I have my set up
already for mounting but its a fixed mount(cant
slide back and forth) but I'm back all the way
and I'm looking at a somewhat shorter seat.. 30"
tall with the head rest

http://procarbyscat.com/seats/Rally-Canvas

I agree with Outlawd, drive it drive drive it drive it some more. Put yourself in some bad traffic scenarios because idling in your driveway is different than idling in traffic after you have been driving 3 hours. The few times I have had to stop and let the car cool on drag week has been from running down the highway for hours and then having to come to a stop, something about my system just can't keep up with that.

I'm going to run Scat rally seats with the black cloth cover, mostly because I have a new set and also the guy riding shotgun with me at drag week had one request...don't make me sit in plastic buckets for a week.

This is all I know about the combo, seems like a nice basic setup. He was going rounds so was consistent.

440 10.1 compression
Steel heads with a pretty good port job
Crane Rockers
590 Mopar Solid Lift Cam
950 hp carb with a aluminum intake
Mallory Distributor

Will be driving it as much as possible. Thought about trying a 1150 dominator and a FITech see how they do. Like the simplicity of staying carb, but with locked out distributor the fitech can add some timing cruising



Dragweek tracks workout well, farthest one is 3.5 hours from home. Closest is about 1 hour. Hope to crash at home one or two nights depending on the routes. Already have hotels at the farthest tracks reserved.

Plan on racing as is for baseline. Then going to change gears and add bigger transcooler, rewire all light, make side windows pop out, get nitrous hooked up.

Tires are next thing has Phoenix slicks 12.2x31.25x15W
Tread Width: 13.40
Section Width (Actual): 16.50
Overall Diameter: 31.80
Circumference: 100"
Recommended Rim Width: 14.00


Big tire and love the way car looks but not rain friendly. Guessing I will be changing tires back and forth.

Sounds good!

Is the 950 dialed in at part throttle. My 950 out of the box was great at WOT, but part throttle was so rich I was worried about washing the bores down...I needed to adjust t-slot and PV restrictions to make it cruise well.