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Looks great! Congratulations! (my favorite Mopar color too!)

It's also the fact that legal costs have gone up so much. The insurance and required modern day safety elements a track must have are a very heavy financial burden. It must be very difficult to make decent money where a few racers come Friday and Saturday in the summers if the weather is decent...

Congratulations - awesome win!!! :thumbsup: (And I'll second the request for pictures!)

I agree, but I am now jaded as I have seen a lot of brand new parts from well known suppliers that failed right out of the box. In one case, I had connecting rods that were all beyond spec on the big end. OK, it was only a couple of tenths, but it was still a couple of tenths beyond the high...

Sorry to hear about this. :( When the original engine blew in my 73 Road Runner, my son was driving it back to school on the highway. Like you, he wasn't beating on it, and everything was fine - until it suddenly wasn't. The numbers matching correct block was toast. Good news was that...

Don't hold me to this, but I believe the milling is to allow clearance for very large OD pushrods, so you can use very high tension springs in your heads. Also roller cams and lifters with high lift cams need extra space. This block is obviously made for very high horsepower (multi thousand)...

Thanks for taking the time to write them down - they are fun to read!

Here's one that DIDN'T happen... Circa 1985, I was driving my 73 Road Runner with a 340, Slap Stik and 3.55 rear. I had rebuilt the engine with 10.0:1 compression ratio, ported heads, larger 2.02 valves, upgraded cam, etc. The car wasn't super fast but it did mid to high 14's in the quarter...

No. you balance the rods by themselves (hardware to bolt them together included). As @bm02tj stated, bearings are weighed, but they are actually quite precise so their weight is included in the calculation for the bobweight. No need to weigh them with the rod as you are balancing them. Same...

Sorry for the potentially dumb question, but I'm not sure I understand. For all the engines I have balanced (so far only 4, so I will not profess to be an expert), I make all the rods the same weight (both on the big end and the small end). Separately, I make all the pistons the same weight. Of...

Were the heads redone and valve seats cut? Maybe the seats were sunk quite a bit (not good)? If you haven't already, check a few others for consistency.

Agree with others you should grind off weight off the top and the bottom of the rods. Start with your lightest rod as your goal. When you are done, the overall weight of each rod should be the same, as well as the weight of each end of each rod. Note that grinding weight off of either end...

Yesh, he and his partner Bruce Shaw were co-owners of Shaw's Speed Shops. Bruce ran the store front and my father-in-law ran the machine shop. If you look at the pictures you can see the Shaw's Speed Shop logo. Another famous drag racer that he did extensive work for was Ken Montgomery with the...

My father-in-law did the engine work (and other stuff too like the rear). It is a super cool car that I would love to have!

That's why I like the car hobby. I would never want to build that style car, but you have to respect the work he did and the final result. Not my style of car at all, but that doesn't mean that I can't admire the work done to it...

So I am a bit worried about the fact that a torque converter may have been run on your externally balanced engine without the proper weight. This would have caused a significant engine imbalance. If the engine was run (i.e. aggressively "tested") in this configuration it could have caused some...

And this, in my opinion, is why I enjoy the car hobby so much. There are lots of different likes and dislikes, and none wrong, just different! I enjoy checking out all kinds of builds, even if they aren't my cup of tea.

Glad the car will see continued use the way it was meant to!

Glad the worst is behind you and that you, your family and your car are all safe. When Mother Nature gets pissed, we all need to scurry and run!

Obviously, it is your car and you do what you want, but in my opinion the N96 Air Grabber hood on my 70 Road Runner is a non-negotiable item. When I upgraded my engine to a 500 stroker motor, I took careful measurements to ensure it would all fit and work with the stock Air Grabber. There was a...