I Broke The Valiant

Well.........I raced the Valiant and it didn't break! :cheers: The car made the 120 mile round trip to the track at 70 mph with no problems, ran good at the track too except I ran it like a wuss. I was a nervous wreck about it breaking again so I would launch the car off the line around 2,000 rpm and was only shifting around 5,500-6,000 grand. My quickest time was 13.59 at 103 mph, I know the car has a lot more in it, again, I was babying the car, just happy it worked and ran after all the crap that went wrong less than 5 days ago!

The reason for the 6 grand shifting was because that was the pill I had in the MSD box for the revlimiter and my vintage tach doesn't work with the new ignition. Later on, I switched the 7 grand pill in, Mike adjusted the snubber up (had wheel hop) and I shifted by ear, lowered the drag radials to 18 psi, and launced it a little harder. No wheel hop this time and the car launced sweet but I was spinning the tires yet. I was only doing a small burnout out of the box so that was my problem with the tires spinning, they were also spinning into 2nd and 3rd gear, next time I need to fry those babies!

I have more faith in the car now since it broke, next time I will heat the tires up, launch the thing harder, get a new tach so it will work with the MSD so I can shift the thing higher, then my times will get better. It is tricky with the 4-speed, I still need to get the hang of it! Maybe I should make it easy and install an automatic trans with easy shifts.........nah, don't think so!! :toothy10: