History 64/65 Comets old drag cars lets see pictures

Bangshift has some great pics of Roy's comet launching.
Dale, during an oil down, the tower had a guy in talking about his 65 mustang and he mention racing you a couple times. I missed his name as I just came back and then heard your name.
Roger

 

Some nice pictures of Roy's car from Bakersfield.

 

Roys car looks great and so do the numbers. What brand header is he running? I have a buddy building a 65 404 with a stout windsor, he just ask the other day about a brand of race headers to use and I didnt know.

 

Gary Smith, who races The Yankee Peddler (his father campaigned the car in the seventies..)

 

Looks like he has a lot of nice Ford iron in there.

 

ec164;I built my own headers 6 of them ended up at 36" long and two at 35",they are 13/4" for 12" then step to 17/8" to a 31/2" collector.The rear tubes on both banks go out the fender well and the front two snake through between the block and all that crap you need to steer!!!I do not believe that anyone is building a set of off the shelf race ready 351W swap headers,Crites does have a set of 15/8" unequal length long tube headers for Falcons and Comets. ROY.

 

Mike;thanks for posting the pictures,I had not seen any yet! The Comet is working good,still more wheel stand height than I want but the 60' times are back to normal,1.39 to 1.41.I had made changes to the front and rear suspension to CALM it down,DIDN'T work,OOPS!!!!,It went 10.38 then 10.34 then 10.46[on the big wheel stand] all at 128+! Dialed 10.45 for first round ran 10.45 but was DEAD late,.290!!!! ROY.

 

Roy

Look at the wad on the left rear tire in the first pic. Real close to breaking into tire shake. Thats a lot of plant.....Mike

 

Mike;YES that is NOT GOOD!!!! There was an oil down and we sat for quite a while,my tires dropped to 10.5 lbs.[it was in the 40s],I usually run 11.5 to 12 psi.,so that may have contributed to the uglyness!!!That old truck motor seems to be plenty happy right now!! ROY.

 

Would like to see photos of Tom McCroan's T bolt.

 

Try the Thunderbolt thread on here.

 

Got anymore pictures or info about this Comet?

 

thanks for the info Roy Ill pass it on. Glad you all are having some fun racing, I woke to more shoveling this morning. Al

 

ec164;yea,we are spoiled out here but we pay stupid money to live here.I had a friend come down from Canada,ran around all day Thursday in shorts and T-shirt[40s],all us sissy So.CA. natives were bundled up!!!Then by Sunday we were complaining about the high temps!!!! ROY.

 

Roy

This has been the 4th warmest winter on record in Maryland. Only 1" of snow total (gotta be careful, don't want Ken or Eddie sending me any). I've had so much garage time, I'm actually 6 or 7 weeks ahead of my planned schedule on the car (wish I was 6 or 7 weeks ahead on my budget). Good showing at the March Meet, glad someone was carrying the HAMB banner.....Mike

 

60's here this week, Ole Ken said something about snow on Thursday ;( Gotta get the comet up to Jarad hopefully this week


FE

 

They're already posted on the Thunderbolt Photos wanted site but I'll attach a few here for you.

Len

 

Eddie its been in the 80's here in florida....as soon as billetproof is over im back at the falcon build...goona cut the rear wheel wells out and start the roll cage...

Rooster

 

Brian;I missed your post on the lower A-arms.I used stock lower arms that I cut off behind the sway bar mount hole,and made a jig to make sure everything stayed in line with the original geometry.I used a ladder bar adjuster[3/4" threads],3/4X3/4' hiem[rod end],and a right hand threaded heavy wall piece of steel tubing.I welded a plate to one end of the tubing and another plate with a hole the size of the tubing just inside of the threaded portion.I then welded the plates to the a-arm and welded a plate to the bottom of the a-arm forming a boxed area.I also plug welded the bottom plate and a-arm to the tubing.I then pressed a sleeve into the rod end to neck it down for the 7/16" stock size pivot bolt and make up the width of the pivot mount.I did not take pictures as I still do not have a digital camera.Mike[MD1320guy]has some pictures from the MM,if you blow them up you can see a good picture of the arm. ROY.

 

Well Eddie- We may have to crack open one of the Mason jars to celebrate. Mooneyes is sending over a camera crew to the shop on Sunday afternoon, to film and shoot the Comet (yes, MORE LOVE FOR OUR BELOVED MERCS!),in anticipation of it being sent over to Japan for their Annual Yokohama Show!!!!!! Not until December, but still an honor the car will be shipped halfway around the world to create some street mayhem in the Pacific Rim!!!

 

Congrats Dale!

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.....Mike

 

Just about the right amount of wheelie to suite me, looks good, couple more outimgs you'll have it diled. Medrritt

 

Eddie- Batch number 60 outta the Mason Jar is pretty damn good. I'm done with two shots, though. Wife sez it'll rock as a drink, mixed with Martinellis Cider!!!!!! I'm down with that, well, down probably with a hangover tomorrow as well!!!!

 

Dale:

Glad to here you got the "Nitro", Sounds like we need to hire the wife as the Bartender, Enjoy! I'll check in with ya tomorrow to see if ya head hurts!!! lol

Need to get with Ole Hubert and get us some Peach

FE

 

Dale:


Do you get to go with the car?
You need to get a burn out/Speeding ticket in Japan!!!!!

FE

 

Merritt;I like the wheelstands,but it does not help the ET.I have a set of wheelie bars but have never installed them.I bought them a couple years back because the Comet got crossed up during some big stands,had to lift,not good!!!I'm going to try D/GAS at the next race,10.60 index,will probably lower my shift point to slow down enough,need more practice on a Pro Tree though!!! ROY.

 

I've not done well on thepro tree, especially when some of the SS circuit guys run that regularly, tough to go against them.

 

So- Will the new MSD system give me a full second??

Broke it in. Now it has a chip, what the hell, I don't need to bother looking at the tach anymore!! Hell- it pegs at 8,000 anyhow.. Just like the chip. Wow. How lucky am I ??

Hey Eddie- Was Platt mad when you tried to run away with it??

 

Dale;quit screwing around and stick that Windsor in the Rocket!!!!I'm lovin the new engine,got home checked everything,gave the Comet a quick dusting and put the cover on,ready for April 21-22,ANRA opener!! ROY.

 

Awesome!