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Had a great day yesterday at Mopar Sunday, the annual get together for a show and drag racing anything Mopar. It's held at Willowbank Raceway in sunny Queensland. I ended up doing 7 passes, 5 qualifying and then 2 rounds in the Bracket racing. Got knocked out after a ridiculously slow reaction...

When my 354 Poly (318 with a 3.48" crank) went on the chassis dyno the dyno operator reckoned the factory 4 barrel cast iron intake manifold was holding it back. After consulting with poly guru Gary Pavlovich, I was advised to open up the 4 hole plenum to a divided opening, and port the runners...

I did a compression test today on my poly. Nothing much wrong with the engine in terms of driving, runs fine, but one plug at the back of the engine always fouls up, crusty oil deposits (cylinder 7). It's done it for ages, I just take the plug out and clean it up periodically and put it back in...

Hi, I bought a vacuum gauge to help tune my new carburetor. Connected it up and it is reading 18inhg which I thought was good, but the needle is fluttering very quickly. Stays on the 18 reading but isn't steady. From my research this is pointing to worn valve guides. Car has no symptoms of...

I've had a wooden wheel on my Satellite since I bought it and I never really liked it to be honest. It's a Grant wheel I think, nice feel and everything, just would have preferred a factory 3 spoke wheel. Anyway I recently damaged it - I parked the car to open the garage without the brake...

I've had the TKX in about 6 weeks now after replacing the 727. Yesterday evening was it's first outing at the track. After a 500 mile break-in I put the Tremec MTF fluid in and I was all set to go. I've got the Mal Wood Underdash Hydraulic pedal unit so the only visible change under the hood is...

Needed a couple of front tires so got my youngest son off the ipad and got him to help me put the wheels back on. He complained at first but then actually enjoyed it. Went up to the house and told his mom "I'm a mechanic"

Is there any disadvantage to running the brake booster vacuum line to a carb port instead of the intake manifold? I've currently got mine running to the intake and the spark plug that is in direct line to the intake runner where the booster connects always gets black and crusty in comparison to...

Before After After years of internal debate I finally went ahead and got a TKX 5 speed. Still breaking it in, still have to sort out the carpet and a few things, done about 200 miles so far, big difference.

Well the results are in from my Edelbrock AVS2 650 vs Holley 600 Vac Sec (1850) - Track Shootout, and the results aren't what I was hoping for. My car in full street trim, 3.23 rear, "street" take-off (i.e. no burnout, slow) ran the following fastest times: 14.104 @ 99.80 - Holley 14.418 @...

It's that time of year again here in Australia, the Winternationals at Willowbank Raceway which is the biggest drag race event in the world outside of North America, and the same weekend Cooly Rocks On in Coolangatta, a huge car show and music festival with all things from the 1950's onwards set...

So I pulled the top of my Edelbrock carb again just to check a few more things (plus I just like fiddling with things). Anyway, I was about to put the lid back on when I noticed a black speck of something sitting on one of the primary throttle blades. I tried to get it with a wet finger but then...

Just came across this video when watching a member's video of the problems he's having with his car. Unrelated to Mopars but should be interesting for anyone with gasoline in their veins.

If anyone is interested in making headrests for their 66 Satellite with Bucket Seats - I've just done the job. Manufacture I started by buying a couple of head rests off a modern car from the scrapyard. I stripped the material covers and split the polystyrene inners apart. I then cut the...

I installed PST greasable poly bushings into my Lower Control Arms about 6 years ago. They say "Proforged" on the shaft. I noticed last week the passenger side shoulder of the bush was all split, and checking the driver's side from underneath I could see that one was stuffed too. This morning I...

I've recently replaced my Holley carburetor with an Edelbrock and ended up with a fairly long piece of rubber fuel line from the pump to the carburetor. My small block car has 5/16" fuel line as opposed to 3/8". My confusion arose with the inside diameter and outside diameter of these lines when...

Got my custom air cleaner decal through the post today. Marked as "handle with care" but then folded up into 4... I contacted the supplier to let them know but it worked out fine. I came up with the initial design and then my son improved it and finished it off. I got the idea of the 90° writing...

I'm replacing my factory 727 oil pan with an aluminium deeper pan that has a drain plug (and another plug for a temperature gauge if desired). It has a billet filter extension and a neoprene gasket that seems like a much better product than the cork one that was on there - we'll see if it...

I took my car to the tuning guy today and he put it on the chassis dyno to optimize it and see the difference between the 600 v/s Holley and the 700cfm Double Pumper I also have. It's a 354 poly, 727 and made 341hp at the wheels with the 700 cfm and 334hp at the wheels with the 600. It was a...

My engine builder decided on orange when he repainted my poly stroker. It was red when I dropped it off. Last weekend I decided to repaint it red and spruce up the rocker covers while I there. This was before I removed everything that was easy and got to painting.