Rogue86

Went to my local track saturday for some opening day test and tune action.

Found a broke pushrod in the motor at 11pm friday night, had to make some calls, but found one (I run .100 long pushrods so generic parts store pushrods weren't going to do the trick.) Anyways, finished the car up at 12:30 and went to bed. I got up at 6:30 to load everything up, go to start the car and something just doesn't sound right and the idle was a little off, just decided to load the thing up and fix it when I got there. Turns out to be just a loose plug wire, thank God.

So, I'm still on that same tiny 600cfm edelbrock that a few of you might have read about from the 15th at CFR. Decided just to cancel my order on the bigger carb because it was taking forever to ship and my car need to run slower than 7.50 to stay in the bracket class I'm in.

First pass out, it went 7.34 on a 1.67 60'. It stayed in the 7.30-7.34 range all day long, even went a few rounds in the gamblers race.
Best pass was:
60' 1.64
1/8 7.30
mph 96.xx
Since last weekend I did and oil change; switching from the break-in dyno juice to mobile 1, changed some springs in the carb, backed the timing down to 34* and adjusted the pinion angle to -4* from its previous -2* These small changes along with the better surface at Eddyville raceway (home track) netted a full 2 tenths gain and 3 mph in the 1/8 mile. Simply incredible.

Now I just need to slow it down to a consistant 7.60

bigdavesiroc

nice times, keep up the good work.

1QWIKZ

Nice times out of a 600 cfm

xpndbl3

iTrader: (5)

what pressure did you end up running in your slicks?

Rogue86

10 psi. No tubes

Orr89RocZ

iTrader: (20)

wow thats really fast for a 600cfm carb... i would have thought a 750 would be best

Rogue86

It would be, actually the car could probably use an 850 or 950 if i really wanted. But like I said, I need to run 7.50 or slower to stay in the bracket class I'm in now. If I move up I'd need a transbrake to stay competitive, which means the 10 bolt would go bye bye.

Dano 00TA

Moving real good there considering you're starving that poor motor for air

I used to love building those 400's