Bout time so you can test all those bitty carbs then step up to a DOMINATOR............ Pretty soon Brad, petty soooonnnnn............

Divide and Conquer works for me too. If I have something I can't quite deal with then it is time to phone a friend. Sometimes a second set of hands makes the job go 10x faster.

I'd come up w/ a project plan that covered a whole bunch o' things around the whole car, but hit sanity overload when it came down to making real progress again. My last big push got the engine assembled and on Dwayne's dyno in Oct 2017. But then I needed to start taking it back apart to deal w/ numerous oil leaks, the crappy Mr. Gasket MLS (Must Leak Something?) head gaskets, etc. Normally I'd take it a bite at a time and pull in my friend Mike Hynes to help w/ another set of hands, a different skill set, and to keep making headway.

This time I've hired Mike to work through a set of tasks simply to make sure they get done while I can focus on the engine & trans work. When we rolled the MoPig into his garage on Sunday and parked it next to his work-of-art '71 440 Six Pack Challenger restoration (he did just about EVERYTHING but the paint and some hard-core body work, IIRC), it was a real-life E-body Beauty and The Beast comparison. Yeah, mine's an old rusty P O S... with a 670 HP engine waiting to get put back into it. The chassis is only legal for 10.0s, so the next question will be how close to that am I capable of getting the car.

Progress has been sooo sloooow and stop & go since I pulled the engine out back in spring of 2009(?). I'm hoping this strategy creates momentum and gets it moving on its own power before the tracks close this fall.

EDIT: Added another pic from driveway w/ partial view of the modified T/A repro hood to the right of the car. Ain't nuthin' subtle about it. Considering new plates for it, of which one option is LC73R. Not expecting too many people to pick up on that, but ZIPPY will, if he sees this.

Divide and conquer. The Admiral would be proud. He did teach you something after all.

That car provided a lot of inspiration for me over the years.

I recall printing out a post you did on Moparts back in late 90's or early 2000's where you methodically described what you had done up to that point and the results from the changes. It was in my desk drawer for years!

Good to see it getting a new lease on life.

Didn't you have an A12 car, too, at one point?

The Admiral taught me a lot of things, but very little about cars. If he'd had any interest, he'd have been a really good Rally Car racer; he was a pretty sharp driver under a wide variety of road conditions. Not sure if being a Navy jet pilot had anything to do w/ that, or both were simply a result of him being who he was.

That post in the late '90s may have been my first "real" Moparts.com post... Wow, that was a LONG time ago.

Yep, had an A12 RR, too. It's been gone now longer than I actually owned it, unfortunately.

LC73R does means something to me.
Tip of the hat to you from Detroit, from the funny looking white cursive F instead of the big blue M.

One of my most memorable posts over the years was pre-UBB moparts, where you went over a bunch of things that had been done, and it sounded like quite a list...and at the end, you said something like...Oh well, it's all food for thought. I still have to figure out where the "missing" power (or ET or whatever)is.

Nobody had any good suggestions.
If I remember right, at the end it was a cam issue(?)

I've sure enjoyed reading about your journey.

Glad to see that it is not going anywhere. Get it done & start making some passes. Someone has to, mine still is not done yet?

Yep. Finally figured out the cam started eating lobes after about 1100 miles when the car "mysteriously" lost about .3 and 3 MPH between a couple of track visits.

Long story short: engine builder ignored cam grinder's spring load recommendations and used his "favorite" SFT springs, which had about 30#s more open pressure than the cam grinder's max open spec. Broke in fine; broke down after about 1000 miles of excessive over-the-nose load.

No, he didn't cover the repairs on his dime. And, no, I don't have him do work for me any more.

Probably more than I've enjoyed living it.

Whomever said "Life's about the journey, not the destination" wasn't on a journey with multi-year long delays that repeatedly pushed back getting to the destination.

My memory isn’t that good........ I don’t remember that post at all!!😲

Mine, either. I only remember paying the repair bill.

....and here I thought one of us had come to there senses!

If I ever came to my senses, nobody on the internet would ever hear from me again.

.... I’m to the point that every time the car is on the jack stands (which is often), I’m worried it may never come down again.

I hope you get it running in the near future. I too enjoy your detailed posts showing the effects of changes you make on it.

I want to see more pictures of the hood if you don't mind sharing them. From front, side, and from inside the car if u have them.
Glad u are getting it back out

More pics of hood can be found on a couple of older threads. Search on key word "hood" with my name as poster going back 2 years and they'll be in the links returned.

Havent seen that car in a long time......be good to see it back out.

Get a boat it will be fun they said. So I did when I retired in 2010 and it’s still sitting there to this day without touching the river. Only thing I can say was at least I bought a used one. Maybe this Fall. Lol 😂

So much for my belief that only four other people on the planet remember seeing my car at the track; looks like there are five.