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Car Features: John Viola’s 1964 Mercury Comet Cyclone
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Congrats again to our 2022 Racing Junk March Madness Champion, John Viola and his awesome 1964 Mercury Comet Cyclone rocking a ProCharged SBF. We wanted to feature John and his Comet and get a little background of this cool car. Be sure to check out John's Youtube page HERE to see the Comet in action!
John - So a little story behind how I got into the hobby. I was taken for a ride by my Cousin Tony. I was 15 at the time, he was 17 and had a 1975 Mustang II Fastback that he had hot-rodded up with a 302 4 barrel, intake, cam, headers, shift kit, and man--I felt like a rocket ship. That’s how I fell in love with small-block Fords. From then I bought a 1965 falcon Sprint as my first hot Rod with a 302 and the intake and carb off my cousin's car. Built that and raced it for about 10 years (still have it. ..just gave it to my son for his 18th birthday.) The Comet came into the picture after I got married, my wife actually found it and it has evolved ever since. Ran low10s with a 289 in it. Best et before we did this last “upgrade” lol it went an ET of 9.53 @ 140.
The new set up we front clipped it and then back halfed it we did all the fabrication here ourselves chassis to engine body and paint.
Parts list:
Dart aluminum block
AFR heads
Jessel rockets and belt drive
Oliver rods
Diamond pistons
Comp Roller cam and liters
Stephs oil pan
Bain racing intake from Australia
Wilson throttle body
M1 VP fuel
Holley EFI Dominator ECU with all the bells, whistles, and sensors,
ProChargrer F1X gear drive
Aeromotive mechanical fuel system.
Liberty 5 sod
Boninfante clutch
Mark Williams 9” and axels
Weld wheels s
trange struts and brakes.
S&W 4 link and hardware and tubing through out.
Holley tuning is done with the help of Robert from RTR automotive. My sons and I fabricated everything in house here including the Zoomie headers and all the welding skills are of my good friend Daryl G. Can’t disclose how fast it’s been (we do a lot of shoot outs and no prep also. Been racing all up and down the east coast with in from small tire NPK races to shoot out events. Won a 28s gone wild in N Carolina last year . With Robert helping us the tuning it just keeps getting faster every time we go out.
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Congrats again to our 2022 Racing Junk March Madness Champion, John Viola and his awesome 1964 Mercury Comet Cyclone rocking a ProCharged SBF. We wanted to feature John and his Comet and get a little background of this cool car. Be sure to check out John's Youtube page HERE to see the Comet in action!
John - So a little story behind how I got into the hobby. I was taken for a ride by my Cousin Tony. I was 15 at the time, he was 17 and had a 1975 Mustang II Fastback that he had hot-rodded up with a 302 4 barrel, intake, cam, headers, shift kit, and man--I felt like a rocket ship. That’s how I fell in love with small-block Fords. From then I bought a 1965 falcon Sprint as my first hot Rod with a 302 and the intake and carb off my cousin's car. Built that and raced it for about 10 years (still have it. ..just gave it to my son for his 18th birthday.) The Comet came into the picture after I got married, my wife actually found it and it has evolved ever since. Ran low10s with a 289 in it. Best et before we did this last “upgrade” lol it went an ET of 9.53 @ 140.
The new set up we front clipped it and then back halfed it we did all the fabrication here ourselves chassis to engine body and paint.
Parts list:
Dart aluminum block
AFR heads
Jessel rockets and belt drive
Oliver rods
Diamond pistons
Comp Roller cam and liters
Stephs oil pan
Bain racing intake from Australia
Wilson throttle body
M1 VP fuel
Holley EFI Dominator ECU with all the bells, whistles, and sensors,
ProChargrer F1X gear drive
Aeromotive mechanical fuel system.
Liberty 5 sod
Boninfante clutch
Mark Williams 9” and axels
Weld wheels s
trange struts and brakes.
S&W 4 link and hardware and tubing through out.
Holley tuning is done with the help of Robert from RTR automotive. My sons and I fabricated everything in house here including the Zoomie headers and all the welding skills are of my good friend Daryl G. Can’t disclose how fast it’s been (we do a lot of shoot outs and no prep also. Been racing all up and down the east coast with in from small tire NPK races to shoot out events. Won a 28s gone wild in N Carolina last year . With Robert helping us the tuning it just keeps getting faster every time we go out.
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