maydayneal

Hey guys.....

After much adjusting and changing some things....the car is now running very well.

So much thanks to the forum members.....there were so many suggestions to my original post concerning my first time out and how the car was acting. I studied every reply...all thoughts and suggestions and determined a series of things to test and change. I wont go into all the adjustments here....but let me say that I have learned a bunch already from you guys.

Anyway....so here are the specifics on my best run out of 5. I think there some more in her.....I just need to keep working on the setup.

1/4 ET: 11.79
Speed 117.29
60' - 1.747
330 - 4.965
1/8 - 7.660
1/8 mph - 91.79

Again just to recap...I running a chevy 358 on a PG. The rear gear is 4.30. I go thru the trap at about 7200 rpm.

I leave on a transbrake at 4800 rpm. The converter is a Hughes 6000 stall.

The car is a 78 Nova and weighs approx 3100 pounds. Ford 9" on a ladder bar suspension. Seemed to hook really well.

So I'm thinking I'm not going to do get much more out of the top end with me running 7200 already....unless I go to a taller gear...maybe a 4:10.

I need to play with the rpm launch a bit to see if I can get the 60' down in the 1.6 range and perhaps pick up some ET in the beginning.

Any thoughts on this??

Thanks again!