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Re: 1st Time Out

Postby JohnP2 » Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:57 am

Sounds great, love the black side pipes.
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Re: 1st Time Out

Postby danfigg » Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:33 am

Sounds like the heads are the Cork. Here are my motor specs and we ran almost identicle numbers. 383-60 over brodix street heads 10to 1 compression 495 solid lifter cam 5.7 rods. 750 edelbrock victor JR intake turbo 350 3000 stall 373 gears --------danfigg
60 -1.86
330- 5.206
1/8- 8.014
MPH- 87.40
1000- 10.439
1/4 -12.495
mph -109.44
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Re: 1st Time Out

Postby Hoonbash » Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:46 pm

Interesting stuff Gents.

I have gone through a bad spell with the car in the last while.I found that I could stall it out to 4 grand on the street with no wheel spin so I was encouraged by that so I also bought new bigger E/T streets and was anxious to hit the track to see what the new launch RPM would bring for time.

Well I had it stalled at 4 grand on the track and let it rip,BANG.....SHIT. I managed to pull the passenger upper control arm spherical rod-end right out of the arm,bent the shock rod,bent the lower driver control arm mounting bolt and pad,rubbed the wheel-well paint off in a few spots and to add insult to injury the track guys made me travel the rest of the strip which destroyed my new tire.

Now I've lengthened the uppers so they are threaded in by at least 2 inches,no danger of pulling the threads out again,BUT,sooner or later the upper mounts will need to be addressed (looked at after every run!!).Also added a Weiand street tunnel ram which needs fine tuning later on but for now runs good and it pulls hard.Off to the track I go with hopefully NO CARNAGE

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Re: 1st Time Out

Postby gerbsinmd » Fri Aug 01, 2008 7:30 am

That looks really wicked!!!!
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Re: 1st Time Out

Postby Hoonbash » Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:26 am

Update

The tunnel ram didn't work so great at W.O.T(needs cleaning),so I went back to the Air-Gap intake & 750 Holley,vaccum-secondaries.

Pulled the obscene weights out of the MSD dist & went with the medium weight springs and it gained serious bottom end,the ET street didn't stand a chance,laid some long SSSSS's

Took off the side-pipes and ran 11:90(2,500 elev.) dropped 1/2 second from previous nights ET,Pulled a 1.69 60' AND warped the shit out of the drivers side lower mount,rear-end was visibly out.

My last go around looked like Josh's when I screwed up the upper spherical mounts.now it's the lower(s).

These cars will NOT take any serious grunt with out the rear-end issues addressed ,SO DON'T KID YOUSELF LIKE I DID

Like the gents said"If your afraid of breakin' it ,you shouldn't be racin' it"





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Re: 1st Time Out

Postby Hoonbash » Sat Aug 31, 2019 1:23 pm

Hi Guys Old thread resurrection

Had the Vega out for the first time this year and had a blast tearing around.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nXciEn ... sp=sharing
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Re: 1st Time Out

Postby n8thenetninja » Tue Sep 15, 2020 11:46 pm

What did you end up doing to fix the control arm mounts on the car?
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Re: 1st Time Out

Postby Hoonbash » Wed Sep 16, 2020 12:59 am

n8thenetninja wrote:What did you end up doing to fix the control arm mounts on the car?

Seen your post and thats shocking,both my uppers have threaded spherical rod ends and I dont really care for that set up but it seems to be OK.I raced it quite a bit after addressing the mount problems and think I had a best of 11.69@117. Havent been racing lately or even crawled under to look at things but am sure things are still solid.I better get my ass under there and do some observing after being reminded about this.

For the lower control arm mounting points I went this route viewtopic.php?f=20&t=20726&hilit=megavega#p81742
For the upper mounts I followed 70stylevega plan and fabbed up the H looking bracket that is drawn up near the bottom of page 2 viewtopic.php?f=19&t=18869
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Re: 1st Time Out

Postby Hoonbash » Wed Sep 16, 2020 1:44 pm

Had a look at the car today and apparently i just welded the hell out of things and added to the uppers with some washers and a brace,could of swore i added steel to the outboard side of the bracket.Things still look OK.
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Re: 1st Time Out

Postby Hoonbash » Wed Sep 16, 2020 1:53 pm

Lowers
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Re: 1st Time Out

Postby n8thenetninja » Mon Sep 21, 2020 6:06 pm

Thanks for the pictures! My car ran 10.90 (didn't expect that honestly :shock: ) in Topeka this weekend and nothing broke, but I want to try and beef up those upper mounts some more anyway. I suspect it's probably the weakest link right now. Most of the time the car is running at high altitude and running high 11's though, so this weekend was a rare exception.
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Re: 1st Time Out

Postby monzaz » Sun Feb 19, 2023 11:59 am

The 60 foot is the most important thing with a naturally aspirated engines. So YES those stupid advance front truck springs under the rotor will hinder advance...
I can not believe on a MSD performance ignition would come with those stupid heavy springs from the factory???
You can also combo the springs...One light one medium...Keep tinkering with that and the full advance timing in the motor. 30- 38 degrees depending on the heads
Carb squirters too maybe a little bit bigger and remember when drag racing you are on the throttle about a 1/4 way down so the squirt-er cam on the throttle arm will need to be moved to a #2 position for a later discharge.....NOW remember on the street that could cause a hiccup...BUT at the track you preload the throttle and then launch...SO just remember this when street driving.... OH and when you do change this cam around YOU MUST ALSO READJUST THE SPRING ARM to the pump or you will ruin the pump under the holley fuel bowl....
If you have room for a RAM are snorkel that will give you more top end too I did it with 1986 truck snorkels and made my own drop intake air cleaner and took out the 1979 outer monza head light to ram the air in through... I put window door screen over the head light bucket hole to prevent big bugs from getting eaton....LOL. :)
Just some more CHEAP TRICKs to help.
Mostly the carb and ignition is here your going to notice the increases.
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