I had engine freshened up over the winter. It was in the car for 3 years. Ported heads and installed a Dominator intake . This was from May, about 3 weeks ago.

Nice pass! Got an “8” in her???

Very nice!

Thats motoring

Tex

Probably just needs to take a drive to Maple Grove or Cecil County during cooler weather to get one.

Could you give us some technical details on your car?

Thank You

Congrats on the new best. Got luck towards that 8 second pass.

1973 Dartsport, 2" x 3" Alston chassis, ladder bars. Santhuff custom built front shocks with about 2-3/4" travel. Old single adjustable rear shock. 32" x 13.5 W X 15" Hoosier slicks.

540 Cu. In. Bill Mitchell aluminum block, a little over 14 to 1 compression . Crane custom roller cam, ( can't remember lift), I am thinking around .640 lift. Brodix B1/BS heads, ported , Edelbrock dominator intake, 1050 Dominator.

CRT 727 transmission , with billet steel drum, rollerized, PTC 8 " converter, Flashes to 5900 rpm, shift 1st to 2nd at 6300 rpm, shift 2nd to 3rd at 6500rpm, cross traps at 7000 rpm .Transbrake , reverse pattern, Advance Control Design air shifter, with Hurst 1/4 stick.

Ford 9" with 4.10 gears.


Car weighs 2460, and 2650 with me driving.

Any more info, just ask??

Probably going to Maple grove for Door Wars, October 4th thru the 6th 2019. If the weather is good, should be able to get into 8.90's , unless they run 1/8th mile??

Congrats on the new best ! Ron

Thanks again, the reason I asked is that I have similar car to yours. I just got the latest combination together and have one test weekend in so far.

Mine's a 1970 Cuda 2"x3" Alston ladder bar. Strange single adj. front., Penske double adj. rear. 32 x 14.5W x 15 Hoosier 4.10 gear

496 cu.in. 4.350 x 4.15 oem block. 13.3 to 1. Jones custom flat tappet 272/280 .632/.591 1.6 int./1.5 exh. Indy little ez's ported standard port. M1 tunnel ram w/2-750 annular

Homebuilt 727 rollerized, both alum. drums. A&A clean neutral valve body. Dynamic 8" (initially to get some flash and shift fallback data) for my test day I was shifting at 6800 both shifts. Flash was 5900 and shift fallback was 550 rpm......based on a previous combo, I'm shooting for 54-5600 flash and 1000 rpm fallback.

Mine weighs 2610 with me.

The best so far is 9.12 @ 145. @ Beaver Springs 1800' DA that run.

It had a slight miss at the top of each gear.(I suspect I had a too hot heat range spark plug and o2's showed slightly lean) I also put a custom 9" Dynamic in, based on the data from the initial runs.

Maybe we'll both be at the same track some day.

Harry's Taxi- did you get the oil pressure problem from "Mopar or Nocar" race at Beaver Springs race fixed??


Mike

Yes I did. It was a stuck pressure relief valve.....still not sure why. Same pump cover, pan and pickup that I ran on my previous engine and it was fine on this one the week or two before. I have an oil pressure sensor on my O2 recorder and I couldn't have been more stable the previous weekend.
I put a new oil pump cover on it and buffed/deburred the relief valve and channel/cylinder on the new one. I didn't see anything out of the ordinary in the filter. I checked all the bearings and they looked like when I put them in.....still had some bore gage marks. ( I got lucky!)

Very nice, I like that sixty foot time too!

Congrats on the new best!!

Your experience with the bypass valve sticking closed is not unusual on a new motor, they make metal during break in and some of that in the bypass hole will jam it open or partially closed
I've seen it more than once

Thanks, that may have been it.
I also replaced the hose from the swinging pickup..... just in case there was something collected/stuck in there that didn't want to clean completely out.

Dartsport540 Sorry we got your thread a little off track.

Your ET & MPH are even better than they appear given that Numidia is one of the higher altitude tracks in our area.