I just thought I would let everybody know unfortunately were not going to make it to the track this year. We fully intended to get at least one trip to the track. We had been running on the same pair of slick for 6 years and figured it was a good time to replace them, before we run the car. Unfortunately the race car money tree is pretty bare.
The biggest reason were not racing this year is I'm in the process of moving my shop to my house, and my race partner is relocating his shop also.
The good news here in Colorado is Bandimere is building us a new track.
Well that's it for now. GO FE POWER!!!!
Clint

I would check for a crack in the porcelain on the spark plugs.

Sound like you had a good day at the track.

Well we finally got the Mustang back down to the shop. We know it's late in the season, but hopefully we can make a few test and tune before they shut the track down for the season. Hopefully we won't found any big problems with the car. It fired right up after sitting in the trailer for two years and it sounds really good. The track that we are going to run the car at is around 300' lower in elevation, so maybe we can shave another tenth or two off our times.
Well that's it for now.
Clint

Here in Colorado, were right at 5000 feet above sea level. We always advance the timing 4 to 6 degrees from what the factory recommends to give the fuel time to burn. As far as the jetting goes is I'm old school so we just read the plugs and go from there. Like Jay said an A/F sensor would be the most accurate.
Clint

I was always taught that electricity is lazy, and it will find they easiest path. Sound like to me is you have a carbon track in the distributor cap. Just a guess.

Well as you probably guessed we didn't get to the track this season. Everybody on the race team just had to much going on. For me my son got married and that took a lot of time and all of our race car money. I did get the seat belt recertified. So now it's so late in the season, we decided to  skip racing this year. There some updates we want do to the car any way. So we will get those done over the winter. Hopefully we will be faster and safer next year.
I would like to thank everybody that is following our racing adventures. It is really fun racing an FE powered race car. Most people haven't got a clue what an FE is, until they see it run a low 11 N/A.
We are working on another FE power race car ( 67 Cougar ) with a stroked 427 side oiler. That one is a few years away.
I hope everybody has a great winter!!!
See next year!!
Clint