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Great job guys. We have been fortunate enough to have been sponsord br Valvoline since 1968. They are a great company with great products. We...
Welcome Grant from Austin, Texas When you return to AU, check out Maskels Customs in Vic. One of his cars made the Great Eight in Detroit which...
I don't think you will find a modern pump with that drive. All you need is a spud to bolt on to the timing gear with a hex drive. Really no...
You said you were to run Nitro. You would then be a B/Fuel Altered. We ran one in the late sixties with a 270 Dodge Hemi. Ran direct drive with...
Ga Day Mates, Lest we forget. I am an american currently visiting in Numurkah, Vic. I just attended the AMZAC parade in downtown Numurkah and...
Great digger builder, in Walnut Creek, Cal. Contact Don Clar at Don's Work Shop in Pleasant Hill, CA. (Google him) He worked for Jim for years...
How about Shirly Sheehan, the "Drogon Lady". Or Richins and Pierman's "Quarter Horse AA/FD", the Freight Train AA/Gas Digger. "Spaghetti Bender...
We ran a flip cap on our Fuel Altered, drilled a hole through both cap and base, and put a roll pin to disable. Chet at Fremont checked each time...
See Glen at A+ Transmission on 1604 a veteran and great guy.
No doubt about it, bad cheap two piece valve.
Don't understand your combo, you can't get a 6.125 in a sbc standard deck block as the pin ends up in the middle of the rings. You need a .300...
Most were sprung on the front, either with VW torsion bar, or springs. In that era they were all direct drive, no reverse and solid mount rear end.
Did you center the butterfly's after you installed and tightened all the bolts? If not, here's how: back off the screws that set the butterfly...
In most cases, the Teflon lined hose is for brake lines. I have used the rubber lined hase on a Nitro Fuel Digger with line pres. Of 300 psi with...
If you drove in new guides, they must be reamed to a specific size. If this was not done, they will be way tight.
Welcome to the USA in advance, we live in Houston as well as have a lake house in Austin (best of both worlds). Both cities offer exceptional...
Also check the O ring on the selector shaft, and the governor cover.
Jacks Glass on Kuykendal Does everyone with a hot rod in Houston!
Is the oil black or dirty and smelly? If the oil in the engine is from the original build, the color of the oil could br from assembly lube or...
Hey guys this will not be any more guess work then any other response on this thread. Our experience with blowers is with a Top Alky Dragster,...
Numurkah Australia, visiting.
Why not? Nothing wrong with a gear dive. Every top fuel dragster and funny car runs one. You can gain a little power with a Jessel belt drive,...
Guys, come on!! Funny cars will forever run with the motor in front. Dragsters have evolved into the rear engine configuration for two main...
Make sure that someone hasn't blocked off the oil to the lifter galley. Pull the galley plugs from the back of the block and check for a...
147 inch front motor digger. 309 inch SBC on 100 percent nitro at Fresno in 1967 . Went 8 .30 at 202 mph.
Hydrazine made the nitro burn smoother with a more even flame path. We also used polypropylene. The reason nitro is yellow was a dye added that...
Phu Bai Viet Nam, camping.
Wow, sounds like you are way too rich on both ends mate. We run no. 6 nozzles on gas, and leak the Bv at 10 to 13 percent, don't know what pump...
Check for bad plug wire. Old or "cheap" plug ores allow spark to jump mom wire to wire. Just a posibility.
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