Photo taken in 1983 at Great Lakes Dragaway, Union
Grove, WI.
Photo taken in 1983 at Great Lakes Dragaway, Union
Grove, WI.
| The engine was a 318 punched .030
over. 9:1 forged flattop pistons, 340 rods and crank, 340 heads with 2.02"
valves. Transmission is a Torqueflight 904 with a reverse pattern manual
valve body. Rearaxle is a Mopar 8 3/4 with a 4:89 gear. My Best ET with
this setup was 12.60 @ 108mph without nitrous oxide and 11.68 @ 114mph
with a 100hp I.C.E. nitrous system. I acquired this car in 1978 from my
Grandmother!
In 1984 I moved to Arizona and ran the car at Firebird Raceway. Unfortunately after only three months I threw a rod and couldn't afford to rebuild the motor. The car is now owned and raced by Rich Beals, in Arizona. Rich got a great deal as I sold him the car, trailer and all my spare parts for $1500.00. The car had been in outdoor storage for four years and I couldn't bear to watch it sit in the Arizona sun another day. |
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Update January, 16 1997 Rick, Stumbled across your article on the web about your old Dart yesterday. I know you had seen it about a year ago, but I believe that we had it slowed down at the time to 11.90's. We are still running it slower to try and help save the engine but back in november, we opened it up just to see what it would do with new Hooker Super Comp headers. It had been running 11.50's with 2.5" flowmaster mufflers on it and the evacuation tubes disconnected. The air was pretty good and we got an 11.28 @ 117.5 out of it. This is also with less gear than the car used to have. I blew the 4.89's about 3 years ago and put 4.56's in it. The amazing part of this is that we are cutting 1.49-1.50 60 foot times that are comparable to cars that run in the high 10's. Right now, the car is severely tire limited and could go faster if launched at a higher rpm. My brother in law mad a pass in the car and left at 3800 instead of 3000. It ran an 11.30 out the back but the 60' time slipped to 1.55 which indicates the car was spinning pretty hard on the line. We currently have wheels and tires in the garage to put 11.5" slicks under the car. This is the next project along with going back to 4.89 gears. We also plan on building a super street engine for it in the very near future. We recently fully equipped the car with throttle stop and delay box so that we could be competitive when we finally build the engine. Just thought that you might like an update on the car. I know that we occasionally run into each other, but it is kind of few and far between. Also, if you know anyone interested in having race cars worked on, I now operate a chassis shop as a second business out of my home. We are fully equipped to do roll bars, cages, rear end narrowing, ladder bars, back halfs, front halfs and aluminum work. We are also dealers for Moser Engineering axle products and they recently started handling Wilwood disc brakes and should soon be adding gears to their line of products. The company name is Comp Chassis and I can be reached at 439-2507. Richard Beals |