[Pinballer]

Thank you Gary, appreciate hearing that.

The ol' car is essentially ready to go try as it sits, there will be some more improvements and refinements made before the season starts up around here in April, but the majority of those will be pretty minor ones. What I mainly need is track time to do a whole lot of A-B testing with what I have here now. My pile of spare pieces to try out has grown quite a bit over the winter. Extra correct numbered carburetors, intake, a spare head, some factory aluminum valvetrain pieces. The expensive pieces I really need to quicken the car up will have to come as I can afford them.

On the plus side: A "supposed to be rebuilt by my son in his college auto shop class but untested in a car" AMC 904 transmission I picked up as a throw-in on a Jeep guy's garage clean-out deal, turned out to be an A998 model trans which is just like the regular A904 presently in the race car but it has the lower first gear cluster in it and this particular one has no lock-up converter features to have to worry about like most of them had. They used it in the massively underpowered four and six cylinder AMC's and Dodge's in the real early 80's.
It's exactly what the doctor ordered for my Stocker. Low gear for cheap! (if it works...)