Don Terrill’s Speed-Talk

This shouldn't be a problem at all. I have found where you went wrong. You are missing the splayed studs on the one side of the block. If you tap the caps down a bit and put the studs back in and torque them to 140 (a touch more than standard to keep the hairline cracks from growing) you should be g...

Make sure you remember that Maraging is the material used for input shafts of top fuel cars as well as the hardest hitting pro-mods and alcohol cars. If a top fuel funny-car car isn't hurting an input shaft, a lock is a non issue. Like Warp said, and Warren (WJ) stated about the same thing - "K...

Just pulled mine off the dyno. Made something like 50 pulls. 1975 K5 getting an NV4500 with a 205 case. 35" with 4.11 gears. 412 CI SBC with 10:1 even. I used the EQ 180cc heads and did a little love to clean them up. Dual plane with a VS carb with full choke in tact. Hydraulic roller and nothi...

I ran many sets with alcohol injection. They always loved right around 31-32 degrees with my set-ups. Great heads. Strong, durable, fairly wide tuning window, decent valvetrain stability. For the price that some of these are running these days, you have lots of opportunities. The thing about them is...

The topic of brakes was brought up a few posts ago. I can't say much, but I will say that this is the best factory brake package ever to come on any Mustang, ever. WAY more than twice the 13-14 GT500.

It can be quite an effect, as the pressure will do things like we have seen at the drag and boat races. Blow the dipstick out and spew a bit of oil on the headers. Blow the oil fill out and make a mess on lots of hot items. And if you are running enough pressure to do that, you are losing efficiency...

If NHRA pro stock engines could use split dominators, and could put the butterfly right above the intake valve without cutting the deck to nothing, this conversation would go in a very different direction. But they can't by rules. So, to get the base of the one piece baseplate carb so it wants to be...

Wannabe-what intake/heads are on that 565? Those are a set of Pontiac "427" heads and a Kinsler magnesium intake. However, there are lots of kinsler intakes on ebay and back east that are for big chiefs, DRCE, etc and run pads for electronic fuel injection. That is what I would do with th...

Certainly do-able. A good 565 with iron block, or if you are going aluminum block, a tall deck with larger stroke. There are some good hydraulic rollers, but they are not cheap. Or just run solid rollers and keep cam light with a big dollar roller (read increased diameter here) and a huge pushrod an...

Then don't bag it. There is no harm in not bagging the carbon. It is lighter if you can get the bagging to work and pull huge numbers, but it also becomes less fracture resistant. (Really, what is a little weight?) We stopped bagging our boat hulls as leaving the resin in the lay-ups as the beatings...

I have won "Wally's" (NHRA best appearing car) at national events with the nicer of the guns from Harbor Freight. No need to spend too much if you are only going to do it as an amature. http://www.harborfreight.com/air-tools/paint/high-volume-low-pressure-gravity-feed-spray-gun-66222.html ...

What wing are you speaking of? Because a simple pro stock style wing will add quite a bit of downforce and stability. (Although I don't have the numbers on these) Some of the wings on TAD and pro mods will add hundreds and hundreds of lbs at 200kph. And we have seen thousands of pounds of downforce ...

I do it all the time. Funny-car bodies, hoods, cups, boats, tubs, speaker enclosures, etc.
If I can do it, you can do it.

Lots of little possibilities, too many to list them all. But I have run them on everything I own for decades now and I cannot get a vehicle more consistant than stacks. http://www.buzzzmiller.com/monzalaunch.jpg And puting a hat and a tunnel ram will give you a little, but the problem seems to me to...