I have to disagree with 7up I have personally cut a best of 1.98 on a peg leg 2.78 gear with 205/60/14 general xp2000 tires with consistent 2.0's. The one inch spacer is to "poor boy" a higher rpm intake without paying for a new intake. With those heads it should breath more than a perfomer would adequaly feed. I agree the exhaust would help, but I don't think it is the majority of his problem considering I ran a best of 14.04 (same pass as the 1.98 60') with 14.1's cosistant enough to dial in with the cast iron manifolds and dual 2 inch with oem style mufflers. the traction bars were what got me the low 60's and able to launch consistenly on the second yellow to cut .5 lights. I was also launching with my foot as close to the floor as I could on the gas. Without traction bars my 60's were all over the place with only one wheel getting power. Also on the ignition note I used to think the same think that you didn't need all of it till I did it to a my at the time bone stock 289 because it was laying around from another car I had. It made a very impressive difference and I am now sold on it.
My set up for the 14's was
subframe connectors
cast iron exhaust manifolds
2" duals with oem style mufflers
351W heads 1.94 int 1.6 exhuast mild port work
Factory ford lightning cam advanced 5 degrees(got it for $35 new and it was bigger than the stock 289 cam just had to change my firing order)
1.7 RR's
Mallory unilite
Mallory coil
MSD 6a
C-4
TCI 11 inch converter gave about a 3000 on the foot brake
2.78 peg leg
205/60/14 general xp2000's
universal slapper bars modded to hit the front spring eye and adjusted so they just barely touched.
front shocks that are blown (I have had the car for about 5 years and the were wore out when I got it but they let the nose lift real good to get some weight on the rear wheels)
Rear shocks are questionable they are 4 year old air shocks that don't hold air anymore.
Ede performer rpm intake (with one inch open phenolic spacer)
700 mechanical secondary Holley
electric fans
Shifted at 5000
Race weight 3125
Best run that set up 1.98 60' 14.04 et at 94.6 mph
My motor is basicaly all in the heads
Thing changed to get in the 13's
C-6
TCI 10 inch converter (footbrakes to 3000 but flashes to 3500)
Hooker 1 3/4 headers (to large for now but stroker is being built right now)
3.25 posi
245/50/14 BFG's
3" duals 2 3" glasspacks at the header and 2 3" dynomax at the axle runs out the back
electric water pump
Aluminum driveshaft
Race weight of 3225 (c-6 and 3"exhaust weighed me down)
shifting first to second at 6000 second to third at 5700
Now my sixty's are sporadic again with a best of 2.06 (ever since I put the gear in traction has been down)
best mph was 98.1
best et 13.85 at 97.84
[This message has been edited by Shaggy (edited 10-01-2000).]
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