You guys don't seem to be very excited about this event. To me it seems to be very good event at least quite a lot of Hype. And it is also a NMCA event so there should be a lot of action on the dragstrip. Car shows are very boring at least to me. I am riding along with my friend and he is bringing his 69 Torino Cobra 428 to hopefully sell. 

Somewhere in the high 8.80's. It takes a whole lot of power to get a car that big and heavy to get well into the deep 8's.

I bought a brand new 63 boxtop that I ordered with a 352 and a 4 speed.  Big mistake as it was in my opinion slow and didn't get good mileage either. But as most know hindsight is usually 20 20. When I ran this car at Minnesota Dragways in 63 these are the only mods made on it. I had my neighbor weld a I think it was 2 inch pipe coupling to each down pipe that I just used a pipe wrench to screw in a pipe plug. I put a pair of clamps on the front part of the springs to keep the axles from bouncing. I bumped the timing up a bit too. The rear was stock one wheel wonder 3.40 I believe. I did wedge the front springs a bit. 8)tires were what came on it narrow bias plyed 14 inch things. It was all stock even down to the 2 barrel motorcraft carb that came on the 220 hp rated engine. I remember they put me in J stock at the time. It went 16.70's at 86 and 87 mph. I thought that was pretty lame as my 57 292 went about the same BUT at the time the national record was only about 3/4 of a second faster. . And those cars had headers and good tires and better gears. I had to drive mine 160 miles one way to the strip and back home again. It would have been fun if I had , had some money to put headers on it and gears and some kind of a traction unit. Just a distributor recurve would have helped too. Like I said I really didn't like the car (The fastbacks came out about a month after I ordered mine) and I tried to blow it up by driving it to the valve float point and it would backfire and ya just couldn't hurt it.

I have a pair of generic holley 600 carbs that I modified many years ago to have mechanical secondaries. And if these don't work I will have to rebuild them and give them a try. I ran this engine with these edelbrocks on my test stand and they started and idled fine. But haven't dynoed this thing yet. I will have to ask Ron if he has a set of  holleys or maybe even use my one 750 and buy another one as it is just a 3310 750.

I just read this post and enjoyed it very much. Now I have a question how do you think, or have you ever tested a similar combo with Edelbrock 750 carbs?  I have a combo much like this one only with more compression and a flat tappet cam and I have put the 750 edelbrock carbs on it for the "nostalgia" look that I am aiming for with my 466 (385 series) engine that is going into my 63 this summer. I know its not an FE but I do the best I can with the limited budget that I have to live with. . I guess I am asking how much hp am I going to lose with the 750 ed's versus a pair of generic 750 Holley's.

If I go this route I will most likely sell them to my brother as he bracket races a 460 powered fox mustang. Or remove the iron cobrajet heads that I have on another 466 (.030) I have and use them on that. Lots of options.

Joe as your reputation for a porter has been  excellent I have a question for you about a P51 Kasse cylinder head. Have you ever ported one of these heads? I am considering buying a set for my 545.  I already have the Kasse redesigned "super cobra jet" heads that were sold before the P51 design. These with a what is called a "pocket porting job" by the gentleman that does some very good work in our area. What kind of cfm could expect from a set of these (the P51's) with a full port job? I am 74 and will not compete forever but still am able to have fun and even win sometimes. LOL. I know you do the Mummert heads for some of the Y block guys as I have always been a booster of these engines as I had a lot of fun with mine years ago. But I now seem to really like my 385 series engines for their economy of build. I also had a 390 in my fairlane but the FE's are just too expensive for me to build one with a decent block as I would never use a stock block to build the power that I am used to now. By the way my 57 that weighed over 3700 lbs went 12.09 with a 125 shot of NOS with my home built 304 Y block that I did the home porting on a set of unposted ECZ G cylinder heads. I also built the tunnel ram for it a fun job with my MIG welder. Now I have a TIG so just have to teach myself how to use that Then I can use aliminum to save a little weight .

There is a certain very beautiful 67 fastback mustang in our twin cities area that looks like it might be powerful. It has what appears to be a well warmed over FE in it. Well guess what? It has those freaking flat manifolds on it. Next year if I see the darn thing I am going to say something to the extent that it spoils the whole car for me.