"Something in the Orange"

I have always had crumby 60' times. I've come to the conclusion that if I am getting good traction and I can't really hold the tires still foot braking with the rpm's over 2500, that the suspension needs some attention. After ironing out everything that was completely wrong up front (like the bent strut) I have to change some stuff under there. My first addition was a set of Competition Engineering adjustable shocks in the back. In 2020 the shocks that came with the car were starting to get soft on the passenger side and I had a tire bang the quarter a couple times back there. My goal had always been to get into the 12's with the "Florida combo" that still had the original 3.31 stroke. My next move was to get a set of slant 6 torsion bars. I never got that far...

I don't see any evidence that I made it to Pine Valley that spring.

On a 50 minute run to the seedling nursery east of Livingston In May, my water pump failed and the motor got really hot. When I tried to shut it down it sorta diesel'd until I could figure out how to stop it from firing. Other than a lot of damaged gaskets, I don't think there was anything appreciably wrong with it, but I decided to pull the engine and try something different. I schlepped it down to Ted's engine and machine service in Conroe to check the block and heads for damage, then a long block and cam swap.