I just looked at the results on Hot Rod's website, and the Nova is just a little over a tenth behind me.  Should be a great race, assuming my car lasts 

Nurse!  prepare me 6 cases of JB Weld, stat!  Good luck!

Tuesday morning I called the IHRA to get some information on their licensing procedure.  As it turned out, they would accept my expired NHRA license as proof that I had made the qualifying passes, and they didn't require a physical, so I faxed over a membership and driver's license application.  They processed it right away and I got my IHRA license via email the next day!  It was great to deal with a competent racing organization.  With the IHRA license I figured I could run to the car's potential at the track on Friday.

We were an NHRA track one year -  never want to have to put up with that ever again. 

Quite a story here and - at a lot lower level LOL - it's nice to know I'm not the only one putting up with little buggy issues trying to get that one motor in that one car then down the track and back will all the pieces still onboard. 

I prefer the Moroso phenolic spacers

It's something to check.  When I first put a 351C 4 V in the Falcon, it would run out of fuel about 5200 at the top of 2nd.  Traced the problem to the pickup tube, where the bend crimp inside the tank left the line no better than 1/4" ID.  Replaced it all with a #8 size full return system and a 140 GPH Mallory pump - no more issues in the last 13 years or so. 

IMHO, since a PCV is a controlled weighted orifice that you will make things worse using two.  If one isn't creating negative pressure in the crank case and the oil is getting dirty fast, I'd do a leak down to see if the rings are failing.  As above, PCV on the right and restricted vent on the left has always been sufficient.  E85 dies not have that much alky in it - it's not anywhere near like running Methanol.  In any event, you can also reduce issues by not running the motor unless you run it long enough to get it to full operating temp.  The methanol racers don't start their cars unless they can let them run up to full temp.  Running cold and fat on alcohol is where the gunk comes from. 

"351C - oh, a big block"

There is a guy with a I think a 71 Torino 351 C and across the windshield top he has a sticker "Big Blocks Rule"
I just don't know what to say to him.
I'll snap a pic next time I see the car.
I should really intro myself and get the story.

Have to break it to him gently that "big block/small block" are really Chevy terms. :lol:  We use 'em amongst the Ford crowd as short hand but it confuses the rest of the non-believ...ah, people with other makes. 

Howdy from west Texas, y'all.  Not much to tell here - we're a his-n-hers bracket race family with a couple of pretty decent play cars.  No FEs in the house but I've followed Jay's work from the other FE list.  Keeping up with what people are doing is always good because you never know what tidbit of info might apply to what you are doing.  I typically run 351C stuff but that's getting scarce around here. We'll see.  My car has the spare 302 in it now because the last C came apart after two race seasons.   I'm considering modding the Falcon to take a 400 block so I can reuse the good heads and some of the other parts at least.  We moved in the winter of 2010 and 2011~2012 was spend building a new work shop, so no car stuff got done at all.  Spent all the money, so maybe next year    I'd like to do the 4 door a bit like what Mike is doing to the Cougar.  Spent my allowance for the next 3-4 years on the shop, so...sometime!

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Shop build thread at Garage Journal:
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=100482