Dad wanted to try drag racing again so we got the new water pump installed and changed the oil. dad robbed the Sun Super Tach II out of the 1964 Ford F-100 and also installed a driveshaft loop.
I mounted the 26.50 x 8.50 - 14 slicks on the rear rallye wheels and the car was as completed as it was getting.
Unfortunately we didn't have time to finish up anything else. It was simply put the car in 'D' and let nature take it's course.
The good news is that the trip went without anything imploding.
The car launched straight and drove smoothly down the track like it was a Sunday cruise.
The bad news is we only got 2 passes and then the event got rained out.
That's too bad because there was only about 50 cars down there and we could have easily got ~10 runs in that night. We got there at 5:00pm and a few people already had 5 runs in by 7:00pm, when they pulled the plug!

Sitting in the staging lanes before the first run:







Launch on the first heads up run against Brad LePine:






The first run seemed to go pretty good, however the serpentine belt was off the pullies by a tooth (or was it two?).
It ran a 14.0288 @ 98.11 mph. Considering the car was shifting ~4,400 RPMs, the carburetor was not dailed in, the transmission is stock (low RPM stall speed & no shift kit), and the blower belt came off on the big end that's not so bad either.





For the second run I decided to put the shorter 'race' belt on (takes about 20 seconds to swap belts on this system we have) which just bypasses the power steering pulley. This way the only thing the serp. belt goes around is the supercharger, crank, and tensioner. This gives the belt more bite on the supercharger pulley and would eliminate any slippage, if in fact there was any. We also bumped the timing up a few degrees.
The water pump belt came off and the blower belt broke. It wrapped itself tightly around the harmonic balancer and made scary noises. It sounded like the bottom end was knocking.




Dad said it was extremely strong through the middle of the track, but really nosed over on the big end with both passes.
We quickly tossed the 'street' belt back on and got back in the staging lanes. We got up to the front and down came the rain.

Unfortunately this was the last test and tune of the 2009 year and our only outing to the track with this car.