Waking up the beast

[Budnicks]

really close to Hi 9's baby...LOL

you have the MPH

 

[bobtile]

I put the 440 source distributor in and the car seemed fine with it. It went mid to high 10.50's. At the end of the runs i smelled a faint "burning wire" smell. I checked over the car thoroughly top to bottom and found nothing. That was on Saturday. Sunday morning I was going to test at Island. Before I left I checked over the wiring again and still found nothing. I pulled the distributor cap off for a peek under there and found my smell. I didnt have another cap for this dizzy. A stock chrysler one doesnt work. So I pulled the source one out and put a stock Chrysler unit in. Set the timing and hit the track. Its nice to find 3 tenths and 5 mph in half an hour with no money spent.

 

[HEMI-ITIS]

When I tried a larger spark plug gap the same thing happened to me. Also started drilling a few small hole in the cap to lower the temp inside the cap.
Once you dip into the 9's,that 10 oh class is very cometitive and no "licence" required.

 

[bobtile]

Didnt open the gap to much on the plugs. I have them at .038.
I dont think i want to drill holes in the cap.
Might let moisture in.

 

[HEMI-ITIS]

I had tried .045,tried a new cap with holes drilled but went back to .035 after the melting of the cap again.

 

[bobtile]

Im going to be changing out the brake lines in the Cuda. The pedal is still a little spongy after bleeding. It still has an old rubber line from a bulkhead fitting to a T on top of the rear end housing. There are also 4 or 5 compression fittings throuout the system. Does anyone run -3 37* flares on their cars? Just interested in pros and cons of this compared to double flares.

 

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[cdr]

Great job Bobby!!!!

 

[Budnicks]

Bobby I had -3 AN stuff on my altered, no issues ever,
easier than the double flare crap too,
it was only 2 lines {back Brakes only} braided steel with a Teflon liners

made hard lines a few times too, easy peasy...
Just need the proper tools a little practice

you can get appr. tubing {prefer Stainless} for it &
even use compression style {Aviation} AN tubing sleeves/fittings
in it still too IIRC

 

[bobtile]

Bobby I had -3 AN stuff on my altered, no issues ever,
easier than the double flare crap too,
it was only 2 lines {back Brakes only} braided steel with a Teflon liners

made hard lines a few times too, easy peasy...
Just need the proper tools a little practice

you can get appr. tubing {prefer Stainless} for it &
even use compression style {Aviation} AN tubing sleeves/fittings
in it still too IIRC

 

[bobtile]

Ive had lots of practice flaring lines on all my kids cars. Haha.
They stop, they just dont go.

 

[bobtile]

New MSD distributor went in today.
Torque converter is being sent out to me on Monday.

 

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[bobtile]

Its here!, its here, its here!!!

 

[HEMI-ITIS]

Wasn't sure if you went to Joe or Lennie

 

[Budnicks]

Sweet
git r' dun
you can make it out to Englishtown now, race with the big dogs...LOL

 

[dvw]

I've the 440 source dist, cap and rotor going on the 4th year, over 300 passes. It 's never given a problem or burned up. MSD Pro Power coil, MSD 8mm wires, NGK plugs, MSD7 AL2. Just changed plugs after 280 passes. Car went 9.12@147 last time out.
Doug

 

[bobtile]

Distributors dont like me for some reason.
I dont know why the cap burned, but it did. So far, my best luck has been with a stock Chrysler unit.