Hello fellow Mopar people...

[Candyboy321]

I'm new here. Just looking for other bracket racers to converse with. Found this web site and some intelligent conversation here.

I run an automatic transmission rebuild shop (for a living) and drag race mopars as a hobbie.
Currently working on a pair of barracudas a'67 fastback and a'69 notchback. Both cars will have B block engines with 727 trans.

Currently racing a '72 challenger B block with homemade tunnelram, and sometimes a 392 hemi front engine dragster with 6 strombergs
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I've been a car guy all my life, and lately have been experimenting with mechanical fuel injection.

I am 54 years old and have a pair of 7 year old twins named Holley and Carter.
I'm sure that I can help with some transmission questions.

 

[MOPARMITCH]

Welcome to the site. I just finished rebuilding/beefing up and re installing a 47RH for my 92 D250 Cummins truck. 1st one I've done. It works, So Hallelujah !!

 

[bigus1949]

welcome form ct

 

[krazykuda]

Welcome to FABO.

Your cars sound pretty nice, how about posting some pictures????


(You will find that we have a large appetite for pictures here.)

 

[Candyboy321]

I'll try to get some pics up today if I can figure out how.

 

[Candyboy321]

I think that I've got some pics uploaded, but I can't see them.
Anyway the pics of the engine is a .060 over 383 with KB domed pistons,Eagle rods, reground steel crank, cheep heads that look just like the 440 source chambers and runners. I'll be running a solid flat tappet cam that I bought on Ebay for $160 with lifters. The cam is an old Comp Cams that's never been used I'll have to put a degree wheel on and see just what it is, but I do know that it says 290-290-8 on the end and the lobes measure .525 lift at 1.5 rocker ratio. I ordered a 9 keyway timing set that should be here tomorrow. The rockers are the roller fulcrum type (used from a friend). The fuel injection is homemade from exhaust tubing, except for the stacks. the throttle bodies are the rear bottom sections of four quadrajet carbs. Hilborn barrel valve and nozzles bought used. 11.3 to one static compression.This engine should run consistant 11s in my '69 barracuda.
The crazy headers is something that I always wanted to do, crisscross the two center tubes so that every pulse out each collector is 180 degrees apart. Then run 3 1/2" tube all the way out the back of the car, so I don't have to smell fumes while trying to stage the car. I may gain some low end torque here, but mainly I want to have a sound the makes people scratch their heads.

Oh, the valve covers were bought new from Ebay they didn't fit any mopar head till I cut out the center tubes and moved them about 5 degrees. Now I need to cut and weld them for distributor clearance. So beware they were Assault brand.

I've had problems in the past breaking or cracking cylinder walls, so I tilted the engine on the stand and poured in four cups of block filler in each side of each bank, making a wedge that comes almost to the top of each cylinder, but lets water clear across the underside of the deck and in between the cylinders. We'll see if this works while trying to keep the engine at a constant temp for each quarter mile pass.

 

[Dartnut]

Glad to have you aboard.