[Mikes455Wagon]

Well we finally got the car together and got to the track tonight. It's only an 1/8th mile track and its up on the mountain so the air is terrible but the times were pretty good. We had some issues associated with the vacuum advance on the distributor so we ended up unhooking it and running only mechanical advance and 38 degrees total timing. My combination is a 455 .30 over, xe 274 cam, 062 heads with good valves and springs and gasket matched with no port work. Torker 1 intake, 750 carter competition series carb, th400 with a 10" continental converter and 3.73 rear gears with a 28x9 hoosier slicks. The first three passes with the car falling on its face were 8.30-8.40 passes with 1.80 short times. After fixing the timing issue the car totally came to life. The converter just plain WORKED also! Thanks Cliff for working with continental and getting me just what I needed. The next pass the car went 7.74 with a 1.61 sixty foot with the left front tire up in the air pretty good and followed it with a 7.62 with a 1.59 sixty as the air cooled down. All and all I am very pleased with how my ol unported cast iron headed motor runs. Hopefully we are VMP bound in a Pontiac Powered BUICK WAGON....and maybe tomorrow night I will get the video of the last pass posted..