Hi all. Had a great day today. Hopefully it will follow the rest of the season. Best pass: R/T = .025 60' = 1.436 330' = 4.261 1/8 = 6.671 MPH = 101.58 1000 = 8.770 1/4 = 10.558 MPH = 125.92 This beats my personal best by 2 - 10ths. Still going the old school route as well. 3650lbs with me in it. All steel including bumpers and hood. Iron '67 tall port heads. 4:10 gear. 4500 stall. 464 cubes. This motor is the rebuild after throwing #7 last year. http://www.v8buick.com/showthread.php?t=55154 Changes include SPX intake. A couple more cubes. A few more points of compression. Some more hogging on the heads... Motor built by AM&P in Kentucky. Thanks Mike and Fred! :beer Here's to going after some 10.30s! -John
Yepper... Those are your rear tires. 6400 RPM thru the traps. I think I can improve on my 60' times. I was having some issues with my carb. >No stage2 scoop or airpan. Once I get things sorted out and a good baseline, I'm going to test some things out. Thanks for the thumbs up everyone. -John
Hey there john what is your current setup if you dont mind me asking. I am looking for a setup with the 430 big port heads also.
Wow, Congrats John! Sounds like that beast is running good! Hope to have mine together back on the road soon, I will let you know how those heads work out.
Patrick, Thanks! >Hope everything is going well for you. Chris, Thanks! Keep me posted. FCOOFRAZ3, I've followed your posts for some time. My set-up and goals have been very similiar to yours, minus the nitrous. My new combo is a 464CI, 4:11 gear, TH400 /4500 stall, ladder bar, 13.5:1 compression, with a 308-like cam (cam motion grind) and a 1050 dominator. I'm jetted anywhere between 91 and 93 square and run between 33 -35 degrees of timing. I set my shift points at 5800 and generally wake up and shift between 6000 and 6200 RPM (As indicated on a playback tach). With a 30" tall tire I am going through the traps at 6400 RPM. -John
Hi John, What track do you run at? Do you ever run at Byron or the Grove? If you do I maybe can come down and see your car. It sounds like it really runs good for iron heads. I am not knocking iron heads, I just have not seen very many strong running 455s around my area with them. Tom
John What rods are you running? I'm looking at Cam Motion also. They're right up the highway from me. A local buddy of mine uses them exclusively and has had lots of luck with them.
Tom, I'm planning on being at the Samantha Rix race on May 1st at Byron. Reynold, The rods are TA Sportsman. -John
Awsome that is what my car ran in full steel trim once i start getting the bugs out of it the trany started to go away. That a great start to the year for ya!!
John, We will be camping on may 1st so I can't make the Byron race. Do your iron heads have major race porting done to them? I have home ported heads on mine and I am no where near to the 10s. But I also don't have high compression [9.7] so it still is on pump gas. Mine runs hard in low gear but then lays down alot in high gear. Tom
Tom, My heads flow in the 280's range. Compression is 13+:1. I picked up about 20 points on the heads over last year. AM&P worked on them a bit more. Previous compression was 11.5:1. The best pass I made last year on that combo was a 10.72 at around 122. It was a solid 10.90s car regardless of track or weather. We'll catch up somewhere this year I'm sure. John
Tom, Considering the conditions (cold and windy) the car ran strong. >Solid mid 10.60s Carl took me out first round The days results are here: http://chicagolandbuick.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=316 Any day of racing is a good day! -John
Carl's car must have been working good to get fast time and fast mph. There were only 4 cars in bracket 1? Tom
Carl was running strong and ran a days best of 10.5 I think the miserable weather scared some people off.
