U/SA 302 ffffford build

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Well, I got to the track finally! Friday morning, got to the track, went for a cruise around the pits to warm it up and see smoke...melted the oil line going to the pressure gauge on the header. Fixed that and went for a test drive...broke the shift gate I made on the lathe so now it goes from 1-neutral. Well, I'll just leave it in drive and let the shift kit determine the shift points so I don't accidently hit neutral.

So, new converter, transmission, driveshaft, 5.14 gears, adj upper control arms, last years best pass was a 15.55 on my 14.85 index. Can't wait to see how much quicker it is!!

Friday
First pass shifting itself 15.42@83.55.......ummm, what???
Second pass, shifting myself and hitting neutral 17.22@72.52
Third pass, shifting myself by ear, hearing it nose over at 5000rpm or so 15.48@83.33
Fourth pass, shifting by the shift light 15.00@86.39 but it is laboring above 5000

Sat morning decided to check timing with my light I previously said was messed up and was supposed to replace. 99.5* ok, so that's done. I bumped the distributor back 5* or so.

First pass 14.85@86.96!! WHOOOHOOO!!!
Bumped the timing back another few degrees
Second pass 14.70@88.35 but the alternator belt broke.
Paid $20 for the gamblers race just to get another pass, charged the battery up and first round my .078 light to his .094 had me enough ahead I was hard on the brakes to win with a 14.87@75.68!
Second round, sat in lanes for a bit, hit the key to go and...dead batt! Bad way to lose but whatever, there to test and tune more than race anyway.

Sunday morning, good and charged, got up first in line so engine was around 140* staging
First pass 14.68@87.99
Second pass (qual on a 14.70 dial) 14.72@87.67 with a .074 light

Was going to charge/line up first round, etc but realized even if I did win a round or two, there would be a point I couldn't reach the turn around time between rounds so decided to pack it up. Good thing as it wouldn't start to load, then the genny wouldn't start to charge the car so I could load, lol!

Anyway, got home with another list of "to do's" so I'll get on that next.
For brevity I left out a lot of gremlins that occurred, like breaking the hood release handle, LOL!!

Bottom line... -.17 UNDER THE INDEX!!!!!