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Today was a good day. I got to drive the car out and spend some time dialing in the carburetor linkage and secondary opening rate. I figured out that when the pedal is to the floor the carb was only 80% open. (Grin) and while I was at it I dialed in the secondary opening rate a little better.
Having the dream of a car that runs like this since I was 16, and teasing it a few times along the way, made this sunny spring day one to remember.
The car runs glass smooth, like a fine Swiss watch. It's dialed in to where you spend way more time backing off the gas then you do getting on it. Just effortless and a somewhat dangerous.
On the street dyno the car does a 1/4 in 12.3 seconds with a lot of tire spin. I think with slicks it is an 11.9 second car. Makes it faster than most of the muscle cars of it's day, which were all big blocks... and this with pump gas, a carburetor, a no computers. That's like SET, point-to-point wired, and no solid state parts if it were an audio amplifier. But it's not an audio amplifier, it's a motion amplifier... 3870 lbs of get the crap out of my way.
And while it's always had an extra mean idle, it actually idles in gear now without being turned up to 1100 RPM. Just so sweet now that I'm not constantly fighting it.
So my favorite thing when driving this car is just to lay back and cruse, like a fishing lure waiting for either a Mustang, Camaro, Challenger or whatever it happens to be with a testosterone laden young man behind the wheel. By doing absolutely nothing, I can make him do something stupid. It's so fun. And, every now and then it's fun to surprise the crap out of them.
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This is my replacement for the news.
Steve