28 Apr 12 09:01, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>> 8^) I had a guy with a 58 Plymouth beg me to let him win so he
 RW>> could go on in the eliminations. I asked him what he was going to
 RW>> do if the next guy wouldn't let him win that race. He had no idea.
 RW>> When I looked at his car, I had to laugh some more, as he was
 RW>> racing with snow tires on the back.

 RN> (-:

 RW>> He was an Illinois farm boy for sure. 8^)

 RN> So, did you let him win?

Why would I? If he can beat me legitimately, then he could go on to race
someone else on his own merit. If he can't, what makes him think he'll get
any slack from the next guy? I went on to final round that day, only to
lose to a gal driving a blue-printed 327 Malibu.

 RN>>> I didn't race the Plymouth, but I did race the '57 Bel Air.  Not
 RN>>> too many could stay with it after 40MPH.

 RW>>> I replaced the 265 with a 327 around 1964...stock to mildly
 RW>>> modified 283s (57s) were surprised when they were left in the dust.

 RN>> I had what amounted to a '57 Corvette engine in the Bel Air after we
 RN>> made some modifications to it (Edelbrock 3-pot intake manifold,
 RN>> 3-2bbl Rochester carbs with the front and rear modified and with
 RN>> progressive linkage, Engle 3/4 race cam, Mallory dual-point
 RN>> distributor, 10:1 compression, solid lifters, etc).

 RW>> I remember you telling me about this car a while back.

 RN> I was sure I did, but I like to be thorough.  (-8  It was a lot of
 RN> work and some guy pulled a prank on us by putting some extra bolts in
 RN> the box we used (we stripped the engine down), so we scratched our
 RN> heads for about two minutes before we figured it out.  I don't
 RN> remember telling you this.  I know you remember me telling you about
 RN> how we tried to cut corners by using shimmed, collapsed hydraulic
 RN> lifters.  We never got them to work properly and I finally did the
 RN> right thing by installing solids.

You should have known better than to put used lifters on a new cam anyway.


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