Event Coverage Welcome to the 2017 Meltdown Drags

Maybe I can get honorable mention for HAMBer of the year.

 

The Easter Bunny voted you for most Hammered of the year

Cause you can't find the eggs, you hide the night before.

 

James, if you have some BBC Roller Lifters I have a new bottle of Crown Royal!....LOL

 

Now how did you guess that was my favorite.

 

Ol Norb.... Eye like an eagle and a mind like a steel trap.

 

I will toss in a two liter of Coca Cola as well!

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I need a little Mopar help .My daughter wants a hood scoop (like a six pack scoop) on her dart. What scoop would be period correct?

 

Unfortunately the six-pack hood scoop is a few years too new as the six-pack engine and corresponding scoop came out in mid-1969. Did she ever consider a Max-Wedge or race-hemi type of scoop? Googling them will yield tons of pictures from all angles.

 

I will check them out thanks

 

Rawcjw19. Here is a pic of my old afx dart I made the hood scoop it was a copy of the max wedge scoop this would be era correct and it looks and functions good



You can get them in fiberglass but I was cheap and have a sheet metal brake so I made it


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Don't wast your money on coke Ice is all it needs.

 

Doing a long roof a Dart

 

Trying to get a couple new cars built to bring this year. A pair of black '57 Chevy 150's. The one with aluminum slots is going to be ran in the Hotrod class with a small block. The other shell is going to be sat on the straight axle frame that is under the '56 and get my big block out of my bracket car. If I am build it close to that same weight as my current car it should run high 10's. I have a build thread for the gasser here on the HAMB.

 

Muffler tubing and flat sheet.

 

I didn't know that was your car! I remember seeing it cruising around the Maple Leaf Festival back in the day...I should have known! LOL

 

Nice!

 

Thanks for the help guys, feeling better about these results.

Compression /Leak down test #2 ( Better Method Better Results )

1st Warmed up the engine to operating temp.

2nd Started leak down test as soon as the header temp cooled to pull a plug.

3rd Not stopping untill done. ( not even for a sip )

4 th Bleeding off the compressor every cylinder to keep consistent p.s.i. ( Brian recommended )

5th Compression test after leak down test so your not cooling the pistons by sucking in cool

air by spinning over motor with no plugs.

Compression / Leak down

1 = 190 11%
2 = 180 22%
3 = 180 19%
4 = 175 22%
5 = 180 16%
6 = 185 19%
7 = 195 22%
8 = 180 21%

It is what it is.

This engine is filled with hard block to the bottom of the water pump, when it was time to assemble

put in a lot of ring gap. ( Hard blocked engine oil temps get high ) didn't want gaps to butt.

Norb

 

How many laps you got on the engine?

 

Was there even a hole cut in that hood? Slant 6 right?

 

James

67 runs

Last runs at the Fall Out Rock Falls Drag way running 1/2 slower ( in good air ) than @ Meltdown Drags.

Been looking for the problem.

Norb

 

Was the leak down going past the rings?

 

My daughter wants to keep the slant six in her dart. I offered to build her a v8. She told me no thanks she doesn't want hers broken all the time like mine. Ouch!

 

You need to tell her that you have not been racing slant six's yet.

 

James I could use some schoolin on your auto-magic trans BUT you show me a GM trans not a MOPAR trans, that will not help me.

Norb your car is slowing down because of the brats, you may have consumed to many

 

Bob I can find one in the shed. I will see if I can bring you a spare.

 

Yes that was my car and yes it actually had a hole and yes it had a slant six for a minute then it had a 273 with a 4-speed then added a turbo then a 440 auto then back to a 4-speed it was a fun car and real dependable I put 40,000 miles on that car drive it to work almost everyday and when I sold it I spent all that money and then a lot more to get the willys running lol


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I have some 273 cylinder heads if you want to cuddle up with them you know like the security blanket you going to need after you happen up in the lane next to me.

 

And Scott don't go gettin all comfy prancing around with that pony...it may throw a shoe when it gets in the wrong stall.

 

James

Yup past the rings, suspect it was always that way , had a camera down every cylinder this spring and

all the cylinder walls looked good, car ran ok at Meltdown drags.

Better air at Rock Falls Fall Out, but it didn't pull hard ( no misses and sounded good )

Tomorrow I will do the Barry Grant 1 gal fuel test, maybe the fuel filters are restricting flow?

Norb

 

I will send you a copy of the article I got at pri. im sending out some copies to others. pm me your address. those numbers while better still suck. too much ring gap is the number one cause of poor leak downs. you are leaving a lot of power on the table with those numbers.