Man the engine sounds strong all the way through , really cool to see someone using these. I see that you have it listed as 1959 , 392's were only 57 - 58 . They did have truck 354's in 1959 however.
HEY, YOU HAVE DONE THAT BEFORE! I BUILT A 125 INCH ALTERED FOR S/C AND YOU ARE SO RIGHT, IT IS FULL ON FUN. YOU SURE WEREN;T AFRAID OF IT, GOOD FOR YOU! WHERE IS THAT TRACK? i HAVE NEVER BEEN THERE AND WANT TO RUN IT BEFORE I AM DONE. MY LATEST PROJECT IS THE SLOAN MCCAULEY '54 HUDSON SUPERJET FROM THE GARLITS MUSEUM. SHOULD BE A BLAST. IT IS A DOOR CAR BUT SO FUN TO SEE CARS LIKE IT AT TRACKS ANYMORE. i'LL REMEMBER YOUR CAR AND STOP BY AND SAY HI IF I CATCH YOU SOMETIME!!!
Beautiful slingshot.....thanks for posting. Maybe we'll see you at the March Meet (I've been attending since 65') or California Hot Rod Reunion?? Both are a blast, and a real trip back to the Golden Era of our sport. I run my 70' Duster (w/440 Wedge) in either the Hot Rod or Gas classes. (my street car is a 2015 Challenger Scat Pac/Shaker with the 392 Hemi) ✌😎
Thank you. I really hope to go to March Meet or Hot Rod Reunion, but it’s a 30 hour drive one way. Still, I’m aiming at HRR in 2024. Hope to see you there.
If you know of any early hemi engines, please let me know. I have been searching high and low to find more of these engines. Most have been picked over - especially the 392's that were only produced for a few years.
You know what's cool neighbors the cameraman have the video thank you somebody knows what they're doing you can actually wash these machines run without no music and no commercials most of all love these guys with cameras they're way back behind a bunch of people at the starting line where you can't even see the vehicles thank you make it impossible to watch
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-55aH9sYrhH4.html I guess it was the word nitro that led me to your page. Thanks for doing this as it peaks the interest in nitro for new people Let me clear up a few things to assist you, and possibly others. First you speak of your percentage of nitro being 50% by weight or volume. If it is 50% by volume your percentage is ACTUALLY a lot LESS. Methanol is 0.791 specific gravity. Nitro is 1.13 specific gravity A correct method of doing a percentage load is done by WEIGHT not volume. Our 70% is done by weight. Nitro needs a much larger fuel volume, even heavily modified carburetors struggle to flow enough fuel volume for methanol as methanol is 2.2 times the volume of gasoline. The increased volume of fuel needed for nitro depends upon the percentage of nitro fuel used but suffice it to say it is over eight times the fuel volume needed from methanol, thus a carb will never have the fuel delivery needed for nitro. There was a time about ten years ago when my son and I took his car and put it on 70%, raced it two years, never hurt a thing. We build a special two stage fuel system with a Hi pressure and a Lo pressure option. The Lo pressure was a low volume deal where we did the race prep of the burn out, roll back and roll forward to prestage. This did two things for us, it put some heat in the heads which was needed and as important it put less fuel past the rings and into the oil pan. Once the car was in prestage, driver pulls a lever moving it from Lo to Hi and then rolled the car into full stage, the run was on the Hi side only. We learned the benefit later one day when we realized that we had made five runs on the day and only used two churns of 70% which means we used 8 liters (quarts) of fuel per run… cheap racing. The car on methanol normally runs 8.60 at 160mph, on 70% it ran 7.20’s at 190mph not bad for a pile of mostly stock junk Could I have got the car to run some 6’s, I do think I could have but the two bolt main dead set scared the shit out of me. Once we were done with the nitro for two years an engine tear down and inspection indicated absolutely no wear or damage, so we just reassembled the engine put it back in the car and it is now back running on methanol. She is a very tough old girl having been making passes since first assembled in 1997 But the rest of the story is that since the engine was built to make many hundreds of passes down the race track and was used at our Drag Race School here in Australia the engine is a very generic engine. It is a 0.060 over 454 Big Block Chevy with some 12.5-1 Speedpro pistons, stock steel Chevy rods, stock steel Chevy crank and a TWO bolt main bearing engine block, with a 258 degree flat tappet camshaft. Nothing in the engine description screams NITRO, yet here we are. Because the engine components were so generic, we were afraid to jump to hard on them in fact we think getting a pile of stock Chevy parts to go 7.20’s and not throw themselves on the ground is pretty good. What we did to limit how aggressive the car was is to limit the ignition timing to only 55 degrees. Since I have raced nitro since 1974 I can tell you that the optimum ignition timing would be about 68 degrees total ignition. We ran the combo for two years to prove a point and have since retired it putting the engine back on methanol which requires a lot less attention than nitro does. When you are using nitro there are some rules that you MUST follow because I have seen cylinder heads thrown off the engine and the cylinder head landing nearly 200 feet away. A few people got hurt with that. That is why we have a very specific starting routine as we start the engine on methanol and once it is running we switch to nitro. It is always a good idea to get the nitro out of the cylinder before you turn the engine over, even with just a wrench. We have a rule the first thing we do after a run is to remove the spark plugs and the last thing we do before we go to the starting line is to spin the engine over before putting the spark plugs back in, as this insures there is no nitro left on top of the pistons. I reckon that nitro is the best easiest power adder to the engine. Besides it sound so damn cool. Currently there are four single magneto injected nitro cars in the Brisbane area racing at Willowbank. Our current car is still a Big Block Chevy but the internals are all good bits and our percentage is 100%. We chase the 100% tune up since we feel that it is the nitro that makes the power why dilute it. Now we have the ignition tweaked right up to 68 degrees. We have not taken the new package to the starting line - yet, for a couple of reasons, one is that we have been hired to assist a new racer sort his stuff out and a few months ago my 23 healthy son collapsed on Saturday morning and died. Death certificate says cause unknown, coroner says it was a Channelopthy. Considering all that we believe it was a reaction to the Covid shot the government made everyone take. I am not a conspiracy theorist, but it seems that is changing now that with a bit of google search there seems to be an epidemic of healthy young people from 20-40 years of age just falling over dead. The common thread, they all had the Covid shot. Stay safe everyone, go racing because you never know when your last day was yesterday. Enjoy the video, the young man in the video was my son. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-55aH9sYrhH4.html
