1971 Firebird Build ("The Other Woman", a.k.a. Project "T.O.W.")

[rat_rod_russell]

Originally Posted by carbuff

That is good to know. No telling how many times I've paid the overnight fee to Summit for parts like that. And this weekend will be a thrash! Hopefully I've gotten through all of the plumbing, but we will have to remake the brake lines. Little things that take a lot of time!

As for the time shake down, that will likely happen on I-35N on Wednesday unfortunately! There is a Spokes event on Saturday, but I won't make that... Heck, I probably won't even get on a dyno before Wednesday. Thankfully the Holley HP EFI is good at self-tuning and my map shouldn't need to change much. I'll be able to do some idle tuning myself before I go.

We did the same thing before the 09 Optima event in Vegas. Pushed the truck into the SEMA show and drove it out. Tuned on the dyno at 2AM then went to the race a few hours later. I wish you better luck than we had. But you're manly doing a refresh we did a fresh build with the added complication of twin turbos and a critical differential component I built and hadn't really tested yet. You'll be good.

You might take the back way up 183, 281, 220 and 67 into fort worth. There are a few hills and the stop and go of small highway over interstates will give the computer more data to crunch. Plus you can run more various RMP's and not have to avoid traffic at the same time. I'm normally in Denton at least once a month and I've actually gone faster that way depending on the 35 constructions. Worst case it added 45 minutes to the trip.

And I have AN-3, -4 stuff out the butt, all black aluminum or cadmium plated steel. Brake lines and fuel lines on the frames we build is a big part of what I call "the parts that will kill you" and a lot of guys want us to do them for their piece of mind.

Good luck!