Projects Plan II - 62 Chevy II Drag Car

it was nice to meet you and your son in Topeka. I truly respect your commitment to a period correct build. Your car is performing exceptionally well considering the ancient technology you are using.

I hope today goes well and that one of your quicker competitors has to drop out.

 

Liven the dream! Too cool.

 

Great build, thumbs up!!!
Always wanted to build a Chevy II. That car would have been a cherry in Mi.

 

I hope you can get it all sorted out cuz this is an impressive goal you have set for yourself. Its been awesome following this thread.

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Saw it do a 9.96 this morning on the live feed on the hotrod blog. I guess the ignition issue got sorted out.


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That's awesome that it broke into the nines with "outdated" parts. Very impressive!


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In the 9's, hell yeah !

 

Congrats!!!

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That what im talkin about!!!!! Way to go JIM!!

 

Great pass, Jim, well deserved!

 

Nice job. A fitting end. Lets do it again next year. I cant wait for drag week 2015.

 

thanks! it's been a blast. The run this morning was just so much fun, I could tell it pulled the wheels off the ground, and the tires were straining to hold on. Weather was killer, the DA early in the day was negative, I think it was around 200 feet when I ran.

 

Great holeshot you put on him. Was it tirespin or what but the 1-2 shift sounded like it was "laging" a long time but the 2-3 sounded fine

 

tires couldn't hold in second.

 

Nice clean FAST run!

 

Congratulations Jim .... I followed you all week.
Well done man,.....well done.

 

It was fantastic rootin for ya from lil ole Sierra Vista!! Ya did this lil town good Jim!

 

thanks! A pic my son Steven took

 

9.96 huh? So those "problems" were just to throw off the competition?

 

another photo found this one on Dragzine.com

 

yup! heh....no, they were because I was so concerned about making the drive every day that I forgot about tuning the car every day. live and learn

 

I've enjoyed following your build from the git-go and your performance through dragweek. Other than just general re-tuning, was there any single compelling factor that gave you the big improvement in e.t. at the end of the event? Congrats on a great performance.

 

The car ran 10.25 Monday at Tulsa, it was pretty warm out. By thursday at Great Bend it was running rough, I only ran a 10.70. Friday morning we did some work on it, nothing major. Filed the points, checked the gap, lubed the advance mechanism. fresh plugs, and set the timing. I also raised the fuel pressure from around 3.5 to around 5.5 psi. I had put the fuel pressure gauge on it Thursday after leaving the track. The gauge is ugly, so I don't like to have it on the car. I also played with the fuel, I had been running 110 leaded mixed with pump gas, so I went back to the same thing I used on monday, 104 unleaded mixed with pump gas. And the weather Saturday morning, as well as the track surface was phenomenal.. cold, dry, sticky. I made one other "full" pass Saturday afternoon, it ran 10.11 all out in warmer weather.

 

Well that worked out well! I didn't read every post...What is the weight and estimated HP ?

 

I followed the build and enjoyed it; I loved the videos. congratulations on the completion of a great idea!

 

Thank you Jim for taking us along on your incredible journey. You did a fantastic job, and built a very tough car. My hat comes off to you sir!!

 

Thanks! Weight is 2700 without driver. 50/50 front to back. 134 mph means about 560 hp at the wheels

 

A couple of pics showed up in Freiburger's "wheelstand" photos.

 

Congratulations on finishing Drag Week. I watched the live feed all week and enjoyed every minute of it.

 

thanks for the pics! you can see those little 7" slicks giving all they have...