Recent content by famous bob

agree , mine came out /036-.039

don't know how old this posts is , but their running 8 :30`s and 40`s now...

Randy`s spoilers , someplace in Ark....

you must be ---- , depth gage works , dial caliper if your carefull , not rocket science never met anyone that couldn't do it right ... must be on you ...

taught to me by an 18 time national record holder : fill the valve relief full of clay , even w the top of the piston , roll the engine over in a complete /contiuous rotation , pull the head , take a razor blade ind slice the remaining clay in the pocket in half , "up and down" or vertically ...

pushrod deflection IS a big deal with dragracers hunting every last bit of horse power and needing longivity...

not as fast as rolling the engine over all at once , with clay in the reliefs , takes too long checking it degree by degre for me ...

I cut a set of pent roof hemi prostock pistons down to legal superstock height back when I switched to superstock , they bairly touched the heads at high rpm , Tom Hoover told me, (at a chrysler seminr, in OKC) , he gave) that is just right if it didnt cause any problems , just kept the carbon...

you need to clay check it , that way you`ll get the closest reading at the tightest of stage of rotation , fail proof !!

63 max wedge , red 2 door hard top , 63 max wedge black 2 door sedan , later on my dad bought a new 63 sport fury , not a max wedge tho. When I got out of the service , the red wedge owner (drag racer ) switched to hemi`s , super stock and then later prostock . I later found my first hemi in a...

Back in the day , Chrysler and most everybody else said , minimum of .080 on intakes , and minimum or .100 on exhaust . This was for performance engines (dragstrip) , but "DONT FLOAT THE VALVES very hard , if at all !!! I think you`ll have more than that to start with...jmo

wasn't it a 1966 or 67 Plymouth wagon , seems like I saw one being raced a lot of yrs ago , I always wanted to put my hemi in a wagon , just for traction...

they must be dreaming , $9000 , u gotta be kidding ...

I grew up outside of a small town , the next town away , an older guy bought the liteweight 63 savoy , the dealer (in our town where he bought it ) couldn't get it started , they offered him his down payment or what ever back , if he wanted it . He brought 4-5 big buddies of his to pick it up ...

dam rob ,you is pretty "smart feller '' Have you put it in an older dist. machine / wonder if that would tell you anything .-----just curious... ^^^^^^^ don't get those mixed up -lol