Hi all - fast forward many years, and I only put about 1,500 miles on this car. I had to reregister, it lost my account (says I was a guest?). I'm getting back into this car, and will get all those pics of the setup. Stopped by the 75-80 drag strip Saturday - might have something to do with it (girlfriend was even fired up and turning wrenches with me).
Anyway, last year it developed a miss in #6 (second from the rear, on passenger side), and just now got around to start tearing into the motor. Turns out the #6 exhaust valve pushrod got boogered up, and is shorter than the rest (not bent, but mangled, like it was beaten on the top). Interested in thoughts on what might have caused it, and where I should look next )b/c of the high lift cam?)? Pics posted below, and you can see the exhaust valve is "cleaner" then the rest on that #6 cylinder, and piston on #6 seems OK - no evidence of valve strike. Rockers on #6 seem normal too - just some strike marks though where the shorter rod came out of the socket. I'll have to find my notes, but I think in the compression check there were no obvious problems (all within about 5-10% of one another).
Trying to decide how deep to go into this, (just freshen everything up, look at different head options, whether to throw these 492 heads back on, etc.).