I never know what kinds of cool stuff I am going to find in my travels. Today's find a pair of 520 heads with a D.P.S. (Don's Porting Service the back in the day local oval track/drag race engine builder!) port and polish, pinned studs all the old school tricks never bolted on an engine!
I am thinking about buying back the Edelbrock CB3X I sold to one of the machinists at work a few years ago that he never used.
I pick-up them up off Don Green's nephew, they were flow tested years ago Tom says he has the paperwork he is going to look for it. I went up to have a little milling done on the intake and came home with the cylinder heads too.
Nice score! I had a set of DPS heads, based on the 1st design angle plug heads, the 492 castings. Worked good on a 302 sportsman engine. Very similar to the set of Mondello 492 heads I had on the injected 350s. Never ran them on a smaller engine, so no idea which worked better. Remember that Smokey Yunick used to say, "you don't race dynos or flow benches..."
Note Don's Porting or DPS on the hoods or fenders! Mert Hulbert in Kenndy's 8 Phil Beaver The Golden Gasser 1967? Summer Nationals F/Gas class winner
Interesting tidbit. DEC used Don's dyno way back when for early emissions research and the initial development of the catalytic converter, early 70's. EPA and DEC collaborated with Corning on the development of the biscuits used today in catalysts. I don't know if California ARB was involved. They are usually 2 to 4 years ahead of the feds on development. For good or bad...
Oh, and another interesting tidbit. Mert did a bumper walker in one of the Kennedy 8s during preseason warm-ups one year. Destroyed that car, and messed up Merts neck. When the season opened they had an unique helmet restraint for Mert. You know those studs and rubber grommets used to hold delivery truck doors open? Well, they attached the stud to the rollcage and the grommet to his helmet. When he'd get in the car, they'd pop the stud into the grommet. Yeah those were the days...
DPS was the place to go for engine work for many racers in our area.Have many photos of cars he did his magic on and have some photos from him that he took of a lot of his sponsored cars.I have the 57 wagon in the post-Ol Bucksnort.
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