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Good luck Bill!

Solved the issue. I had swapped the rear tires from side to side before opening day. Just a habit I had gotten into over the years. Apparently these Goodyear tires, even though they don't have directional arrows on the sidewalls, are directional. First test run at Winterport Dragway this...

believe me I'm tempted to do just that!

It's certainly possible. I have a spare solenoid exactly the same as the one installed in the car. I'll double check to make sure it's not plumbed backwards.

this was the way the car was built before I acquired it. The line lock is definitely plumbed into the front brakes. I'm fairly certain that the proportioning valve is plumbed in the rear brake line. My guess is the residual pressure valves in the front and rear brake lines may be having a effect.

No it's not my first line lock. When I bought the car spring of last year the previous owner told me about the operation of the line lock. He said press the button and pump the brakes several times before starting your burn out. I said don't you have that backwards? Shouldn't you pump the...

Hi all. I'm wondering if any one here has a similar set up to mine that I might draw some knowledge from. My 1976 Arrow (shown in the profile pic) has a full Alston chassis under the body. The Wilwood brake master cylinder is mounted under the driver side floor, attached to the frame rail...

Yes, I agree Paul Forte is great! Season before last when I still had my 72 Dart I was having some problems with the 727 in it after have a transbrake valve body installed by an alleged TF guru down in Conneticut. Since I'm not real knowledgeable on the voodoo magic that occurs in auto trans I...

They do appear to be getting plenty of oil, but I am concerned about how close the intake pushrods are to the lifter bore wall with the offset lifter. That's got to be creating a bunch of side load on the lifter. On the 72 Dart I had previous I was running W2 heads with a solid roller cam, but...

When I first pulled my intake I didn't catch the broken tie bars at first. When i was stuffing a towel into the lifter valley to catch debris from cleaning the intake area of the heads that's when I saw the first one, and I'm like "what the hell?" Then I checked the others and found the opposite...

I got lucky as it appears nothing got into the engine.

Could be the post I did last season when I had a HS rocker break on consecutive weekends, first was #3 exhaust, next week #4 exhaust broke. No apparent cause and Randy at HS told me that it was most likely due to them reaching the end of their service life. Had a friend who's a metallurgist do...

The Tasca team sent the manifolds to Wilson to be flow tested. I guess Wilson media blasted them as part of their cleaning process but didn't make any dimensional changes to the runners, and both Tasca and NHRA Tech confirmed there were no dimensional changes, however the media blasting...

I agree but NHRA Tech looked at his manifolds at Gainesville and said they were fine. Then at Charlotte they reject the same manifolds? If there had been a change of dimensions in the manifold runners I would completely agree with the disqualification. But that wasn’t the case. It was based...

I found it to be complete nonsense what NHRA Tech tried to do to Bob Tasca this past weekend at the four wide race in Charlotte. Disqualify the 2nd round qualifying run because NHRA Tech didn't like the color of his intake manifold, which had been give NHRA Tech's blessing after Gainesville...

My old 401 powered 68 AMX that I ran from 1978 to 1995 while on active duty with the Navy. Currently sitting in an enclosed trailer in Tamsworth, NH if anyone is interested.

1976 Plymouth Arrow Full Alston chassis car, certified to 8.50 422 small block based on 340 X block with 4.10 bore X 4.00 stroke 13.0 to 1 compression fully ported W5 heads two induction setups, Holley Pro Dominator W5 tunnel with dual Dominic Thumper prepped Venom 850s, currently has Indy 360-1...

Congratulations on the birth of your beautiful daughter! My youngest daughter is expecting her first in August, my fourth grandchild.

There are far too many people in our country today that have never seen this, have never been taught it, and have no idea what it means.

SCE and Superformance both make good gaskets. I agree with what others said about no gaskets on the china walls.

If you're running at Gainesville it will get very humid during the summer months. You'll need to adjust accordingly. I ran there back in the '78-81 time frame when I stationed in Jacksonville with the Navy.

Dan The Man, his epic search for that 'special' A body is a wonder to behold....

I found Joe Wood, Scott Taylor, Jeff Lutz and Randy Johnson (before he left the circuit) to be the friendliest. Heck, Johnson talked to me for half an hour 3 years ago at the Epping NPK event, showed me his Dart that he was running and wanted to know all about my 72 Dart bracket car that I was...

I have been to two at New England Dragway. There's only one place to get tickets for an NPK event and that's at the foat.com. There are different ticket levels from general admission to VIP seating. This year they have what they call the Ultimate Rockstar ticket package which provides a...

Outstanding!!!

The two independent tracks up here in Maine will let belts go for 5 years if they are in good shape with no visible signs of damage.

100% agree, and even though my Arrow hasn't hit 150mph with me driving it yet, it's close enough to that mark that I went ahead and got a head/neck restraint device for this season.

I've thought about getting one as well. I have a friend that races in a different class than I do, and he uses a weather station/ET predictor every round he runs. Last season I was heading into the semis and I was stumped as what to dial as I could feel the air changing. So my friend says...

Last Thursday up here in the frozen tundra of Maine we were getting dumped on by a late season storm. Got 14 inches of snow at my place. Today it's beautiful clear skies and 60 degrees. Looks like spring has finally decided to show up. New England Dragway was going to open up this past...

Camrie was back at the track on Sunday for the finals. TV guy asked her what happened and she said she has no idea and that she didn't remember the accident. Makes me worried that she has some kind of head trauma as well.