1967coronet440
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Nice, you’re moving much faster than I lol
Anybody doing any upgrades to their Race Cars over the winter?
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NSS Guy
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Thanks Joe, hope to see you at the races
Endangered Species
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LOL... This is his son Kevin. We broke a rod at Norwalk last year... I would like to get out this year but it's not looking good... at least early on.
I did get a block which I was lucky, and I got the head fixed so that's a start. Now it's up to what my wallet will allow. I would like to be out before the end of year, we'll see how it goes.
Good Luck this year!
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Don't race it with those little air cleaners....as you probably already know, they will rob you off up to 30-40HP.
And, by the way...I absolutely love your car and motor. WOW, what a job.
I went to freshen up. The list just keeps growing. Trans had 350 passes. Found some weird breakagge. A Super sprag tab cracked off and the reaction support ring grooves damaged. Clutches and bands like new. Went to do a compression test before replacing the valve springs and found a stripped spark plug hole. Checked engine bearings. Found a couple of mains that were borderline. Decided to pull the motor and get the crank checked out and fix the head. Pulling the motor plate I discovered the mounting face of the waterpump severly pitted on one side. Will have to mill it flat. Stated to clean the bottom of the car. Found a leaking front shock. Pulled all 4 shocks and took them to my shock guy. Rear valving is WAY off. Fronts need rebuilt, we're going to tighten the valving as well. Went back to cleaning and found a cracked LF frame rail. So now the K frame and suspension needs to come off so it can be repaired. It was running perfect at the end of the year. Just goes to show how important it is to keep up on maintaince.
Doug
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NSS Guy
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Sounds like you have some work to do Doug, good thing you caught everything now and not during the race season.
Those "little air cleaners" actually only slow the car down .01 (1 hundredth), much rather run them and keep crap out of the motor. Very limited clearance with the crossram and factory height scoop.
Those "little air cleaners" actually only slow the car down .01 (1 hundredth), much rather run them and keep crap out of the motor. Very limited clearance with the crossram and factory height scoop.
Just got the call from the crank guy. hairline crack in the #3 main at the thrust. Ordering a new Molnar crank tomorrow. Good thing I won a fair amount of money last year.
Doug
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Tex013
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that's interesting...do u race it with that stock PCV hose from the back of the intake to the passenger valve cover also? I was under the impression that because of all the possible vacuum leaks in these intakes..u want as many holes closed as possible..to make sure the carbs r the only source of vacuum..
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.25 faster without filters on my car. These are 9 X 2" elements.
racing with air cleaners..makes sense,i guess if u r not looking for that last ounce of bottom e.t. then better to be safe than sorry..i was thinking of using a velocity stack base and wire mess and foam over it,something like in the pic...
any thoughts...
mines an original stage 3 unit..the rear was plugged when I received it..old al corda unit..along with his stage 3 heads..
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There’s a great air cleaner / dyno test out there. Sure shows what works. The foam top didn’t fare too well. The top element on a velocity type stack was #1.
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