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Butch Jennings
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posted 06-30-2003 04:38 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Butch Jennings   Click Here to Email Butch Jennings     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Well, after almost a year (and a bunch of money), I finally got the Comet running again. The motor, trans, converter and rear end are all fresh. I'm going to take it to Sacramento for a T&T night since the whole combo is new. My work schedule and finances are such that July 25th looks to be the soonest I'll be able to get it out.


I've detuned it a bunch, I sold the aluminum heads and put a set of D0OE-R SCJ iron heads on it with a solid roller cam. I also replced the Dominator with a 4 corner idle 850 that was done by Chuck Nytten still on a Victor intake.


The rear end is now 35 spline with a new braced housing that I had Moser do and it's been narrowed 6" to allow me to use a positive offset wheel now instead of the 7 1/4" backspace that was on it before, I also ditched the Centerlines and went with a Weld Pro-Star wheel. It's got a 3.89 gear in it now and a set of homemade Cal-Trac clones that I started making a couple of years ago.


I wanted to put some time and money into the front end, but I'm out of money. I'll run it like it is for now and put some effort into the front end when I'm able to later.


I'm hoping it will still run 10.50's the way it is, but who knows? My thinking is to keep the rpm under 7000 and keep it alive for a while. It's still for sale but I can't see giving it away because it's broken and doesn't run.


Sorry for the long post, I guess I'm just fired up about having the car running again. I've been in a bit of a funk since I broke it so bad last year.

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460 powered 1967 Comet Cyclone
10.271 @ 130.231
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[This message has been edited by Butch Jennings (edited 06-30-2003).]

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Fastymz
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posted 06-30-2003 04:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Fastymz   Click Here to Email Fastymz     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Butch thats great news glad you got it done.
I hope to see it run again soon.

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SlowFord
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posted 06-30-2003 04:57 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SlowFord     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
That's great news. I am glad to hear your '67 is running again. I hope to have my 1966 Comet drag strip worthy in a few months.

Hey, did you already sell the Centerline wheels?

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steve'66
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posted 06-30-2003 05:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for steve'66   Click Here to Email steve'66     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Butch,

That's great news! Look forward to seeing you at the track again soon.

SteveW

p.s. what tranny did you use? Did the 350 survive the carnage?

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Butch Jennings
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posted 06-30-2003 06:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Butch Jennings   Click Here to Email Butch Jennings     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

SlowFord, I sold the wheels already.


Steve, The 350 survived pretty good, It bent the output shaft, other than that it was in pretty good shape. I had Driveline Service of Santa Rosa make me a 3 1/2" steel driveshaft with solid 1350 series u-joints, I supplied the Strange yoke and they charged me $210.00.

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Butch
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10.271 @ 130.231
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steve'66
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posted 06-30-2003 06:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for steve'66   Click Here to Email steve'66     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Butch,

That's good news. Driveline Service does good work.
I've been working on the Dart, should have it ready next month for some testing. We'll see.... It's not easy starting from scratch.

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TomP
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posted 06-30-2003 09:30 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for TomP   Click Here to Email TomP     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Good to hear!

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Ryan Wilke
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posted 07-01-2003 08:49 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ryan Wilke   Click Here to Email Ryan Wilke     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
BUTCH AND HIS BBF RIDES AGAIN!!!

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In a '69 FB w/ 4-spd'd 306",
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jsracingbbf
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posted 07-01-2003 10:26 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jsracingbbf   Click Here to Email jsracingbbf     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Just in time to bring it to Huntsville drags!
Post some times from the track. Go Butch
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lilgtgirl
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posted 07-01-2003 05:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for lilgtgirl   Click Here to Email lilgtgirl     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
glad to hear your comet is up and running. my dad also has a 67 comet cyclone,and boy does it need restored. well it's not that bad. just a motor and paint job and a lot of money. to bad it couldn't run again. i don't think that it has been raced since the mid 70's. who knows maybe it will run again!

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steve'66
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posted 07-08-2003 09:27 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for steve'66   Click Here to Email steve'66     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Butch Jennings:
I'm going to take it to Sacramento for a T&T night since the whole combo is new. My work schedule and finances are such that July 25th looks to be the soonest I'll be able to get it out.

Butch,

I'm not sure I'll have the other car ready by then, but I'd like to meet you out there. We're planning on going to Samoa Dragstrip in Eureka in the middle of August. Nothing going on at Infineon and Redding will be too hot. Eureka should be nice and cool. Let's get together for some dragracing,

SteveW

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