Re: Calling Ray Morrison
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What kinda ET's you were laying down back then with the DH Nova?
Most memorable,..etc.
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Rick,
In just going from memory, the way the car was origianally set up by DH, with open headers and 9 inch slicks, we ran mostly low 12 teens, this with the original 4 bbl. The Salesman's daughter, who sold me the car at Knowles Chevrolet, would drive it in the powder puff competition, ususally running 12:40's and 50's by letting it shift itself. She was pretty consistent and handled it well. When the competition starting lowereing the records in C/SA formula 2, we decided to try C/SA formula 3, which was a 2bbl instead of 4 bbl. The national record for this class was 13:00. We ran a 12:80 putting us where we needed to be. Ran that combination for quite awhile. We never ran the car with the set-up in the pictures posted, that I remember. All the runs we made with the 427 Harrell combination, were those of the 4:10 gearing, no traction bars, and no high stall converter. The pictures Rob posted of the car, was of those with a 396 that was built by Ronnies Speed Shop in K.C., Mo. With this combo, we installed 4:88 gearing, aftermarket stall converter, and as you can see from the pictures, filled the rear fender wells with tire. This put us in D/SA with the smaller engine were it ran a best of 11:71. This was with the 4 bbl carb. Too, our first try of an active air scoop.
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