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It’s a street car and with good to medium prep, you could put it on a radial and drive to the track. I ran a 1.30 60’ 5.50 1/8 mile at 4000# on the ET Street SS MT-3453 tire. After running radials at 160mph, I’ll never go back to a floppy tire.
I have done some house renovations in the past, cutting the roof off a 1-1/2 story making it into a full two story, built my shop in the backyard, and remodeled my kitchen, but I hardly have time for anything besides the cars these days. N scale narrow gauge trains and miniature machining are...
Thanks for the kind words. It’s been a really long build, spanning over a decade, but it’s been a great learning experience. Thank you (and everyone else who’s still here) for following along.
In between all of the family gatherings and snow shoveling, I managed to get a wiper motor adapter plate made. Maybe I’ll manage to get it painted and on for good yet this week.
Had I been a little smarter, I would have gone this route as well. My back bars are so close to the wheel tubs that I just made a weld in piece to permanently cover that area and my center panel will go between them.
Everything has changed since then.
1. Camshaft profiles- much more aggressive than earlier grinds as we try to leverage all the benefits of the .904 lifter, more prone to failure if everything isn’t “right”.
2. Metallurgy and manufacturing- maybe not as tightly controlled as before as we’ve...