I've read a few "horror" stories about them already. I will definitely have to be in a super-calm mood the day I install them.

 

LOL, I was not. I had mine fitted and then painted the hood. The next day we were running the car and we were rushing to get them mounted after work and go to the track. They held up all year until late Nov. One has worked it's way loose on the hood and fell out.

I still got to fix it before I hit the road. The hood has not been on the car in more than 5 months.

 

Beautiful ride, I have toyed with doing a LS swap in a Coupe or pulling the first gen SBC in my 240Z and doing an LS swap in it. The 240Z runs 10's on motor and deep 9's on the sauce.

 

Thanks man.

I think a 240z would be a cool one to do. With a ls motor in it you could make it street friendly and still run mid 10's pretty easy.

I seen a very clean 240z at a car lot down the road from me about 2 years ago. I always want to stop and see what he wanted for it. But I knew I didn't need another project right now. So I didn't bother with it.

 

I got the mustang out yesterday and put about 10 miles on it. It all feels ok. The bias ply tires on the front feel weird. I'm not use to how that feels. But the 325 dr's feel real good on the back. It hooks up a lot easier than before when I had the 275's.
It pulls really hard on the street. I didn't take it up real high in rpm's cause we need to set the valve lash again but it feels good.

I want to get an alignment before going to the track. And adjust the valves. I also need to wire the shiftnoid and hook the nitrous back up.

I hope to hit the track next week or so if the rain will let up.

 

I'm going to be running the same tires front & rear on my '95 'bird too. I'm heading to the tire shop to have the fronts mounted tomorrow.

 

Right on. If I would have know, I would sell you mine. I want radials for true street conforming rules. I plan on running radials all year. I like to drive it around town also. People trip out when I pull up next to them in it.

I tested the shiftnoid tonight. It seems to shift real good. That sucker is strong. When it hits you here it pretty loud.

 

don't have your hand on the shifter when it hits, it hurts

 

LOL, I bet it does. That sucker is powerful!

 

JR- car looks great. What does it weigh after this years winter mods?

 

It should be 2500 lbs with out me and no bottle. I will get it back on some scales in the next few weeks. A buddy is going to scale the car and set up the chassis.

 

So as some of you know, I sold my 2000 ss a few months ago. I didn't really drive it much the last few years so I decided to let it go. Well in the mean time I started looking at old school rides and rat rods. I really dig the old stuff.
I found a 57 belair 4 dr sedan on cl near Lexington, KY. It has a 283 ci with a old cast iron power glide. Manual stearing and brakes. Drums all the way around lol. It is in great shape. A old fella owned it and he passed away recently. The family was selling two of his old cars. This and a 1950 olds "88". The guy said his father drove this car all the time and said it was the best driving car out of the 4 he owned.
My plan is to drive it like it is and not put to much into it or get carried away with the paint job. It could use some chrome work re done and the paint needs a little help but hey it is a driver.
I welded some large U bolts in the floor behind the rear seat. So down in the crack of the seat you can hook onto the for my daughters car seat. I put the car seat in there tonight and we went to the local cruise in spot. Then to Texas road house for dinner. We had a blast in it tonight. My daughter loves the car..

And NO, it is not getting a ls1.

 

LS9 instead?

Nice-looking car. The '57 Chevy has always been my favorite car. One day I'll have to own one.

 

I went to IRP last night for some test hits. It was good and bad.
The car started off on the first run doing the dredded breaking up problem down track. So we changed the plugs to a hotter set and I moved some wires near the ignition box when I wired the shifter, so I moved them back and went up for another hit.
I left on the brake at 3000rpm's and it cut a 1.39 60' and and I noticed right away it cleared up so I put the pedal all the way down from about 3/4 on the launch. I was not sure if the shift noid was going to do it's job and I got ancy and pulled it back some were around 7000rpm's and the dam thing went right into 3rd gear and totally missed 2nd gear.
I rode it out to a 10.21@133.

I was so happy, I hot lapped it and it ran good but the 60' fell it 1.4x and went 10.3xx. Then I hot lapped it again and it fell to 1.5x and spun hard.

After that I knew to give it a break and check things over. And I'm glad I did. When I took the hood off I noticed a lot of oil around the rear of the motor. It was dripping off on the ground at the back. Turns out the -10AN breath tube that goes to the valley cover was coming loose. The bulk head nut on the bottom was coming off. I could lift up on it and tell that it was still holding it in there but was starting to un screw.
That would be ugly if that happened. So I put it up. I was happy to know the car went straight and ran pretty good.

And on the last run, I set the shifter to 6200rpm's and let it shift with out freaking out about it not working lol, and it worked great. I was ready to go back and crank it up to about 7200rpm's.

I hope to get in one more test before my first race of the year. Which is next Friday night. Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis presents "Friday Night Rage". I am running a 10.0 index class. I hope this series does well. I like new things lol.

 

congrats on the progress, I hope you do well next friday. I just started tearing the motor out of mine this morning...

 

Well I guess it would technically be yesterday morning now...

 

If you ran a 10.21 missing second, you're gonna run 9's and break out JR!! LOL Congrats though man cuz that thing is Flyin!!!

 

This car rocks!

Let me know if you want to sell those fronts, the last set you sold me are worn out.

 

Thanks. It should be a blast.
I think it will be right at 10.0. But there is a little left in it for sure.
I will buddy. I will run these until a true street race were I have to have dot tires all the way around. Holley LS Fest will be the first one. It is Sept 9th. These tires are about 50% tread left on them.

 

Once I learn to trust the car and let it do it's thing I can focus on the shock settings and tire pressure to try and get the 60' down a little more. I may even need to try a different converter. I have had this same converter for three years now. It flashes in my car to 5000 rpms.

I also want to put some weight back in it were I want it. In the back lol. My car was 56% frt and 44% rear bias. I would like to get it 50/50 and see how it acts. I want it to hook on any track, all the time..
At some point soon the BFG's will come off in favor of some Hoosier or MT dr's. I just want to give them a fair shake and see how a 325 tire feels on the track.