Mike McCandless
Active Member
For those following the Museum page, you're already up to date on this. I purchased it a few weeks ago as I was searching for a bracket car to come back to drag racing. My nephews actively race and I haven't been in a race car in 15+ years. I always like the unusual, so why not go for a big heavy 300. It has a 408 setup on alcohol, power glide and 9" ford currently. When we got it, checked it over, changed fluids and headed to the track. The car was wildly inconsistent. With a lot of other things go on, we shelved it for about 10 days. We had some motors we were just going to swap into it, change converter and call it a day. Our spare motors had more runs than we anticipated and are now in the shop for full rebuilds. Eliminating their ability to hit my timeline of racing thanksgiving weekend. We don't have specs on the motor in the car, so decided to start pulling it apart. We took the carb off and realized it's massively over jetted. We have a 7.10's 1/8th mile car running jets that equal our Roadster that runs 2 seconds faster. We snagged a carb from our wagon race car as it's a similar build and put it on Moby just to see if that cleared things up. She ran like a top and got much tighter in the consistency area. With that problem solved, it's back into the shop for some repair work. The 9" is coming out in place of a Dana 60. If we have time, we'll rip out all the wiring and start over. All the brakes will be replaced and front end rebuilt. Might look at tying the frame together, we'll see. I'll post the updates here, hopefully you guys find them interesting. I may need to lean on some people for spare parts as there are some things I'd like to put back as it was from the factory. They went a bit excessive trying to make a whale a minnow.
