Hi Don, Interesting. I have adjustable Rancho shocks on my 71 Bronco. Probably the same. - Jim Jim Altemose, Long Island, NY '63 Polara 500 (Max Wedge) '63 Polara 500 (383) '65 Belvedere I (Street Wedge) '71 Bronco On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Donald Gallimore <dongallimore@xxxxxxx> wrote: > The Calvert shocks are very easy to adjust. The have a dial on them with > settings from 1 to 9. Just reach under the car and turn the dial to whatever > setting you want. BTW - these used to be sold under the Rancho name and Calvert > bought the line. > > I had Competition Engineering's 3 way adjustable shocks and to adjust them, you > had to remove it from the lower mount, compress the shock and rotate it. Pretty > time consuming. > > Akron Don Gallimore > > > > ----- Original Message ---- >> From: MO <micher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> To: The 1962 to 1965 Mopar Mail List Clubhouse >><1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Sun, September 16, 2012 1:25:04 AM >> Subject: Re: Norwalk Mo-Power Event DAy 2 >> >> Thanks for the report Don, I like to hear what folks are trying and >> how those changes work out for them. Interesting on the shocks, are >> they easily adjusted? ................MO >> >> On Sep 15, 9:47 pm, Donald Gallimore <dongallim...@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Day two is over for me but I'm sure they are still racing. Today I got three >> > runs - two time trials and one run in the gambler race (all cars kick in $20 >>and >> > the winner and late round cars get part of the pot) >> > >> > The three runs I got were 12.353, 12.349 and 12.367. I worked on my shock >> > settings (9 way adjustable shock) and shift RPM through the day. The shocks >>were >> > set too soft on the first run, being at a setting of 1 (my bad) so I cranked >> > them to a 7 per Michael Beard's suggestion. Reduced my 60 foot by .02 >>seconds >> > on that alone. On the shift, it was very obvious to me that the car did not >>want >> > to pull well from 5600 to 5800 so I changed the shift point to 5600 on my >> > elimination run and picked up about 0.08 seconds as a direct result of that >> > change. Learned that a poor burnout (in 3rd rather than second then 3rd) >>will >> > hurt the launch by about .04 seconds and that's was lead to the loss in >> > elimination in spite of the gain by reducing the shift points. >> > >> > Had a thrash on the carb when I stripped one of the treads in the carb body >>for >> > the bolt that holds the float bowls to the carb body. Ended up spending $50 >>on a >> > heli-coil kit and necessary tools. Plus, in drilling out the hole for the >> > heli-coil, I ended up windowing the hole to the outside of the throttle body. >>JB >> > weld to the rescue with a stick of epoxy that cured in one hour. Just made >>the >> > call for my first time trail. Lessons learned - put a drop of oil on the >>bolt >> > before you put that steel into an aluminum body and carry a heli-coil kit - >>you >> > will screw this up like I did if you work on a Holley type carb long enough. >> > >> > Now I'm pondering if the carb is too big as others have suggested and if the >> > 3800 stall converter may be too much for my car given that the engine will >>drop >> > below the stall speed after the shift. Need to produce power at higher RPM >>to >> > not do this. Something in the 6200-6400 range. >> > >> > Tomorrow the real eliminations start. I'm running Sportsman class which has >>350 >> > or so cars in it - takes nine rounds to win it. While the car has been >> > incredible consistent today, the inexperienced drive (Me) makes that a tough >> > challenge. But you never know as I went four rounds in the past. >> > >> > Akron Don Gallimore >> > '65 Belvedere 440 powered >> >> -- >> -- >> -- >> Please address private email -- email of interest to only one person -- >>directly to that person. That is, email your parts/car transactions and >>negotiations, as well as other personal messages, only to the intended >>recipient. Do not just press "reply" and send your email to everyone using the >>general '62-'65 Clubhouse public email address. This practice will protect your >>privacy, reduce the total volume of mail and fine-tune the content signal to >>Mopar topic. 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