Jim,
I just read your message on the successful “testing” of your Fury and I had
a huge grin on my face, enjoying every word; nice going! I like your Uncle
Johnny’s comment; very true!
Keep us posted when you move testing from your private race track to Milan
Dragway; man, wish we had a dedicated 1/4 mile track in San Diego county...just
have to find my “private” 1/4 mile test track.
Wonder if a box of donuts or taking the local gendarmes to “lunch” would
buy me some governmental security...
Gary P.
Happy Monday,
-- I took the '64 Fury out for some "test runs" yesterday. (Basically I
live out in the country so I found a nice two lane road in the middle of nowhere
and created my own drag strip.) Anyway, it was the first real beating I
handed out to this car after the epic journey to finally get in all
together. Two words: holy crap! This car hooks up and goes, even
with the Hoosiers slicks still in the garage (I had my drag radials on).
Anyway, I had a few minor issues.
1) I broke the Strange Engineering adjustable pinion snubber. The
base is still bolted to the Dana rear but the top piece is long gone.
Hmmm. May have to go with Caltracs?
2) I've had it with messin' around with Mopar type ignition boxes and going
with an MSD 6al2. I posted recently that the FBO ran great but it gave my
Auto Meter tach fits,. so I put a chrome box on it. The car runs good at
high RPM but loads up at idle with the chrome box. It did not do this at
all with the FBO as I believe it is a multiple spark unit. So the heck
with it - Summit Racing just got another $300 out of my retirement
account. I think my 12.5:1 compression and long duration cam is just too
much for a chrome box, but who knows, I'm just going to stick with what I know
works on this particular build.
All-in-all, I couldn't be happier with this car and can't wait to get it to
Milan Dragway for some real tests. On the funny side, I had my 74 year old
Uncle Johnny with me on one of the runs. He had a big ol' smile and said
"you could get hurt with this thing." :-)
NOTE: I have a brand new, still in the package FBO ignition box with the
ballast resistor jumper wire that I will not be using (FBO sent it to me as a
warranty replacement after I sent them my old one for testing). I also
have a very barely used Petronix coil that they recommend for use with their
box. Happy to sell it to one of the folks in the group here at a good
discount well below the $199 I paid for it. If interested, ping me
please. Oh, I also have a new-in-box MSD Soft Touch rev limiter if you
need one of those.
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