04/15/2020
This was me (Ted ) driving the dart after I sold the rolling chassis to a guy and then fit his Pump Gas Barton Hemi in it with his street lenco 4 speed . He wanted 3.54 rear gears but I knew the 30" tire was gonna feel terrible on the launch , the lenco had a tall first gear , like 2.25 or so , not good with that ratio rear gear and 30" tires . The first pass it smoked the stock type clutch and went 10.66 , then with the new race only
sintered iron clutch it ran 10.01 , 10.02 shifting around 5k , and I revved it out further and it slowed down to a 10.10 and lost 1 mph . I never tuned on it since it was dynoed by Barton and set the way it was accept it had my box stock dominator carb instead of Bartons GURU carb . It had 4" flowmasters and was not very loud at all . I wish I could have bought the car back before he sold the engine off , I cant believe he sold the engine right after that , he was scared to death of the thing and ran only 11's with it , He would not put his foot into it .
thunderbird dragstrip in muskegon , mi. , this was with the barton 557" pump gas hemi and only 3.54 gears in the rear with the 30" tall tires . it was only a...