Well, I raced Wednesday night two weeks ago at the club finals. Got four runs in and they were a snapshot of my season. Went 12.219 and 12.214 in the two practice rounds. RTs were .015 red on first run and .145 green on second. Had a bye the first round and ran 12.218 with a .007 RT. Second round was a .105 red light. As soon as the red light came on I just shifted to second and cruised around and put it on the trailer. Synopsis: car does what it is supposed to do, driver still sucks. It's in the garage for the winter and I'm planning the mods I need/want for next year.
Your getting really close to your goal and not much changing will put you there, being able to run a 11.80 you could leave a little on the table for playing catch up to make up for a bad light and hitting the brakes at the big end and you could always throttle stop it. Then when the air is bad you could make up for it, first of the season and last of season the car will run quicker. Whats up with the other Maverick you purchased. BTW one of our sportsman Woodburn racers got into the bucks at the Halloween bash
The other is a 71. Red in color. Trading some differential work for it. Was a darg car at one time, but does not have a cage. Battery moved to trunk and glass hood. It's in pretty nice shape. I plan to make it a street car with probably a 351C and top-loader. When I pick it up I'll post some pics. I missed the Halloween Bash. Went elk hunting instead. Got rained on every day and the elk were scarce. Headed back out on Sunday. I'm hoping to get over to Woodburn next year. I'm not set up to travel to race yet. I'll look for an enclosed trailer that I can afford this winter.
As you mentioned before,setting the 4 corner idle is very important.I `ve been reading in the Holley book lately to refresh my self because I recently came across an 850 AED carb which I need to rebuild.In the book having the 4 corner set properly has a big effect on how the engine responds at all engine speeds.And the adjustments can be very small,on the air screws on the sides of the carb,the book says a 1/4 of a turn is a lot.
Went to VMP Sat. & there was almost 400 cars there for the bracket bash.A young guy named Logan had a white 72 Mav with a 302 in it running 6.6s,went quite a few rounds with the car,another driver said he had won there recently.Logan told me he has gotten 6.3s on methanol out of the car.It was fun watching Ed Talbert(lil chevy luv trk)John Cook(66 ford Fairlane) & another guy(did not catch his name) with a 72 Duster,all turning mid 7s,put fast car after fast car on the trailer.You had 4.4 sec. dragsters sitting on the line waiting 3 sec. to go catch them,& those 3 men cut good lights & kept running dead on their number,all 3 went deep into the rounds.They called the race at 8:00 because it got down into the low 30s which was to cold for the fast cars to hook.They finished Sat. race Sunday,then as I watched the sunday race on Motor Mania TV,they also called it at 8:00 that night & were nowhere near finishing it(only 4 rounds),I have no idea how they worked the pay out,it was a $10,000 pay day.
Posted a pick of the Maverick I will pick up on Saturday in the Maverick media album. I am going to use the hood on my drag car and probably make a street car out of the new to me '70.
I would not go much farther with the gears you will be crossing the finish line at some pretty high rpms and drop your trap speed and be out of your power band 4:11s max.
I will leave the 3.89s in the car until I run it with the new torque converter and new lifters. Then I will use my new trap RPM to decide what gear ratio is needed. I suspect 4.11 or 4.30 will be the right one. If the new lifters let me get 6500 rpm out of the engine, and the 4000 torque converter helps my 60ft times I will probably be able to use the lower gear. I will have the lifters and converter in the car for the beginning of the season. I'll make the decision on the gears after I see what it does with the lifters and converter.
If the converter guy is right about the new converter, it should launch harder at 4000 and also have less slippage in the traps resulting in a lower trap rpm.
