Re: Muroc

["Lawrence E. Mayfield" <mayfield@traveller.com>]

I've got the pix of the roadster and it will be in the next update. Along
with the June meets results.

mayf

At 12:52 PM 6/21/99 EDT, V4GR@aol.com wrote:
>John- The 455 was pretty strong. It was actually 468 had a John DeLong
roller 
>cam Bill Miller rods and pistons Kinsler Injection big dollar #16 casting 
>heads. The guy who owned it spent a lot. I put it together and we tried it
in 
>my Vega. He has run 186mph I think with the motor in his stock 68 GTO.
   
>                                               If one turns .100 off the 
>locating dia. on the front bearing retainer and I think .040 off the collar 
>the throwout bearing slides on the top loader will fit a Chevy blow shield.    
>If you layout the bellhousing bolt circle for a MoPar on the Chevy flange
you 
>will find you can drill 3 bolts thru to the block use flat head bolts on 
>others. 2 trans bolts also need redrilling and nuts welded into the 
>bellhousing. It turned out the Webber flywheel was to large in dia. to fit
in 
>the blowshield so I turned the flywheel to fit the ring gear off the Pontiac 
>flywheel leftover and used a Pontiac starter. This is also how I bolted 
>toploader to Pontiac.
   
>                               The Vega is #1104 no pictures anywhere. I did 
>send in a jpg of my roadster to this BB but have not seen it posted.   Rich 
>Fox
>



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