Author: chrisII

I know if you have a driveline failure in low gear its known to wipe out the overrunning clutch, I understand it as 2nd and drive dont use it and its not an issue. has anyone had a trans blow after an axle failure in 2nd?
It seems to me that after i had an axle failure once before all was fine….

took the car out tonight with the new freebie motor. Its a bit off out of the corners, but at least running. for a stock motor with a cam i was pretty happy. only 2/10 off of what my “good” motor ran. I continued working on handling issues. it seems that either the car is driving better or I am,…

it looks like they cost me about $350 a lap, not counting cost of fuel and tires. Im really at a loss for what would cause these srp forged pistons to do this (see pics) . Ive heard it was a normal thing on slivolites, but these are a true forged piston. The mixture appears good to me. no light…

Picking my car up from the paint shop this am. its before 8 so i dont want to fire it to load yet. hope to have vinyl on it and get it to the track today. last time i raced a few people asked “when are you going to paint it?” I will post pics with the flat black side skirts and lettering yet this…

Ive been having trouble getting weight to transfer back off the turns. Im running a 3200lb street stock with mopar circle track leafs. the turn i have trouble with is pretty flat, the other end has more banking and causes less problems. currently i have a pair of heavy duty stock replacement…

I got my new motor dropped in today. I was feeling pretty good that I saw the missing plug on the right lower part of the block and plugged that. nbd i thought. I dumped the 7 quarts of oil in it and put the priming rod on the drill. when i spin it up i can build 70 psi on the gauge but never build…

Kinda shocked that nobody here brought up the Challenger on the cover of the Jan issue of Circle track.

It’s a sweet car, but built on a chevy frame. I spent a bunch of time looking it over at the end of the season show that he came to at our track. he had bad luck with it that weekend but did…