Thordane--your day will come! You just gotta stop buying new "toys" for your car and take it out of the garage once in a while.

Winter's are for rebuilding, summers are for racing!

Jeff--Thanks for the encouragement. I had a few cars that gave me fits last year--this year I think I can put a scare in them. It is cool having Mr. Mopar there though as his 66' Fury and my 65' Stang are the only vintage racers in the Stick class. To bad that he is just so darn good at what he does! LOL The good side is that when our people go to the other tracks in the area, they generally whoop ass on those track's regulars so at least I'm being challenged by some of the best.

Mike--yes the 60's became more consistent with the lower air pressure. I should have tried it low before, but once we get into eliminations I don't like to change stuff around.

I have short shifted the car and it does tend to like it--I actually have been shifting in the 6-6200rpm range instead of the 6400 range that was recommended by Jay. The cam is pretty much as you described (239/248 .598/.587 w/high centerlines) as it was originally spec'ed for a street car (but I found out later that I like the track more.) I can't imagine how the car would run with a more track oriented cam. I have considered going solid roller this winter, but that would certainly mean I would also be installing a rollbar.

HotRodPinto--Thanks for the link--I certainly need to get some form of protection and those might just work if the covering is true leather and down melt to the headers. This is not my first dance with the headers. I wonder how those would be with the fingers cut out (bag lady style?)

I do have some access to some arm covers at work. They are made at lower temps (400 or so), but not sure how they would be with header temps that can be up to 3 times that. Still, it they will be better than than what I have been doing for protection, which is nothing--(read dumbass.)

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Dennis
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65' STANG (3330 lbs), 393W NA, Toploader 4 Spd, 4:11, AFR 205's, Vic Jr. Intake, CI Custom SFT, 750dp, 11.0 CR

11.26@122.83mph