New parts…I can’t figure out how to post first start but it runs great….in the garage, LOL!
G3 in 64 Valiant update
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mopar65
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hi. I talked to you on Facebook a few days ago. car looks great. what are you hoping it runs in the 1/4 with the updates?
If I put a time down, I would either be happy or disappointed, lol! Time will tell in the next week. Took it out for a shakedown run today and was running rich, but overall, it was pretty good!
I happened to catch it on Fakebook. Sounds really good!!
mopar65
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Fair enough. Lol I would like to hear more about your build. I am looking into stroker kits for my 6.1. Wanting to stroke it to a 426 with 12+ compression.
DionR
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Thanks DionR. Some changes from last year. I took out the comp cam and replaced it with a custom cam from FRP, ground by Texas Speed. I replaced the inertia big valve pre-Eagle head with 6.1 MMX prepped heads. I took off the dual quad edelbrock intake and carburetors and went to a Ritter intake and a 1050/4150 QF carb.
Had to make my own
Nice!! Not something I'd want to attempt though.
I can actually say it was a major PIA and sucked and was horrible and………LOL!Nice!! Not something I'd want to attempt though.
Seriously, tell me how bad it was…
I can only imagine… not much space in the engine compartment… don’t think I will attempt this swap…
Each header has 9 pieces. Two tubes on each side go through the inner fender and the others down by torsion bar. Made them slip tubes, just need to use muffler paste to make sure it seals. We put passenger side four tubes on and then just 1 and 3 when installing long block. Once I get the engine in I attach 5 and 7. Then add mid-pipes on all 8 into collector. When starting I just put the block in and took the heads on and off as we made the pipes. Was hard but after done you do feel good about it. Now if you go with after market front suspension with coil overs then it is much easier. Hope this helps.
Whew!! A lot of figuring out! Like pieces to a puzzle…
As much as I’d love to do this…. I’m not sure if I’d like to
So far…
mopar65
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Damn thats nice. So you just changed heads and intake from old engine? If so that's a very nice gain from the other set up you had. Great job on the new best. My 6.1 stroker kit should be here in a few weeks
Changed cam, heads, intake, and carb. Slowly getting the suspension set up. Close enough for now to make Sick Summer. This is from today’s practice.
Update.
Sick Summer was a success! We left on Saturday afternoon last week and got home about 6pm last night. Over 1000 miles traveled. A week full of ups and downs a lot of laying underneath the car at night and at the racetrack, but we were able to finish! We ended up finishing second in small block naturally aspirated and 7th out of 17 overall in the naturally aspirated division (I think, LOL) which is a great improvement over the previous year. Update on using superstock Springs minus the two lower leaves with caltracs. it does work however it does end up flattening the springs. This picture is from the beginning of six summer and then I fought it again until the end of the event. I ended up putting the two leafs back on but put the left on the right and the right on the left and I was able to finish the event. ran 10.50 on Monday, 10.88 on Tuesday, 10.75 on Wednesday, 10.71 on Thursday, and 10.55 on Friday. Ended up second in my class. I will call Calvert on Monday to figure out if I need the stock height leafs or a 1 inch lift or 1 inch drop. I probably need to put sliders on while I’m at it. Lesson learned. Time to take a few days off and then get back at it, taking the transmission out to get rebuilt and putting split mono leaf Calvert springs on and fix the lack of cooling issues.
Sick Summer was a success! We left on Saturday afternoon last week and got home about 6pm last night. Over 1000 miles traveled. A week full of ups and downs a lot of laying underneath the car at night and at the racetrack, but we were able to finish! We ended up finishing second in small block naturally aspirated and 7th out of 17 overall in the naturally aspirated division (I think, LOL) which is a great improvement over the previous year. Update on using superstock Springs minus the two lower leaves with caltracs. it does work however it does end up flattening the springs. This picture is from the beginning of six summer and then I fought it again until the end of the event. I ended up putting the two leafs back on but put the left on the right and the right on the left and I was able to finish the event. ran 10.50 on Monday, 10.88 on Tuesday, 10.75 on Wednesday, 10.71 on Thursday, and 10.55 on Friday. Ended up second in my class. I will call Calvert on Monday to figure out if I need the stock height leafs or a 1 inch lift or 1 inch drop. I probably need to put sliders on while I’m at it. Lesson learned. Time to take a few days off and then get back at it, taking the transmission out to get rebuilt and putting split mono leaf Calvert springs on and fix the lack of cooling issues.
DionR
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I was rooting for you, watched the live stream the whole week.
Very cool watching your wheel stands!
Very cool watching your wheel stands!
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