Miss-fire discovered, some old guy with questionable eye sight was using a mirror to turn the rev limiter dial on the msd box. If you look at the finished engine picture a couple of pages back you can see it’s mounted on the fender with the label right side up and wires facing down. For some reason msd put the dials on the bottom where the wiring comes out so for me to see it leaning over the fender I needed to use a mirror. Well the one click to move it away from the shift point was moved the wrong direction, I ended up with a 6k rev limiter.
Needless to say I was on the limiter right after the leave and wasn’t able to reach the shift points. Oops!

Has anyone had any experience with Artifiberglass products?  They have a diverse line of hoods and such.
https://www.artfiberglass.com/auto/autofiberglass.html

there prices are decent for sure but never seen them in person.a large selection of fairlane and mustang stuff.
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Products look decent, since fiberglass is easy to work with a good body shop should be able to make it fit really well.

Rory, no smoke and now that you mentioned it no little pebbles or rocks stuck to the tires at all. I remember my Firestones on my super gas car would pick them up like crazy. The noise driving back to the pits with all the little pebbles hitting the aluminum wheel tubes was loud!
I’m leaning toward a lean miss but it didn’t get noticeable until the second day. The air was only slightly better that day and hard to figure how a small change caused the problem. The rocker and new valve springs were all fine and all the plug wires were making good contact.
I think I will jet up 3 or 4 sizes, raise the rev limiter farther away from the shift light rpm and order some new tires. Oh, and some new plugs also.
Looking at the plugs that came out #2, #6 and #8 look like they are running a bit too lean.
What do you guys think?

Shakedown update:
I was a little disappointed with the car last weekend. I had higher expectations of the car (and the driver) because of 15yr of previous race experience running a tunnel port in both super street and super gas. I knew going in my tires could be an issue because I purchased them when I was mocking up the rear axle. I looked it up and the slicks are 9yrs old! They haven't been on the car or even outdoors, but they probably need replacing. Before this trip the car has only moved under power in and out of my garage and from my trailer to the alignment shop.

The Good - I warmed it up driving around the pits and took it up for a cautious 1st pass. Footbrake from idle ran down the track at a little over 100mph. The car rides very nice and straight, the brakes worked great, The oil pressure turning off the track was 40lb at idle and the temp didn't get above 180. It never even pushed any water out of a 7lb radiator cap all weekend. The alternator kept the battery up and I never put it on the charger.

The Bad - The 1st pass didn't go much over 100mph because the driver couldn't figure out why it wouldn't shift into 3rd gear. It dawned on the dummy that you need to pull the lever on the Hurst 3sp shifter going from 2nd to 3rd (but not from 1st to 2nd) my previous race car was a powerglide and you just bumped it from 1st to 2nd. By the time I was in 3rd gear the finish line was only about 30 yards away so I lifted to check the gauges and try out the brakes. (11.70et)
Now I'm ready for a serious run on the 2nd pass. I brought some rpm up against the converter (still foot braking) and nailed the throttle. moved somewhat slow and hit the shift light and rev limiter almost immediately.  Blew the tires off in 1st gear so I shifted to 2nd rather than lift and I remembered to shift correctly into 3rd. I was amazed how smoothly the engine runs and sounds compared to my other FE's until at about 1000' where it hit the rev limiter again and I feathered the throttle to try not to sit on the limiter the rest of the way. (11.30et only 116mph on the 7200rpm limiter, 1.75 60ft. 18psi in the slicks)
The next pass was Sunday, in the morning I took the car down to the far end of the pits and onto the track shut down area to try the 2step. I lowered the tires down to 15psi and raised the rev limiter, I was hoping I could get it to hook and see what it could do. Running it up a little in 1st gear on the way I noticed a stumble in it and got concerned. I took it back to my pit and pulled a few plugs and went through the plug wires and didn't find anything. It was time for the 1st round so I figured I would go back to footbrake and hope the lower tire pressure would help hook it up. On the burnout it had the miss back when the rpms got higher. I staged it and hit the gas on the green, it stumbled in 1st gear so I shifted to 2nd and it cleaned up for a moment and then started shooting ducks. I clicked it off and took it back to load up and head home to trouble shoot the cause.

Finally taking the car out for some shakedown runs at Bakersfield this weekend. It’s been a long time, hopefully things go smoothly and I get some decent passes. Oh yea, added the side stripes and expecting new springs to settle a bit.

RJ, I think you want #60058.  I haven’t heard of a #6008.
What are you building?

Now that you mention it I do think I ordered the YH-YT just for the plastic gauge, I still have all those little springs. I must of ordered springs from somewhere else.