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They make great dirt track cars with built 2300's.

Yep, did not think about the tire decals when I said that. lol

The Coyote X uses BFG T/A's with white letters. Plenty of those out there.

Linkage is the same on all Holley 4bbl and most 2bbl carbs, unless someone messed with it. Linkage on the driver's side and vacuum pods on the passenger sides.

Not bad. But your driver's side valve cover is upside down and both carbs are backwards. The linkage is on the opposite side of the carb not on the vacuum secondary pods side. Good start though.

Great looking cars.

For future reference the dist. mounts behind the water pump area at an angle not on the intake and the coil goes on the intake not the head.

Looking good. Can't wait to see the finished product. And welcome on the info. I've been around race cars since I was a kid. I like to help out cause almost everyone want their creation to be as accurate and real looking as possible. I hate to offer sometimes because I don't want to make someone mad or make them think I hate it or something like that. And your right, it's hard to find good pics of certain subjects for reference.

Just so you know, for future builds, fuel lines and vents and roll over valves are mounted on top of the fuel cell. Some pickups have floaters which look like wings on the fuel pick up and it floats on the fuel to keep the pickup covered. Some cells have dams on the right side that holds fuel so it won't uncover the pickup and most pickups are in the RR of the cell too. On that pic I sent you, the left side has a washable steel screen filter in it on that leads to an electric fuel pump which is illegal on circle track cars. It won't shut off when the engine dies, so it can start a fire. On the right side you see a rollover valve with a vent hose. Most of those should go straight up and have an S or a line looped to prevent fuel and dirt from getting to each other. The filler is the red cap in the middle. Most of those can be changed out to allow for a filler tube, think nascar type cells. Hope that helps. Great build too.

You can cut a coke can with scissors. Would that be too thick, still?

Looking good. Like the reflective numbers. Most places wont let you run those now. At least where I live. Blinds the drivers and the people in the stands and lots of times it's hard for the score keepers to read the numbers with the lights reflecting off of them. I still think they look good though, even on the real thing.

Most likely cracked heads or blown head gaskets caused those tanks to explode, but either way, I agree with you. We ran overflows by the right side windshield posts so we could see them. Of course, we run auto meter gauges and dummy lights to get your attention. And I can vouch for your driver suit theory too. It was not water but a blown engine jsut past the flag stand that got me one night. It was hot engine oil, not oil that got me. When it hits that suit, it sticks, and it burns till you can get it off or it cools down. I can't see how water would be any different.

Welcome anytime. And thanks, on the late model. It's a handful for sure. You should get to the track more often. Us local racers appreciate more than the NASCAR junkies do. lol

Yes, that's how it works. Mostly circle track stuff or lower budget drag cars. Most drag cars that still use radiators use electric water pumps now. Less drag on the engine. By the way, same thing for blower cars. Bigger pulley on the blower slows it down compared to rpm and you get less boost and vice versa. I understand getting pics are hard to do as well. No one wants to show off their tricks and secrets. You can see in the pic below the huge water pump pulley compared to the smaller crank. You can also see the diff in size between the crank, water pump and oil pump pulley. It depends on what rpm you run the engine at as to what ratio you want from the pulley. When it comes to water moving it through the engine too fast will overheat it just like moving it too slow will do the same thing. My late model modified dirt track car makes roughly 800 to 900 horsepower and as you can see it makes enough torque coming out of the corner to pull the LF a good 6 to 8 inches off the ground. And you're welcome. If you need any help with race cars, hit me up and I'll try to help out. And by the way, it looking great so far. And I tossed in another pic for a cooling mod you will see on circle track cars too.

Just so you know the next time, the big pulley goes on the water pump and the small one goes on the crank. On the real thing that set up will make it overheat with the small on top and big on the bottom. That creates a ratio that spins the water pump too fast. We slow the water pumps down with big pulley on top and small on bottom. It keeps the water pump in the 3500 rpm range when the engine is singing at 7500 or better.

Looking good. Love all the details.

Looking fantastic.

That's because almost everyone runs radials now. When they ran bias ply it really mattered cause you could change the stagger by going up or down on-air pressure. Now they try to match the batch numbers on the sidewalls so that they have sets that came off the line at the same time. Then they measure them after they are mounted and choose whether they go to the front or rear on that side of the car. Stagger still matters, but it's + or - an inch now. The lefts and rights have had their own compound of rubber for many years now. So, you can't put lefts on the right-side cause they have a softer compound. If you did, they would hook real good, but be worn out and blow after a few laps. They can't take the heat or loading if you put them on the wrong side.

We have run the same size tires for years with locked rear ends on our cars. Even the lower classes on DOT tires ran 275 60 15's and a 255 60 15 on the LF. If you measure every 275 60 15 tire, none of them are the same size. And it can take as little as an inch difference to make the cars handling change. And you want be able to tell a 1 inch difference in tire height without a tire tape measure. Yes, they make a specific kind of tape measure for tires. It's very thin and narrow and you measure the tire in the center of it's tread.

Welcome. Not everyone will get that one. I should have said it all looks great and not just the sign.

LOVE the Binford sign.

I don't know about the Omni, but the whole front end comes off the Challenger and it's still sporting a Hemi in it.

More than welcome. Enjoying the build and detail you are putting into it.

The head rest is in the '71. Here's a pic of it on the White House lawn.

You are right. Been a while since I had one. Those old engines weighed a ton. No wonder it had such a heavy duty mount.