Hi all - long time lurker. Sure appreciate all the contributors - wealth of knowledge here!
Been out of the seat for a few years due to work and family commitments after buying an FED back in 2015. Made a few passes at Northstar, started working on my door car and then life got pretty crazy. All the race cars have been living in their trailers or at Brink Racecraft since then..... my shop is finally 90% finished and work has resumed. I hope to be ready to run a partial SHRA schedule next year.
Thought you guys might like to hear whats happening - and a little history on the cars as I understand it anyway...
Car one is a 2006 Mark Williams - was the Blown Cents owned by Neal Rogers. It's a 406 SBC, Hilborn on alky, powerglide car. Brink did some chassis updating with new pedals, new firewall, new battery, fuel tank and puke tank mounts. Mike at Alkydigger went through the injection and converted it to up nozzles while he was at it - gave me some baselines for jetting / bypasses and pressures. I just finished re-plumbing it, mostly through with wiring and about 50% done with some new levers and little tab stuff. Steering linkage and small parts coming off this weekend for powder coating - with any luck will fire the motor in the next few days. Not sure what the long term plans are for this one - it's a mild steel car (7.50 cert) and may go up for sale to fund the other FED and door car finish. Planning on a few passes this fall either way.
Car two is a 192" Buddy Warren car - Ron Walden ran it in SHRA for a while before I bought it from him in '15. Benny Schiro owned it back in the day - driven and later owned by Roy Rogers - father of Neal who I bought Blown Cents from. Small world! I made some passes in this car before life got in the way - found a few things I wanted to update. Brink Racecraft gave it a 'lower half' as both main lower tubes were worn badly from dragging. They also updated the cage to look more period correct and it was certed to 6.0.
It's coming in the shop this weekend or next - plans are to certainly keep this one. I've got several pics of it from back in day and am planning on spraying the body red / white and blue to match the way it looked back then. The 355 SBC is out and deciding whether to refresh for NE3 or build a little more power for NE2.......
I'll try to figure out how to post pics in the next few days...looking forward to seeing some of y'all at the track!
Matt B
