I have read your other posts about the amount of bondo on your car and fiberglass patches in the rusted floor boards. Keep in mind that you have lost structural integrity when you lost metal in the floors. Wanting to put additional horsepower in this car really doesn't make alot of sense .... unless you propertly cut and weld the floors and whatever other structural issue you may have ...
i manually shift my mav as well....hell thats what its for.....but the racing does need to stay at the track or you may run into a problem that happeend to another fellow member a few weeks ago...he lost control and messed up his maverick and a few parked cars... go fast and have fun....but at the track....otherwise you might be playing with all our lives.........and if my mav gets totalled god help the kid that wrecks into me while hot dogging
That's cool Nick, I just thought it was funny that STManser was talking to you about a thread that he read, and that thread was about you. It wasn't meant as a dig or low blow. Sorry if it came across that way. Congrats on your find!
The closest track to me is Mooresville Dragway, it's an 1/8th mile track. You should go on a test-n-tune day. That's what we do. Several of us in our truck club will head up on a test n tune night and play. Run as many times as you want for $15. You run against whoever you line up next to in the staging lanes. We just try and line up against who we want to run and have a blast. My F100 is a work truck dauily driver and last time I ran it my ET was 10.01 with my shell and tools in the back. I beat a Honda Prelude twice in a row that night. It was an older one with a pimple face kid driving it. I think the first time he thought it was a fluke this 35 year old pick-up beating him. I went back and staged again and he pulled up next to me again. I spanked him again and next I saw of him he was leaving. lol Test and tunes nights are great I think. get to see everything run and you can run against almost anything clint
Nick, you need to lose that Mustang intake the runners are way to small for the heads you are running, I have an 87 302 with 87TE heads ported with the big valves installed, 214 224 @ 0.50 duration and 471 lift cam, Carter 650 AFB with Tri Y headers. When I first drove this engine I though wow with all that I put in this thing it should do WAY better than this! I changed my intake to a Edlebrock RPM and it really came alive like night and day and I drive this thing when and where ever I want and it still gets respect at the local track.
yeah north carolina is aways from iowa, or id be going with ya guys soonest chance i got. the intake i have on it now is a weiand stealth model 8020. i did notice a huge differnce on the top end. between that and electronic ignition i think i went from 9.5 to 9 flat on the 1/8 mile. I think ill buy this torino, and get it goin. then when i have the time and money ill fix the mav.
Yea, I did'nt mean come race here in NC. lol I meant find a track near you and go play during the test n tune. 1/8th mile is plenty long enough to play in
i raced at eddyville last year, plan to this year too. its about 17 miles away i think. theres a guy in the local area (Dr. Berges) who has a 10 second quarter mile mav. never ever seen it but its gotta be sweet. dont know when hell get it back together, last i heard his motor grenaded on him.
Heck I thought my 10 second f100 was pretty good for what it is. Oh wait that's in the 1/8th mile lol We get together every once in a while to play at the track. One guy has a serious f100 that he's running low 8's in the 1/8th. He fixing to put that windsor in a mustang body and get serious about racing. I go and help him once in a while. I love the track, the smells of the burnt racing gas gets my heart hammering. First time I raced I screwed up so bad. I even had my wife on the cell phone and said. "hey, listen to this". lol clint
theres a guy at eddyville that races an f350 and runs mid 7's... uses like 32-15.5-15 slicks.. very amazing for a truck that size.
