Dart Sport 360
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Leak down was fine in the summer and was still before the tear down, rings look great, pistons look good, cylinder walls are perfect, valve seats are good, only sketchy thing in the entire tear down was one if'y roller lifter. Everything checked out. Needs new valve springs and the heads are going to get checked over before they are opened up.
Regardless, we are mentally done with the TR... I think over the season we were creeping up on a setup that worked. We raced in hot muggy weather all season. We got it working in good air in the fall but at the slightest turn in the weather it would fall on its face... to the point that it would run good in TT's and bog first round when it got slightly hotter.
No doubt the TR could be set up but when you only race 1 or 2 times a month there is not enough testing time. We want to race I don't want to spend weeks on end TT'ing... Not to say there wont be testing involved with a single carb. We are looking for something easier to tune.... The truck was on the chassis dyno and it worked great, the problem was only at launch and could not be tuned on the chassis dyno... it wont do it on the street because there is not load since it will only spin on the street....
This engine has never had anything but the TR on it, we bought the combo complete and have used it as is... its time for a change for better or worse. Indy know's their heads and I discussed my combo with them and this was their suggestion. We'll see what happens come spring.
Regardless, we are mentally done with the TR... I think over the season we were creeping up on a setup that worked. We raced in hot muggy weather all season. We got it working in good air in the fall but at the slightest turn in the weather it would fall on its face... to the point that it would run good in TT's and bog first round when it got slightly hotter.
No doubt the TR could be set up but when you only race 1 or 2 times a month there is not enough testing time. We want to race I don't want to spend weeks on end TT'ing... Not to say there wont be testing involved with a single carb. We are looking for something easier to tune.... The truck was on the chassis dyno and it worked great, the problem was only at launch and could not be tuned on the chassis dyno... it wont do it on the street because there is not load since it will only spin on the street....
This engine has never had anything but the TR on it, we bought the combo complete and have used it as is... its time for a change for better or worse. Indy know's their heads and I discussed my combo with them and this was their suggestion. We'll see what happens come spring.
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