I've been out drag racing, he and I for about 35 years and I built another Mach 1 a few
years ago to street and strip and see if I really wanted to get back in it and I decided
that I did and I found this car in Michigan, I was looking for a Maverick actually.
Oh cool!
Then I saw this car and about three or four months later we made a deal and I met him
in the Bristol area and we swapped, got home, getting ready to go to Florida in March or
April and the motor blew up in the garage.
Oh, shoot.
Yeah, sitting in the garage, blew a valve, just went everywhere, exploded.
So we had to build a new motor, 601 now, and it runs in the high eights, it'll go.
601 huh?
Yeah.
8460 heads, got the Ford block, I forgot the name of the block, but it's all-new, and I'm
ready to go.
Tell me about the plexiglass, I see them kind of popular, what is the story behind it?
On the new engine, it raised up the engine, raised the heads on the engine.
I didn't want to cut a hole in the hood, but I had to.
Had no choice there.
Yeah, so my alternative to I guess compliment that or not is I didn't want it to show up,
so I figured that plexiglass was the way for me to go.
We just found out that it did slow the car down though.
Wow man, so it's a little brick there I guess.
We made 9.10 yesterday, everything going, and it goes faster than that so we decided
to take the scoop off, we also increased the fuel pressure so we don't know which one to
choose, we just put a new fuel pump on it, so we ran with the hood scoop a while ago
and it ran a little quicker so we are close to the 9 flat that we need to so we are almost
there.
So now we adjusted the linkage a little bit so it doesn't open up the carburetor so far,
real technical stuff.
That's the way that we do it, we adjust the linkage back and forth.
Yeah just turn some bolts and screwdrivers.
Yeah, no computer.
No laptop coming out.
They should be calling us real soon, in the next 15-20 minutes.
Cool man, she ready to go?
Yeah, we're ready!