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Volume V, Issue 4 April 1, 2010
It is still going to take a lot of work, but in some form or another we are going to get Mopar Max Project Fighting
Fish to the very popular Southern California Spring Fling XXIV held April 17-18 at Woodley Park in Van Nuys,
Calif. Chrysler Performance West puts on the event; they are an event oriented Southern California Mopar car
club based in San Fernando Valley. Long before owning a Mopar I made it a point to attend this yearly gathering
of Chrysler iron.
Who knows what condition our ’65 Cuda will be in at the Spring Fling, but painted or not, here’s what we’ve been
working on.
gallon Fuel Safe fuel cell we
frenched into the Barracuda’s
former trunk space, Mancini
Racing supplied us with 25 feet
of half-inch aluminum fuel line.
To get the fuel pumping
Aeromotive Fuel Systems sent
us one of their SS Fuel Pumps,
a Street/Strip fuel pump
engineered for 200-750 HP
carbureted engines.
Holley Performance has
introduced a new 4150
Carburetor, called the Ultra HP
Series featuring mechanical
secondaries, billet metering blocks
and base plate. The new carb
has built-in, oversized Easy View
Sight Windows for easy and safe
float adjustment.
This 750 CFM out-of-the-box carb
is a beauty and it sits on top of
our new 410 cubic inch Mopar
small block. In an earlier article
we dyno tested the Carco-built
engine at Westech Performance
and found that the 750 CFM was
the biggest carb the engine could
handle.
To get ample fuel from the 22
Aeromotive also supplied a
high-flow, 100-micron stainless
steel, cleanable-element fuel
filter and one of their adjustable
fuel regulators as well as all the
braided fuel line and the fittings we’ll need in the plumbing department. It will be perfect for road racing at
Buttonwillow, driving on the street, or if we want to bracket race at Irwindale Dragstrip on Thursday night.
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