Author: BelvedereII

Anybody run a Thermoquad at hi altitude?

Am looking at running my car at Bandimere next month and curious if there’s anything required to make the TQ’s secondaries work as well up there as it does at 1000′ alt. I’m presuming an air door adjustment will be all that’s required, if anything, to make it operate correctly, but admit I do not…

Gearing for my ‘Dere

I’ve been racing at an 1/8th mile track, car is pretty much right where I want it as in Sportsman class (NHRA ET racing) you cannot dial quicker than 7.50 . Bad air gets the car into 7.8’s, it’s run a couple 7.5’s in the spring and last year at the finals in Brainerd it ran a 7.49 as part of one…

Reuniting separated motors

I’ve got a ’68 440 and was told it came from a Charger, is there any place out there matching up missing motors and their original cars? Seems a lot of people get a car and spend a good amount of time trying to find what happened to the factory-installed motor–does Galen Govier or anybody else…

1968 440 Block without VIN

Just bought a ’68 440 block/crank/rods/pistons setup as a spare to stick in the corner of the garage (or maybe use the crank in a 400) and can’t find…

1968 440 Block without VIN

Just bought a ’68 440 block/crank/rods/pistons setup as a spare to stick in the corner of the garage (or maybe use the crank in a 400) and can’t find…

PCV draw

The PCV valve on my 440 appears to be operating fine, pulling it with the motor running has it buzzing and the motor idles the same as when it’s in the valve cover. However, when I cover the end of the valve so no air flows through it the motor is about to stall.

Is this normal operation for the…

’67-’69 Barracuda rear cargo trim

My ’67 Barracuda’s trim around the cargo area sides was plain ol’ chrome and somewhere I picked up a set (I think it was from ’68) with what looks like decal’d reflective material within the pieces. Has a kind of engine-turned effect, and it looks perfectly aligned as if it were a factory piece.

Anyone with that generation B’cuda have that type of interior trim? I’m trying to figure if it’s year-specific.

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