Sunday Drag Racing

What a weekend! The Ace Motorsports crew as well as Tommy and the rest of the guys went to Old Bridge Township Raceway Park for the first race day of the season. The weather was beautiful, and although everyone went out in the first round, it was a good day. We shot some new videos for the SHC YouTube site, including Marc's awesome 1968 Nova doing an amazing wheelstand!

Look Out!

I saw this photo, and want a set of these! How much fun would it be to speed around town with a couple of missile balloons chasing you.

Oh yeah, I also set the choke on the carb for the Chevelle, and it runs great now. It's going to need tires if I keep this up.

Spring is here!

Finally, the weather has changed for the better, and it looks like spring is here. I spent Saturday with Dave, Tom and Gary working on the '69 Corvette. It hasn't seen daylight in over 30 years, and the engine needs reassembly. After removing the plugs, I was happy to be able to spin the motor over by hand. So, I changed the oil, spun up the oil pump with the primer tool and a drill, and installed the intake and starter. We also freed up the calipers that were stuck on each wheel, so now we can push it out of the garage. The distributor needs rebuilding, so as soon as that is ready we can test fire it.

Sunday, everyone went to the track at Englishtown for opening day. I stayed back and swapped in a new water pump in the Chevelle. I also measured Tom's '72 Chevelle rear end, and it is the same width as mine. I can now order the carb and interior parts, and measure for the new wheels.