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- When you get a ready-to-run distributor,
it's all tuned mechanically,
the amount of advance and how quickly
that advance comes on, with two different things.
These different springs, there's two heavy springs
on there, they make them lazy and conservative
so you don't just blow your engine up
if you have some lame stock motor.
Also a set of medium and a set of light springs.
I usually just put in one light
and one medium spring, and that handles
just about every modified engine we mess with.
There's also a bunch of these bushings
and these control the range of advance,
meaning how many degrees the distributor will advance
from idle to full advance.
Usually with the stock distributor bushing in there
that comes in the MSD, it's about 20 degrees,
and that actually works pretty well.
(rock music)
Everything up here is done.
We're just going to do one quick exhaust upgrade.
Fire this thing up.
- Break it in.
- Yeah, break it in.
Which means rip it around all weekend.
The Summit Racing sells an H-pipe cat-delete kit
specifically for BBK long tube headers,
and we got it for 100, 200 bucks,
and it's going to free up some ponies.
This thing's not going to pass smog in California anyway,
so it's not really going to see any street use.
But it's going to give us a couple extra horsepower.
(drilling)
- I've got the timing close.
We're not going to do the crazy flat tappet
cam insulation break-in, which takes 20 minutes,
and you got to vary between 2000 and 2500,
'cause this is - - A roller.
- A roller cam, so let's just hear it run.
- Please.
- Get it up to temp and ...
- I'm a professional race car driver,
but I'll go ahead and start this up, this one.
- What's that cost to maybe get you to do that?
What's your rate for a start-up?
(engine revving)
Does it cost more for you to keep it running, or ...
(engine revving)
- How much timing's in it?
- [Tony] I think it said 30 now
with however high up you revved it,
so give it a shot.
(engine revving)
That's sitting at, like, 15,
at what should be idle, right?
- Give it more idle.
- [Tony] More carb, try that.
That's better.
(engine revving)
Beautiful.
- How much?
- Going 14 to 34.
So this thing fired right up.
It sounds awesome, this new 310 is going to kill it.
I feel good, next time, we will see you guys
at the track, and it's time to redeem ourselves.
- This is going to be good.
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- We've got our Mustang out here
at Auto Club Famoso raceway in Bakersfield, California.
I drove this car around about 350 miles
through LA traffic to break the motor in.
It has been strong, it's been pretty crisp.
- How fun was that?
- It's fun, I like this car a lot,
and I hated fox bodies in high school.
But this car is cool.
One of the main comments we got
from you guys online is that
this car needs a rear end because
these gears are whack, and it turns out,
they're super whack.
We counted this off as like a 275 rear end,
so this car does need a bunch of gear,
and we might just have to fix it ahead.
But we're going to run it the way it is now
and see what it does.
- Ready to put this thing on the track
for the first time.
It's broken nice, it's been running great,
and I'm telling you I think this is
a mid 12-second car if we can get everything
to work right.
- Attention in the yard.
I am a professional race car driver.
Again.
(engine revving)
(tires screech)
- First run of the day, Lucky's got the Mustang.
New motor, wrong gears, I want to see
what it does just like this.
(engine revving)