Update from Finland

Hi again
Last year we had a massive engine failure when the crank broke and took a lot of other stuff with it, I found a 3.8 stroke crank and got the block and heads fixed, the "new" engine worked very good and the added torque really got the car moving, had some adjusting to do and still have but we managed a 8.42 at a little over 160 with a really good 1.20 60 ft
I have to say I'm very pleased with how it worked out

Now that is a very cool ride, and fast!!

Remind us of the engine combo please.

Awesome job love the car. Nothing like raising the bar.. back to work I go

I love that car. Fast too. Sorry about the engine but you're back.

Great job!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good job 👍🏻😎

Harder to "hit" converter with shorter stoke stuff you had before.

I am sure with some more working on it it will go faster yet 💪🏻

Maybe one day we can do a new set of heads for the top of it 😜

HELL YA...........

Great job Ken !
I always dug your car......glad to see it is still running strong.

Congrats that its working out great for you and that super fast Mopar !!! Very nice indeed !! Ron

engine is a R3 block with CFE heads and intake,Bryant,Grp, weber, jesel,T&D, Da Vinci, Moroso, homemade headers and oil pan to fit original K member, 420 cui , no dynotime so I can't say how much power it makes

W5DART66, I have two pairs of raw heads...

a few pics for your entertainment

902hp/2700>
60 Foot E.T. : 1.17
1/8 Mile E.T. : 5.30
1/8 Mile Trap Speed : 128.28
1/4 Mile E.T. : 8.40
1/4 Mile Trap Speed : 160

Nice car !!

Pretty impressive stuff
Doug

Especially when you think about doing that any where else than here in the home of drag racing
I had a guy in Finland send me a picture of one of my old race cars sitting in a old chicken coupe looking building several years ago, it was a original 1963 Plymouth two door hard top Max Wedge car, not sure if it was a 415 HP or 425 HP. Medium dark blue metallic paint.
Mafo, do you know any thing about that car or the owners? Are they racing it? It had a mild steel 12 point cage and a Dana 70 rear end with 5.13 gears in it mounted on Mopar SS leaf springs moved into the rear sub frames with full steel wheel tubs
It was my first halfway serious bracket car

I have heard of the car, don't have any more info, sorry
there is another one sitting here as well, old Dvorak car with aluminum front...haven't seen it since the early 90's...

Nice one fella

You sure are doing good,car looks sharp and obviously runs great!

Se on miellyttävällä, nopein Valiant Suomessa,, rakastan sitä!


Hope I did that right ?

cool car !

Ish Nix Verstein
Finnish is only spoken and used in Finland
Sweden, Denmark and Norway speak and use a completely different language than Finland

Haha, bigdad, that's pretty good, but I remember you living in Viborg, as we all know Viborg was a city in Finland until the bloody russians took it from us in 1944...
and Cab you are almost right, 6% of the finnish population speak swedish, I am one of them

Very nice, thanks for sharing!

Nice job!! Thanks for posting, car looks great!!

About the MW cars, the '63 Plymouth is under work, being restaured. Dvoraks old car is in the same condition as it used to be when Dvorak owned it, but without engine, it blew up. I believe it was the first 10 sec stocker? (Altitude corrected ET)
https://public.fotki.com/Juppee/nostalgiafrom80s/drag-racing/finnishdragnostalgia049.html

Bobby DeArmand was the first legal NHRA A/SA to run altitude corrected 9.99 at Boise, ID back a long time ago
A friend of mine was at that race trying to be the first A/SA to run in the nines also, my old NHRA 1963 Plymouth Belevedere two door sedan 63 415 HP M.W. car was there trying to do the same thing.

Yes, but this I believe was the first Stocker to run an altitude corrected 10 sec ET. I do not know who did the first 10 sec "real" ET, but one of the first was Jim Waldo in his 427 fairlane, that car is also in Finland.

Jyrki, you may be correct as far as the "first" altitude corrected car to run in the 10s but that would have been a long time ago, way before the race I'm talking about on those guys trying to be the first NHRA legal car to set the A/SA record in the nines at Boise, ID
Dan Dvorak had a number of different M.W. NHRA legal cars that he raced over the years, he was fast but he wasn't always legal all the time Along with a lot of the other east coast racers
I could tell you all kinds of stories about NHRA racers and the many different ways to push and bend the rules
There was one well known west coast Mopar M.W. Super Stock racer told me when I first started racing in stock in NHRA on pushing and bending the rules, he told me it ain't cheating unless you get caught and convicted
Jim Waldo started racing his Ford the same year I started racing my 1970 Hemi Cuda in A/S, I ran under the minimum NHRA A/S record at the 1975 Winternationals, it was 11.81 and my car ran 11.79 on the third pass I ended up getting toss out in the barn during tear down for having a glass beaded intake manifold Live and learn
Jim Waldo was in Division 6, NHRA decided to lower the minimum record to 11.52 after the Winternationals and Jim set the record at 11.49 ET around 115.+ MPH at the first division 6 race in May of that year, he reset it four more times that year before the World Finals at Ontario, CA that year
Back then you got 100 extra division points towards the division championship if you set both the ET and MPH record at the same time, which he did all five times He was and is a great guy along as well being a great drag racer His cars always flew

In the late 80's both Waldo and Dvorak run their old cars in Finland tin the midsummer race. Dan blew the engine up in the qualification and Jim advanced in to semifinals, blew a head gasket and couldn't make it in time. Here is a video with Jims interwiev https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ_f0Uc4hxM
Maybe even Mafo was driving there?

I'm gonna be in Helsinki in January. Any good racing going on then?

Actually scheduled to be in Vaasa in a couple of weeks, but might have to cancel that as my Dad is not doing well.

Jyrki, I was there but probably drinking beer

markz528, too bad, Vaasa is close to me..