dr_hunt

depends on your piston to bore clearance, rpm you plan on turning, and typical temp range of the engine. For a racing engine .100 is about the minimum you want to see IMO and I prefer .125 but my rev limiter is at 7400.

From your pic's every piston has intake valve marks on them. IMO you didn't have enought p/v clearance and the springs are a question like braap said. It could be just the springs. 90% of all engine failures are valve train related.

This year I put 8 miles on the z. Since it probably won't get out of paint prison this year, that's probably it.

If you do the same with quarter mile times, you still get a better number than a dyno number. The quarter mile is real, force times distance, the dyno doesn't compare in any way to 1/4 mile times IMO. Chassis dyno is good for tuning the car or seeing what effect changes have made on THAT car on the SAME dyno with the SAME settings IMO. If it had any real world translation to 1/4 mile times we wouldn't see 1000+HP dyno turbo mustangs doing 10.80's and 11.30's in the 1/4 like you see on racingsouthwest. Chassis dyno means very little in the real world of drag racing. I'm not for a dyno database and don't support it. If you want to run your car, get a timeslip, post it, great. If you can't back it up cause it's not your timeslip, then be embarrassed at the track, that's your decision.

Gear drive, the only way to fly!

You should just start it in the morning when it's cold, put a brick on the gas and stand back. The noise will become self evident soon enough. Then go buy yourself a new BBC engine from grumpy, after all it's only money.

Well, I went to napa to get a changeover ujoint. 1350 to a 1310 for my mudbog truck cause I heard that they had them in stock. The factory sales rep was there too doing a sales call. The owner, Frank, did some measurements, pulled out a slide chart, hummed, ho'd and ha'd and said they didn't make what I needed according to his chart. Ok, so the sales rep looks at it and says to frank, "I think we make it, but you need the new book we have, I don't have one but I'll send you one". Ok, so off I go to albuquerque to U-joints Inc, which is 75 miles one way. Take my driveline and yoke and tell him what I'm trying to do. He says, you want the change over u-joint or a new driveline yoke, same price $38 and then you can use a standard ujoint. Bingo, bought the yokes and new u-joints for the front and the back, to change to a 1350 in the back and a 1310 in the front, so now even autozone and napa can't screw it up. Then he tells me that the ujoints are just in different series with either inner or outer clips, simple, and they make change over u-joints in many applications and gives me a card to call them. I can order over the phone, and they'll ship it to me ups.

Really nice mike!

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DD says my combo at 24psi boost is good for 1100HP. I'll settle for that for now. Should put the monte into the 9's at 3780lb race weight. Yes, I lost weight.

You know your legally insane right?!! I'd check into life insurance myself if I were you. Actually, can I get life insurance on you? If I could I would. Just kidding. 6's, 5's, you trying out for the next nasa space mission? Those heads are simply works of art aren't they? Almost put your fist in the intake ports, huh?!!! I was just messing with you, my normal mode of happy go lucky and see who I can get a rise out of. Personally I don't care who or what is in the timeslip database, simply because that's what the title is. It doesn't say z only timeslip database and there are as of yet no restrictions on entries. SuperDan is the man you want to direct those comments to. Nobody is really sure whether he exists or not. Rumor has it he's an alien that loves beer. But that's just a rumor.

Looks pretty impressive, wish zgad would get his going.

what blocks? Did I miss something? DAMN, that's some nice stuff, I want. Oh and brian.......... You suck

Me too! I can't imagine what would have happened if they'd of got the fire started. That is still bothering me, cause I could be dead now if I had of driven up at the wrong time.

Bring it Terry, let's make a badass car! You drive it though!

Yeah, the mud has alot to do with it. That pit only 5 trucks made it through, so that pit wasn't easy. Tomorrow there is another one. I bought boggers now and I've cut the back and cupped them like a paddle tire, we'll see how that works. I might cut the fronts too. The boggers are 18 inches wide, those in the vid are 15 inches wide. If that doesn't work, it's either 540" BBC or bore and stroke the 350. Actually, I'd like to sell the 357" motor, 5K takes it.

No!

He didn't tell you but it's in japanese.

Larry had another one I think where I was doing an exibition run backwards through the pit.

I guess this is why good tuners are never out of work. IMO, you add timing with elevation. So I'd go with the sea level case.

Well, that and a light car. 6100 launch, damn, I'm about to shift right then, cause my cam peters out at 6500. Guess I need bigger cam and more rpm. Here you go, ruining my lunch, now I have to spend paypal money that was earning interest. See how you are!

That'll never happen! Cause who would want them to get out of the way! :lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao:

Your wrong there, roundy round is where I started, drag was cheaper, otherwise there is an asphalt road course and oval track in Alb. as well, and I'd be doing that instead. Function of time and money. Time I don't have and money, well, easy come, easy go. Drag lasts 10 seconds or less, circle track or road lasts alot longer. It is harder on engines, parts, tires and costs more to maintain than what I do IMO.