I had a good first outing on Tuesday making only 2 passes and having a slight miss right before the top of each gear shift, I figured it was a lean miss. No actual data other than my Levis and plug color. So I loaded up and jetted the carb a little the next day in anticipation of the Gold Cup on Friday and Saturday.

Well, this has been a tough season....I could not get the car to run well on the last outing at the Nostalgia Gold Cup that Friday night. Between loosing a rad hose and almost hitting the wall and trying to figure out whats wrong with a miss, then only to notice on Saturday I had next to no oil pressure on my fresh engine, I was done.

I suspected I had a bad distributor at first, but couldn't find the problem, then the wall, and then no oil pressure. I packed it up from the Gold cup and went home to re-think for a day or so.

Lots of bad stuff in the oil filter, and only 10lbs of pressure at idle instead of 82lbs like we had. Decided to start pulling the engine out, and found #3 plug all black....Pulled the covers, two bent push rods and a broken tab on the lifter....So this is fun....I re-used these off the last engine, maybe one time too many.